To Serve Them All My Days by R.F. Delderfield

Recorded live in Galway in 2021, we were joined by novelist Mary Costello for a special episode recorded live at Galway International Arts Festival in Ireland. The book we're debating is Elizabeth Costello (2003) by South-African born Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee, a novel that pol ...  Show more

Returning to a show we made in 2022. The Ice Palace or Is-slottet by Tarjei Vesaas is a 20th century classic by one of Norway’s greatest modern writers. First published by Gyldendal in 1963, it went on to win the Nordic Council Literary Prize in 1964. In 1966, it was published in ...  Show more

Welcome back to Espresso Epilogues, a podcast where two besties talk about books over coffee. You guys asked us for very specific book recommendations - and we're here to deliver. Here are all the books mentioned in this episode: Perfume - Patrick Süskind We Have Always Lived in ...  Show more

Barbara Pym, May Sarton, and bookshops – welcome to episode 115! In the first half of the episode, we take up Sally’s suggestion of topic – and discuss whether or not we like books set in bookshops and libraries. More 

Beryl Bainbridge, Celia Dale, critical and charitable reading – welcome to episode 123! In the first half of the episode we use a suggestion from Susannah – do we read charitably or critically? In the second half we compare too 

In this episode of Reading Women, co-hosts Autumn and Kendra nerd out about some of their favorite books, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and Flannery O'Connor's Mystery and Manners. BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST * A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf * Mystery and Mann ...  Show more