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The Book Club Review

Jan 25, 2019

One of our favourite interviews, duly resurrected for any who heard Andy on our recent Haunting of Hill House show and wanted to know more about his book club. For scaredy cats like Laura and me, listen in to find out why the horror genre might be more rewarding than you realised. Horror aficionados listen in for...


Jan 20, 2019

Hill House, 'not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.' Andy Russell of London's Horror Book Club joins us to discuss Shirley Jackson's classic. A total terror? Or just the right side of thrilling? Listen in to hear what...


Jan 12, 2019

What we've been reading outside of book club – the books we get to pick and choose. On the list: Things I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, Mrs Gaskell and Me by Nell Stevens, I Am I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell, Billie by Anna Gavalda, A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan, The Last Samurai by Helen De Witt,...


Jan 7, 2019

Whether for book club or your TBR shelf, 2019 may be the year for a challenge. But what is it about classics such as Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, or Homer’s Iliad, James Joyce's Ulysses or Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain that makes them seem more daunting than pleasurable? Fear not, we have just the interview for...