This week's book guest is The Midnight Train by Matt Haig.

Sara and Cariad are joined by the internationally bestselling author himself, Matt Haig.

In this episode they discuss steam trains, Sheffield, Ulysses, modernism and Def Leppard.

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Produced by Naomi Parnell.

Recorded and edited by Aniya Das for Plosive.

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This week's book guest is Welcome to Weird Street by Stephen Mangan, illustrated by Anita Mangan

Sara and Cariad are joined by the brilliant actor, comedian, presenter and writer Stephen Mangan.

In this episode they discuss Treasure Island, Green Wing, Stephen Fry and farts.

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This week's book guest is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

Sara and Cariad are joined by comedian, writer, playwright and friend Vanessa Hammick.

In this episode they discuss AI, dissertations, Kenneth Branagh, broad strokes, and Emma Stone.

Trigger warning: In this episode we discuss sexual assault and child murder.

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This week's book guest is Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest 

Sara and Cariad are joined by the incredible spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright Kae Tempest himself.

In this episode they discuss addiction, school, access to reading, seaside towns and lager tops.

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Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest is available here

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This week's book guest is Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke.

Sara and Cariad are joined by international best selling author Caro Claire Burke herself.

In this episode they discuss mirrors, Christians, botox, TikTok, feminism and dingos.

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Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke is available here

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Produced by Naomi Parnell 

Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.

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This week's book guest is Middlemarch by George Eliot.

In this episode we discuss soap operas, love stories, socialism, Nietzsche and Cariad getting angry.

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This week's book guest is Flesh by David Szalay.

Sara and Cariad are joined by the two time nominee and current winner of the Booker Prize himself, David Szalay.

In this episode they discuss and class, Vienna, masculinity, prizes, money and Soho.

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Flesh by David Szalay. is available here.

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Recorded and edited by Aniya Das for Plosive.

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Sara and Cariad are back with another series of truly excellent, weird and wonderful reads and a host of brilliant guests lined up this series!

Welcome back to the book club where you don't even have to have read the book to join in! In this episodeSara and Cariad discuss books they've read in the break, the National Year of Reading, Odysseus and maggots.

Thank you for reading with us. We look forward to reading with you (or not) this series!

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Sara and Cariad are back for a fifth series of weird and wonderful reads! Send us your listener suggestions and remember you don't even have to have read the book to join in!

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Your favourite Weirdos will be back with a brand new series next week, but to tide you over until then, we're sharing an episode of our brilliant friends Amy Gledhill and Harriet Kemsley's podcast, Single Ladies In Your Area which - all about dating and relationships in your 30s and beyond. For this episode they're joined by special guest... Jameela Jamil!

Amy and Harriet joined us on the Weirdos Book Club podcast to discuss Helen Fielding's iconic Bridget Jones's Diary, you can listen back to that episode here.

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