That Rom Com Pod

Guest: Rachael Johns

The Other Bridget, Rachael Johns

Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones’s Diary / film / The Edge of Reason / film / Mad About The Boy / Bridget Jones’ Baby / film 

The Sparkle Pages, Meg Bignell 

Sweet Home Alabama 

Dawson’s Creek 

Felicity 

Twilight 

West Side Honey, Claire Christian

The Search Party, Hannah Richell 

Naked in Death, J.D. Robb

Watermelon, Marian Keyes

Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy T Matthews 

Grace Under Pressure, Tori Haschka 

Magpie / Friendaholic, Elizabeth Day 

Just Friends, Gyan Yankovich

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Guest: Josh Hortinela

Good Material, Dolly Alderton 

Love, Just In, Natalie Murray

Perfectish, Jessica Seaborn 

She's The Man 

One Day, David Nicholls / Netflix  

Sleepless in Seattle / An Affair To Remember 

You've Got Mail

The Seven Year Slip, Ashley Poston / The Lake House

Fire Island 

Anyone But You

Ralph’s Party, Lisa Jewell

Just Friends, Gyan Yankovich

A Winter in New York, Josie Silver

Everyone and Everything, Nadine Cohen

Part Of Your World, Abby Jimenez

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The Bronze Horseman, Paulina Simons

Cloudstreet, Tim Winton

The Other Bridget, Rachael Johns

Green Dot, Madeleine Gray

Search History, Amy Taylor

Nobody Puts RomComs In the Corner, Kathryn Freeman

Love Interest, Claire Gilmore

The Burnout, Sophie Kinsella

Edenglassie, Melissa Lucashenko

The Hummingbird Effect, Kate Mildenhall

Everyone and Everything, Nadine Cohen

The Work, Bri Lee

Anything Joanna Nell & Sophie Green

Who’s That Girl, Mhairi McFarlane

Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy T Matthews

Dreaming in French, Vanessa McCausland

A Winter In New York, Josie Silver

Anything Penelope Janu

The Next Big Thing, James Colley

Her Fidelity, Katharine Pollock

Four Night Stand, Georgia Moore

Loving Lizzie March, Susannah Hardy

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This episode we’re digging into the three Christmas texts we assigned as homework, and there will be spoilers! You’ve been warned! 

If you want to read/watch for yourself before listening, the texts are:

• One Day in December by Josie Silver (2018, Penguin) 
• Falling For Christmas (2022, Netflix)
• Window Wonderland (2013, Prime) 

Cheers with a Candy Cane Christmas cocktail. Love how this recipe does not include quantities, it’s a really choose-your-own-adventure, but you’ll need:

• Vodka
• Cranberry juice
• Grenadine
• Peppermint schnapps
• Splash of lemonade
• Ice cubes
• Crushed candy canes for rim and/or mini peppermint candy cane for garnish

• Lonely Harts Club Radio by Adeline Knight, Audible Original novella (2023)
• Mean Girls (2004, Binge)
• New Girl (2011-2018, Disney+)
• The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan (2023, Hachette) recommended by Jacinta Rose 
• Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey (2023, HarperCollins) recommended by @ReadingWithCake 
• All I Want For Chris-mas, “A spicy holiday romance inspired by Hollywood’s hottest man”, anthology featuring Elouise Tynan, Stephanie Hazeltine, Alison Middleton, Emma Mugglestone (2023) 
• (Friend of the pod) Penny Carroll’s interview with Emma Mugglestone 

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Single All The Way

Catch Me If You Claus 

A Merry Scottish Christmas 

Christmas Inheritance 

This Has Been Absolutely Lovely, Jessica Dettmann

Jones Family Christmas 

The Holiday 

Love Actually 

Happiest Season 

Never Ever Forever, Karina May 

Dash and Lily 

Home for Christmas 

A Moody Christmas 

One Day in December, Josie Silver 

Christmas Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella 

A Country Vet Christmas

The Fabric of Christmas

Good Material, Dolly Alderton

Heart Sick, Jessie Stephens

Emergency Exit Only, Michelle Upton

You Again, Kate Goldbeck

The Italian Marriage, Jenna Lo Bianco

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Never Ever Forever, Karina May

‘What Does A Happily Ever After Look Like?’, The Pudding

The Unhoneymooners, Christina Lauren

Duck a l’Orange for Breakfast, Karina May

Dreaming in French, Vanessa McCausland

One Summer in Santorini, Sandy Barker

Returning to Adelaide, Anne Freeman

Just One Wish, Rachael Johns

Amber and Alice, Janette Paul

The Last Love Note, Emma Grey

How To Be Second Best, Jessica Dettmann

Five Bush Weddings, Clare Fletcher

The Lost City (Binge)

Romancing The Stone (Disney+)

The Mummy (Binge)

True Lies (Disney+)

Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy T Matthews

Bound To Happen, Jonathon Shannon

Love In Theory, Elodie Cheesman

Something Blue by Alex Sarkis

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Books and movies mentioned during this episode:

• Happy Place, Emily Henry (2023, Penguin)
• When Harry Met Sally (1989, Prime)
• Love, Just In, Natalie Murray (2024, Allen & Unwin)
• Not Here To Make Friends, Jodi McAlister (January 2024, Simon & Schuster)
• The Next Big Thing, James Colley (February 2024, Pantera Press)
• One Day, David Nicholls (2009, Hachette)
• What If, sometimes known as The F Word (2014, Prime)
• NOT a rom-com but a great conversation starter: Swiss Army Man (2016, Stan)
• Paterson (2016)
• Love And Other Scores, Abra Pressler (out November 28, Pan Macmillan)
• Marry Me Juliet series by Jodi McAlister (Simon & Schuster, 2022-24)
• The One, Kaneana May (2021, HarperCollins)
• Caroline O’Donoghue, The Rachel Incident (Hachette, 2023)
• Sentimental Garbage
• Bridie Jabour’s interview with Caroline on Cool Story
• Watch a video of the live event on Roaring Stories’ Facebook

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Stepbrother Dearest; Emma, Jane Austen; Twilight, Stephanie Meyer; Steffanie Holmes; The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith. Jodi McAlister: Here For The Right Reasons, Can I Steal You For A Second, Not Here To Make Friends. At The Foot Of The Cherry Tree, Alli Parker. Genevieve Novak: Crushing, No Hard Feelings. Never Ever Forever, Karina May. Clueless (Binge); Emma (1996, Stan/2020, Binge); Romeo + Juliet (1996, Disney+); Twilight (Binge); Brokeback Mountain (Binge); Portrait of a Lady on Fire (SBS); Carol (Binge); The Big Sick (Prime); Five Feet Apart (Prime); Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner; Three Men and a Baby.

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BOOKS: Bound To Happen, Jonathan Shannon; Love, In Theory, Elodie Cheesman; No Hard Feelings, Genevieve Novak; Ghosts, Dolly Alderton; One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston; Playing The Field, Zoe Foster Blake; Sit Stay Love, Amy Hutton; Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy T Matthews; Not Meeting Mr Right, Anita Heiss; Legally Blak, Teela Reid; Burn, Melanie Saward; The Summer Job, Lizzy Dent. | MOVIES: Notting Hill (Binge); Ibiza (Netflix); A Cinderella Story; Only You (Netflix); Serendipity (Stan); 50 First Dates (Amazon Prime);The Holiday (Binge); The Big Sick (Prime); Ruby Sparks (Disney+); Fleabag (Prime); Love Actually (Binge)

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Never Ever Forever Karina May; Happy Place, Emily Henry; Every Summer After, Carley Fortune; Love and Other Words, Christina Lauren; Star Crossed, Minnie Darke; Minnie Darke on Writes4Women; Once More With Feeling, Alyssa Sussman; Who’s That Girl, Mhairi McFarlane; Spring Clean For The Peach Queen, Sasha Wasley; Second Chance Love in Point Perry, Joanne Speirs | MOVIES: 13 Going On 30 (Binge); Ticket To Paradise (Binge); Sweet Home Alabama (Disney Plus); Before Sunrise (Binge) | SHELF LOVE: Lonely Harts Radio, Adeline Knight; Love For Life, Saman Shad; The Rachel Incident, Caroline O’Donoghue | Liked Yellowface, Rebecca F Kuang? Try Burnt Out by Victoria Brookman. 

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