14/09/2019: You Don’t Own Me by Lesley Gore is our soundtrack. Find out what connects it to The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

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14/09/2019: It’s all about The Testaments by Margaret Atwood! The wait is over and we cannot wait to delve into the highly-anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale with bookworm writer and editor Allison K Williams.

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14/09/2019: Sara Hamdan is joined by Louise Edensor, senior lecturer at Middlesex University to review Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick, it has been described as a painfully beautiful first novel set in the 1960s in a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. 

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14/09/2019: Former New York Times journalist, blogger at Holidays in Heels and part time editor at Google, Sara Hamdan, joined us in the studio to tell us what books she’s read over Summer – the good, the bad, and the ugly including psychological thriller The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, non-fiction work My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, and The Man Who Didn’t Call by Rosie Walsh.

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06/07/2019: Ahh, first love. Butterflies in your stomach, the ‘how-long-should-I-wait-to-text-him?’ debate, the cute inside jokes. We all love a meet-cute story. Festival Director of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature Ahlam Bolooki reviews Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls, the must anticipated new novel from the author of One Day and Us. It’s a bittersweet coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill over first love and how just one summer can forever change a life.

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06/07/2019: What would you do if you could live stream your emotions? Fiona Du Vivier reviews taut psychological thriller, Heartstream by Tom Pollock, about obsession, fame and betrayal follows the lives of Cat and Amy who are about to discover how far true obsession can go. She also talks about what makes a story unfilmable. This one is for the Black Mirror fans.

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06/07/2019: A former British police officer, Clare Mackintosh is now a Sunday Times bestselling author. Her debut novel I Let You Go was a Richard & Judy book club pick and won Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016. In 2017, it was announced that she had sold over one million copies worldwide. Her second novel I See You reached number 1 in the Sunday Times original fiction list and was shortlisted for Crime and Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards. Her latest novel Let Me Lie also became a number one Sunday Times bestseller and garnered a lot of praise from readers and other thriller writers.

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29/06/2019: What connects Creep by Radiohead, and the Harry Potter series? Find out on this week’s literary soundtrack.

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29/06/2019: Anita Vachharajani author of Amrita Sher-Gil: Rebel with a Paintbrush, speaks to us from India about the short life of the incredible Hungarian-Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil. A story about a girl who loved a bit of mischief and adventure, she defied headmistresses, teachers, art critics and royalty to make her own way in a patriarchal society.

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29/06/2019: What was that last book that made you laugh out loud? Co-founder of Dubomedy Mina Liccione reviews Reasons to Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe, a hilarious and moving story of a young woman figuring out how to adult. The novel won the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction - does it live up to the hype? Plus the books and writers that make the Dubai Eye team chuckle.  

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