In a special episode for Mental Health Awareness Week, Ellie meets Lucy and she's damn sure her book's about mental health, which (spoiler alert) it is. Plenty of humour and talk of trees falling in love and 'stealth Bowie eyes' on the way but also a raw and honest chat about darkness and embracing it.

Ellie may not guess what Irenosen's book is about but Irenosen is having too good a time to care. She's dying to help Ellie though. And her book choices are eclectic to say the least. Will Ellie guess? Tune in to find out in the latest episode of the literary guessing game podcast...

Today's podcast is a simultaneously hilarious, spacey, relevant and urgent. Max has until 11th March 2020 to fund his book. Search 'hobble' on unbound.com to support the book and make sure you sit back and enjoy the podcast before or after. This episode could very much have been called 'Pet Cemetery' but that name was already sort of taken. Also, things take unexpectantly dark turn as Ellie outlines her post-death wishes. Interesting times.

Sophie has awesome hair, many tattoos (one of them Neil Gaiman-related) and fruitbowl full of plastic dinosaurs. But what is her book about? And will Ellie guess correctly? She's definitely got one thing right about Sophie's book....

James is keen on pubs. That's clear from the start. But do pubs have anything to do with what his book is about? Ellie thinks so, but will she guess correctly? Another installment of the literary guessing game podcast...with a twist*! (That may well have been a clue!) In other news, Ellie ponders what her favourite crime is...

Noo is making some outrageous claims. Like being the only person to have drunk Um Bongo in the Congo. And she's not a fan of Bob Geldolf's book on Africa. Does Ellie smell a travel book? We shall see in the latest episode of the literary guessing game podcast...

Sam has an amazing jacket. Ellie will talk about this a lot in this podcast. In fact there will be a lot of tangents in this episode. The title very much comes from an unexpected (but hilarious) tangent. Will we get to the heart of the matter, though? What Sam (of amazing jacket fame)'s book is about? Will Ellie guess correctly? Only time (and listening to this podcast) will tell.

Mark has brought another author home to meet Ellie and he's particularly good at keeping her guessing. He has a cat named after a famous Russian playwright and once taught a former Mayor of London's son, but what is Ashley's book about...

In the inaugural* episode of Poking Books, Ellie meets Wallis, an author who once had a hair with 50 splits which she kept in a mauve matchbox. But what's Wallis's book about? And will Ellie guess before Wallis reveals the truth...

*Nice word, that - 'inaugural'