I Think You Should Read

Jun 20 2024 9 ep. 48 mins 49

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Rachel and Áine are two bookworms with two very important questions for their guests; what book do you think everyone should read and why? Coming up this season, we've eight wonderful guests from the world of books to answer those very questions.

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Catherine Walsh thinks you should read Daughter of the Forest

Jun 20 2024 49 mins

It’s our last episode of Season 1 and we’re joined by best-selling author and friend of the pod Catherine Walsh, author of best-selling, world-beating romantic comedies like Holiday Romance and Snowed In! Catherine chats to us about Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, a historical fantasy epic based on the myth of the Children of Lir. Digressions include Billie Eilish,

Cauvery Madhavan thinks you should read The Broken Cedar

Jun 13 2024 51 mins

Author of Paddy Indian, The Uncoupling and the Tainted Cauvery Madhavan joins us to discuss Martin Malone's 'The Broken Cedar'. We discuss Malone's unique career as a soldier in Lebanon, the current situation in Palestine and how a book written 20 years ago is as relevant as ever. You can follow us on a multitude of social media platforms;InstagramTwitterBlueskyÁine's BookstagramW

Steve O'Rourke thinks you should read My Name is Red

Jun 06 2024 58 mins

Steve O’Rourke is the author of the acclaimed memoir “And A Bang on the Ear”. He chats to us about our second Nobel Prize winner of the season, the experimental Turkish novel, My Name Is Red. Book recommendations this week! Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck The List by Yomi Adegoke Yellowface by RF Kuang (banger) None Of This Is Serious by friend of the pod Cathe

Catherine Prasifka thinks you should read A Girl's Story

May 30 2024 49 mins

"Your feelings will make you insane!"Novelist Catherine Prasifka joins us to chat about Annie Ernaux’s intense work of non-fiction, A Girl’s Story, as well as the nature of memory and the horrors of being a teenage girl! Catherine is the author of NONE OF THIS IS SERIOUS, and the recently released THIS IS HOW YOU REMEMBER IT, both of which slap and are well worth a read.Co

Aoife Martin thinks you should read Winter's Bone

May 23 2024 53 mins

Activist Aoife Martin speaks to us about Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell, a novel guaranteed to make you feel cold even in the middle of summer. Set in the Ozark mountains, the novel is both action-packed and deceptively deep! We also use the term bleak approximately 4 million times.Books we recommend in this episode: How to Build a Boat by Elaine FeeneyAs You Were by Elaine Fee

Mark O'Connell thinks you should read The Adversary

May 16 2024 54 mins

We chat to award-winning writer and essayist Mark O’Connell about the book he thinks everyone should read: The Adversary by Emmanuel Carreré. A chilling true-crime story about notorious murderer Jean-Claude Romand, The Adversary served as inspiration for O’Connell in writing his most recent work, the critically acclaimed A Thread of Violence. Join Mark, Rachel and Áine for a

Sophie White thinks you should read The Breathing Method

May 09 2024 56 mins

Writer, podcaster and all-round legend Sophie White joined us for a chat to really get into The Breathing Method, a short novella by the master of horror Stephen King. We’re telling you nothing else because this is a novella - and episode - that it’s better to go into knowing absolutely nothing about what happens next! Content warnings for this episode include: freak accid

Patrick Freyne thinks you should read A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

May 02 2024 60 mins

Have you got your towel with you? Áine and Rachel chat to Patrick Freyne, Irish Times journalist, writer and all-round froody guy about Douglas Adams’ iconic sci-fi comedy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Digressions include but are not limited to growing up in Ireland in the 1980s, the importance of humour and why anything lacking humour is not to be trusted and Áine's

I Think You Should Read - Coming May 3rd

Rachel and Áine are two bookworms with two very important questions for their guests; what book do you think everyone should read and why? Coming up this season, we've eight wonderful guests from the world of books to answer those very questions. Our first episode with Patrick Freyne discussing The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy will drop on Friday, May 3rd, wherever you get your