Join Amanda and Joseph for this week’s episode as they delve into the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, remember Agatha Christie and talk about their favourite mysteries. This time, they really try to be spoiler free!  

Bookish News

International Booker Prize shortlist short flims 

Helen DeWitt and Windham Campbell Literary Award

Recent Reads

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (Sam Hughes)

The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart @lizzy_stewart

Alison by Lizzy Stewart

The Novels of Agatha Christie and Golden Age Detective Fiction

Snow Upon the Desert by Agatha Christie

Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Death On The Nile by Agatha Christie

Evil Under The Sun by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Akroyd by Agatha Christie

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup

V is for Venom by Kathryn Harkup

The Knox Decalogue

S.S. Van Dine’s Commandments

Fair Play by Louise Hegarty

Our Favourite Mysteries

In the Woods (The Dublin Murder Squad series) by Tana French @tanafrenchwrites

The Trees by Percival Everett

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett @r.jackson.bennett

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett @janice.hallett

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Whitstable Pearl by Julie Wassmer

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

‘Only Murders in the Building’

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg

The Girl in the Maze by R K Jackson @randal.jackson1

The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai

What We’re Reading Next 

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag

The Oldest Bitch Alive by Morgan Day @yeah_okday

Prairie Oyster by Sophie Robinson @sophiepoetry

Also mentioned

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