Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!

In this episode, Nina’s gone off the rails, Emma’s stayed firmly on them, and we’ve got a whole bunch of books to catch up on!

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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro and catch-up chat
00:06:33 Lost Kingdom
00:08:26 Bliss and Other Stories
00:10:15 Any Human Heart
00:13:18 Unusual Stories from Many Lands
00:16:33 There is No Dog
00:19:14 Normal People
00:25:34 Ramayana
00:33:28 Myths of Mesopotamia
00:38:58 Mindwalker
00:41:34 Light from Uncommon Stars
00:47:21 Learning Humility
00:58:17 John Keats poetry
01:00:37 First Lie Wins
01:03:19 Evolve Your Brain
01:12:04 Born a Crime
01:16:27 Everything I Know About Love
01:17:51 Jade City
01:21:05 Red Queen / Glass Sword
01:28:41 The Wren, the Wren
01:30:47 Crossings
01:34:43 Cain’s Jawbone
01:37:30 The Bluest Eye
01:40:56 The Remains of the Day
01:42:53 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
01:43:50 Enter Ghost
01:45:21 Haul/TBR
01:49:46 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:

Lost Kingdom - Laurel Black
Bliss and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Any Human Heart - William Boyd
Unusual Stories from Many Lands - Arlo T. Janssen
There is No Dog - Meg Rosoff
Normal People - Sally Rooney
Ramayana - Vālmīki
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - Anon trans. Stephanie Dalley
Mindwalker - Kate Dylan
Mindbreaker - Kate Dylan
Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
Ballad for Sophie - Filipe Melo & Juan Cavia
Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue - Richard J. Foster
The Cloud of Unknowing - Anon
Selected Poetry - John Keats
First Lie Wins - Ashley Elston
Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind - Joe Dispenza
Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton
Jade City / The Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee
Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard
The Selection - Kiera Cass
Glass Sword - Victoria Aveyard
The Wren, the Wren - Anne Enright
Crossings - Alex Landragin
Cain’s Jawbone - Torquemada & E. Powys
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad
Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
Letter to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe - Bill Bryson
On Love: Lysis/Symposium/Phaedrus/Alcibiades/Selections from Republic & Laws - Plato ed. C.D.C. Reeve
Il sole e la cometa - Sergio Bambarén
A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
Edenglassie - Melissa Lucashenko
Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy - Diana Wynne Jones
A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
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Also mentioned:

John Keats poetry post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C362QlKrz_e/?igsh=MWFmNjUxdHBqYml4Yw==

Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Juliet Stevenson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_Stevenson
Darren Boyd https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Boyd
Booksandlala 2024 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/mACoc82jA04?si=rVFt-Z3GLu7YJYj7
Dominic West https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_West