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🎙️ NEW EPISODE ALERT! 📚✨

We’re back in The Reading Chatroom, and this week we have a very special guest!

For our second episode of the season, we’re diving into two debut novels:

📖 The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
📖 May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry

And the best part? We’re joined by award-winning author Rebecca Perry @poorsasquatch for a special interview! 🤍

From unpacking these debut novels to chatting about writing, storytelling and all things literary, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

🎧 Season 2, Episode 2 is OUT NOW! Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

💚 Happy reading (and listening)!

#TheReadingChatroom #BookPodcast #RebeccaPerry #MayWeFeedTheKing #TheRenovation BookishCommunity by @thereadingchatroom

🎙️ WE’RE BACK, BOOK LOVERS! 📚✨

Season Two of The Reading Chatroom is officially here, and we’re kicking things off with our season of debut authors! 💚

In our first episode, we’re unpacking Just Watch Me by Lior Torenberg 🌶️ and Before We Hit the Ground by Selali Fiamanya. Sitting down with Selali, we chat about the magic of discovering new literary voices, and unpacking what makes a debut novel so exciting.

🎧 Episode One is OUT NOW! Grab your headphones, get cosy, and join us in the chatroom.

#TheReadingChatroom #SeasonTwo #DebutAuthors #BookPodcast by @thereadingchatroom

📚 NEW SEASON, NEW STORIES! 🎙️

The Reading Chatroom is back for Season 2, and we’re kicking things off with a celebration of debut authors! ✨

There’s something special about a writer’s first book. A new voice, a fresh perspective, and the beginning of what could be an incredible literary journey.

This season, we’re diving into the stories, conversations and books that keep us turning pages, starting with the exciting world of literary debuts.

A special thank you to Exclusive Books V&A Waterfront (@ebwfront) for hosting us and to Jonathan Ball Publishers (@jonathanballpublishers) for generously gifting some wonderful bookish giveaways! 💛

🎧 Episode 1 drops this Sunday, 18 October!

Pull up a chair, bring your current read, and join us back in The Reading Chatroom. 💬📖

#TheReadingChatroom #Season2 #DebutAuthors #BookPodcast #BookCommunity by @thereadingchatroom

SEASON FINALE! Episode 10 is here 🍂🎙️

This week on The Reading Chatroom we’re talking about books while at the @franlitfest. These titles are the kind that unsettle you, crack something open, and follow you around long after you read the final page.

Featuring:
📚 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
📚 Penance by Eliza Clark
📚 The Dogs of Vivo by Sven Axelrad
📚 Kin by Tayari Jones

From girlhood and violence to memory, identity, loneliness, and the quiet ways people survive, this episode became one of our most layered conversations yet.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
And tell us: which book has stayed with you lately?

We’ll be back in August with more Bookish joy! by @thereadingchatroom

Episode nine is live 🎙️📚

We’re talking:
🌼 Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
🌑 Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
🌍 I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
🖤 Gloria Don’t Speak by Lucy Apps

This episode feels like a deep breath. We chat about stories that are reflective, a little haunting, and movingly human. We touch on memory, grief, solitude, and voice, and the beautiful ways these stories reshape you.

If you’ve read any of these (or want to), come sit with us.
If you haven’t, consider this your sign.

🎧 Listen now, wherever you do podcasts
💬 Tell us: which one stayed with you the most? by @thereadingchatroom

Episode Eight is now live; and this one lingers 🎙️

We’re talking:

💛 A Family Matter by Claire Lynch
🧡 Dominion by Addie E. Citchens
🩵 Discipline by Larissa Pham
💙 Sonia & Sunny by Kiran Desai

Four very different novels, all circling the same quiet tension: control, inheritance, and the lives we try to author for ourselves.

This episode moves through intimacy and distance, restraint and unraveling; asking what it means to belong to a family, a place, or even a version of yourself.

🎧 Episode Eight of The Reading Chatroom is now live!

Come listen wherever you get your podcasts. by @thereadingchatroom

Episode Seven of The Reading Chatroom is live; and we’re diving into obsession, desire, regret, power, and the quiet chaos of being human. From an unhinged wedding guest to reality tv compounds, this one spirals in the best way.

Featuring:
📖 The Wedding People by Alison Espach @alison.espach
📖 Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
📖 Love Forms by Claire Adam @claireadamwriter
📖 The Compound by Aisling Rawle

Come for the books, stay for the conversations that linger a little too long.

🎧 Listen now via the link in our bio 💚
💬 Tell us: which one are you picking up first? by @thereadingchatroom

We had a ball recording this one! 🎙️ Episode 6, now live.

In this week’s episode we discuss everything we loved about The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal, Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Packer, Kingfisher by Roziie Kelly, and The Artist by Lucy Steeds.

Have you read any of these yet? by @thereadingchatroom

Episode five is out now 📚

We’re chatting about The Shock of the Light by @loriinglishall , Evenings & Weekends by @ois_mck91, Mother Mary Comes to Me by @arundhatiroyauthor, and Paradiso 17 by @hlillith (you’ll have to listen for our thoughts 👀)

Tune in and tell us what you’re reading 💬

#ReadingChatroom #BookstagramSA #CurrentlyReading by @thereadingchatroom

In this week’s episode we do a deep dive into GenAI in books, separating the art from the artist and so much more. We yap about books we absolutely adored: Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth, The Safe Keep by Yael van der Wouden, Audition by Katie Kitamura, and Nesting by Roison O’Donnell 🫶🏼

📍- @exclusivebookspaarl by @thereadingchatroom

And just like that, say hello to episode three! 🩷 Lost lambs, Big Swiss, Theo of Golden, and The correspondent get unpacked and we loved every moment of it!! by @thereadingchatroom

And on this week’s episode we’re in @ebwfront yapping about Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, Loved One by Aisha Muharrar, One of Us by Elizabeth Day, and Heart the Lover by Lily King. 🎙️💚 by @thereadingchatroom