Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRob Osler, "The Case of the Missing Maid" (Kensington, 2024)
Episode 442
Set in 1898, Harriet Morrow is 21, supports her 16-year-old brother, and has been accepted as the first female detective at the Prescott Agency. She’…
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Peter Darbyshire, "The Mona Lisa Sacrifice" (Poplar Press, 2024)
Episode 444
With this dry observance Peter Darbyshire introduces us to Cross, a man who has lived thousands of years, though he’d prefer not to have, and who is …
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Serkan Görkemli, "Sweet Tooth and Other Stories" (UP of Kentucky, 2024)
Episode 443
Queerness, labels, and allyship are central themes in this moving collection of stories set in Turkey, where Middle Eastern and Euro-American express…
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Emily A. Weedon, "Autokrator" (Cormorant Books, 2024)
Episode 441
Born nameless, in a rigid, autocratic society that has relegated all women to non-person status — Unmales — two women fight against their invisibilit…
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Booksellers’ Best 2024
Episode 148
Lisa Swayze has been the General Manager at Buffalo Street Books for 7 years and will transition to becoming the Executive Director of the bookstore’…
1 year, 10 months ago
Robert G. Penner, "The Dark King Swallows the World" (Radiant Press, 2024)
Episode 440
Robert Penner’s best-selling novel, The Dark King Swallows the World (Radiant Press, October 2024) is a phenomenal genre-bending read.
A coming-of-age…
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Suzanne Allain, "The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right" (Berkley Books, 2024)
Episode 193
Arabella Grant doesn’t want to deceive London high society. It’s her cousin Lady Isabella, known as Issie, who convinces Arabella to take over so tha…
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Christine Coulson, "One Woman Show" (Avid Reader Press, 2023)
Episode 147
Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museu…
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Wayne Ng, "Johnny Delivers" (Guernica Editions, 2024)
Episode 37
Set in 1977, Johnny Delivers (Guernica Editions, 2024) tells the absorbing story of 18-year-old Johnny Wong—the son of Chinese immigrants to Canada—w…
1 year, 10 months ago
Recall This Story: Ivan Kreilkamp on Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Foxcastle" (JP)
Episode 139
Ivan Kreilkamp, Indiana University English professor and no stranger to Recall This Book, is the author of two books on Victorian literature and one …
1 year, 10 months ago