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Booked & Busy
Rachel Coventry
60 episodes
6 days ago
Welcome to the Booked &Busy podcast, where I will open books and then open my big mouth to talk about them! ✨🪐 Stay for: ✿ Exclusive Author Interviews ✿ Brutally Honest Book Reviews ✿ Good vibes
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Welcome to the Booked &Busy podcast, where I will open books and then open my big mouth to talk about them! ✨🪐 Stay for: ✿ Exclusive Author Interviews ✿ Brutally Honest Book Reviews ✿ Good vibes
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Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Betsy Lerner (Shred Sisters) ✿

Shred Sisters is perfect for fans of Coco Mellors and Hanya Yanagihara... And, Betsy is 65 and has written her first ever fiction novel - I just love her!

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1 month ago
27 minutes 42 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Allison Rushby (Slashed Beauties) ✿

Autumn is here, and so are exceptional gothic reads... just like the feminominom that is Slashed Beauties!

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1 month ago
27 minutes 29 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with John Patrick McHugh (Fun and Games) ✿

An incredible portrayal of young masculinity and the vulnerability / strength of finding yourself... ADORED

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3 months ago
34 minutes 43 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿An interview with Emily Buchanan (Send Flowers)✿

Wanna know what it would be like if your fella reincarnated as your house plant?? Wonder no more!! Emily Buchanan has written a book all about it!

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4 months ago
27 minutes 44 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Jo Morey (The Night Lagoon) ✿

A literary suspense novel set in Belize and grapples with connection, truth, and a whole mess of complex traumas that begin to unravel! An outstanding debut.

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4 months ago
32 minutes 20 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Kylie Lee Baker (Bat Eater) ✿

A fantastic horror book filled with social commentary, trauma, and folklore ghosts!

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5 months ago
33 minutes 15 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Grace Flahive (Palm Meridian) ✿

Lesbian retirement home? Yes please!

As Hannah throws her end-of-life party, will the love of her life arrive? Even after 40 years?

I had the JOY of chatting with author Grace all about her fabulous novel.

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5 months ago
28 minutes 14 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Meredith Hambrock (She's A Lamb) ✿
Imagine if Black Swan and A Simple Favour had a book baby, where it's all about theatre, and an understudy's determination to be the lead in the Sound of Music!!
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6 months ago
29 minutes 23 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ What I've read so far in 2025 (Jan-March) ✿

Guysss, it's just me and you this week (and for the next couple). So, let's catch up on everything I have read so far this year. From new releases to books that have been sitting on my shelves for YEARS. Let's get into it x

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6 months ago
12 minutes 54 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Lucy Rose (The Lamb) ✿

A bi, cottage core, and cannibal novel? Err course why not?! Me and Lucy had a proper giggle talking all about her debut novel The Lamb

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7 months ago
33 minutes 39 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Dylin Hardcastle (A Language of Limbs) ✿

Dylin discussed their latest novel, which is fuelled with queer joy and chosen family - all conveyed in lyrical prose. What's not to love?

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7 months ago
32 minutes 21 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Sarah Rose Etter (The Book of X) ✿

A girl is the 3rd gen to have a knot in her stomach... Join us to talk with surrealist author Sarah about her wonderful novel.

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7 months ago
29 minutes 41 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Madeline Docherty (Gender Theory) ✿

Set in Scotland, we discuss this fabulous coming-of-age novel that is written is 2nd person and covers a wide range of themes such as; sexuality, women's health, and friendship. AWHHHH

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7 months ago
32 minutes 42 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Holly Brickley (Deep Cuts) ✿

This book is a raw, beautifully crafted, and emotionally charged story about music, memory, and the scars that shape us—just like our conversation!


We got into everything from her inspiration for the book to the emotional depth behind her characters, plus a deep dive into themes of loss, healing, and the power of music. If you love stories that hit you right in the heart, you need to listen to this one!

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8 months ago
29 minutes 25 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Hannah Beer (I Make My Own Fun) ✿

Camp, sapphic, twister comedy-thriller? I Make My Own Fun is a fun and twisted, genre-melting, novel and I am delighted to chat with my fellow Northener all about her debut!

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8 months ago
28 minutes 57 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Selali Fiamanya (Before We Hit the Ground) ✿

This book is a gripping, thought-provoking, and deeply moving exploration of identity, survival, and the choices that shape us—just like our conversation!


We got into everything from his writing process to the real-world inspirations behind the novel, plus a deep dive into themes of resilience, belonging, and the ways we navigate uncertain futures. If you love immersive, powerful, and beautifully written fiction, you won’t want to miss this one!

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8 months ago
31 minutes 6 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Emma Van Straaten (This Immaculate Body) ✿

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 🧼 🩸

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9 months ago
28 minutes 28 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An interview with Seth Insua (Human, Animal) ✿

A book that beautifully ties together family dynamics, intergenerational trauma and cancel culture? SIGN ME UP

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11 months ago
29 minutes 25 seconds

Booked & Busy
✿ An Interview with James Roseman (Placeholders) ✿

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!

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1 year ago
28 minutes

Booked & Busy
✿ Bookfluencer Interview - With @readsby.emma ✿

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

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1 year ago
10 minutes 41 seconds

Booked & Busy
Welcome to the Booked &Busy podcast, where I will open books and then open my big mouth to talk about them! ✨🪐 Stay for: ✿ Exclusive Author Interviews ✿ Brutally Honest Book Reviews ✿ Good vibes