{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6155e18746dfcc0014273af1/61b247ef2dff9000134e3f63?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ep 533 Christmas Book Club: Our best reads of 2021","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6155e18746dfcc0014273af1/show-cover.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>It has been another fantastic year for books: Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, Megan Nolan’s Acts of Desperation, Catherine Ryan Howard’s 56 Days, Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout, Louise Nealon’s Snowflake, Fíona Scarlett’s Boys Don’t Cry, the list goes on and on. In this episode Róisín is joined by our book clubbers Niamh Towey, Ann Ingle and Bernice Harrison to share their favourite reads of the year (some old, some new) and the books they’ll be gifting this Christmas.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Books mentioned:</strong></p><p><br></p><p>56 Days - Catherine Ryan Howard</p><p>Acts of Desperation - Megan Nolan</p><p>Apples Never Fall - Liane Moriarty</p><p>Are You Somebody - Nuala O’Faolain</p><p>Bright Burning Things - Lisa Harding</p><p>Comrades - Rosita Boland</p><p>Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid</p><p>Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? - Seamus O’Reilly</p><p>Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe</p><p>How to Kill Your Family - Bella Mackie&nbsp;</p><p>Iron Annie - Luke Cassidy</p><p>Magpie - Elizabeth Day</p><p>Nell - Nell McCafferty</p><p>Nora - Nuala O’Connor</p><p>Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout</p><p>Openhearted - Ann Ingle</p><p>The End of the World is a Culture de Sac - Louise Kennedy</p><p>The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting - Evanna Lynch</p><p>Real Estate - Deborah Levy</p><p>Slug - Hollie McNish</p><p>Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan</p><p>Snowflake - Louise Nealon</p><p>State of Terror - Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny</p><p>We Don’t Know Ourselves - Fintan O’Toole</p>","author_name":"The Irish Times"}