ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Bookylicious is not just any book podcast. Paul, Gwyn, Lara and Holly share their love of books. As well as interviews with authors, librarians and booksellers and our usual book chat there will be regular features such as Book of the Month and spotlights on particular authors, bookshops, libraries and other even book podcasts. Come with us on the journey and be inspired! Sometimes serious, always fun a podcast to open your mind!
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 42 days
Average audio length:
54 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
55 episodes
since March 24, 2021
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode Paul and Gwyn are joined by new co-presenter Iwan Berry to talk about all things Star Wars and the vast empire of spin off fan fiction it has given rise to. Of course the conversation diverges into The Odyssey, Brother Cadfael and the Hero's Journey amongst many other things.
In the…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this episode Gwyn and Paul are joined by Sarah to talk about Shirley Jackson and her masterwork 'The Haunting of Hill House'. The conversation leads to discussion of Shirley Jackson and her deliciously creepy other works and to so much more as this bookshelf of some of the books mentioned shows …
In this episode Paul and Gwyn start by exploring some recent booklists:
The Guardian 100 Best Novels of All Time https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time
The New York Times https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/2242661799/2578911479
Hay Pl…
In this episode Paul and Gwyn chat about things created 150 years ago in 1876 including the publication of the Dewey Decimal Classification system; Daniel Deronda by George Eliot and The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll. Gwyn also steps through the wardrobe into the land of Narnia.
In the epis…
This is a re-edited version of our original Series 1 Episode 6
The team discuss the Western and discover some surprising things.
Paul interviews Anna North https://www.annanorth.net/ about her novel Outlawed which takes a new and exciting approach to the Western genre.
In this episode Paul and Gwyn reflect of some of theirrecent reading and what they turn to if they are not sure what to read next. Asalways the conversation is diverse from Margaret Thatcher and the IRA tomonsters and dystopian fiction via the Third Reich!
Here is a nookshelf of some of the books w…
In this especially celebration of the festive season Paul, Gwyn, Lara and Holly explore the dark side of Christmastide. The thumbnail for this episode shows the Jólaköttur, a giant Icelandic Jule Cat that Gwyn mentions. Our festive reading leads to a chat about the feminine in fantasy literature. W…
In this episode Adrienne asks Paul probing questions about crime fiction, why is it so popular and what keeps us coming back for more?
Theses are the books and authors we mention https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookylicious-series-5-episode-3?&new-list-page=true
You can find the Shedunnit podcast…
In this episode Paul, Gwyn and Lara catch up with what has been inspiring them recently everything from dragons to hobbits via annihilation and exorcists.
Here is a bookshelf of the books we mention along the way: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookylicious-series-5-episode-2?&new-list-page=true…
It is great to be back after an unintended extended break.In the first episode of the new series Paul chats with Professor Allan Howellsabout the 2024 Booker Prize winning novel ‘Orbital’ by Samantha Harvey. Thisleads to a conversation on of everything space exploration and beyond, withlots of book…
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