Who would have thought an accountant would make for a great special guest on our podcast? Well let's hope you think he's a great guest...

This episode David the Dymocks Adelaide accountant joins us and manages to talk about more than just numbers and his favourite brand of calculator. Tori has to wrangle with the excess testosterone in the room, we find out how David and Alex have recently become more than friends and we play an enlightening game of Kiss, Kill, Marry with some of our favourite pop culture charcters.

Here's the books we mention on this episode

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Illuminae by Amie Kuafman & Jay Kristoff

LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff

A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre

Slay by Kim Curran

Our first episode with a Dymocks Adelaide guest staff member. We talk to resident crime and thriller expert Karen about her role at Dymocks Adelaide and her go-to favourites.

We chat all about the crime genre, Alex finishes reading a book (hooray), somehow we end up on the topic of guns, we drink too much wine and the podcast goes too long... you're welcome.

Oh and Tori gets Jack Reacher and Jack Ryan confused and Karen and Alex totally go along with it.

Chapter 2 is a little bit special because we have our first episode with a guest author!

Local Adelaide author Adam Cece Joins us to talk all about author life and his upcoming book, Tori makes a shock confession about her deep dark fanfic history and we hear all about a very strange VHS tape that may have tainted Alex's childhood. Oh and we talk about books too, all the books!

Adam is the author of Wesley Booth Super Sleuth and the upcoming The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls.

For more information jump on Adam's website.

Here are the books mentioned on this episode:

City of Brass

Time Travelling with a Hamster

The 1,000-year-old Boy

The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor)

Nevernight

The Centre of My Everything

Well of Ascension

The Passage

Ballad for a Mad Girl

The Wind in the Willows

The Parent Agency

Illuminae

Ready Player One

Have Sword, Will Travel

The Smoke Thieves

Heart of Iron

LIFEL1K3

We're baaaack! Enough of you listened and seemed to enjoy the prologue so we must give the people what they want! On this episode we chat book adaptations both the good and the bad. Alex fangirls so hard over the Lord of the Rings (there's squealing), Tori gushes over the Love, Simon movie (ALL THE CUTE) and somehow they spiral into video game chat as well. Enjoy!

Join Tori & Alex for the inaugural episode of Shelf Talkers. They answer listener questions, discuss their favourite reads of 2017, talk about working in a bookshop and their vision for the podcast, Alex lets loose about his feelings on the Harry Potter movies, Tori teases him about many things and Jay Kristoff is mentioned about 10 times.