The Book Club Review Podcast
1) Beyond the Shortlist: The 2025 Booker Longlist titles worth your time • #181
In which Kate is joined by pod regular, journalist Phil Chaffee and Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach. Both read over 200 books a year, and their reading stacks this year have included the Booker longlist...Show More
Beyond the Shortlist: The 2025 Booker Longlist titles worth your time • #181
1:03:49 | Oct 25th, 2025
2) Autumn bookshelf, with Kate & Laura • Episode #180
In this episode: Kate and Laura are catching up on their pre-Booker season reading. Did You Are Here by David Nicholls make Laura want to lace up her walking boots? How did Kate get on with A Waiter ...Show More
3) Book Club: Universality and Sparks of Bright Matter • Episode #179
Book Club: Universality by Natasha Brown & Sparks of Bright Matter by Leeanne O'Donnell Welcome to The Book Club Review! In this episode, Laura joins Kate to dive into two book club picks: Natasha Bro...Show More
4) Shelf-reflective: Books about Books, with Joseph Dance • #178
Something a little different this episode as I invite you to head down the rabbit hole with me into the world of books about books. Accompanying us into this particular wonderland is Joseph Dance, hos...Show More
5) Bookish in Seattle • Episode #177
Seattle, forever linked with books and reading thanks to Sleepless in Seattle. Also Maria Semple's Where d'you Go Bernadette, tho' to be clear, Bernadette was not a fan of the rainy city. Londoners, t...Show More
6) Friendship and Fiction in New York • Episode #176
Join Kate as she takes the Book Club Review on tour to New York, a city filled with incredible bookshops, and book podcasters. Christopher Hermelin of So Many Damn Books and Drew Broussard of The Lit ...Show More
7) Explicitly Literary: sex writing in books • Episode #175
From lightening and dragons in Iron Flame to trembling mountains in A Court of Thorns and Roses, from Sally Rooney’s Connell and Marianne to Ice Planet Barbarians - sex in books has gone mainstream. F...Show More
8) Books, film, TV and Murderbot
From Murderbot to Sense and Sensiblity, what are our favourite adaptations from books that we love? Inspired by the recent Apple adaptation of Martha Wells sci-fi novels The Murderbot Diaries, this ep...Show More
9) Nonfiction That Changed Us, featuring Carmageddon by Daniel Knowles
At a time in which digital information is increasingly uncertain it feels more essential than ever to engage with books that tell us about the world, diversify our perspectives and propose solutions f...Show More
10) Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon • #172
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon is a novel that takes us back to ancient Syracuse, where war, art, and humanity collide. This gripping tale follows two down-on-their-luck potters who hatch an audac...Show More