Welcome back bookends! Our second episode in our 'Top of your TBR' series is with the wonderful and incredibly charming Maggie Shipstead.
On this episode we discuss her epic novel 'Great Circle' and our love for her latest short story collection 'You Have A Friend in 10A', we talk through her recommendations for your TBR, why writers love to read about writers as characters, where we draw the line with unlikeable characters and whether Great Circle is going to be adapted (yes Hannah always asks the important Q's)...

You can find Maggie and her work at: https://www.maggieshipstead.com/ or you can follow her on Instagram @shipstead.
Link to buy Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead - https://uk.bookshop.org/books/great-circle-the-soaring-and-emotional-novel-shortlisted-for-the-booker-prize-2021-and-longlisted-for-the-women-s-prize-2022/9780857526809
Link to buy You Have A Friend in 10A - https://uk.bookshop.org/books/you-have-a-friend-in-10a-by-the-2022-women-s-fiction-prize-and-2021-booker-prize-shortlisted-author-of-great-circle/9780857526823

Books mentioned:
Hotel Paradise by Martha Grimes
Monogamy by Sue Miller
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
One Day by David Nicholls
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

Top of your TBR recommendations:
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P by Adele Waldman

Cultural Recommendations:
Literary Friction Podcast // Elif Batuman Ep- https://soundcloud.com/literaryfriction/literary-friction-special-elif-batuman
Hulu- Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons
Top Gun: Maverick
Apple TV- The Staircase
Netflix- Death on the staircase
Disney + - The Dropout
Apple TV- WeCrashed

We hope all these recommendations keep you going until our next ep! Please do rate & review us as this helps to boost us in the charts and if you're not already following please head over to our Instagram @apairofbookendspod for more of our recommendations and rambles. Until next time, Hannah & Lyd x