Trash or Treasure? Find your next (most likely romantic) read!
Love romance novels and looking for your next read, but don't have time to waste on terrible books? Let us do the pre-read for you! Kim and Aimee have got your backs! Two girls who read way too many novels, mostly romance novels, talk about what they love, what they like and what they can't stand about what they've read each fortnight. First half provides SPOILER FREE recommendations (with spoilers in the second half) to make choosing your next read that much easier! Episodes released fortnightly, Sundays at noon (GMT +10), in time for a peaceful cup of tea while you choose your afternoon read. You can contact us via Instagram @trash.or.treasure.podcast, or email [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 233
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 191: Fiona McArthur’s ‘Back to Birdsville’
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee have a great time reviewing ‘Back to Birdsville’ by Fiona McArthur. Aimee goes on a trip down memory lane and we plan the series of romance novels…
Episode 190: Anne Gracie’s ‘The Heiress’s Daughter (Brides of Bellaire Gardens series)
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee help you out with a quick review of Regency romance ‘The Heiress’s Daughter’ by Anne Gracie, the third book in the ‘Brides of Bellaire Gardens’ se…
Episode 189: Minerva Spence’s ‘Notorious’
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review ‘Notorious’, the first book in Minerva Spence’s ‘Rebels of the Ton’ series.
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Episode 188: Amanda Hampson’s ‘The Tea Ladies’
Don’t have time for terrible 🔎 books? Join Kim and a barely-there Aimee for a journey through 1965 Sydney and ‘The Tea Ladies’ by Amanda Hampson. (With reference to Richard Osman’s ‘The Thursday Murd…
Episode 187: Claudia Gray’s ‘The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh’ (a Mr Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery)
Don’t have time for terrible 🔎❤️ books? Kim and Aimee help with a review of the third book in Claudia Gray’s Jane Austen-inspired ‘The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh’. (Note: this book assumes yo…
Episode 186: Julia Seales’s ‘A Most Agreeable Murder’
Don’t have time for terrible 🔎 books? Kim and Aimee review ‘A Most Agreeable Murder’ by Julia Seales and discuss the pros and cons of audiobooks. (With reference to MC Beaton’s ‘Travelling Matchmaker…
Episode 185: Simone St James’s ‘Lost Among the Living’
Don’t have time for terrible 👻🔎❤️ books? Kim and Aimee thoroughly review haunted house mystery ‘Lost Among the Living’ by Simone St James. (With reference to previous reviews of Simone St James novel…
Episode 184: Kat Sterling’s ‘His By Opening Day’
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee try to help, with a tea-sipping, chaotic - but short! - review of Kat Stirling’s historical romance novella ‘His By Opening Day’. (With reference …
Episode 183: Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer’s ‘Agnes and the Hitman’
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️🔎 books? Kim and Aimee help your reading choices with a snappy review of ‘Agnes and the Hitman’ by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer (authors of ‘Wild Ride’, reviewed in Ep…
Episode 182: Joan Smith’s ‘Drury Lane Darling’
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee help you choose, with a short review of Regency romance ‘Drury Lane Darling’ by Joan Smith. (With reference to our review of ‘Imprudent Lady’, als…
Episode 181: Kerry Greenwood’s ‘The Lady With the Gun Asks the Questions’ (Phryne Fisher)
Don’t have time for terrible 🔎 books? Kim and Aimee help you out with a review of Kerry Greenwood’s collection of short stories about Miss Phryne Fisher.
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Episode 180: Eloisa James’s ‘Two Dances and a Duke’
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee continue their quest for satisfying romance novellas, reviewing the first in Eloisa James’s ‘The Seduction’ series, ‘Two Dances and a Duke’.
Episode 179: Alison Goodman’s ‘The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies’
Don’t have time for terrible 🔎❤️ books? Kim and Aimee review ‘The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies’ by Alison Goodman, which has absolutely no relation at all to ‘The Wisteria Society of Lad…
Episode 178: Justin Smith’s ‘Cooper Not Out’
Don’t have time for terrible 🏏😂 books? Kim and Aimee go slightly off-piste to review Justin Smith’s nostalgic ‘Cooper Not Out’.
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Episode 177: Eloisa James’s ‘To Wed a Rake’
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee do a snappy review of an Eloisa James novella, ‘To Wed a Rake’.
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Episode 176: Joanne Lockyer’s ‘The Last Light of Dusk’
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Aimee and Kim help out with a review of Regency adventure-romance ‘The Last Light of Dusk’ by Joanne Lockyer.
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Episode 175: India Holton’s ‘The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels’
Don’t have time for terrible books? Kim and Aimee try and concisely summarise and review ‘The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels’ by India Holton. Featuring a stealth mini-review of ‘The Dragon Ride…
Episode 174: Simone St James’s ‘Murder Road’
Don’t have time to waste on terrible books? Aimee and Kim help you choose what to read next with a review of ghostly murder mystery ‘Murder Road’ by Simone St James.
(With reference to pretty much ev…
Episode 173: Sarah Adler’s ‘Mrs Nash’s Ashes’
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee evaluate road trip rom com ‘Mrs Nash’s Ashes’ by Sarah Adler.
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Episode 172: M.C. Beaton’s ‘Refining Felicity’
Don’t have time for terrible ❤️ books? Kim and Aimee help with a speedy review of ‘Refining Felicity’ by M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney), the first novel in the ‘School for Manners’ series. (With re…