I Think You Should Read

For our final episode of season 2, actor, comedian and crime fiction nerd Peter McGann joins Rachel and Áine to discuss Ross MacDonald's 'The Chill'. Digressions include explaining to Rachel what har…

What is the self? This week we're exploring this and other deep questions with author and musician Rónán Hession. Digressions include why we need to read more translated works, the brutality of life …

This week, we talk to author Richy Craven about his enduring love of Terry Pratchett as we dive into Pratchett's stand-alone novel 'Nation'. Digressions include entry-level colonialism, dealing with …

Content warning: This episode is heavy on the fatphobia. There is also a brief discussion of sexual assault.

This week, it's a first for us on ITYSR as we encounter the worst book we've ever encounter…

If you were an orphan who learnt how to hypnotise people, what would you do with your new found power? That's the question we ask podcaster, TV host and all round good Cork woman Fionnuala Jones who …

This week we're going back in time to review the 1960's rock and roll scene with music journalist and author Dean Van Nguyen. Dean has chosen 'Out of the Vinyl Deeps' an essay collection on the writi…

What is the meaning of a moving castle and why does Rachel think it involves tax evasion? This week Áine and Rachel are joined by author and podcaster Sarah Maria Griffin to discuss Diana Wynne Jones…

Does satire work? In our first episode of season 2, Áine and Rachel chat to author, writer and many-siblings holder Séamas O'Reilly about Jonathan Coe's 'What A Carve Up!'. Digressions include discus…

We're back for season 2! As good podcasts hosts, we've taken on your feedback from Season 1. In this minisode, join Rachel and Áine as they take you through those changes and more importantly the boo…

*extremely Wizzard voice IT'S CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAS!!!

Join Áine and Rachel for a chat about their favourite books of 2024 - part review of our years in reading, part gift guide. Enjoy!…

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 Snowe…

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 …

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 re…

"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 …

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-…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…