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 hit a reading slump, Emma has read more than ever, and we talk about Nina’s publishing intensive course.

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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro and catch-up chat
00:08:07 Nightbirds
00:10:02 Good Girl, Bad Blood
00:11:26 Soldier Sailor
00:12:53 We Shall Be Monsters
00:14:59 Undiscovered
00:17:25 The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
00:18:41 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
00:21:30 Thunderclap
00:25:00 Birnam Wood
00:27:43 Nina reflects on her reading slump
00:28:35 The Empowering ADHD Workbook for Women
00:31:52 The Beginning of Everything
00:34:52 Piranesi
00:36:02 Terra Nullius
00:37:35 How High We Go in the Dark
00:39:13 The Keeper
00:41:56 The Time Machine
00:44:54 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
00:46:59 Delilah Green Doesn’t Care & Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail
00:48:57 Nina’s Currently Reading: The Hobbit
00:57:27 Nina’s Haul
01:03:06 Cover design/career tangent
01:06:47 Emma’s Haul
01:11:45 Outro
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Books mentioned in this episode:

Nightbirds – Kate J. Armstrong
Good Girl, Bad Blood – Holly Jackson
Soldier Sailor – Claire Kilroy
Brotherless Night – V.V. Ganeshananthan (Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner 2024)
We Shall Be Monsters – Tara Sim
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Undiscovered – Gabriela Wiener
Kairos – Jenny Erpenbeck (Booker International Prize Winner 2024)
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife – Meg Elison
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Ulysses – James Joyce
Thunderclap – Laura Cumming
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World – Naomi Klein (Women’s Prize for Non-fiction Winner 2024)
Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton
The Empowering ADHD Workbook for Women – Estelle Rose
Empowered Women with ADHD – Estelle Rose
The Beginning of Everything – Robyn Schneider
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Terra Nullius – Claire G. Coleman
How High We Go in the Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Keeper (The Current of Her Eye: Book One) – JJ Carpenter
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care – Ashley Herring Blake
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail – Ashley Herring Blake
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings series – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
Song of Myself – Walt Whitman
The Wildest Sun – Asha Lemmie
Anxious People – Fredrik Backman
The Reappearance of Rachel Price – Holly Jackson
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy – Holly Jackson
The Survivors – Jane Harper
Exiles – Jane Harper
The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham – H.G. Wells
Dubliners – James Joyce
Bright Falls trilogy – Ashley Herring Blake
Parade – Rachel Cusk
How to Solve Your Own Murder – Kristen Perrin
Night of the Living Dummy – R.L. Stine
Deep Trouble – R.L. Stine
Monster Blood – R.L. Stine
R.E.Generation – Michael J. Prewer
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Also mentioned:

Donate and support Emma in the readathon: https://chaptersforchange.org/emma-grey

Fantasy Fellowship https://fantasy-fellowship.co.uk/
Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/
Ulysses listen along https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/post/ulysses-listen-along-16th-june-bloomsday-25th-july-2024
Emma’s Birnam Wood review https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Ny4vtyzGY/?igsh=MW52bmt0NWpzc2d0NA==

CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ
CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4

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Snippets of Women’s Prize announcements from PA Media video: https://youtu.be/wCBKcnAVVtk?si=2oR8r4Yv_6y3HdHO