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Simon and Rachel
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Simon (Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (Book Snob) debate the difficult decisions of reading and books.
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#153: Do We Care If Writers Exaggerate? and When The Cranes Fly South vs Only Ab...
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#152: Novels about women’s home life vs work life, and The Professor’s House by...
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#151: A Q&A special! (part 2)
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#150: A Q&A special! (part 1)
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#149: Do We Like Campus Novels? and Two Books By Muriel Spark
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#148: Is There A Right Time To Read A Book? and The Dutch House vs The Party
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#147: Quality vs Quantity and Two Books About Artists
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#146: Our Top 10 Books of 2025
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#145: Younger vs Older Authors and Rhine Journey vs Fenny
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#144: Simple vs Ornate Style, and Sylvia Plath vs Janet Malcolm
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#143 : Do We Avoid Books That Will Upset Us? and Agatha Christie vs Ethel Lina W...
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#142: Can We Like A Character Who Makes Stupid Decisions? and Other People vs A...
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#141: Do We Care About Weather in Novels? and Crooked Cross vs The Spring Begins
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#140: Our 10 Favourite Books from 10 Years
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#139: 10th anniversary special! O Caledonia vs The Sundial, and celebrating 10 y...
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#138: Do We Care About Authors’ Personal Lives? and The Lonely Passion of Judith...
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#137: Resolved or Unresolved Endings? and Perfection vs Catherine Carter
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#136: Does Reading Make Us Better People? and And Then There Were None vs The In...
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#135: Can Literary Fiction Be A Comfort Read? and Enter Ghost vs Lady Living Alo...
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#134: Our Top 10 Books of 2024
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#133: Do We Have Reading Rules? and Two Willa Cather Novels
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#132: Interview: Edward Carey on Edith Holler
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#131: Do We Read Deeply or Shallowly? and One Year’s Time vs Which Way?
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#130: Do Books Need Romance? and The Ladies’ Paradise vs Babbacombe’s
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Tea or Books? #129: Authors Who Wrote Too Much vs Not Enough and A Room of One’s...
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Tea or Books? #128: Do We Read Plays? and Fifty Sounds vs The Housekeeper and th...
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Tea or Books? #127: Do We Have Guilty Pleasures? and A Clergyman’s Daughter vs T...
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Tea or Books? #126: Should Books Be Banned? and Lessons in Chemistry vs Dear Mrs...
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Tea or Books? #125: Do We Read Celeb Memoirs? and Day vs Landscape in Sunlight
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Tea or Books? #124: Our Favourite Reads of 2023
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Tea or Books? #123: Critical or Charitable Reading? and Sheep’s Clothing vs Harr...
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Tea or Books? #122: Mary Lawson novels w/ Mary Lawson!
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Tea or Books? #121: Should Books Have A Message? and Two Jane Gardam Novels
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Tea or Books? #120: Travel Inspiration from Fiction or Non-Fiction? and The Engl...
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Tea or Books? #119: Amateur Sleuths or Professional Detectives? and Women Talkin...
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Tea or Books? #118: Do We Read Children and Adult Books By The Same Author? and...
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Tea or Books? #117 w/ Lucy Scholes – Do We Like Unnamed Characters? and Ex-Wife...
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Tea or Books? #116: Do We Like Books About Sport and Quick Curtain vs It Walks B...
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Tea or Books? #115: Do We Like Books About Bookshops? and Quartet in Autumn vs J...
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Tea or Books? #114: Linear vs Non-linear Narratives and Winter in the Air vs A W...
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Tea or Books? #113: Do We Like Literary Retellings? and South Riding vs Ruth
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Tea or Books? #112: Best Books of 2022 and They Were Sisters vs The Three Sister...
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Tea or Books? #111: Do We Care What Characters Look Like? And Good Behaviour vs...
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Tea or Books? #110: Do We Care Where Characters Work? and A Helping Hand vs The...
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Tea or Books? #109: Boarding House Novels vs Living Alone and Heat Wave vs Heat...
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Tea or Books? #108: Books with Bite or No Bite; Late and Soon vs A Game of Hide...
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Tea or Books? #107: Do We Care What Characters Read? and Two Stella Gibbons Nove...
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Tea or Books? #106: Book or Movie First, and The Feast vs Grand Canyon
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Tea or Books? #105: Big Families vs Small Families and Animal Farm vs Nineteen E...
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