Oct 31, 2020
The perfect solution when your book club wants to read a classic, but no-one quite has the energy for the 19th-century greats, Bonjour Tristesse clocks in at just over 100 pages and was written by Françoise Sagan when she was only a teenager. It became an instant bestseller in France, and subsequently around the...
Oct 17, 2020
Our bookshelf episodes are the ones where we get to let our hair down and talk about the things we're reading outside of our book clubs, the books that we get to pick and choose. So listen in as Kate is bewitched by the new Susanna Clarke novel Piranesi, charmed by Shirley Jackson's memoir of raising her children in...
Oct 4, 2020
Identical twin sisters Stella and
Desiree Vignes grow up together in a small, southern black
community where the inhabitants have noteably light skin. When they
run away at the age sixteen they make very different choices. One
will marry and then return to her hometown, the other will live her
life passing for white,...