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Books & Chat: Short Book Reviews & Literary Discussions

Christina Young - Books and Chat | Short Book Reviews & Literary Discussions

Books & Chat 🎙️from Gloucester Book Club 📚 Your perfect literary companion in two formats: ☕ Bitesize Book Bites 10-minute solo episodes featuring: - Quick, thoughtful book reviews - Standout passages worth revisiting - Personal reflections from our club shelves 📖 Book Club Chats 30-minute community conversations with: -Our book club members and occasionally local authors - Lively discussions about themes and characters Be part of our story! Find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts ~

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00:09:13

Gloucester Book Club’s top 3 novels of 2022

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2023/01/23

A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe, Still Life by Sarah Winman, A Town Solace called Solace by Mary Lawson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:29:58

Lessons by Ian McEwan

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2023/01/13

“In October 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, an English schoolboy arrives unannounced at his piano teacher’s house. He stands on her doorstep in his drainpipe trousers and sharp-toed winklepickers, twitchy with eroticised terror. The boy, Roland Baines, is 14; his teacher, Miss Cornell, is 25. Roland fears that the world is about to end, and he will die a virgin. Miss Cornell does not turn him away. What happens between them in that quiet cottage will score a line across Roland’s

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00:19:23

Small Mercies - a Christmas short story by Kate Atkinson

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2022/12/27

A festive tale from ‘Festive Spirits’ written by Kate Atkinson 2019. Read by Christina Young --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:13:06

The Girl who Killed Santa Claus by Val McDermid....

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2022/12/27

A short story taken from a chilling collection of short stories ‘Christmas is Murder’ published by Sphere in 2020 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:32:56

A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe

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2022/11/25

Nineteen-year-old William’s decision to volunteer at the tragic scene of the 1966 Aberfan landslide transforms his life forever in this moving story about sacrifice and compassion. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:32:33

A Sweet Obscurity by Patrick Gale

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2022/11/04

A moving and intensely felt examination of the lengths to which we will go to seek protection and security in others. Returning to haunted Cornish landscapes familiar from other Gale novels, it is the story of individuals in search of a family. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:20:44

Mirror Mirror by Michael Bartlett read by Christina...

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2022/10/29

A spooky short story taken from a wonderful collection of gothic fairy tales and poetry, where nothing and no one is as they seem….. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:07:24

For Halloween 🎃🧛Blood Moon by Amaris Chase

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2022/10/21

A short story for Halloween from Spooky Ambiguous - a collection of ghost stories and poetry, fangs and fairy tales published by Crumps Barn Studio in the Cotswolds and read by Christina Young --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:29:28

In conversation with Christine Jordan, author of her...

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2022/10/17

Ten years ago, Sophie Shaw vanished. Kat, a technician who works in a DNA testing lab, is still haunted by the unsolved disappearance, and when she notices a suspicious tweet about the case online, she calls in a tip. A few weeks later she learns that a man is being questioned, and drunkenly sends out a tweet of her own, boasting about her role in this breakthrough by the police. But the man is released and Kat quickly finds herself back on Twitter, navigating through the abusive messages she’s

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00:19:04

A Halloween spooky story! 🎃👻. The Strange Tale of the...

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2022/10/03

A spooky story for Halloween set in the English countryside taken from a collection of short stories and poetry with a witchy feel ‘Spooky Ambiguous’. Published by Crumps Barn Studios. Read by Christina Young --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:32:20

Violeta by Isabel Allende

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2022/09/30

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. "An immersive saga about a passion-filled life."--People Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great

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00:30:52

Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor

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2022/08/26

Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impulse to tell our stories - even when words fail us. The line between sacrifice and selfishness, this is a story of the undervalued, unrecognised courage it can take just to get through the day. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:35:22

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

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2022/07/29

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* 'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin Moran Imagine a world where... · Your phone is too big for your hand · Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body · In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman. --- Send in a voice message:

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00:12:43

The British Book Awards Book of the Year Where the...

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2022/07/02

Abandoned as a girl, Kya raised herself in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the marsh girl haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, she opens herself to a new and startling world. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:31:29

Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

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2022/06/29

'Riveting, twisty, page-turning stuff' Guardian A 'best books of 2020' pick for BBC Radio 4 Open Book, the Guardian, the Telegraph and Good Housekeeping 'The page turner you've been looking for. Sly, witty and gripping . . . I devoured it' Naomi Alderman 'An utter joy . . . wonderfully skilled' Sarah Perry 'Beguiling, brilliantly creepy, and an utterly compelling read' Claire Fuller 'Tender, creepy and gripping' Sunday Times 'Spellbinding and spooky . . . a dazzling high wire act, superbly

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00:33:37

A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson

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2022/05/28

Longlisted for Booker Prize 2021. Waterstones Says The acclaimed Canadian author of Crow Lake intertwines the lives of three characters brought together by loss in a quietly moving novel – touched with flashes of humour – about the tenderness and tragedy of everyday lives in a small backwater town. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:28:33

Still Life by Sarah Winman

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2022/04/29

From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster. 1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the wreckage and relive memories of the time she

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00:31:18

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

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2022/03/25

Waterstones Says Another acutely observed evocation of Middle America, Redhead by the Side of the Road is both a deliciously offbeat love story and an affectionate character study of a lovable eccentric, stuck in his ways. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:29:55

Booker Prize Winner 2021 The Promise by Damon Galgut

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2022/02/25

The Promise is a family saga spanning four decades, each of which features a death in the family. It concerns the Afrikaner Swart family and their farm located outside Pretoria. The family consists of Manie, his wife Rachel, and their children Anton, Astrid, and Amor. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christina-young31/message

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00:31:06

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

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2022/01/28

'A deeply emotional love story that follows one day in the life of Elle Bishop as she navigates the unravelling of secrets, lies and a very complex love triangle' REESE WITHERSPOON Reviews A beautifully constructed, wonderfully intelligent and beguiling novel, rich with a multitude of pleasures William Boyd It's glorious and gorgeous. I was absolutely immersed and gripped and I'm devastated to have finished it Marian Keyes It's been ages since I was so absorbed in a contemporary novel. I loved

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