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Book Chat

by Pandora Sykes

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11. Stoner & The Unbearable Lightness of Being

January 30, 2024 · 58 min

A bittersweet episode of Book Chat has Pandora and Bobby discussing two fittingly bittersweet books: Stoner by John Williams and The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Also, “some news”, a hearty goodbye, and a look back on…
10. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret & The Bluest Eye

October 2, 2023 · 52 min

We bring two books both published in 1970 to the table. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by “the poet laureate of puberty” Judy Blume, and The Bluest Eye, by the legendary Toni Morrison. You can get in touch bookcha…
9. Augustown & Home Cooking

September 12, 2023 · 37 min

After last month’s crowd-pleasers, Bobby and Pandora sink their teeth into two very different, equally meaty books. In Augustown by Kei Miller, a “dismal little valley” in Jamaica becomes a boiling pot of tension when a young boy’s…
8. Bridget Jones’s Diary & High Fidelity

August 1, 2023 · 57 min

It’s a bumper episode 8, with Pandora and Bobby tackling two million-copy-bestselling, much-loved-movie-inspiring titans of the nineties. In Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, Pandora finds a surprisingly feminist heroine who’s no…
7. Close Range & A Girl’s Story

July 1, 2023 · 56 min

Book Chat is back, and episode 7 pits a Pulitzer-winning author against a Nobel-winning author. But not really: in the battle of the Annies whose name ends in ‘X’, both Bobby and Pandora are winners. Discussing Close Range by Annie Proulx…

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6. When I Hit You & A Visit from the Goon Squad

May 1, 2023 · 45 min

Episode 6 takes on one little known book and one very, very well-known book. Pandora finally reads A Visit from the Goon Squad and falls in love with Jennifer Egan's entire canon, while Bobby has mixed feelings about one of Pandora's…
5. Memorial & The Virgin Suicides

April 1, 2023 · 41 min

Welcome to episode 5! On the menu today is Memorial by Byran Washington, which just slips over our '2 years old' threshold - the hype is arguably still hyping - and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, which was written 30 years ago…
4. All That Man Is & The Reluctant Fundamentalist

March 1, 2023 · 42 min

For Episode 4 of Book Chat, we travel back just a decade or so, to Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and David Szalay's short stories in a novel, All That Man Is. We discuss Mohsin Hamid's ability to condense big ideas - what…
3. Wuthering Heights & Orlando

February 1, 2023 · 49 min

It's episode 3 of Book Chat! And this month we are travelling hundreds of years back, to a book Pandora's always wanted to read (Orlando, by Virginia Woolf) and one of Bobby's all-time favourites (Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte.) Last…
2. White Teeth & Convenience Store Woman

January 1, 2023 · 43 min

Welcome back to Book Chat, a new monthly books podcast brought to you by novelist Bobby Palmer and journalist Pandora Sykes, which does what it says on the tin: we each bring one book, and we chat. Our one rule? The books have to be more…
1. Tin Man & Tales of The City

December 1, 2022 · 51 min

Welcome to Book Chat! A new monthly books podcast hosted by Pandora Sykes and Bobby Palmer, which does what it says on the tin: we each bring one book, and we chat. Our one rule? The books have to be more than 2 years old. For our…
Welcome to Book Chat

November 29, 2022 · 2 min

Welcome to Book Chat, a new monthly books podcast hosted by Pandora Sykes and Bobby Palmer which does what it says on the tin: we each bring a book, and we chat. Our one rule? The books have to be more than 2 years old. First episode…

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A monthly podcast hosted by Pandora Sykes and Bobby Palmer, who bring a book each to chat about. The one rule: the books have to be more than 2 years old. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.