Bonus Episode
Your Summer TBR Sorted: Prize Winners, Page-to-Screen Adaptations & the Books We Can't Stop Talking About
The first of our summer bonus episodes: awards drama, the adaptations to read before you watch, and autumn's biggest new releases.
Books Discussed
Show Notes
While we’re on our break between seasons, we’re catching up on everything happening in the book world.
What we’ve been reading. Sarah’s deep in Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore, Sophie’s comparing notes on Jane Harper’s Exiles, and Sallie’s 40 pages into Sayaka Murata’s delightfully weird Earthlings.
Your summer reading list, sorted. We round up this year’s prize winners so far, including the Indie Book Awards (fiction winner: The Names by Florence Knapp) and the British Book Awards’ brand-new categories – plus when to watch for the Booker longlist.
Books becoming films. From Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey to Verity, Sense and Sensibility and The Love Hypothesis – read the book before your friends know there’s a film.
Autumn’s biggest releases. New books from Naomi Alderman, Madeline Miller and Becky Chambers – and yes, that Sarah J. Maas announcement.
We’re back in September with a new readalong: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas.
Correction: Sarah gets the title of Naomi Alderman’s book wrong – it’s actually called Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today.