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E30: Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room
32:14|Romy Hall ends up in prison after killing her stalker. It's an excellent set-up to a novel, but does it deliver? The endorsements on the front cover certainly think so, but does Geordie Joel agree?
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E29: Benedict Townsend's Book Club?
01:05:24|Joel is joined by writer and comedian Benedict Townsend who takes full control of the show.E28: Rhys James' You'll Like It When You Get There
58:09|Joel speaks to stand up comedian and author of You'll Like It When You Get There, Rhys James, about his new book!E27: Joel and Lucas Oakeley Create A Character
01:06:19|Joel creates a whole new format for the book club and pulls in writer Lucas Oakeley to build a character from scratch. Expect dice, coin flips and... long necks.26. E26: Róisín Lanigan's I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There
41:02||Season 1, Ep. 26Joel speaks to Róisín Lanigan about her latest, I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There, a ghost story set against the horror of the current housing crisis.E25: Joel's Experimental Episode
32:51|Joel reviews a graphic novel called Below Ambition by Simon Hanselmann about Megg The Witch and Werewolf Jones who start a band called Horse Mania. He also digs through the finds of his latest book shop crawl.24. E24: Jente Postuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About
32:22||Ep. 24What I'd Rather Not Think About is a novel about grieving a twin, captured in little vignettes over roughly 200 pages, but what does Joel and his new co-host Geordie Joel make of it? And is it time to stop writing 7 line chapters?