Spooky October
Featuring highlights from the first Sunday Movies + Talk when we watched Denial.
Books
Secret Path by Gord Downie and Jeff Lamiere
The Wonder by Emma Donaghue
Waiting for the First Light by Romeo Dallaire
The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
So They Want Us To L…
Kirsty Logan
Kirsty Logan .
Kirsty is a Scottish novelist, poet, performer, literary editor, mentor, book reviewer. She’s presented shows on BBC Radio 4. Her novels have been described as dark fairy tales and magic realism akin to Angela Carter and Emma Donaghue.
In this episode kirsty tells the horrors of an …
Kathryn Joseph
Kathryn Joseph is a Scottish singer, songwriter and musician. Her debut album “Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood I Have Spilt” won the 2015 SAY (Scottish Album of the Year) award. Her second album “From When I Wake The Want Is” was also shortlisted. Her third album “ For You Who Are Wronged” is ou…
The Best & Worst Book to Screen Adaptations
Time for us to answer the age old question: Is the movie ever better than the book? Our current selves have a very different answer than we would have had 5 years ago.
We're talking about our favorite and least favorite book to screen adaptations, and the adaptations we are excited for, featur…
Catherine Raynes' favourite books of 2023
Fiction:
The Secret Hours – Mick Heron
A gripping spy thriller from the bestselling author of Slow Horses, about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin—an absolute must-read for Slough House fans.
Learned by Heart –Emma Donaghue
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their …
My Biggest Book 03 | Emma Donoghue on Room
In this episode of My Biggest Book, where prominent authors ponder their breakthrough novels, Emma Donaghue recalls her 2010 novel Room.
Inspired by the famous Fritzl case, it's about a boy and his mother held captive in a small room, the only world the child, Jack, has ever known.
The book was sh…
[From the Vault] Will Dean & The Two Faces of Off-Grid Living
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Revisiting a true highlight this week!
Will Dean’s The Last Thing to Burn is one of very few 10/10 books i've ever featured on this podcast. It’s a flawless study of isolation, survival, exploitation and the most toxic of masculinities – all about a Vietnamese immigrant, trapped in the home of …
Radio Free Book Club: The Paris Express
Readers will find a whole lot of characters riding The Paris Express, Emma Donaghue’s latest historical novel. How much fun is it to ride with them? Barb Shoup, Laurel Judkins, Kate Shoup, and Ken Honeywell have opinions on the December 2025 edition of Radio Free Book Club.
279 – Sarah Langan & The Mask Eats the Face
Trad wives are taking over horror in 2026 – but I predict none will be more frightening and more gorgeously WEIRD than Sarah Langan’s novel.
It’s the tale of a young woman in the dying era of journalism and the YouTube influencer who offers her hope, and much worse things…. I absolutely loved i…
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