Kirsty and Naomi fall madly for two LGBTQ+ stories, Pages for her by Sylvia Brownrigg and Paul takes the form of a mortal girl by Andrea Lawlor.

Other books mentioned:

The Hierarchies by Ros Anderson

Burntcoat by Sarah Hall

Kirsty and Naomi discuss two books about art for women in translation month, Rembrandt's Whore by Sylvie Matton (translated by Tamsin Black) and Vivian by Christina Hesselholdt (translated by Paul Russell Garrett).

Other books mentioned:

W-3 by Bette Howland

The Actual by Inua Ellams

Kirsty and Naomi consider two fantastical, dark short story collections, Speak Gigantular by Irenosen Okojie and The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova.

Other books mentioned:

The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall

Why Germans Do It Better by John Kampfner

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Kirsty and Naomi delve into two non-fiction books about trauma: The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein and The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch.

Other books mentioned:

Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton

Humankind by Rutger Bregman (translated by Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore)

Kirsty and Naomi have recommissioned themselves for a second series. This week's books are The Sound Mirror by Heidi James and The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lọlá Shónẹ́yìn.

Other books mentioned:

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

Cockfight by Maria Fernanda Ampuero (translated by Frances Riddle)

The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

Kirsty and Naomi talk about being late to gardening and Reading Ireland Month as well as discussing Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg and The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall.

Other books mentioned:

In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing

Kirsty and Naomi talk about the accessibility of literary events followed by a discussion of the memoir My Past Is a Foreign Country by Zeba Talkani and the novel Trust Exercise by Susan Choi.

Other books mentioned:

The Fat Lady Sings by Jacqueline Roy

Kirsty and Naomi discuss trigger warnings and being late to a crime series, focusing on two Australian crime novels: An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire and Darkness for Light by Emma Viskic.

Other books mentioned:

Kirsty and Naomi talk about the beauty of being late to popular culture followed by a discussion on the non-fiction texts / memoirs On Immunity by Eula Biss and The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang.

Other books mentioned:

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood