Episodios

  • 123: The Lads Gather Autumn/Winter Recommendations

    123: The Lads Gather Autumn/Winter Recommendations
    Sep 12 2024
    Alice and Bethany chat through a few of the books they're excited about for the rest of the year, and ask their author and bookseller friends for more recommendations! Because of the way we have to record episodes in advance, at least one of the books is already out, so if any of them sound good to you, it may be possible to read them already rather than wait!
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    34 m
  • 122: The Lads Talk Forthcoming Film Adaptations

    122: The Lads Talk Forthcoming Film Adaptations
    Aug 29 2024
    Following the escandalo that has dogged the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us, Alice and Bethany discuss a few forthcoming adaptations of books, plus one that's taking up a lot of Alice's brain space, released on the same day as this episode...
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    34 m
  • 121: The Lads Chat Big Date Energy AND Slowcoach

    121: The Lads Chat Big Date Energy AND Slowcoach
    Aug 15 2024
    Alice and Bethany look inward and discuss the two books Bethany has released this year! First up, Big Date Energy, aka what happens when you try to write a romcom where the main character is more like 'The Friend', and then Slowcoach, where we talk about how weirdly horrible and borderline traumatic PE lessons were.
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    32 m
  • 120: The Lads Give Their Midyear Reading Roundup

    120: The Lads Give Their Midyear Reading Roundup
    Aug 1 2024
    Alice and Bethany talk through what they've been reading so far in 2024, and how not recording the pod has affected their reading habits.
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    43 m
  • 119: The Lads List Their 10 Books of the 21st Century

    119: The Lads List Their 10 Books of the 21st Century
    Jul 18 2024
    Inspired by the New York Times' list of the 100 greatest books of the 21st Century, Alice and Bethany each compile their own top 10s, and find they have only one book in common, but don't agree on what that book is about...

    Bethany's list:

    The Fact of a Body - Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
    What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
    Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
    Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
    Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
    Crimson Petal & The White - Michel Faber
    Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
    Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
    Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
    Life After Life - Kate Atkinson

    Alice's list:

    A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
    Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)
    Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
    In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
    Just Kids - Patti Smith
    Lanny - Max Porter
    My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
    Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor
    Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
    What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
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    1 h y 6 m
  • 118: The lads chat to Eliza Clark

    118: The lads chat to Eliza Clark
    Jul 13 2023
    Alice and Bethany have the huge pleasure of talking to girlie of the moment, Eliza Clark, largely about her new novel Penance but also about true crime, Tumblr, the wild success of Boy Parts and its upcoming stage adaptation!
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    35 m
  • 117: The lads chat body horror with Heather Parry

    117: The lads chat body horror with Heather Parry
    Jul 6 2023
    Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to Heather Parry about her short story collection This Is My Body Given For You, which is a gnarly little thing full of troubling images and ideas. She also talks about the great work she does at the Society of Authors, and lots more!
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    40 m
  • 116: The Lads Chat Unlikeable Female Characters with Anna Bogutskaya

    116: The Lads Chat Unlikeable Female Characters with Anna Bogutskaya
    Jun 8 2023
    Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to the film journalist and programmer Anna Bogutskaya about her new non-fiction book Unlikeable Female Characters! They take a dive into the world of 'unlikeable' women through film and TV from erotic thrillers to Skyler White via the Hays Code and Amy Dunne from Gone Girl.
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    42 m