It's a Charlie Thing

Reading the Most Hyped Book of the Year

In which one Charlie is frazzled after a weekend away, and the other has been reading recent popular books and sharing his unpopular opinions. Books Mentioned: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout The Rainshadow Orphans by Naomi Ishiguro Maurice by EM Forster Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke An Unlikely Visitor by Joanna Cannon ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Getting off on the Wrong Foot

In which the Charlies look back on their first book haul. Books Mentioned: An Elderly Lady is Up To No Good by Helene Tursten An Elderly Lady Must Not be Crossed by Helen Tursten The Cat Prince and Other Poems by Michael Pedersen The Angel of Redemption by Nikita Gill Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 17 The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard The Children Who Lived in a Barn by Eleanor Graham We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons To Hear the Trees Speak by Olivia Sprinkel Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite Everything is Energy by Emma Talbot Translating Feminisms by Intan Paramaditha The Wood in Midwinter by Susanna Clarke A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark Camp! by Paul Baker Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley The Ladie Upstairs by Jessie Elland Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodessen-Akner Secrets in the Snow & Other Christmas Crime Stories, ed. Matthew Booth Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart Lublin by Manya Wilkinson Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers Fruit Fly by Josh Silver Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession 11.22.63 by Stephen King The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Hot and Heavy

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Charlie Chat with Joanna Cannon

In which we have a very welcome visitor. Pre-order An Unlikely Visitor by Joanna Cannon here: Out 4th June: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/An-Unlikely-Visitor-by-Joanna-Cannon/9780008255077 Charlie’s video on Joanna’s books: https://youtu.be/W7_Fa-R-qEU?si=dj7EYjbKRgybs-8N https://youtu.be/reEpKBSXyYY?si=yAh9NY-XYOYQLLFB https://youtu.be/OM4_o4WKsoM?si=DOimmJC3rU0Lj8ob https://youtu.be/iwi5hHddqmg?si=hr56Y0p6W8wk6v7v ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Will Send Noods for Books

Today we're seeing if our favourite books from 2018 - the year we first discovered one another's existence - are still favourites today. Books Mentioned: Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb The Hoarder by Jess Kidd The Management Style of the Supreme Beings by Tom Holt Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile Driven by Dane Cobain The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith Dying in Other Words by Maggie Gee The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Emma by Jane Austen A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Love Simon by Becky Albertalli The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman The Terrible by Yrsa Daley Ward The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Wild Embers by Nikita Gill The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Flames by Robbie Arnott Potato by Rebecca Earle All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus Cursed Daughter by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by JRR Tolkien Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart Fruit Fly by Josh Silver ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.