Quick Book Reviews. Spoiler-free author interviews & book reviews.

I interview V E Schwab about “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil”

V E Schwab recommends:

Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters

 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

The Green Bone Saga (1st bo…

I chat to Alison Barrow PR Director as a regular slot where we lift the lid on the publishing world. Today Alison answers a question about book blurbs.

I review the following books:

The Death Of Us by …

I interview Linwood Barclay about Whistle

Linwood recommends 3 books:

The Big Empty by Robert Crais

Long Island by Colm Tóibín

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

(And also mentions The Blue Hammer by Ross Macdonald…

I chat to David Headley about Capital Crime. Information on the festival can be found here: https://www.capitalcrime.org

I interview Salma Ibrahim about Salutation Road

I review:

Into the Fire by GD Wri…

10 bookish things I don’t buy - book tag.

(Book tag originally done by Shades of Orange on YouTube)

1. Bookmarks
2. Books signed by author
3. Book formats - not special edition
4. Harbacks
5. Bookish swag
6. Book cart 
7. Book s…

I interview Jane Casey about her latest book The Secret Room 

I review:

This House of Burning Bones by Stuart MacBride

By Your Side by Ruth Jones 

& The Trad Wife’s Secret by Liane Child.

The three books…

I interview Adam Oyebanji about Esperance 

Adam recommends:

Places In The Darkness by Chris Brookmyre

The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov

All System Red by Martha Wells

The Quick Book Reviews Podcast: 

Bluesky: …

Interview with Daria Lavelle about Aftertaste.

I review: 

Homemade God by Rachel Joyce

Nightshade by Michael Connolly

The Honesty Box by Lucy Brazier, 

The First Murder on Mars by Sam Wilson

I interview Da…

I interview Barnaby Martin about The Quiet

Barnaby’s book recommendations are:

The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England by Marc Morris

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Tomorrow & To…

Books, Authors, and Publishing Secrets

I chat to Alison Barrow PR Director for the start of a regular slot where we lift the lid on the publishing world. 

I review the following books:

The Hidden Life o…

Interview with Joe Abercrombie about his latest book The Devils

The three books JOE RECOMMENDS:

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The L A Quartet by James Ellroy

The Civil War by Shelby Foote

You can find t…

I interview Laura and Ross from Station Books

Station Books website: https://stationbooks.co.uk

Hardy's Books Youtube channel: UCbQetFvMecZV9SxVQdI9gXg

Laura recommends:

Station Eleven by Emily St. John …

Interview with Georgia Leighton author of SPELLBOUND

Georgia recommends:

Beauty by Robin McKinley, 

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. 

The Quick Book Reviews Podcast can be found:

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Philippa interviews Mary Watson about THE CLEANER

& Philippa reviews:

I Bet You'd Look Good In A Coffin by Katie Brent

The Stand-In Dad by Alex Summers, 

Breaking The Dark by Lisa Jewell and

Sword Catcher…

Interview with Antonia Hodgson about The Raven Scholar

Antonia recommends:

Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

They by Kay Dick

The Quick Book Reviews Podcast can be found:

B…

I review: When women were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill, The Cure by Eve Smith. 

Two poetry books: Wild Remedy and Becoming By Poetry Prescription

Bored to Death, A Board Game Shop Mystery by CJ Connor.

And…

Interview with S F Williamson about A Language of Dragons 

S F Williamson recommends:

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

The Awakening of Miss Primm by Sanmartin Fenollera and translated by Sonia…

I interview Jessica Bull about "A Fortune Most Fatal"

Books reviewed:

Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley

Carl's Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllis…

I interview Olivia-Savannah Roach 

We discuss being a book influencer and working in publishing.

Links to Olivia’s channels:

http://www.youtube.com/@OliviasCatastrophe

instagram.com/oliviascatastrophe

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Interview with Jo Harkin about “The Pretender”

Book reviews:

The Whalebone Theatre by Joanne Quinn

A Voice in the Night by Simon Mason

Killing Time by Alan Bennett

Jo Harkin recommends:

Winter King by Tho…