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We're a fortnightly podcast that delves into the nitty-gritty of fiction, history, and everything in between.

24/02/2021

Welcome to 2021! We are finally back in your feeds today. Hilary, Tess, and Lachlan have a chat about the content they’ve been consuming since December. We also chat about the changes to the pod this year with some exciting things coming! We hope you’ve enjoyed the break, and we will be back in your feeds on the last Wednesday of next month! ✨🌿✨🌿✨🌿✨

24/11/2020

Our new bonus episode is out, with special guest Dr Stephanie Russo!! Tess and Hilary have a delightfully good chat with Steph about her new book, which covers about 500 years of Anne Boleyn’s literary afterlife. And we also chat about the Starz series The Spanish Princess and the representation of Henry VIII’s first wife, Katherine of Aragon. This was a great conversation and we hope you enjoy. Until next time, happy reading! ✨👑🏵👑🏵✨

24/11/2020

Make sure you check out our epsiode about Good Lord Bird by James McBride, found wherever you find your podcasts, because tomorrow we have another awesome discussion coming your way with an exciting guest star! You can, of course, listen to all of our past episodes any time online.
We were very happy to recommend that people read this book (and glad that we have had a few we've liked recently!) and the TV show, and our chat is fairly spoiler free, with has lots of great historical context from our resident American history expert, Lachlan! 🕊

18/11/2020

A day late, but the new episode is out. It’s ’s first book, The Good Lord Bird, and we have a great time discussing it, with lots of interesting historical detail and offering a bit of a comparison to its new adaptation. We hope you enjoy! ✨✨✨✨

09/11/2020

Hello! My gosh end of Semester Two and life has really caught up with us, so we have pushed back our episode releases by a week. Doesn’t mean they won’t be great! This month features Lachlan’s first book, The Good Lord Bird, which has also been adapted and is available on Stan to watch. And just at the beginning of December, Hilary will be reading the 1918 set, The Pull of the Stars, all about the Spanish Flu pandemic in Ireland (kind of apt). And we will announce some bonus content in the episode on the 18th. We apologise for the delay, and look forward to discussing these books soon! Until then, happy reading!✨✨✨✨

31/10/2020

Our Halloween special is out, where we watch Hocus Pocus! In this episode we discuss all things Sanderson sisters and the history of Salem and Halloween. Sadly we have reached the end of spooky season, but tomorrow we will reveal next months reading list! Happy Halloween 🎃✨🎃✨🎃✨

20/10/2020

Our second spooky historical episode has dropped, this week with very special guest Dr. Brydie Kosmina. We have lots of fun talking about this book in particular, but also the wider issues and ideas of representation of witches, the Salem witch trails, and all that entails! We hope you enjoy listening! ✨🔮🕯🎃✨

19/10/2020

Continuing the theme, our second book for the spooky October is The Witches of BlackBrook by Tish Thawer! And we have very exciting news - we have a special guest Dr Brydie Kosmia coming to talk all things witches with us! Brydie is a certified expert on witchy pop culture as she has just completeld her PhD on it earlier this year, and is keen to discuss this book, set alternatingly between the late 17th century and modern day and following the story of three Salem sisters. We'll be talking a bit more about the context of witches in the popular imagination and how stories like this and our last book fit into this broader culture. It'll be a fun one!

14/10/2020

Our first ~spooky~ episode is out, with our discussion on The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox. Safe to say, Hilary did not like this book, so we had a lot of fun picking apart the plot, both gothic and historical. We hope you enjoy! ✨🕯✨🕯✨

06/10/2020

Our first book of our spooky reads is The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox. What if you were a descendent of an accused witch at Salem living in an old house where suspicious things have happened in the past? Find out all the juicy details in our first spooky episode next Wednesday ✨🕯✨🕯✨

30/09/2020

It’s the first of the month and you know what that means, our new reading list! It’s also officially Spooky Season so we found some fun, historical fiction related spooky reads to discuss. We also are revisiting the classic and beloved movie Hocus Pocus, which we will release on Halloween. We hope you enjoy us doing something a lil different! Until our next episode, happy (spooky) reading ✨🧙🏻‍♀️🕯🔮✨

29/09/2020

New episode is in your feeds today! People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks inspired some interesting discussions from Tess, about what it’s like to recognise a book that had a huge influence on you when you first read it, but may not quite have held up to those memories on a reread. Pictured here is an illumination from the Sarajevo Haggadah, which is the historical text featured throughout the novel. We hope you enjoy, and happy reading! ✨📜✨📜✨📜✨

28/09/2020

Our second book for September is People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, read by Tess. People of the Book follows the story of an Australian book conservation expert as she tries to piece together the history of a mysterious manuscript, the Sarajevo Haggadah. This novel was inspired bt the true stories behind this famous codex and its multiple rescues from the destruction of war and violence. It is a special book for Tess, because it is one of the first real historical fiction novels she remembers reading, so listen in on Wednesday to see how she felt about it now, rereading years later and with much more historical training than she had at age 13! 📜🦋🐚🍷
Until then, happy reading!

23/09/2020

What do you get when you put three historians in a Zoom call to discuss a biopic/musical? Our latest bonus episode. We watched The Greatest Showman (2017) and it inspired some intense feelings from us all. We hope you enjoy! ✨✨✨✨

16/09/2020

Our new episode is up! We discuss The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. Pictured on our title card is Dr James Murray and his daughters in his Scriptorium, where all the magic happened with the Oxford English Dictionary. We hope you enjoy this first ep of September! 🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨

14/09/2020

This is Hilary sharing a little quote from The Dictionary of Lost Words ahead of our episode on Wednesday. The main protagonist Esme collects ‘lost words’ or words from less formal English, spoken by those in everyday, colloquial language. In the book, Pip Williams explores how gender plays a role in the distinction between formal expressed, which we discuss in the episode, and the quote here is an example of language used by the maid Lizzie. Pictured is a Miss Cicely Stuckey (Copyright Ellis & Walery) and she reminded me of how I imagined Lizzie and I wish I could find out more about her story. Until Wednesday, happy reading! 🌹✨🌹✨🌹

09/09/2020

Our first book of September, with an apt spring looking cover, is The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. Set at the turn of the century, it follows Esme and her life around the Scriprorium, an iron shed in Dr James Murray’s garden where the first Oxford English Dictionary was compiled. With a love of words and natural curiosity, Esme begins to her own dictionary of sorts, of lost words and colloquialism that don’t seem to have a place in the formality of the OED. Listen in to our podcast next Wednesday to hear more (mostly spoiler free) about this wonderful book. Until then, happy reading! ✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨

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