HAPPY NEW YEAR! To ring in 2026 we are doing what we do best: getting extremely nerdy about reading and all the delightful books we read in 2025. Join us as we discuss our top 5 picks plus a few honourable mentions!

See you soon, and thanks for listening ♥️

Books mentioned:

MILLY:

Top five:

Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní M’haoileon 

Private Rites by Julia Armfield 

Penance by Eliza Clark

Did I Ever Tell You by Genevieve Kingston 

The Renovation by Kenan Orhan

Others mentioned:

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 

Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna 

Gunk by Saba Sams

Flesh by David Szalay 

All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whittaker 

Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman

A Fortunate Woman by Polly Morland 

Things I Don’t Want to Know by Deborah Levy

The Year of the Cat by Rhiannon Lucy Coslett 

I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 

AMY:

Top five:

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

The Renovation by Kenan Orhan

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Childhood, Youth, Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

Vilhelm’s Room by Tove Ditlevsen

Others mentioned:

There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die by Tove Ditlevsen

The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen

Timecode of a Face by Ruth Ozeki

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

The Princess of 72nd Street by Elaine Kraf

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck

Recorded 3rd January 2026