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In My Good Books is the podcast for UK readers who love crime fiction, thrillers, and literary fiction.
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144: What If Turning 17 Could Kill You? Roz Watkins on The Wicked Girls (opens the original)
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What if girls in a remote Cornish village started mysteriously dying on their 17th birthdays? This week on In My Good Books , Susie is joined by crime writer Roz Watkins to talk about her dark and atmospheric new standalone thriller, The Wicked Girls . Ruby is approaching her 17th birthday, but in her village that has become a terrifying prospect. Girls are dying on the day they turn seventeen, and no one knows why. Is it suicide contagion? A Victorian curse accidentally unleashed when a group o
143: Jo Cheetham: Love and Rent – The Anti-Romantic Comedy About Love, Money and Class (opens the original)
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This week on In My Good Books , I’m joined by Jo Cheetham to talk about her debut novel Love and Rent , a funny and painfully relatable story about money, class, friendship, relationships and what it really means to be independent. Jo’s first book, Killjoy , told the extraordinary true story of how she went from reluctantly attending a protest to becoming part of the No More Page Three campaign that took on one of Britain’s biggest newspapers and won. Now she’s made the move from memoir to ficti
142: Layla McCay: The Queer Bookshelf – A Literary Guide to Queer History | Reading is Political (opens the original)
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What can the books we read tell us about queer history, and what happens when important stories are allowed to disappear? In this episode of In My Good Books , part of the Reading Is Political series, I'm joined by author Layla McCay to talk about T he Queer Bookshelf: A Reader's Guide , her celebration of the LGBTQ+ books that have shaped literature, culture and queer lives across centuries. Layla explains why a conversation at an LGBTQ+ book group made her realise that some of the most importa
141: Cathryn Kemp: They Can’t Burn Us All, Iceland’s Witch Trials & Historical Fiction (opens the original)
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In this episode of In My Good Books , I’m joined by Cathryn Kemp to talk about her new historical novel They Can’t Burn Us All , which takes us to 17th-century Iceland and a notorious real-life witch trial where the story of witchcraft looked very different from elsewhere in Europe. We look at some of the bigger questions running through They Can’t Burn Us All - misogyny, power, jealousy, sisterhood and the way communities can turn against their own. Cathryn explains why writing about the past g
140: The Secret Barrister: The Cut Throat Trial, a Gripping Legal Thriller – But Who Are They Really? (opens the original)
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This week on In My Good Books , I’m joined by The Secret Barrister to talk about their first novel, The Cut Throat Trial , now out in paperback. But who is The Secret Barrister? Despite selling more than a million books, appearing regularly in the media and becoming one of the best-known voices on the British criminal justice system, the identity of The Secret Barrister remains one of publishing’s best-kept secrets. Drawing on years spent working inside the criminal justice system, The Secret Ba
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