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Welcome to The Book Club Review, the podcast about the books that get people talking. It’s book club in podcast form; listen to find your next great read.
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With prose as ‘as smooth as worn saddle-leather’, USA today writes ‘If you read only one Western novel in your life, read this one . . . no other has ever approached the accomplishment of Lonesome Dove‘. What did Laura’s book club make of it? Listen in for the discussion and our other book recommendations. Listen via your favourite podcast app using this podfollow link, or go to the episode page for full show notes and transcript.
What did our podcast book club think of So Late in the Day, the short story from Booker shortlisted author (and Irish national treasure) Claire Keegan? We also catch up on our recent reading, listen in to find out our hits and misses. Listen via your favourite podcast app using this podfollow link, or go to the episode page for full show notes and transcript.
We’re feeling philosophical this back-to-school season, with Jonny Thomson, author of Mini Philosophy and Mini Big Ideas. Listen in as we discuss Tolstoy’s morbid novella The Death of Ivan Illyich, Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov and international bestseller Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. Listen via your favourite podcast app using this podfollow link, or go to the episode page for full show notes.
Late summer reading – the best kind of reading? Whether you’re after fly-through-them page-turners or immersive long-reads, or perhaps you’re after a challenge, or the perfect discussion book, we’ve got the list for you. We compare notes with Bookbar’s Chrissy Ryan and find out the books not to miss for late summer and early Autumn. Listen via your favourite podcast app using this podfollow link, or go to the episode page for full show notes.
Find out what our book clubs thought of The Years by Annie Ernaux, and Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell (both winners of more prizes than you can shake a stick at) plus the hits and misses from our recent reads. Listen via your favourite podcast app using this podfollow link, or go to the episode page for full show notes.
Join us as professional book-recommender and Bibliotherapy queen Ella Berthoud helps us figure out how to overcome life’s essential problems (if you’re a reader, that is. Listen via your favourite podcast app using this podfollow link, or go to the episode page for full show notes.
The Women’s Prize 2023 episode is here. Listen in for full and frank opinions on the shortlist, but no plot spoilers. Find out our picks to win and the best book club reads. With Sarah Oliver and Nina Davies. Listen via your favourite podcast app using this podfollow link, or go to the episode page for full show notes.
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Every month we bring you a new episode. That could be Book Club where we chat about the book read most recently by one of our book clubs. An interview with a book club, bookshop or book lover. Or Bookshelf, an episode dedicated to the books we’re reading outside of book club – the ones we get to pick and choose.
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