Explore every episode of the podcast Booked & Busy
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| ✿ An interview with Emma Van Straaten (This Immaculate Body) ✿ | 26 Jan 2025 | 00:28:28 | |
A twisted new edition into the world of weird-girl lit! If you lived Baby Reindeer, then you’d love to be inside Alice’s head as she falls in love with the bloke who’s house she cleans and quickly becomes an obsession 🧼 🩸 | |||
| ✿ An interview with Seth Insua (Human, Animal) ✿ | 06 Dec 2024 | 00:29:25 | |
A book that beautifully ties together family dynamics, intergenerational trauma and cancel culture? SIGN ME UP | |||
| ✿ An Interview with James Roseman (Placeholders) ✿ | 26 Sep 2024 | 00:28:00 | |
James' debut novel explores family dynamics, and the importance of geography vs what we call 'home'. If you like Sally Rooney this is right up your street! | |||
| ✿ Bookfluencer Interview - With @readsby.emma ✿ | 06 Sep 2024 | 00:10:41 | |
Emma has over 14k followers who love to know what she's reading... She reveals to us her fave books and those that she thinks are a little overhyped | |||
| ✿ Bookfluencer Interview - With @PandemicPages ✿ | 23 Aug 2024 | 00:15:18 | |
I chat with the fabulous Lucyl from @pandemicpages all about her favourite novels and pandemic literature! | |||
| ✿ An interview with Rachel Dawson (Neon Roses) ✿ | 16 Aug 2024 | 00:29:36 | |
A queer coming of age story set in 1980s Wales??? YES PLS | |||
| ✿ An Interview with Tiffany Clarke Harrison (Blue Hour) ✿ | 09 Aug 2024 | 00:41:23 | |
TW: Miscarriage, Police Brutality, Grief Dive into our discussion with the wonderfully creative and talented author Tiffany Clarke Harrison about her novel Blue Hour💙 | |||
| ✿ Bookfluencer Interview - With @Readsbyross✿ | 01 Aug 2024 | 00:11:52 | |
Are you like me and obsessed with the glorious pages of popular Bookstagrammers and BookTokkers? Well, let me introduce a new segment to the podcast where we interview these popular Bookfluencers for the latest book tea☕ | |||
| ✿An Interview with Ania Card (Above Us The Sea) ✿ | 28 Jun 2024 | 00:32:03 | |
In this episode of Booked and Busy, we sit down with debut author Ania Card to dive into her novel Above Us The Sea. 🌊
Get ready to explore a gripping love triangle, the search for identity, and the vibrant scenes of Cardiff and London. Don’t miss this heart-wrenching and evocative story that will leave you craving more!
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| ✿ An Interview with Nour Abi-Nakhoul (Supplication) ✿ | 21 Jun 2024 | 00:27:22 | |
A dark and seedy read of Supplication and the sweetest author to interview! Listen for how that story came out of her head!
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| ✿ An Interview with Ramie Targoff (Shakespeare’s Sisters) ✿ | 03 May 2024 | 00:24:18 | |
Let’s make noise for Targoff for showcasing the sensational female writers of the Renaissance 🪩
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| ✿ An Interview with Charlotte Wood (Stone Yard Devotional) ✿ | 26 Apr 2024 | 00:20:38 | |
Charlotte Wood is a fabulous Australian author of both non-fiction and fiction works. SYD is her most vulnerable and intimate project yet. Wood manages to compliment sad and tense themes with a writing style that felt like a soft and calming blanket. How? Listen to her talk all about it! | |||
| ✿ An Interview with Phoebe Stuckes (Dead Animals) ✿ | 12 Apr 2024 | 00:33:04 | |
Queer, horror, thriller - OH MY! Stuckes has absolutely smashed her debut and we’ve chatted to her all about how she went from working in a bookstore to being a debut author!
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| ✿ X - Review ✿ | 22 Mar 2024 | 00:05:01 | |
A book that explores a dystopian world and the Brooklyn sadist and queer scene that exists within it🪩
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| ✿ An Interview with Susie Luo (Paper Names) ✿ | 15 Mar 2024 | 00:33:52 | |
Looking for a captivating read that'll keep you hooked from start to finish? Look no further than "Paper Names" by Susie Luo! This propulsive and sweeping story of family, identity, and the American experience is a must-read. Set in New York and China over three decades, "Paper Names" explores the meaning of being American from three unique perspectives.❤️🔥
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| ✿ The Secret History - Review ✿ | 01 Mar 2024 | 00:06:43 | |
Is Donna Tartts The Secret History worthy of the hype?
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| ✿ An interview with Bobby Palmer (Isaac and the Egg) ✿ | 23 Feb 2024 | 00:49:23 | |
The man, the myth, the legend that is Bobby Palmer is here to chat with us all about Isaac and the Egg and his new book Small Hours which will be released in March 2024!! Let's get into it | |||
| ✿ An interview with Joelle Taylor (The Night Alphabet) ✿ | 16 Feb 2024 | 00:43:05 | |
Dive into Joelle Taylor’s ‘The Night Alphabet’… A poetic journey celebrating resilience ❤️🔥 Tune in to my interview with her for a captivating discussion on poetry, life and the power of storytelling 🏳️🌈
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| ✿ An interview with Elyse John (Orphia and Eurydicius ✿ | 09 Feb 2024 | 00:29:46 | |
A queer gender swapping retelling of the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice… listen to the author discuss the writing process and how her experience with grief influenced her writing ⛅️
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| ✿ Oxblood - Review ✿ | 02 Feb 2024 | 00:04:23 | |
A fabulous working-class author tells the tale of three generations of Dodds women who are left to fend for themselves after the gruesome death of the notorious men in their family…
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| ✿An interview with Pip Finkemeyer (Sad Girl Novel)✿ | 26 Jan 2024 | 00:31:55 | |
A woman in her late twenties struggles with finishing her novel and her obsession with a Literary Agent... it may be called Sad Girl Novel but it did have me giggling! | |||
| ✿ An interview with Emily Howes (The Painter's Daughters) ✿ | 19 Jan 2024 | 00:31:11 | |
Historical fiction fanatic writes her dream book... err yes please!! | |||
| ✿ The Shards - Review ✿ | 12 Jan 2024 | 00:07:09 | |
I’m really scared I’ll never read a book that is as good as this… ever again!!
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| ✿ How To Lose A Time War - Review ✿ | 05 Jan 2024 | 00:06:53 | |
Sapphic love story - Yes! Complicated sci-if… not too sure 🧐
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| ✿ Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Book vs Film ✿ | 08 Dec 2023 | 00:08:21 | |
I’m sure you’ve seen the trailer and heard the songs from the Ballad of Songbird And Snakes… but what’s better the book or the film? 👀 🐍
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| ✿ An interview with Chloe Michelle Howarth (Sunburn) ✿ | 03 Nov 2023 | 00:29:54 | |
Our first guest author… Chloe Michelle Howarth!! Did you spend your summer swooning over Lucy and Susannah’s relationship? Or fall in love with Howarth’s writing? Well same, and now I get to ask burning questions and chat all things sapphic literature… someone pinch me!👩❤️💋👩
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| ✿ Red Queen - Review ✿ | 27 Oct 2023 | 00:05:06 | |
Booked & Busy Book Club Pick!! Happy 6 month anniversary to the Book Club! This book blew our socks off and had us on the edge of our little seats🥵
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| ✿ Sunburn - Review ✿ | 12 Oct 2023 | 00:05:38 | |
Crying, Shitting, Screaming - this book is the best book I have ever read in my life😭
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| ✿ Crying in H Mart - Review ✿ | 29 Sep 2023 | 00:05:21 | |
This month Booked & Busy Book Club pick was a raw, beautiful, and brought a tear to our eye 🥹
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| ✿ The First To Die At The End - Review ✿ | 22 Sep 2023 | 00:07:42 | |
Gay romance meets Black Mirror but in a cutesy YA way! Can’t picture it? Give my review a little listen and you soon will🪐
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| ✿ My Top Recommendations ✿ | 01 Sep 2023 | 00:05:36 | |
A summary of books I’d give my right arm to read again - listen if you want top tier recs!!!
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| ✿ My Best Friend’s Exorcism - Review ✿ | 18 Aug 2023 | 00:06:56 | |
If Mean Girls and The Exorcist had a baby, it would be this book💀🤪
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| ✿ A Short History Of Queer Women - Review ✿ | 02 Jun 2023 | 00:05:06 | |
Errr this non-fiction book made me feel validated and like an uneducated queer all at once! Listen to this review, you won’t regret it🤌🏼
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| ✿ Cult Classic - Review ✿ | 26 May 2023 | 00:04:22 | |
Double figures?!!! This week we take a look into the weird and wonderful book by Sloane Crosley
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| ✿ The Lovely Bones - Review ✿ | 22 May 2023 | 00:08:22 | |
Book Club Episode #1!!! Listen to my thoughts on the first ever B&B Book Club’s read of The Lovely Bones ✨
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| ✿ Isaac And The Egg - Review ✿ | 12 May 2023 | 00:07:07 | |
Our first guest feature… Gaby!! Please listen to this very honest, somewhat ✨chaotic✨ review ✿
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| ✿ It Ends With Us & It Starts With Us - Review ✿ | 28 Apr 2023 | 00:08:35 | |
It’s a 2-4-1 this week!! I discuss both of Colleen Hoover’s books and whether any of them are worth the BookTok hype
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| ✿ The Dangers of Smoking In Bed - Review ✿ | 21 Apr 2023 | 00:07:17 | |
This week I discuss the gothic, small and very bold, story collection by the wonderful Mariana Enriquez - give it a cheeky listen x ✿
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| ✿ The Employees - Review ✿ | 14 Apr 2023 | 00:05:22 | |
This week is the rising star of translated fiction - Olga Ravn and her book ‘The Employees’. Have a listen to see what all the fuss is about ✿
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| ✿ The Split - Review ✿ | 07 Apr 2023 | 00:05:18 | |
Diving back into a past read of mine, Laura Kay’s The Split, listen to hear whether you should give this queer romance a read! ✿
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| ✿ The End Of Alice - Review ✿ | 31 Mar 2023 | 00:07:37 | |
I opened up A.M Holmes’ The End of Alice and it blew my mind clear off! Listen to this episode to listen to me give my 20p on this disturbing novel…✿
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| ✿ Mona - Review ✿ | 24 Mar 2023 | 00:05:26 | |
✿ I opened up my copy of Mona by Pola Oloixarac and to see if it lived up to the dark vibes that it was giving off…✿
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| ✿ Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Review ✿ | 17 Mar 2023 | 00:07:16 | |
My rambling review of Coco Mellor’s ‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’ where I discuss whether I thought it was worth the hype…
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| Booked & Busy (Trailer) | 17 Mar 2023 | 00:00:46 | |