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TOP BOOKS of 2024 & Elly Griffiths Interview

Ep. 319

I interview Elly Griffiths about her new book “The Frozen People” and I give my top 12 books of 2024.

ALSO:

Elly recommends 3 books for us:

Beautiful People by Amanda Jennings

Notes on a Drowning by Anna Sharpe.

Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

PHILIPPA’s TOP READS OF 2024

  1. The Betrayal of Thomas True by A. J. West
  2. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
  3. Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer. 
  4. Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness.
  5. The Home Child by Liz Berry.
  6. The Mercy Chair by M. W. Craven.
  7. The Spell Shop by Sarah Beth Durst. 
  8. Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
  9. Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie

 10. A Bookshop of one's own by Jane Cholmeley,

11.After the Storm by G. D Wright

12.The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable.

Honourable mention: The Guncle by Steven Rowley. 


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