Sarah, Belle, and Jenny gather today to bring you the second of a two-part episode discussion the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist. Today, they discuss their thoughts on Fundamentally by Nassaibah Younis, The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji, and The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden.

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Sarah, Belle, and Jenny gather today to bring you the first of a two-part episode disucssing the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist. Today, they discuss their thoughts on Good Girl by Aria Aber and All Fours by Amanda July, with a sort of half-discussion about Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout.

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We welcome back the delightful Shawn Mooney from the Youtube channel Shawn Breathes Books. He and Sarah discuss Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, which was published in 1966 as a response to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. They chat about the book's origins, its role and relationship with the canon, and how they feel about it in isolation plus as a conversational piece with Jane Eyre.

Things mentioned:

• Sarah on Shawn's channel: Zooming In: Sarah and Shawn on so-called 'unlikeable' female characters in literature
• Shawn on the Bookcast Club: Episode 64 (My Life in Books) and Episode 97 (Three Short Stories)

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Belle and Sarah chat through the wonderful back catalogue of Irish writer Claire Keegan, a Bookcast Club fave. If you have any suggestions for future author spotlights please let us know by contacting us on Instagram or email.

Books mentioned:

• Antarctica
• Foster
• Small Things Like These
• So Late in the Day
• Walk the Blue Fields

Things mentioned:

• Claire Keegan on ABC Podcast

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Sarah catches up with former cohost of the Bookcast Club, the fabulous Chris. They chat all things Women's Prize, grief memoirs, and other stuff they've been reading. Will Sarah ever read ACOTAR, or will she just continue to mention it?

Also mentioned: Episode #87 - Books about Grief and Death

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Cannot think of a better title! Big thank you to Patreon supporter Millie for coming on the pod with Jenny to share some recommendations. Jenny's choice was Grady Hendrix's My Best Friend's Exorcism and Millie's choice was Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stephens - but what were our bookish pairings? We also did some recommendations for listeners based on Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers and What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher. Let us know what you would have recommended based on these titles.

P.S. If you can think of a catchier title, please help!

Books mentioned:

• The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
• Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris
• Vianne by Joanne Harris
• I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
• A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
• Watching Women & GIrls by Danielle Pender
• What She's Having: Stories of Women & Food by Dear Damsels
• Let the Bad Times Roll by Alice Slater
• French Braid by Anne Tyler
• Back When We Were Grown Ups by Anne Tyler
• Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
• A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
• Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
• Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford

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In this episode, Sarah welcomes Cobby back to the podcast! They dive into The Talented Mr. Ripley, comparing Patricia Highsmith’s chilling 1955 novel with Anthony Minghella’s 1999 film adaptation. How does the psychological tension of the book translate to the screen? What changes in character, tone, and setting shift our understanding of Tom Ripley? 

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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It's a non-fiction special! Sarah and Jenny dive into non-fiction, we chat The Women's Prize for Non Fiction and share some of our recent fave reads.

Books mentioned:

• Autocracy Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
• Code Dependant: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
• The Wager by David Grann
• See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
• From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

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Sarah and Jenny journey beyond the yellow brick road to compare Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West with its recent film adaptation. They discuss how the film reinterprets key characters, themes, and the moral grey areas of Oz. Have you seen the film/read the book? What did you think of the adaptation?

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Welcome to a new season of The Bookcast Club. Jenny, Belle and Sarah battle time zones to bring you their recent and current reads, plans for the season ahead, YOUR recent 5 star bangers and just the general chaos we like to bless your ears with. Welcome back, we've missed you!

Books mentioned:

• Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
• The Party by Tessa Hadley
• Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
• Normal Women by Ainsley Hogarth
• The Hotel by Daisy Johnson
• The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman
• How to Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• In Memorial by Alice Winn
• Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
• Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola
• Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis
• Nesting by Roisin O’Donell
• If Only by Vigdis Hijorth
• Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
• Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore
• Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
• Everyone in this Room will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin
• Dog by Rob Perry

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Belle, Sarah, and Jenny get together to round out the year! They chat through their best books of the year and share their thoughts. This is the final episode of the season; we will be back early next year for Season 3! Let us know if you enjoy the episode, and what you thought of the books!

Books mentioned:

• Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
• Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
• Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
• Splinters by Leslie Jamison
• Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
• Feast by Emily O'Grady
• Foster by Clare Keegan
• Cackle by Rachel Harrison
• James by Percival Everett
• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
• Kala by Colin Walsh
• The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop

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In the second last episode of the season, Sarah and Belle get together to discuss all three of Sophie Mackintosh's novels: The Water Cure, Blue Ticket, and Cursed Bread.

Have you read any of her novels? What did you think?

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Sarah and Jenny discuss Small Things Like These and how the book compares to the 2024 movie starring Cillian Murphy.

Other things mentioned

The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

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Sarah invites her friend Cobby onto the podcast this week! They chat through most of the books on the Booker shortlist, including the winner, Orbital by Samantha Harvey. They share their thoughts on the books they've read on the shortlist and talk about the best Ralph Fiennes film to lift your mood.

Books mentioned:

• Booker shortlist
• The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
• The Submerged Cathedral by Charlotte Wood
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• The Trees by Percival Everett
• James by Percival Everett
• Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Woods
• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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Sarah from Your True Shelf joins Jenny to share their pick of great memoirs. We cover some 'sensible' memoirs and also (our fave) celeb memoirs.

Books mentioned

• Bread and Wine by Shauna Niequist
• Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
• Waterfall of Stars by Rosanne Alexander
• Unfamiliar by Kirsty Logan
• Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja
• Why Did You Stay? by Rebecca Humphries
• Mighty Be Our Powers by Carol Lynn Mithers and Leymah Gbowee
• Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
• This I Know: Notes in Unravelling the Heart by Susannah Conway
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Open Book by Jessica Simpson
• More Myself by Alicia Keys
• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
• Paris by Paris Hilton
• Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren Graham
• This Much Is True by Miriam Margolyes
• Taste by Stanley Tucci
• Me by Elton John
• Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner

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Author Abigail Mann joins Jenny to discuss the TikTok favourite Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.

Books mentioned

• Constanza by Rachael Blackmore
• Experienced by Kate Young
• All Fours by Miranda July
• So Thrilled For You by Holly Borne
• A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

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Belle and Jenny chat all things spooooooky in this weeks episode. Belle is on a mission to read a really scary book (spoiler - we're struggling to find one!) We share our spookiest book recs along with some (not all that spooky) movie recommendations.

We'd love to know the scariest book you've ever, drop us a comment over on Instagram.

Books mentioned

• We Solve Murder by Richard Osmond
• Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova
• Our Wives Under the Sea and Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
• Verity by Colleen Hoover
• The Whistling by Rebecca Netley
• Thin Air and Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
• Sharp Objects andThe Grown Up by Gillian Flynn
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Dark Tales andThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Things We Lost in the Fire by Marianna Enriquez
• The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
• Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• Rachel Harrison and Grady Hendrix's books

Movies & TV mentioned

• Hereditary
• Black Christmas
• Anna and the Apocalypse
• One Cut of the Dead
• The Shining
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Voices
• Mr Mercedes (TV)

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Millie from @saltonshine joins Jenny to chat all things cosy reading. We share some of our favourite cosy reads and movies and also chat recent and current reads. Jenny completely forgot to talk about Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, even though her notes were right in front of her, so stick that on your TBR too.

Books mentioned

• The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
• The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore
• Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain
• Cackle by Rachel Harrison
• The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic by Breanne Randall
• Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Clune
• Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren Graham
• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
• Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
• Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

Movies & TV mentioned

• Everything I Know About Love (TV)
• Lost in Austen (TV)
• Far From the Madding Crowd (TV)
• You've Got Mail
• The Truth About Cats and Dogs
• Lost in Translation
• All Creatures Great and Small (Channel 5)(TV)

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It's the first book club of the season! Belle and Sarah chat about the Booker shortlisted book The Bee Sting by Paul Murray. Join in the conversation over on our Instagram.

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We're back! It's season 2 and we're excited! In this episode we welcome Belle to the podcast as an official co-host. We chat about our plans for the season ahead, what we're reading, new releases we're excited for and loads more. Let us know what you think and come say hi over on Instagram.

Books mentioned

• Woo Woo by Ella Baxter
• New Animal by Ella Baxter
• Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• The Woodland at Midwinter by Susannah Clarke
• Motherhood by Sheila Heti
• Splinters by Leslie Jamison
• Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore (not self published!)
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Other bits

• The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge episode

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