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Welcome to this month's short stories episode. Today we willl be having spoiler free chats on all of the following books:

The Animals In That Country - Laura Jean McKay

The Favourites - Layne Fargo

Test Kitchen - Neil D. A. Stewart

Adelaide - Genevieve Wheeler

All Fours - Miranda July

The Garnett Girls - Georgina Moore

Fledging - Rose Diell

The Impossible Thing - Belinda Bauer

The Paris Trilogy - Colombe Schneck

Sociopath - Patric Gagne

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Our February featured read is The Silence in Between by Josie Ferguson. Spoiler free chats as always.

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Spoiler free discussions on all of the following:

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

You Are Fatally Invited - Ande Pliego

Sweat - Emma Healey

Victorian Psycho - Virginia Feito

Notes on An Execution - Danya Kukafka

New Animal - Ella Baxter

The Wedding People - Alison Espach

The South - Tash Aw

Variation - Rebecca Yarros

Water Moon - Samantha Sotto Yambao

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Our first official buddy read for 2025 was Want, a collection curated by Gillian Anderson. An interesting discussion that contains adult themes but that we managed to keep somewhat PG!

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Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know that Wicked fever has been everywhere for the last couple of months, so we thought it the perfect time to pick up the book and see what it's all about!

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A long awaited short stories edition to chat about some of our most recent reads!

This week we discussed:

Girl In Pieces - Kathleen Glasgow

Baby Teeth and Dear Hanna - Zoje Stage

Things In Jars - Jess Kidd

Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden

North Woods - Daniel Mason

Maybe Perhaps Possibly - Joanna Glen

Falling Animals - Sheila Armstrong

The Life Impossible - Matt Haig

The Wren, The Wren - Anne Enright

Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck

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How is it that time of year already?

Here we have our top picks from 2024!

Rhiannon's Top Three:

Friendaholic - Elizabeth Day (Also discussed in Episode 86)
Talking At Night - Claire Daverley (Also discussed in Episode 94)
Kala - Colin Walsh (Also discussed in Episode 86)

Honourable Mention:
Strange Sally Diamond - Liz Nugent (Also discussed in Episode 92)

Hannah's Top Three:

Rouge - Mona Awad (Also discussed in Episode 88)
A Thousand Feasts - Nigel Slater
The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden (Also discussed in Episode 98)

Honourable Mention:
Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy

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In this episode we discuss Sally Rooney's much hyped novel, Intermezzo.

Long time listeners will know we haven't particularly gotten on with Rooney's writing in the past, so tune in to see what we made of her newest novel.