Books On The Go

Hosted ByAnna Baillie-Karas, Annie Waters & Amanda Hayes

A podcast where we talk about our book of the week. Read along with us!


All Episodes

Ep 228: Holiday Reading Recommendations and TBR

Anna and Annie discuss how Our holiday reading recommendations are: by Inge Simpson by Joanna Quinn by Michael Bennett by Miranda Cowley Heller by Marianne Cronin by Louise Hare by Lucy Foley by Parini Shroff by Hermione Lee by Tina Brown …

Ep 227: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

Anna and Amanda discuss .  Our book of the week is by award-winning author Jonathan Franzen.  This is a family drama set in 1971 American suburbia and is the first in a trilogy.  It was an instant New York Times best-seller, a Guardian…

Ep 226: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

Anna and Amanda discuss the for fiction, The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty. Our book of the week is by Maggie O’Farrell, the follow-up novel to her hugely successful Hamnet. It’s set in the Italian Renaissance and follows Lucrezia de’Medici and her…

Ep 225: The Trees by Percival Everett

Anna and Annie discuss . Our book of the week is by Percival Everett. This novel set in Money, Mississippi starts with a brutal murder which detectives Ed and Jim struggle to solve.  Satirical with absurdist elements and a whodunnit, but…

EP 224: Real Bad Things by Kelly J Ford

Anna and Annie discuss the Readings Prize winner, by Jessica Au. Our book of the week is by Kelly J. Ford.  Set around the Arkansas River, this is a suspense thriller about Jane, who returns to her home town to face up to a murder that was…

Ep 223: Classic Crime books by Margery Allingham

Anna and Annie discuss the , The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. In Keep or Cull, Anna culls by Virginia Feito and Annie keeps by Diana Reid. Our books of the week are and by Margery Allingham, one of the queens of classic…

Ep 222: Limberlost by Robbie Arnott

Anna and Annie discuss the and our theories on TikTok or #BookTok .  We also preview our new segment Keep or Cull, as we will be reading from our ever-growing TBR shelf! Our book of the week is by award-winning author Robbie Arnott.  It’s…

Ep 221: Booker Prize Special Episode

Anna and Annie discuss the and the winner of the , Annie Ernaux. Our books of the week are by Maddie Mortimer and by Selby Wynn Schwartz, both long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize.  We also discuss the and our winner predictions. Coming up: …

Ep 220: Cold Enough for Snow and Small Books

Anna and Amanda discuss our favourite small books. Our book of the week is by Jessica Au, the inaugural winner of the Novel Prize. This inspired us to talk about other short novels that we have loved: by Tikashi Hiraide translated by Eric Selland …

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