The Bookcast Club

We had the pleasure of  @KeriBooks  joining us on the pod this month to chat all things memoir with  @JennyKing  With a penchant for cults, death, narrative gimmicks and celebrity memoirs, we hope we've lightened the tone with a few dogs thrown in there too! Also, Sarah actually loved Enlightenment by Sarah Perry! Jenny is a fool.

Books mentioned

Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland

All the Dogs of My Life by Elizabeth von Armin

Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood

Famesick by Lena Dunham

A Truce that is Not Peace by Miriam Toevs

Don't Let it Break You, Honey by Jenny Evans

Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley

Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key

Unprotected by Billy Porter

Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry

Vagabond by Tim Curry

The Make Believe by Hannah Murray

Dogs, Boys and Other Things I've Cried About by Isabel Klee

Ghost Stories by Siri Hustfedt

The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things by Suzanne Joinson

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This episode, from February 2023, was a special request from a listener. Sarah and Jenny discuss their experiences with grief and recommend some reads, we promise it's not completely depressing! That being said we do discuss cancer, miscarriage, suicide, sudden death and more, so if you find these topics upsetting then please do give this episode a miss. We hope you enjoy the episode and if you've got any other special requests send them our way!

Books mentioned 

• New Animal by Ella Baxter
• The Spare Room by Helen Garner
• Past Mortems by Carla Valentine
• With the End in Mind by Katherine Mannix
• From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty 
• Sky Burial by Xinran
• Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
• This I Know: Notes on Unravelling the Heart by Susannah Conway
• Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter 

Links

• Caitlin Doughty (Ask a Mortician) YouTube 
• Tiny Beautiful Things episode
• Grief is the Thing with Feathers episode 
• Griefcast with Kathryn Mannix

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Jenny, Belle and Sarah share their favourite books of the year so far and a few honourable mentions.

Books mentioned

The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood

Monsters by Emerald Fennell

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry

Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks

Always Home Always Homesick by Hannah Kent

I Feel Bad About my Neck by Nora Ephron

Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter

Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken

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Jenny, Belle and Sarah try to predict the winner of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction. We share our thoughts on each of the shortlisted books and give you our favourites and winning predictions. We've got this episode out ahead of time for once, so will we be right? We also want to give away a Bookcast Club exclusive hoodie to one lucky listener. Listen to April's episode for the answer and fill in this entry form for your chance to win.

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We welcome friend of the pod Cobby this month to discuss the classic book Wuthering Heights and how it compares to the 2026 movie "Wuthering Heights" by Emerald Fennell. Are we team Heathcliff or Martin Clunes? We also want to give away a Bookcast Club exclusive hoodie to one lucky listener. Listen to April's episode for the answer and fill in this entry form for your chance to win.

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In our very first episode of the year, Jenny, Belle and Sarah are back and we’re kicking things off with a big update! We’re moving away from seasons and switching to a monthly episode format, and in this episode we chat through why the change felt right for us (and hopefully for you too).

Alongside that, it’s a proper catch-up - what we’ve been reading, what we’ve been loving, and how our reading year is shaping up so far. Expect plenty of bookish tangents, honest thoughts, and the usual cosy, conversational vibes as we ease into a new year of the podcast.

We’ll also be sharing more over on our Patreon each month, alongside the main episodes, if you’d like to support the show and get extra content, you can join us here: https://www.patreon.com/c/bookcastclub

Books mentioned in this episode:

• The Fate of Mary Rose — Caroline O’Donoghue
• The Correspondent — Virginia Evans
• Memorial Day — Geraldine Brooks
• Wild Dark Shore — Charlotte McConaghy
• The Rose Field — Philip Pullman
• Always Home, Always Homesick — Hannah Kent
• Audition — Katie Kitamura
• Elegy, Southwest — Madeleine Watts
• Love, Sex and Frankenstein — Caroline Lea
• Death in Her Hands — Ottessa Moshfegh

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Jenny and Sarah chat about their favourite reads of 2025, along with some great recommendations from listeners

What have your standout reads of 2025 been? Are any of these on your TBR?

Books mentioned:

• Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
• All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakam
• A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland
• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
• The Good People by Hannah Kent
• The Dance Tree by Kiran Milwood Hargrave
• Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen
• Ripeness by Sarah Moss
• My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss
• Bunny by Mona Awad
• We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad
• Almost Life by Kiran Milwood Hargrave
• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy
• The Book of Dust trilogy by Philip Pullman
• Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
• As Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

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Sarah and Jenny discuss the recent release of Wicked: For Good and how it compares to the book. The book is dark and complex, a strong contrast to the book. They discuss what they loved and hated about the film, and what was gained or lost in the translation from Gregory Maguire's Wicked.

Have you read the book and/or seen the film? What did you think?

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This is our LIVE recording of our Patreon Book Club, so apologies for sound gremlins. We discuss The Lamb by Lucy Rose with our Patreons. If you would like to join us next time you can sign up here for as little as £2 a month.

Books mentioned:

• Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
• Folk by Zoe Gilbert
• Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

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Who'd have believed it!? A Laurie Gilmore, Dream Harbour special. Millie joins Jenny to discuss the Dream Harbour series as well as the rise in spicy romance.

Books mentioned:

• Book Lovers by Emily Henry
• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandana
• You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
• The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden
• Once Upon a Broken Heart Series by Stephanie Garber
• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
• Flawless by Elsie Silver
• Playing the Witch Card by KJ Dell'Antonia

Podcast mentioned:

• The Conversation with Laurie Gilmore

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