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#141: Do We Care About Weather in Novels? and Crooked Cross vs The Spring Begins

#140: Our 10 Favourite Books from 10 Years

#139: 10th anniversary special! O Caledonia vs The Sundial, and celebrating 10 years

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#138: Do We Care About Authors’ Personal Lives? and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne vs The Beautiful Visit

#137: Resolved or Unresolved Endings? and Perfection vs Catherine Carter

#136: Does Reading Make Us Better People? and And Then There Were None vs The Invisible Host

#135: Can Literary Fiction Be A Comfort Read? and Enter Ghost vs Lady Living Alone

#134: Our Top 10 Books of 2024

#133: Do We Have Reading Rules? and Two Willa Cather Novels

#132: Interview: Edward Carey on Edith Holler

#131: Do We Read Deeply or Shallowly? and One Year’s Time vs Which Way?

#130: Do Books Need Romance? and The Ladies’ Paradise vs Babbacombe’s

Tea or Books? #129: Authors Who Wrote Too Much vs Not Enough and A Room of One’s Own vs A Bookshop of One’s Own

Tea or Books? #128: Do We Read Plays? and Fifty Sounds vs The Housekeeper and the Professor

Tea or Books? #127: Do We Have Guilty Pleasures? and A Clergyman’s Daughter vs The Vicar’s Daughter

Tea or Books? #126: Should Books Be Banned? and Lessons in Chemistry vs Dear Mrs Bird

Tea or Books? #125: Do We Read Celeb Memoirs? and Day vs Landscape in Sunlight

Tea or Books? #124: Our Favourite Reads of 2023

Tea or Books? #123: Critical or Charitable Reading? and Sheep’s Clothing vs Harriet Said…

Tea or Books? #122: Mary Lawson novels w/ Mary Lawson!

Tea or Books? #121: Should Books Have A Message? and Two Jane Gardam Novels

Tea or Books? #120: Travel Inspiration from Fiction or Non-Fiction? and The English Air vs The Morning Gift – with Claire / The Captive Reader

Tea or Books? #119: Amateur Sleuths or Professional Detectives? and Women Talking vs Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead

Tea or Books? #118: Do We Read Children and Adult Books By The Same Author? and Lucy vs The Buddha in the Attic

Tea or Books? #117 w/ Lucy Scholes – Do We Like Unnamed Characters? and Ex-Wife vs Sally On The Rocks

Tea or Books? #116: Do We Like Books About Sport and Quick Curtain vs It Walks By Night

Tea or Books? #115: Do We Like Books About Bookshops? and Quartet in Autumn vs Journal of a Solitude

Tea or Books? #114: Linear vs Non-linear Narratives and Winter in the Air vs A World of Love

Tea or Books? #113: Do We Like Literary Retellings? and South Riding vs Ruth

Tea or Books? #112: Best Books of 2022 and They Were Sisters vs The Three Sisters

Tea or Books? #111: Do We Care What Characters Look Like? And Good Behaviour vs Full House

Tea or Books? #110: Do We Care Where Characters Work? and A Helping Hand vs The True Deceiver

Tea or Books? #109: Boarding House Novels vs Living Alone and Heat Wave vs Heat Lightning

Tea or Books? #108: Books with Bite or No Bite; Late and Soon vs A Game of Hide and Seek

Tea or Books? #107: Do We Care What Characters Read? and Two Stella Gibbons Novels

Tea or Books? #106: Book or Movie First, and The Feast vs Grand Canyon

Tea or Books? #105: Big Families vs Small Families and Animal Farm vs Nineteen Eighty-Four

Tea or Books? #104: Do We Care What Characters Dream? and William – an Englishman vs The Great Fortune

Tea or Books? #103: Thinking vs Feeling and Moon Tiger vs The Diviners

Tea or Books? #102: Do We Read Books about Grief? and Five Windows vs Four Gardens – with Claire The Captive Reader

Tea or Books? #101: Rachel explores Simon’s shelves

Tea or Books? #100: Q&A Special

Tea or Books? #99: Do We Like Essays? and Brook Evans vs The Crowded Street

Tea or Books? #98: Nature Writing (yes or no) and Favourite Women Prize Winners

Tea or Books? #97: Spontaneous or Planned Reading, and Tension vs Thank Heaven Fasting

Tea or Books? #96: Should Offensive Books Be Republished? and two Barbara Pyms

Tea or Books? #95: Woolf vs Austen and The Foolish Gentlewoman vs The Half-Crown House

Tea or Books? #94: Do We Care Where Authors Live? and Dusty Answer vs Frost in May

Tea or Books? #93 Do We Care What Characters Are Called? and Two Tove Jansson Novels