Dec 30, 2018
We're celebrating the holidays with murder! And moustaches! That's right, bookworms, this month we dove into BWT's first every Agatha Christie novel, Hercule Poirot's Christmas.
Join us for this holiday-themed delight (it really is delightful), and find out if we paid attention in high school biology, if anyone guessed...
Dec 23, 2018
It's Christmas time, and for our resident ride or die Harry Potter fan (Laura) Christmas and the Potterverse are forever intertwined. But which wizarding Christmas is the *MOST* magical?
Ben and Fiona have taken this episode off (Harry who?), so Laura is flying solo (on her Clean Sweep 7), counting down every...
Dec 13, 2018
Laura and Fiona are joining forces to tell you about one of the best books they read this year - Pachinko by Korean American writer Min Jin Lee.
Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival. In this very spoiler free, very mini episode, let us...
Dec 5, 2018
It's (nearly) Christmas! And Ben's here to tell you what we're reading for the festive season - Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie.
This book was first published in 1938, and according to the New York Times Book Review "never has Poirot's mighty brain functioned more brilliantly".
Family intrigue! Murder!...
Dec 1, 2018
Grab yourself some cookies and settle in, because this month we're discussing Milkman by Anna Burns.
Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize, Milkman is a story of hope, fear, tribalism, the patriarchy, rumour and dairy. Filled with quirky characters, and hardly any breaks for breathing, this book made for some Very Good...