Show Notes
Join Amanda and Joseph for this week’s episode as they delve into the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, remember Agatha Christie and talk about their favourite mysteries. This time, they really try to be spoiler free!
Bookish News
International Booker Prize shortlist short flims Helen DeWitt and Windham Campbell Literary Award
Recent Reads
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (Sam Hughes) The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart @lizzy_stewart Alison by Lizzy Stewart
The Novels of Agatha Christie and Golden Age Detective Fiction
Snow Upon the Desert by Agatha Christie Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie Death On The Nile by Agatha Christie Evil Under The Sun by Agatha Christie And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Akroyd by Agatha Christie A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup V is for Venom by Kathryn Harkup The Knox Decalogue S.S. Van Dine’s Commandments Fair Play by Louise Hegarty
Our Favourite Mysteries
In the Woods (The Dublin Murder Squad series) by Tana French @tanafrenchwrites The Trees by Percival Everett The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett @r.jackson.bennett The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett @janice.hallett The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman The Whitstable Pearl by Julie Wassmer The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith ‘Only Murders in the Building’ The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg The Girl in the Maze by R K Jackson @randal.jackson1 The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai
What We’re Reading Next
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag The Oldest Bitch Alive by Morgan Day @yeah_okday Prairie Oyster by Sophie Robinson @sophiepoetry
Also mentioned
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