Northern Boy by Iqbal Hussain

Northern Boy by Iqbal Hussain

Pride Stories 4 🏳️‍🌈💖 Voulez-vous to come on a coming of age journey with us from 80s Blackburn to the Australia of today and back again with a little help from Bollywood, musical theatre and ABBA? Gimme gimme gimme! 🎶 That’s the name of the game and we will be thanking abba for the music, both metaphorically and as actual characters in the book, examining the tragic music teacher who shows Rafi what he could achieve then dies, and the very flawed nature of the main chiquitita, so take a chance on us! 💃 The Ginner Takes It All with this week’s fruity, spicy cocktail to sip alongside! 🍹  Mamma Mia! 🌈

The Best Men by Lauren Blakely and Sarina Bowen

Pride Stories 3 🏳️‍🌈💖 Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today for the third  instalment of this year’s Pride Stories season, and it’s time for the wedding of the year! 💒 When the groom’s best friend and bride’s brother are sent ahead to prepare for the happy day they initially think the trip will be a nightmare, but soon sparks fly and their time trapped together will seem much too short…🎩🎩 Join Rachel and Serena to discuss infamous audiobook narrators (we’ll bet you can guess who!) naughty spreadsheets, the career vs love debate and how surprisingly common this plot is! 💍 So grab your Posh F***er cocktail and let’s toast to the happy couple, and their super hot wingmen! 🍾

Ry Herman Interview - This Princess Kills Monsters

Pride Stories 2 🏳️‍🌈💖 Once upon a time there was a princess, 12 identical huntsmen, a wicked stepmother, a talking lion and some magical teeth. And that’s only the half of it. 👑 We are so excited to be joined by this book’s author, Ry Herman, today to discuss familial and romantic love, imposter syndrome, the enduring appeal of fairytales and many new LGBTQIA+ picks to add to our TBR! 🧚 So, make a Lake Melilot to sip along with us and help us play a game of Fairytale Madlibs to pen what’s sure to be Ry’s newest bestselling story!  And then we will all live happily ever after 🌈🌅

Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive

Pride Stories 1 Happy Pride month Book Besties! 🏳️‍🌈💖 We are starting off STRONG with the wonderful tale of a lesbian retirement community in the apocalyptic near-future. Resident Hannah is ill and has decided to end her life on her own terms and is celebrating with the party to end all parties! But will the long lost love of her life reply to the invitation before time runs out for good? 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Join us for discussions on found family and love that lasts forever, or maybe just for your golden years, pool noodles, golf carts and A/C units. 🏊‍♀️ This book made us laugh and cry and we will be thinking about it for a long time to come so grab this week’s tropical cocktail, complete with umbrella straw and let’s do some aqua aerobics, baby! 🍹

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! ⚜️