The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

Bookshop Pick 2 We are continuing our Bookshop Picks this week! We found ourselves with a couple of episodes to fill before our next theme so we decided to have some fun!🕶️ Rachel and Serena set off to their local bookshop and decided to choose each other a random book!📖 But it wasn’t quite that simple! They had to choose two prompts from a hat to dictate their choice and had only ten minutes to select a book for the other that matched the prompts! This sounds a lot easier than it actually was! 📚 So… for our second Bookshop Pick Rachel had to choose Serena a book with a person on the cover and a faraway setting cover and the result was Scorched Grace 🚬 This is a murder mystery with a twist- a detective nun! We will be delving into the sweltering New Orleans setting, Sister Holiday’s checkered past and what impact that has on the story, fires fires everywhere and THAT ending (mini spoiler: more fire).🔥  Speaking of fire, we set our cocktail smoking this week! We love any excuse to take out our beloved Hauntingly Good Spirits cocktail book and you know we needed a smoky Sazerac take for this New Orleans arson story! ⚜️

Galentine's Day by Rebecca Anderson

Bookshop Pick 1 It’s a bit of a different one for us this week! We found ourselves with a couple of episodes to fill before our next theme so we decided to have some fun!🕶️ Rachel and Serena set off to their local bookshop and decided to choose each other a random book!📖 But it wasn’t quite that simple! They had to choose two prompts from a hat to dictate their choice and had only ten minutes to select a book for the other that matched the prompts! This sounds a lot easier than it actually was! 📚 So… for our first Bookshop Pick Serena had to choose Rachel a book with a cartoon romcom style cover and an author with Rachel’s initials and the result was Galentine’s Day! 💖 So join us to discuss what makes a good friend and whether any of the protagonists qualified for us, which sleepover we would choose (Bali, obv) and which of the characters we saw ourselves in (spoiler: they all have their flaws) 🙈 We are going old school with our cocktail this week, hoping it might just remind you of 18-30 holidays abroad with your best girlfriends as you cry on each others’ sunburnt shoulders! 🏖️ So grab your popcorn and pjs, it’s time for a sleepover with your book besties! 🍿💄

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Recent Adaptations 4 Blessed be the fruit 🍈 This week we are returning to Gilead to meet Agnes and Daisy and see a whole new side of a certain aunt we thought we knew. 🤫 Expect discussions on the differences in style between the Testaments and the Handmaid’s Tale, insights into entirely new factions of Gilead society and beyond, changes between the book and the adaptation and how scarily the Testaments reflects how society could be heading… 🪾 So grab a Mayday cocktail and your headband, it’s time to become a new pearl girl recruit and join us… Praise be. 🙏

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Recent Adaptations 3 This week we are blasting off to a whole new world of entertainment! We are donning our spacesuits and checking our astrophage levels because it’s time to save humanity with Ryland Grace and Project Hail Mary! 🚀 Expect discussions on the obsession with space spiders, whether Ryan Gosling is too hot, why we cried at alien friendship and whether it matters if the science makes sense. 🛸 And to wash it all down we have our Petrova Line cocktail or our Red Rocky mocktail and we will discover if we are true sci fi nerds with this week’s quiz! 👨‍🚀 Fist my bump, let’s go! 👾

Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

Recent Adaptations 2. Dearest gentle readers,  We have some urgent information that we believe to be of the utmost interest to discerning members of the Ton’s reading contingent.  You read it here first that the next in our Recent Adaptations series ‘An Offer from a Gentleman’; Bridgerton book 3 (season 4)! 🎭 is available now!  Expect scintillating conversation on Benedict’s rakish ways, the adaptation’s wholly new Sophie and why we shall never tire of attractive men swimming in country lakes.  If you want to accompany your listening pleasure with the society tipple of this season, look no further than The Lady in Silver cocktail, find the ingredients on our instagram or Patreon! 🍸 Trust us, this is one event you won’t want to miss!  Love, The Ladies Pissledown x