Good Luck With the Book

It’s Christmas folks! Sarah and Jamie chat to the fabulous Gaff Goddess herself, Laura de Barra, about how to make Christmas 2020 as glamorous and festive as it can be. They try out Ryan Tubridy’s Cadbury’s Heroes game and Laura is subjected to Table Topics, the Russian Roulette of conversation games! 

Sarah and Jamie also review their favourite gift books for kids and adults, which will hopefully give you some major inspo for presents this Christmas! Don't miss their chats about The Crown, Princess Diana, slow cookers and ugly male slippers…

Join Sarah and Jamie as they review That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry, The Meaning of Mariah Carey (autobiography), and Twilight Together by Ruth Medjber. Don't miss their chats about the US election, MTV Cribs, Proust and The Real Housewives! 

Oh my God, you won’t believe it! Good Luck with the Book has its very first interview and it is with the creators of the bestselling Aisling series, Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght. With Oh My God, What a Complete Diary 2021 hitting the shelves this autumn, they discuss Aisling’s year, from weddings to Halloween, along with the inside scoop on the night they won their second Irish Book Award.

Also on Episode 3, Jamie and Sarah review the bestselling Home Stretch by Graham Norton and To Love a Dog, the warm and moving memoir by Irish Times journalist, Tom Inglis.

Don't miss their chats about drinking vodka-red-bulls in Coppers, growing up gay in Ireland, their (dramatic) funeral plans, Anne of Green Gables, and being the ‘Princess Diana of dog owners’.

Sarah’s featured books are My First Book (board book series) from The O’Brien Press, Books Make Things Better from Children’s Books Ireland, Once Upon a Reader by Lorraine Levis. Jamie’s featured books are Bossypants (audiobook) by Tina Fey, As You Were by Elaine Feeney and Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen McMahon.

Join Sarah and Jamie as they review the No.1 Bestseller, Strange Flowers, by Donal Ryan, try out Gina Daly and Mr Dish's cookbook, The Daly Dish, and tuck into Okay, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea, by Irish Times journalist Patrick Freyne. Don't miss the chats about their terrible 1990s jobs, raising identical twins, hating kale, and meeting Amanda Byram in the local gym... all recorded in their podcast headquarters: a decommissioned festival caravan in Swords.

Hello Lovelies. Enjoy few snippets from Episode 1: This Weekend I'm Fully Booked, which goes live on the 20 September. Can you guess the books we are talking about? 

There'll be a new episode every other week, right up to Christmas, with plenty of book reviews, chats and laughs. A happy little something to wake up on a Sunday morning. Best served with a large coffee and a pastry.