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A Pair of Bookends

Hannah MacDonald

A weekly bookish podcast hosted by Hannah MacDonald. Join us for monthly Book Club episodes - read the book at your own pace and then listen to us deep dive with the author! Our Debut Spotlight series is to put the freshest authors and their work firmly on your radar and in our new series we bring you a monthly culture round up of all the recommendations we"ve collected over the previous month of consuming. Follow us @apairofbookendspod on Instagram and @apairofbookends on Twitter and TIk Tok.

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46:46

Forward Prizes for Poetry 2023 Special with winner...

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2023/11/03

Welcome Bookends to an incredibly special episode in collaboration with the 2023 Forward Prizes for Poetry. For this episode, Hannah was joined by winner of Best Collection, Jason Allen-Paisant. We talk about his experience of winning the prize, the inspiration behind his award-winning collection, how he felt connected to Shakespeare's Othello and so much more. It was a really interesting and thought-provoking conversation and such an honour to hear Jason read his work aloud, we hope you enjoy! To

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49:09

S3 Debut Spotlight- 1. Celina Baljeet Basra

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2023/10/30

Welcome back Bookends! We are back with the first episode in our THIRD season of Debut Spotlight - where we bring you the freshest debut authors and their work.For this episode we were joined by author and curator Celina Baljeet Basra, to discuss her upcoming novel 'Happy'. We talk about the inspiration for her young, ambitious protagonist, the importance of sharing stories of migrant workers & their working conditions, the unusual structure of her novel and the space she curates for herself to

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43:08

October Book Club: Land of Milk and Honey with C.Pam...

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2023/10/20

Welcome back Bookends to another Book Club episode, for October we chose Land of Milk and Honey, the second novel from Booker Prize long-listed author C.Pam Zhang. For this episode we were thrilled to be joined by the author herself to chat all about the world of her novel. Our conversation covered food, class, climate change, family and how lots of these things play into one another, it was such a thought-provoking conversation & we can't wait to hear what you think!As always, please do rate,

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49:16

Bonus Books: The Figurine with Victoria Hislop

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2023/10/06

Welcome Bookends to our October Bonus episode where Hannah was joined by the international best-selling author Victoria Hislop to chat all about her latest novel 'The Figurine' Unfortunately Lydia was ill for this episode but Hannah had a wonderful conversation with Victoria about her passion for Greek culture, her immersive research process, the ways in which Emily Brontë influences her writing and so much more. As always if you enjoyed this episode, please do rate, review & subscribe so we can

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50:49

S2 Debut Spotlight- 10. Pip Finkemeyer

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2023/10/02

Welcome back Bookends to the finale of Season 2 of our Debut Spotlight series, where we shine the spotlight on the freshest authors and their work! For this episode we were joined by the brilliant Australian author of 'Sad Girl Novel', Pip Finkemeyer. We discuss why we love a sad girl novel, the beauty and intensity of female friendship, her positive debut publishing experience and so much more! We hope you enjoy this conversation and as always, please do rate, review & subscribe so we can reach

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48:27

Bonus: You Could Be So Pretty with Holly Bourne

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2023/09/29

Hey Bookends! We're back with our BONUS episode of September, this time joined by the much-loved YA and Contemporary fiction author Holly Bourne to chat about her latest YA book 'You Could Be So Pretty'! We discuss beauty standards, modern society, internet culture, body image, safeguarding in books, sensitivity readers and so much more. It was such an empowering and thought-provoking conversation that we hope you all enjoy! As always, if you enjoy this episode please do rate, review & subscribe

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47:08

Bonus Books: All The Little Liars with Victoria Selman

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2023/09/22

Welcome back Bookends to another Bonus Books episode, for this episode we were joined by crime and thriller author Victoria Selman. Aswell as deep diving into Victoria's latest book 'All The Little Liars', we discuss how true crime has become such a cultural phenomenon, her writing process, toxic teenage female friendships and so much more. We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. To buy Victoria's books:

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S2 Debut Spotlight- 9. Gabriella Braun

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2023/09/18

Welcome back Bookends to another episode in our Debut Spotlight series! For this episode we were joined by Gabriella Braun, the Director of Working Well to chat about her debut non-fiction book 'All That We Are'. We speak about toxic work cultures, how she took psycho-analysis out of therapy rooms and into workspaces and how we can better equip ourselves in our working lives, it was such an insightful and enlightening conversation and we hope you get as much from it as we did. To buy 'All That We

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55:19

September Book Club: The Wren, The Wren with Anne...

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2023/09/15

WE'RE BACK BOOKENDS! For the first episode in our new season, we were joined by none other than Anne Enright, a Booker Prize-winning author, no less! Aswell as deep diving into her latest novel, we chat about sibling dynamics, mothers and daughters, social media and so much more, it was an absolute JOY to chat to the Irish powerhouse herself and we hope you love this conversation as much as we did. If you enjoyed this episode, please do rate, review & subscribe as it helps us to reach more of

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41:43

Season Finale: Salt and Skin with Eliza Henry-Jones

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2023/08/18

Hey Bookends! Welcome to our Season finale episode where we chatted to Australian novelist Eliza Henry-Jones about her latest novel Salt & Skin, which was released in Australia and New Zealand last year and was recently released in the UK & U.S.Aswell as deep diving into her beautiful genre-bending novel, we discuss how her professional experience of trauma and grief counselling influenced her writing of these topics, climate change, morally ambiguous characters and so much more, it was such

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45:14

S2 Debut Spotlight - 8. Khashayar J. Khabushani

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2023/08/14

Welcome back Bookends to another episode in our Debut Spotlight series where we shine the light on the freshest authors and their work! For today's episode we were joined by debut novelist of 'I Will Greet The Sun Again', the incredible Khashayar J. Khabushani.We discuss his highly contested debut, how he can read multiple books at once, why basketball means so much to him, why his mother is such a huge inspiration and so much more, we hope you enjoy this conversation and we hope it encourages you

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73:02

Bonus Books: Limelight with Daisy Buchanan

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2023/08/11

Welcome back Bookends to another Bonus books episode where we were joined by the powerhouse that is Daisy Buchanan! A journalist, novelist and host of a number of brilliant podcast series including the fan favourite 'You're Booked', we were delighted to have Bookend royalty on the podcast and her recommendations are certainly not in short supply! TW: This conversation includes mention of difficult topics such as sexual assault and cancer which may be triggering for some, listen with care.Aswell as

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56:18

S2 Debut Spotlight- 7. Emily Habeck

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2023/08/07

Hey Bookends! Welcome back to another episode in our Debut Spotlight series, for this episode we were joined by the incredible Emily Habeck to discuss our firm favourite read of the year 'Shark Heart'. We talk about her journey from the world of Theatre to novel writing, her research process of Great White Sharks and the wonderful help she received from Marine Biologist Greg Skomal, the protagonists that we will never forget and so much more. We hope you love this episode as much as we did! If you

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33:44

July Book Club: Ordinary Human Failings with Megan Nolan

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2023/08/04

Hey Bookends! For our July Book Club episode we were joined by the brilliant Megan Nolan, all the way from NYC! We of course deep dived into her latest novel Ordinary Human Failings, chatted about her experience with the publication of her debut novel during COVID, why pro-lifers need to read her new book, her interest in journalism and so much more, we hope you love this one and as always please do rate, review & subscribe so we can reach more of you. TW: Our conversation contains mention of

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S2 Debut Spotlight- 6. Mikki Brammer

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2023/07/31

Welcome back Bookends to another episode in our Debut Spotlight series! For today's episode we were joined by debut novelist Mikki Brammer to chat about her beautiful novel 'The Collected Regrets of Clover' which is out now & published by Viking (UK). We discuss why it's important to have more open conversations about death and grief, why New York was the perfect setting for her novel, the gorgeous characters we fell in love with and as always, lots of excellent recommendations. To buy 'The

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24:08

Minisode- Spicy reads, a love affair with Hozier, the...

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2023/07/28

Welcome back Bookends to an impromptu minisode! We had an interview fall through last minute and thought what a wonderful time to bring you back an OG episode which we know lots of you have been missing! We talk about Lydia's little secret, the men she's making herself available for cough Hozier, Jeremy Allen White cough, the all important Barbenheimer debate & lots more. Let us know for future minisodes if there's anything you want us to cover, you can email us apairofbookendspod@gmail.comTo

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48:29

Bonus Books: The Rachel Incident with Caroline...

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2023/07/21

It's a BONUS bonus episode because we have the incredible Caroline O'Donoghue with us for today's episode chatting all about her wonderful new novel The Rachel Incident!Aswell as doing a deep dive into what can only be classed as one of the best books of the year, we chat about 'And just like that', how Caroline personally made Mumford and Sons happen(...), representation in books and so much more, it was such a joy to have Caroline on the pod and we hope you all enjoy it as much as we do. If you do

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46:52

Bonus Books: Second Self with Chloë Ashby

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2023/07/07

Welcome back Bookends to a Bonus Books episode where we chat to author and award-winning arts critic Chloë Ashby about her latest novel 'Second Self', we chat about Art, her writing style, the choice to have or to not have children, positive heterosexual relationships and much more. We loved chatting to her and hope you take away as much as we did from this conversation! As always if you enjoy this episode please do rate, review & subscribe so we can reach more listeners, you can also follow us

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54:37

June Book Club: The Late Americans with Brandon Taylor

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2023/06/30

This is BIG guys! We had the incredible Booker-shortlisted author, literary icon Brandon Taylor on the pod to chat about his latest novel 'The Late Americans', which was our June Book Club pick. We loved this novel so so much and cannot rave about it enough, if you haven't read it yet, links are below to order your copy, please do join us in reading it!In this episode we discuss the body & autonomy, Class and the complexities that brings up for working class artists and Brandon gives us yet

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S2 Debut Spotlight- 5. Ruth Kelly

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2023/06/26

Welcome back Bookends to our latest offering in our Debut Spotlight series where today we have a thriller! We were joined by the lovely Ruth Kelly, journalist and author of 'The Villa', a gripping and unsettling thriller set on a reality TV show. We chatted about Ruth's own experiences working on a reality show, the kinds of thrillers she enjoys reading & watching, mental health and why it still feels such a relevant topic and so much more, we hope you enjoy this episode. If you do please don't

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