Curious Readers
Curious Readers
Podcast Description
A bi-weekly bookchat podcast by Joseph Dance and Amanda Moulson, two time-poor curious readers with eclectic TBRs. Every two weeks we meet to talk all things books and deliver some recommendations for new, classic, and contemporary titles you might want to read next. We cover everything from backlist to frontlist, prize winners to debuts, and we are generally spoiler free. Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
Focuses on diverse literary themes including reading as a form of resistance and exploration of backlist titles with episodes covering topics like crisis literature and essential reads for escape. Specific examples from episodes include discussions on 'Demon Copperhead' by Barbara Kingsolver and 'Standard Deviation' by Katherine Heiny, alongside themes like prize-winning and debut works.
A bi-weekly bookchat podcast by Joseph Dance and Amanda Moulson, two time-poor curious readers with eclectic TBRs. Every two weeks we meet to talk all things books and deliver some recommendations for new, classic, and contemporary titles you might want to read next. We cover everything from backlist to frontlist, prize winners to debuts, and we are generally spoiler free.
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderpodcast
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Join Amanda and Joseph as they set out to excavate Land, Maggie O’Farrell’s latest historical novel and family drama which is set in 1860s Ireland, a decade after the Great Famine. Plus, as always they chat about what they’ve been reading recently and what they hope to pick up next.
Bookish News
Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frank_cottrellboyce
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Beast in View by Maragert Millar
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
@herrealtake
Recent Reads
The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet @lyse.doucet
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series by Juno Dawson @junodawson
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent by Iain Pears
Selected Books of Maggie O’Farrell @maggieofarrellofficial
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Instructions for a Heatwave
This Must Be the Place
Hamnet
The Marriage Portrait
Land
What We’re Reading Next
The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan @theodysseymovie
Crossing The Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson
I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder
Curious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudio
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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