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Episodes: 122
Description
A fun, upbeat, accessible show about brilliant books, writing and culture.
Each episode sees two authors go head to head in a war of the words, championing a book they love and think we should all read...but only one can win.
This book podcast features an incredible array of authors from across the globe and some amazing, and sometimes unexpected, book recommendations.
#books #bookpodcast #authors #writers #booklovers #writing #literature #bookrecommendations #bookworms
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Percival Everett and Andrew O'Hagan
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Andrew Hunter Murray and Jonny Sweet
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Kiley Reid and Caroline O'Donoghue
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Jennie Godfrey and Susan Fletcher
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Dermot O'Leary and Cressida Cowell
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Heidi Amsinck and Marisa Haetzman (Danish delights and death)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Stig Abell and Jo Spain (Nothing beats Pride & Prejudice)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Catriona Ward and Mat Osman (Shelve Me!)
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May 11, 2023 |
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Poorna Bell and Eva Rice (what do you MEAN you haven't read it?)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Georgina Moore and Sophia Money-Coutts (Love, Landscapes and Language)
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Jill Mansell and Lucy Diamond ('Riders', Rebels, Romcoms and wRiting)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Elly Griffiths and Jane Harper (wine tasting is research!)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Kirsty Logan and Laura Purcell (I didn't know I was up against the Moomins!)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Simon Fowler and Daniel Rachel (Is it a quail?)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Lindsey Kelk and Beth O'Leary (Well, if Marian Keyes says it's good...)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Sally Gardner and Jamie Costello (Look to the weather)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Ken Follett and Greg Mosse (Stand near to suspicious people and see what they do)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Anthony Marra and Wendy Erskine (Reading too many short stories in a row is like doing a line of shots)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Graham Norton and Dawn O'Porter (No offence, but you're not too clever for me...which I like!)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Kamila Shamsie and Tahmima Anam (Friendships, Fondness, Seinfeld and Bum Injections)
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Jason Reynolds and Joseph Coelho (When the twist happens, it smacks you like a truck!)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Ricky Ross and Emma Forrest (Mansions, Mayhem, Movies and Memoirs)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Charlie Higson and Alex Michaelides (A man out of time, with a ratty old jumper)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Karin Slaughter and David Koepp (All stories appear to me as movies...)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Ardal O'Hanlon and Rev. Richard Coles (The perks of wearing a dog collar)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Jarvis Cocker and Baxter Dury (Proustian madeleines and TV meetings)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Ruth Ware and Gillian McAllister (Marian Keys could write the phone book and we'd all buy it!)
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May 18, 2022 |
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Tara M Stringfellow and Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Porches, Poems, Prose and Presidents)
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May 11, 2022 |
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Joanna Cannon and Carrie Hope Fletcher (Twitchy curtains and fantasy novels)
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May 04, 2022 |
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Kasim Ali and Okechukwu Nzelu (If a story gets rejected, I just put it in a draw and move on)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Harriet Tyce and Amy Mcculloch (I'm very partial to a penguin!)
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Sarah Pinborough and Sarah Vaughan (We all need a bit of quirk!)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Ruth Ozeki and Cathy Rentzenbrink (Would you stare at your own face for three hours?)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Damon Galgut and Adrian Nathan West (Dogs, Diets and Death)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Marian Keyes and Nina Stibbe (I'd like to live in a cave, covered in fur)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Charlotte Mendelson and Liz Hyder (Ever been to Twatt?)
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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David Baldacci and Linwood Barclay (The wrong guy in the trunk)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Jo Browning Wroe and Miranda Cowley Heller (Handsome Hunks and HBO)
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Monica Ali and Hafsa Zayyan
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Ben Okri and Tice Cin (Open the champagne once you've finished)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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John Gerard Fagan and Monika Radojevic (Poetry is power)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Robert Peston and Imran Mahmood (A fair bit of nobbling)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes (You don't want to ride my donkeys)
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Georgia Pritchett and Casey Wilson (Tell it to the lamppost!)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Lucy Vine and Nicole Kennedy (Sex with rockstars in art galleries)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Sebastian Faulks and Richard Powers (Why are we such a weird species?)
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Charles Yu and Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Stereotypes and Stigmas)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Kathryn Williams and Rosa Rankin-Gee (Tides, Tits and Zombies)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Olivia Laing and Howard Cunnell (Bodies and Beaches)
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Alex Horne and Katy Wix (I'm not sure I was meant to tell you that)
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Bella Mackie and Vera Kurian (Horror and Humour go hand in hand)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Joanne Harris and Sharon Bolton (Setting is such a powerful force)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Jeremy Vine and Fern Britton (The joy of making stuff up is...wonderful)
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Jason Mott and Christine Smallwood (What do Dinosaurs and Werner Herzog have in common?) Book Podcast
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Peter May and Peter Swanson (Don't bother with the sequel to Rosemary's Baby!) Book Podcast
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May 12, 2021 |
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Louise Nealon and Julie Ma (Haikus and High Jinx!) Book Podcast
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Pam Ayres and Jane Smiley (Newts, Herons, Dogs, Horses and more!) Book Podcast
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Musa Okwonga and Wyl Menmuir (Football is just like jazz) Book Podcast
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Naomi Ishiguro and Sheena Patel (Poetry, Prose and Pandemics) Book Podcast
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Emily M Danforth and Inga Vesper (I love Shirley Jackson, but is anyone actually reading the books?) Book Podcast
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Lizzie Fry and Anna North (Westerns, Witches and Women) Book Podcast
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Chris Brookmyre and Mick Herron (Is that you on the cover??)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Emma Stonex and Rebecca Watson (Loving, Living, Longing and Lighthouses!) Book Podcast
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Simon Mayo and SJ Watson (If you're struggling at sixty thousand words, call Ian Rankin's wife) Book Podcast
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Ryan Gattis and Gabriel Krauze (Fiction can often be truer to life than non-fiction) book podcast
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Daisy Buchanan and Emma Jane Unsworth (burglary, sex, Woman's Hour and Simon Mayo)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Abigail Dean and Ashley Audrain (motherhood, lighthouses and good sex)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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CJ Tudor and Will Dean (spooky, spacious and spirited!)
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Michael Connelly and Clare Mackintosh (I think I'll set my next novel in LA)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Carys Bray and Sarah Franklin (Forests, Friendships and Fabulous books)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Emma Donoghue and Michael Crummey (I know you don't want to read this book)
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Victoria Hislop and Lissa Evans (Older authors are like a ripe fruit, or a stinky cheese)
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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DBC Pierre and Sophie Mackintosh (I don't want to give my life to a corporation)
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Ian Rankin and Steve Cavanagh (12 books a year and ferocious sex)
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Oyinkan Braithwaite and Chris Whitaker (Ever been to Centre Parks?)
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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David Mitchell and Jasper Fforde (Off-The-Wall books and too many cooks)
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Douglas Stuart and Jackie Kay (Most writers are a bit mad)
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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John Connolly and Sarah Moss (We think in eras, but we live in moments)
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz (Americans don't understand "going for a slash in the woods")
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Jeffery Deaver and Scott Turow (if you can't find time to write, you'll never be a writer)
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May 13, 2020 |
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Joe Abercrombie and Barney Norris (Not everyone likes to be shocked)
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May 06, 2020 |
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Holly Bourne and Harriet Walker (I like to challenge men in my books)
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Paul Mendez and Naoise Dolan (In these strange times, we need slower reads)
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Maggie O'Farrell and Tayari Jones (We all have our own relationship with Shakespeare)
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Louise Candlish and Mark Edwards (The neighbours from hell)
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Liz Moore and Sadie Jones (To Title or not To Title, that is the question)
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Elizabeth Macneal and Stephen Chbosky (I got $20M to make a book advert)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Abi Dare and Jeanine Cummins (Could you be, the most beautiful covers in the world!?)
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Casey Cep and Chris Power (Harper Lee lived with Hall & Oates
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Candice Carty-Williams and Katy Brand (Grab your trumpet, you've pulled)
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Brett Anderson and Lemn Sissay (Person V Persona)
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Adele Parks and Lucy Foley (Don't steal the horn!)
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Lisa Jewell and Catherine Steadman (I only know what I'm writing when I'm writing it)
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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Daisy Johnson and Kiran Milwood Hargrave (The best sex I've ever read)
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Jim Bob and Luke Haines (It's better out than in)
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May 01, 2019 |
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Dorothy Koomson and Amanda Prowse (Leather Pyjamas at the ready!)
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Tony Parsons and Charlotte Philby (We caned it quite hard in the 70s)
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Taylor Jenkins Reid and Damian Barr (Sorry for giving you the horn)
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Ben Aaronovitch and James Swallow (My characters just never shut up!)
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Helen Lederer and Shazia Mirza (You can be successful, just don't copy me)
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Gregg Hurwitz and Robert Goddard (Bats and Rats)
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Douglas Kennedy and John Lanchester (There are five rules for writing a novel...and nobody knows what they are)
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Tracey Thorn and Hannah Beckerman (Suburbia and Safety)
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Leila Slimani and Stacey Halls (We are all shocking inside)
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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David Tennant and Christian Brassington (You've never seen Home Alone???)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Barbara Taylor Bradford and Sophie Hannah (An archive? That's just a load of tat...)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Sarah Winman and Tim Winton (Writing is a young persons game)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Sarah Perry and Patrick Gale (People love being scared, it's very close to sex!)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Cecelia Ahern and Murray Lachlan Young (Are we on another planet!?)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Adam Kay and John Cooper Clarke (This Is Going To Hurt...)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Paddy Ashdown and Bernard Cornwell (If you don't love poetry, you should give up on life!)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Matt Haig and Bryony Gordon (From mental health to running to Police Academy!)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Erin Kelly and Sabine Durrant (Taking time off of social media? You must be mad!)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Louise Doherty and Araminta Hall (Women are still portrayed badly in fiction!)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Kate Mosse and SJ Parris (Literary prizes and jet-lag, now there's a combo!)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Mark Billingham and David Hepworth (It's about to get very geeky!)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Donal Ryan and Imogen Hermes Gower (What's the point of no carb diets?)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Jess Kidd and Simon Wore (I'm funny how? I mean funny like I'm a clown?)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Kit de Waal and Ned Beauman (The golden age of cinema)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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John Niven and Viv Groskop (Is a school reunion ever a good idea?)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Lionel Shriver and Tracy Chevalier (Jazz drummers can often ruin dinner!)
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Paula Hawkins and John Boyne (How do you follow Girl On The Train?)
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Feb 01, 2019 |