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?

E30: Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room

Joel is joined by writer and comedian Benedict Townsend who takes full control of the show.

E29: Benedict Townsend's Book Club?

Joel speaks to stand up comedian and author of You'll Like It When You Get There, Rhys James, about his new book!

E28: Rhys James' You'll Like It When You Get There

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.

E27: Joel and Lucas Oakeley Create A Character

Joel 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.

E26: Róisín Lanigan's I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There

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.

E25: Joel's Experimental Episode

What 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?

E24: Jente Postuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About

Joel reads Middlesex, a swirling multi-generational novel that sees a Greek family migrate to Detroit and struggle with their middle class status. The basis of pretty good novel - and it won the Pulitzer - but does Joel rate it?

E23: Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex

Joel's broken two of his rules this time round by reading a book that is 1) a hardback, and 2) came out this year. It's Miranda July's All Fours, a book where the narrator is supposed to spend a load of money on a life-changing road trip, but ends up blowing all the cash on renovating a motel room just outside town to look like a Parisian hotel suite.

E22: Miranda July's All Fours

hi my name is joel golby and welcome to my podcast where each week i recommend you a new book. it's out every tuesday. that's it. that's pretty much it.

Joel Golby's Book Club

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