Need a recommendation for something new to read?

In this episode, we chat about our favourite books about language, travel or both (and a few books that we’re planning to read soon)! From novels that whisk you away to another place where you find yourself surrounded by new sounds and experiences, to non-fiction reads about how language is changing and where it has come from, let us tell you a bit about the language- and travel-related reads that have inspired, enlightened and delighted us over the last few years.

You’ll find links to all the books we mention in the show notes below.

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Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing by Gretchen McCulloch

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The Grape Series by Laura Bradbury

Almost French by Sarah Turnbull

All Good Things by Sarah Turnbull

Lingo and Babel by Gaston Dorren

Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop

Dreaming in Chinese... and Discovering What Makes a Billion People Tick by Deborah Fallows

Mother Tongue: The Story Of The English Language by Bill Bryson

How Language Works by David Crystal

Languages Are Good For Us by Sophie Hardach

The Yield by Tara June Winch

Empires Of The Word: A Language History Of The World by Nicholas Ostler

How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel Everett

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

I Heart Rome by Maria Pasquale

Ciao Bella!: Six Take Italy by Kate Langbroek

Still Life by Sarah Winman

La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italy and the most Enchanting Language in the World by Dianne Hales

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

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