Feb 23, 2025
A special episode: Anna chats with author Holly Gramazio about her debut novel THE HUSBANDS.
When Lauren returns to her flat in London one night, she finds a husband called Michael: the only problem is, she isn’t married. It turns out that her attic is producing an endless supply of husbands. An instant New York...
Feb 18, 2025
Anna and Geoff review OUR EVENINGS the new novel by Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst. Dave Win is a Burmese-British actor reminiscing about his life, growing up as a gay man in the 1960s through to 2019. We loved the exact and beautiful prose but found it slow. The blurb also suggests a tension between...
Feb 11, 2025
A special episode: Anna speaks with author Vaseem Khan about his new crime novel CITY OF DESTRUCTION.
This is the fifth in the Malabar House series set in 1950s Bombay after Partition. Persis Wadia is India’s first female police detective and is sent to work in Malabar House. In CITY OF DESTRUCTION, a gunman attempts...
Feb 4, 2025
Anna and Annie discuss the success of Rebecca Yarros’s new book ONYX STORM, the third in the Emperyean series. Annie gives her views about why they have been huge best-sellers and the popularity of romantasy.
Our book of the week is DISAPPOINT ME by Nicola Dinan. This buzzy new novel by the author of