Join Amanda and Joseph as they set out to excavate Land, Maggie O’Farrell’s latest historical novel and family drama which is set in 1860s Ireland, a decade after the Great Famine. Plus, as always they chat about what they've been reading recently and what they hope to pick up next. 

Bookish News

Children’s Booker Prize

Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frank_cottrellboyce

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

Beast in View by Maragert Millar

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood

@herrealtake

Recent Reads

The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet @lyse.doucet

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series by Juno Dawson @junodawson

Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent by Iain Pears

Selected Books of Maggie O’Farrell @maggieofarrellofficial

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Instructions for a Heatwave

This Must Be the Place 

Hamnet 

The Marriage Portrait 

Land

What We’re Reading Next

The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan @theodysseymovie

Crossing The Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson

I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder

Curious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudio

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