Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist, writer, and speaker with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama.

His book Entangled life was a Sunday Times Bestseller.

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In this episode, I chat about some fiction books that you might like to read this year. 

Books discussed

When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamin Labtut

Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 by Cho Nam Joo

A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Someone To Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksburg

First Person Singular by Hariku Murakami

If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura

The Virgin Suicides & Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 

A Little Life by Hanya Yangihara

Siddartha & Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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If you have any feedback, requests, or well-wishes, send me an email at hello@aneedtoread.co.uk

Dan Osman is a Health and Wellbeing Educator, who has worked in the health and fitness industry for 17 years. 

We discuss; problems with social media, People’s relationships with diets, exercise, and themselves, Self-awareness, How to use values to guide you, confusing avoidance with enlightenment, body-image issues across genders,  society’s contribution to body image issues, self-objectification, and have a general moan about empty mental health advocacy.

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I'm an independent podcaster, which is a fancy way of saying no one pays me a regular wage. And, to level with you, that is terrifying- all of the time. So, if you like what I do and want me to keep doing it please support the show in one of the following ways.

- Share the podcast with a friend, or review the podcast. 

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- You can also give me feedback/comments/validation by emailing me: hello (at) aneedtoread.co.uk