In this episode Alice and Bethany have drawn up their own lists of their top 10 books of the year, and come together to compare notes. Will there be overlap? Will there be disagreements? Only time will tell...

In this episode, Alice and Bethany interrogate each other about what they read, how they read it, who they listen to when they want recommendations and how they treat the books in their possession. You probably won't get too many new book ideas from this episode, but it'll make you laugh.

Alice and Bethany were both born in the eighties, so while we're riding the Stranger Things nostalgia wave, we decided to take it back and do an episode on literature of the 1980s.

We discuss

Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis

Alice and Bethany celebrate the most wonderful time of the year by chatting about ghost stories, classic and contemporary.

The books discussed:

And, not a ghost story but a gothic banger we wanted to talk about-

The Travelling Bag - Susan Hill

In this episode, Alice and Bethany talk through their favourite film adaptations of great books, adaptations they feel missed the mark, and what we're looking forward to coming out in cinemas.

In this episode, Alice and Bethany wrestle with ethical questions around how much they enjoy true crime books, what makes true crime fiction good or bad, and whether fiction inspired by real crimes is any different to non-fiction marketed as true crime.

The books we discuss are:

The Fact of a Body - Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich

The Red Parts - Maggie Nelson

The Adversary - Emmanuel Carrere

Forensics - Val McDermid

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmidt

Little Deaths - Emma Flint

The Girls - Emma Cline

This is the first episode of the new books podcast What Page Are You On! In this episode, Alice and Bethany talk about books that have a high fat content, both fiction and non-fiction.

The books we discuss are: