Happy New Year! Michelle is back with a hot take on Tom Hanks’s charisma. Read this week: Shark Heart by Emily Habeck, Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan and Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adeji-Brenyah, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Speedboat by Renata Adler, The Maid by Nita Prowse, Better Left Unsaid by Tufayel Ahmed.

This week’s deep dive book is the best-selling Good Material by Dolly Alderton, ‘this generation’s Nora Ephron’. 

This week’s listener recommendation request comes from Aimée who is looking for light hearted reads, but not Bill Bryson. Sapphire recommends The Dog of the North by Elizabeth Mckenzie, Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld and Where’d you go Bernadette? by Maria Semple. Michelle recommends The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith. Joseph recommends Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. 

Also mentioned in this episode:

The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly

‘You’ve Got Mail’

‘The Shop Around The Corner’

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

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