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Joel Golby's Book Club

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31 episodes

1 month ago

hi my name is joel golby and welcome to my podcast where each week i recommend you a new book. it's out every tuesday. that's it. that's pretty much it.

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hi my name is joel golby and welcome to my podcast where each week i recommend you a new book. it's out every tuesday. that's it. that's pretty much it.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episodes (20/31)

Joel Golby's Book Club

E29: Benedict Townsend's Book Club?

Joel is joined by writer and comedian Benedict Townsend who takes full control of the show.

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1 month ago

1 hour 5 minutes 24 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E28: Rhys James' You'll Like It When You Get There

Joel speaks to stand up comedian and author of You'll Like It When You Get There, Rhys James, about his new book!

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2 months ago

58 minutes 9 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E27: Joel and Lucas Oakeley Create A Character

Joel creates a whole new format for the book club and pulls in writer Lucas Oakeley to build a character from scratch. Expect dice, coin flips and... long necks.

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5 months ago

1 hour 6 minutes 19 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E26: Róisín Lanigan's I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There

Joel speaks to Róisín Lanigan about her latest, I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There, a ghost story set against the horror of the current housing crisis.

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7 months ago

36 minutes 42 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E25: Joel's Experimental Episode

Joel reviews a graphic novel called Below Ambition by Simon Hanselmann about Megg The Witch and Werewolf Jones who start a band called Horse Mania. He also digs through the finds of his latest book shop crawl.

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10 months ago

32 minutes 51 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E24: Jente Postuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About

What I'd Rather Not Think About is a novel about grieving a twin, captured in little vignettes over roughly 200 pages, but what does Joel and his new co-host Geordie Joel make of it? And is it time to stop writing 7 line chapters?

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11 months ago

32 minutes 22 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E23: Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex

Joel reads Middlesex, a swirling multi-generational novel that sees a Greek family migrate to Detroit and struggle with their middle class status. The basis of pretty good novel - and it won the Pulitzer - but does Joel rate it?

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1 year ago

31 minutes 54 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E22: Miranda July's All Fours

Joel's broken two of his rules this time round by reading a book that is 1) a hardback, and 2) came out this year. It's Miranda July's All Fours, a book where the narrator is supposed to spend a load of money on a life-changing road trip, but ends up blowing all the cash on renovating a motel room just outside town to look like a Parisian hotel suite.

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1 year ago

26 minutes 35 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E21: Joel Answers Your Questions

What's the best writing snack? How important is it to plan your character arc? What do you make of The Hardest Geezer book announcement? Joel answers your questions!

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1 year ago

43 minutes 1 second

Joel Golby's Book Club

E20: Jenny Offill's Weather

In this episode, Joel's picked out another book that everyone seemed to read before he did. Jenny's Offill's Weather came out in 2020 and is set around the inauguration of Donald Trump's presidency and it's a book that feels like it's set in 2016, but does it hold up in 2024?

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1 year ago

28 minutes 40 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E19: Benjamin Myers' Beastings

Joel watched a great TV show based on Benjamin Myers' 'The Gallows Pole' only to find out that everyone had been reading Benjamin Myers for years. This week, he's reading the 2014 novel set in idillic Northern English countryside, Beastings.

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1 year ago

27 minutes 40 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E18: Jonathan Ames' The Double Life Is Twice As Good

You asked for it, you got it. Joel's read a book that he hated and it's Jonathan Ames' collection of articles and short stories that have not dated well and probably weren't very good at the time either.

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1 year ago

37 minutes 35 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E17: Anne Dillard's Teaching A Stone To Talk

Joel's got really into heading down to his local pond and counting the different types of flowers and fish he can see after reading a mind-altering set of essays on exploration, faith and nature by Anne Dillard. Good for him!

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1 year ago

26 minutes 43 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E16: Joel Answers Your Questions

Joel's got the answers to all your questions on reading, writing and books in general.

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1 year ago

32 minutes 49 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E15: Dave Eggers' A Hologram For The King

A self-confessed "Egg Head To The Bones", Joel has picked up A Hologram For The King for the first time in 11 years. But will he love it as much as he did the first time? Probably, yes.

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1 year ago

26 minutes 50 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E14: Rachel Cusk's Outline

After last week's venture into 'Cherry', a masterclass in dialogue, Joel's been on the hunt for more conversation. As you'll hear on the episode, they've not all been the most captivating, but he did read Rachel Cusk's 'Outline' which is a novel (novella?) set over ten conversations with strangers. Is it better than the chat he had with a stranger in a post room? Let's hope so.

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1 year ago

28 minutes 7 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E13: Nico Walker's Cherry

We've look at books that have done 'alcohol' well, we've looked at books that has done 'sex' well, and now it's time to look at a book that does 'war' and 'drugs' really well. So let's get stuck in to Cherry by Nico Walker.

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1 year ago

27 minutes 15 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

INTERVIEW: SHEENA PATEL

In this special bonus episode, Joel speaks to Sheena Patel about her creative influences, the process of writing and crafting her incredible debut novel, 'I'm A Fan'.

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1 year ago

38 minutes 26 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E12: Sheena Patel's I'm A Fan

We've looked at a few books on JGBC with themes desire as of late, and 2022's I'm A Fan took on a life of its own post-release for absolutely nailing the topic through a modern day lens. It's an astute, sharp and witty book that Joel has recommended "the arse out of" since it came out. So yeah! A good one this week!

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1 year ago

26 minutes 16 seconds

Joel Golby's Book Club

E11: Joel Golby's Four Stars

In this episode, Joel's broken every rule in the book and reviewed his own book, which is a book of reviews. It's all very meta, but essentially, 'Four Stars', his new book comes out in a couple days and he's broken it down, told some anecdotes, shared some influences and given you the first taste of what's to come.

Get 'Four Stars' now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/four-stars/joel-golby/9780008284091

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1 year ago

28 minutes 52 seconds