Mar 18, 2025
Anna and Geoff discuss WHITE NIGHTS by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Ronald Meyer.
A man meets a woman on the street in St Petersburg and falls in love in this short story. It has become a Tik Tok sensation in recent months and Penguin has commissioned a new audiobook to be read by Bridgerton’s Luke Thompson. ...
Mar 11, 2025
A special episode: Anna chats with Kate Slotover of the Book Club Review podcast.
Our book of the week is THE UNSELECTED JOURNALS OF EMMA M. LION by Beth Brower. Recommended by our friend Shawn Mooney of Shawn Breathes Books, we enjoyed this novel set in Victorian London about a young woman returning to claim her...
Mar 7, 2025
A special episode: Anna is joined by author and U-Go founder John Wood.
We discuss our reactions to the 2025 Women’s Prize Longlist.
Our book of the week is PATRIOT by Alexei Navalny translated by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel. This is Navalny’s autobiography detailing his rise to be a Russian opposition...
Mar 3, 2025
Anna and Geoff react to the 2025 Booker International Longlist.
Our book of the week is EUROTRASH by Christian Kracht translated by Daniel Bowles. A middle-aged man goes on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his 80-year old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution. Blackly comic and written as...
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...