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Saison 1

vendredi 10 janvier 2025 • Durée 00:57

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Ep 2: Our Backlist Picks for 2025

Saison 1 · Épisode 2

mercredi 29 janvier 2025 • Durée 48:01

This week we learn more about each other and get into the books on our backlist, including our recommendations for non-fiction and fiction reads. We also take a look at the longlist of the Dublin Literary Award and talk about surprises, omissions and favourites that you might want to add to your own TBR.

Recent reads

Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester

Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna

From the backlist/longlist

Hold Still: A Memoir by Sally Mann

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen

King by Jonathan Eig

When the Clock Broke by John Ganz

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Safon

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

Ducks by Kate Beaton

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

Audition by Pip Adam

Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor

Wild Houses by Colin Barrett

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Ep 1: Our First Episode

Saison 1 · Épisode 1

mercredi 15 janvier 2025 • Durée 56:28

Join us for our very first episode in which we quiz each other on how we read, talk all things holiday reading and deliver some great recommendations for new, contemporary and classic books you might want to read next.

Books mentioned in this episode:

What we’ve read:

Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blanché

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

My Beloved Monster by Caleb Carr

The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark

Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla

What we’re looking forward to:

Playworld by Adam Ross

Ep 3: Reading As an Act of Resistance

Saison 1 · Épisode 3

vendredi 14 février 2025 • Durée 59:28

This week, we have a chat about why reading is an act of resistance and delve into the books we turn to during a crisis–whether climactic, sociological or existential. We also discuss our favourite reads for a complete escape.

Recent reads

Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers

The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Reading for resistance

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe

The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

For a crisis

Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie

On Freedom by Maggie Nelson

Eating Animals byJonathan Safran Foer

Surrender by Joanna Pocock

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

Empireland and Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera

Ep 4: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Deep Dive) & March releases

Saison 1 · Épisode 4

vendredi 28 février 2025 • Durée 50:35

This week, we deep dive into Liz Moore’s viral woodland thriller The God of the Woods - and we have opinions. We also talk about the new releases we’re looking forward to reading in March.

Recent reads

The Future by Catherine Leroux (translated by Susan Ouriou)

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue (translated by Natasha Wimmer)

March 2025 releases

The Horse by Willy Vlautin

Show Don’t Tell and Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Universality by Natasha Brown

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Ep 5: Our Favourite New York/London Novels

Saison 1

mercredi 12 mars 2025 • Durée 52:27

Join either side of the Atlantic as we dive into our favourite London/New York novels. It’s an episode full of stiff upper lips, demonic possessions, sociopaths, bedsits, alcoholic dollmakers, sassy parrots, and white asparagus. Plus we talk about our must visit NY-LON bookshops and reading spots, and we look ahead to new releases set in and around the Big Smoke and the Big Apple we can’t wait to read.

Recent reads

Universality by Natasha Brown

Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa (translated by Polly Barton)

Stories of Place:///zinc.level.blindfold edited by Niamh McAnally

Our Favourite NY-LON Novels

Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

The Vulnerables by Sigird Nunez

Look At Me by Anita Brookner

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

There Are More Things by Yara Rodrigues Fowler

NY-LON Books We're Excited to Read in 2025

Confessions by Catherine Airey

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay MacCleod Chapman

Lorne by Susan Morrison

Ep 6: Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist 2025 - predictions, omissions & hot(ish) takes

Saison 1

mercredi 26 mars 2025 • Durée 46:35

On this week’s episode we catch up on what we’ve been reading, share our thoughts on the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist, and talk about some of the April releases we’re looking forward to picking up soon.

Recent reads

Carnality by Lina Wolf, tr. by Frank Perry

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas

The Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist

Good Girl by Aria Aber

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches

Amma by Saraid de Silva

Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings

All Fours by Miranda July

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nesting by Roisín O'Donnell

A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike

Birding by Rose Ruane

The Artist by Lucy Steeds

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Ep 11: Audition by Katie Kitamura (Deep Dive) & more prize winners

Saison 1 · Épisode 11

vendredi 6 juin 2025 • Durée 56:46

This week’s episode is one of deep dives, this time into Audition by Katie Kitamura, an ambiguous and destablising read that packs a lot into very few pages. We also share some recent book and literary prize news and talk about what’s on our TBRs.

Books:

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (translated by Deepa Bhasthi)

The Book Of Sand by Geetanjali Shree

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Small Boat by Vicent Delacroix (translated by Helen Stevenson)

Clear by Carys Davies (Winner of the Ondaatje Prize 2025)

The Adversary by Michael Crummey (Winner of the Dublin Literary Award 2025)

Red Milk by Sjón

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Audition / Gone To The Forest / The Longshot / A Separation / Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Also mentioned:

Teatime Book Club, @Teatime.pictures

Rosemary’s Baby by Roman Polanski

Ep 10: Korean Reads We Recommend

Saison 1 · Épisode 10

vendredi 23 mai 2025 • Durée 58:07

This week’s episode is all about our favourite reads by Korean and Korean-American authors, including books about sulky giant octopuses, sinkhole tourism, empathy bypasses, diasporic depression, simulated marriages, and tearful encounters with gochujang. And as always, we discuss recent reads and what’s next on our TBRs.

Recent reads

In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (tr. Terence Kilmartin)

Sweat by Emma Healy

The Meteorites: Encounters With Outer Space And Deep Time by Helen Gordon

Korean books and authors

Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Sea Change by Gina Chung

The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun (tr. Lizze Buehler)

Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home by Eric Kim

The Hive And The Honey by Paul Yoon

The Trunk by Kim Ryeo-Ryeong (tr. The KoLab)

Almond by Won-Pyung Sohn (tr. Sandy Joosun Lee)

Black Girl From Pyongyang: In Search Of My Identity by Monica Macias

Up next

The Women by Kristin Hannah

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

Ep 9: Big Book Fear

Saison 1 · Épisode 9

vendredi 9 mai 2025 • Durée 59:24

This week’s episode is a BIG one. Or at least, one in which we talk about big things, namely big books and why – or why not – we find them intimidating. And as always, we discuss recent reads and what’s next on our TBRs.

Recent reads

On The Calculation Of Volume (Volume I) by Solvej Balle

Confessions by Catherine Airey

Big Book Fear

The Book of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Middlemarch by George Eliot – narrated by Juliet Stevenson

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

Lost Illusions and Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvilli

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain In A Digital World by Maryanne Wolf

11.22.63 by Stephen King

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