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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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4. Debut Spotlight - Imogen Crimp

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2023/02/06

Welcome back bookends to another episode in our Debut Spotlight series where we are in conversation with the wonderful Imogen Crimp, author of the incredible debut 'A Very Nice Girl' which we both loved! We find out why Imogen made the leap from training to be an opera singer to publishing her debut novel, deep dive into power, money, desire and self-worth and how powerful her writing is of an actor inhabiting their character's mind. We highly recommend any performers out there give this one a

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3. Debut Spotlight - Eleanor Shearer

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2023/01/30

Welcome back Bookends to our next instalment in our Debut Spotlight series, this time with author Eleanor Shearer who we are sure her debut 'River Sing Me Home' will be a future classic. Drawing on some of her own family history and a huge amount of research, River sing me home is a book about one woman escaping her plantation to search for her five children. Aswell as finding out about Eleanor's debut journey, we chat about the incredible places and people she visited during her research for the

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2. Debut Spotlight - Victoria MacKenzie

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2023/01/23

Welcome back bookends to our second episode in our Debut Spotlight series with author Victoria MacKenzie and her debut novel 'For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain' which was published on the 19th of January by Bloomsbury. Trigger warning: Mention of child/infant loss, talk of death/grief.We speak about Victoria's experience of not getting her first book published, how she started out as a poet and how the stories of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe came to be the heroines of her debut

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Jan Book Club: Send Nudes with Saba Sams

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2023/01/20

Welcome back bookends to our first book club episode of 2023! Our January book club pick is the powerhouse short story collection 'Send Nudes', for this episode we were joined by the author of the book, the insanely talented Saba Sams. We talk about the messiness of humans, the joy of getting our worst impulses down on the page and why a vagina smelling like prawn cocktail crisps is potentially the greatest line ever written?! We loved this conversation and we hope you do too, as always it's full of

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Minisode - Top 5 Books of 2022, 2023 releases & would...

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2023/01/16

Happy belated new year bookends! We're back with a minisode, a real recommendation extravaganza. We talk through our Top 5 books of last year, the 2023 releases we're excited about, the adaptations we're looking forward to, why we should have an adaptation series (all in favour say aye!) and much, much more. We will be bringing lots more of these minisodes to you this year alongside lots more author interviews and debut author highlights! Email us apairofbookendspod@gmail.com if you have any recs or

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1. Debut Spotlight - Rosie Andrews

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2023/01/06

WE'RE BACK BOOKENDS! Happy new year!We are so excited to be bringing you the first in our new 'Debut Spotlight' series, each episode we will be in conversation with a debut author, chatting about their debut journey, putting their book on your radar and as always getting their recommendations. This episode is with Rosie Andrews, author of The Leviathan which is out in paperback now, you can order here:

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Christmas Special 2022!

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2022/12/23

Welcome to our FINAL episode of the year - the Christmas Special! We stripped this one right back to our OG episodes, just the two of us, rambling about our fave festive books, food, TV & more, it's pure festive fun and we hope you love it! Christmas Films mentioned: Single All The Way - NetflixLove ActuallyHome Alone 2ElfDie Hard (debatable) Other recommendations: The Shining by Stephen KingOne Day In December by Josie SilverSliding DoorsSmall Things Like These by Claire KeeganThe Night Before

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They're Going To Love You With Meg Howrey

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2022/12/02

Welcome back bookends to our FINAL Book Club episode of the year! We were joined by the beautiful person & author that is, Meg Howrey, to chat about her novel, They're Going To Love You. We couldn't wait to dive in and chat about this book, it's set in New York during the AIDS crisis and follows Carlisle, a young woman training to be a professional ballet dancer, torn between her professional and personal lives, navigating messy family dynamics, love affairs and betrayals and devastating losses,

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Top Of Your TBR with Cherie Jones

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2022/11/25

Hey Bookends! We are back this week with another instalment in our 'Top of your TBR' series and this time we are joined by the warm, funny and generous Cherie Jones- who is the phenomenal writer of the Women's Prize shortlisted novel 'How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House' and she's bringing you an incredible list of recommendations! In this episode, we chat through her four chosen book titles to add to your TBR piles, her experiences as a debut author, the impact of Carribean folklore, who she

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Isaac and the Egg with Bobby Palmer

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2022/11/11

Welcome back bookends! Our November book club pick is the incredible, weird and wonderful debut novel Isaac and the Egg. We were so pleased to have Bobby Palmer (Freelance Journalist and author of Isaac and the Egg) on to chat about his work, 80's pop culture references, men's mental health and much, much more. He is every bit as funny and brilliant as his book, we hope you love this conversation. To buy Isaac and the Egg:

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Best Of Friends with Kamila Shamsie

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2022/10/31

Hey Bookends! We are thrilled to be bringing you our October book club episode where we chat to the absolute powerhouse that is Kamila Shamsie, about her latest novel 'Best Of Friends', which we cannot recommend enough. We spoke about childhood friendship, our standpoints on dog-earing book pages, class division and politics in Pakistan and London, the concept of 'girl-fear' and much more. It was a really insightful conversation and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Books mentioned: Best Of

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Top Of Your TBR with Rosa Rankin-Gee

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2022/10/14

Hey bookends! We are thrilled to introduce our latest guest in our 'Top Of Your TBR' series, the author of the incredible dystopian novel 'Dreamland'. This is the longest conversation we've done so far but Rosa was truly the most warm and generous guest and we really hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Books & Authors mentioned: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu Z For Zachariah by Robert C.O'Brien How I Live Now by

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Top Of Your TBR With Claire Fuller

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2022/10/09

Welcome back bookends! Our third episode in our Top Of Your TBR series features the wonderful Claire Fuller and my goodness, does she have some excellent book recs for you! We absolutely loved reading her four choices and we hope you do too. Books mentioned: New Animal by Ella BaxterDreamland by Rosa Rankin-GeeI'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy Top Of Your TBR recommendations: Snegurochka by Judith HeneghanThe Weekend by Charlotte WoodHow The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie

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The Life Of The Mind with Christine Smallwood

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2022/09/20

Hey bookends! Welcome back to another book club episode, this month's book club pick is The Life Of The Mind by Christine Smallwood, an incredible debut novel that explores miscarriage, female friendship, loss and faith and how these things interlink. We are thrilled to have Christine on the podcast and we hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did- please note the conversation does include talk of miscarriage which may be triggering for some listeners. Thank you to Europa Editions for our

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Common Decency with Susannah Dickey

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2022/08/31

Welcome back bookends to another book club episode! This month's book club pick is Common Decency- the second novel by the immensely talented author and poet Susannah Dickey who we were thrilled to spend an hour chatting to! We recorded via zoom with some occasional internet issues so we apologise for any audio that may have been affected. Trigger Warning: conversations on grief. Aswell as a deep dive into the mind of Susannah and the worlds of her books we chatted about unhinged novels, chaotic

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Top Of Your TBR with Maggie Shipstead

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2022/08/01

Welcome back bookends! Our second episode in our 'Top of your TBR' series is with the wonderful and incredibly charming Maggie Shipstead. On this episode we discuss her epic novel 'Great Circle' and our love for her latest short story collection 'You Have A Friend in 10A', we talk through her recommendations for your TBR, why writers love to read about writers as characters, where we draw the line with unlikeable characters and whether Great Circle is going to be adapted (yes Hannah always asks the

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5. Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman

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2022/07/25

Welcome back bookends! We've been away on our jollies but are back to bring you our July book club episode with the thrilling new debut Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman- thank you to Europa Editions for our gifted copies, you can buy the book here: https://www.europaeditions.co.uk/book/9781787703858/acts-of-service.Books & cultural recommendations mentioned:Writers and lovers by Lily KingGreat Circle by Maggie ShipsteadLeave the world behind by Rumaan AlamThe Stand by Stephen KingSorrow and Bliss

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4. Pride Book Club Special - Heartstopper with Emma...

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2022/06/24

Welcome Back Bookends and Happy Pride Month!We have a treat in store for you this episode. Not only are we chatting about the outstanding Heartstopper books by Alice Oseman and its’ gorgeous Netflix adaptation but we also have a very special guest! Joining us this month is the incomparable author and playwright Emma Hinds. So enjoy our chat this month, in which we talk about the importance of LGBTQIA+ representation in literature past and present, our fave Pride TV and Film recommendations and shout

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Top Of Your TBR with Pandora Sykes

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2022/06/10

Welcome back Bookends!Hope you're excited for the FIRST in our brand new series 'Top Of Your TBR' where we invite the people we admire to give four of their stand-out book recommendations for us to read and discuss! Our first ever feature on the podcast is none other than the Writer and Broadcaster, the one & only - Pandora Sykes. Pandora is the author of 'How do we know we're doing it right?' an essay collection about the anxieties of modern life, her journalism has been published by Elle, Vogue,

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3. Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

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2022/05/27

Welcome back Bookends! This month's book club episode features Vladimir, the exciting new debut novel from Julia May Jonas. Our deep dive includes chat on complex female protagonists, sexual fantasies, power dynamics and dark academia. As usual, we give you our cultural recommendations and books we'd recommend as companion reads to Vladimir. Books & Authors mentioned:The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak10 Minutes 38 Seconds by Elif Shafak Conversations with Friends by Sally RooneyLolita by

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