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TOP BOOKS of 2024 & Elly Griffiths Interview
Ep. 319
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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
- The Betrayal of Thomas True by A. J. West
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
- Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer.
- Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness.
- The Home Child by Liz Berry.
- The Mercy Chair by M. W. Craven.
- The Spell Shop by Sarah Beth Durst.
- Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
- 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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