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What Are You Reading? Summer Edition: Jodi McAlister
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Academic and bestselling author Jodi McAlister talks to Cheryl Akle about what she’s reading. Jodi’s latest book, Not Here to Make Friends, is out now.
Books discussed:
Lace by Shirley Conran
Tackle by Jilly Cooper
Never Ever Forever by Karina May
Love and Other Scores by Abra Pressler
Italian Marriage by Jenna Lo Bianco
Love Just In by Natalie Murray
The Collected Works of Jackie Collins (reissues)
The latest ‘Romance Class ‘releases – a self-publishing collective from the Philippines
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