A special episode! Anna chats with USA Today best-selling author Kemper Donovan about his new novel LOOSE LIPS, the second in the Ghostwriter series after the best-selling THE BUSY BODY (see ep 265).

Kemper hosts the All About Agatha podcast and his crime novels bring the Golden Age of murder mysteries into a contemporary setting. LOOSE LIPS finds our ghost-writer on a literary cruise hosted by publishing celebrity Payton Garrett. A mysterious death occurs and the cruise becomes a murder investigation. Described as KNIVES OUT meets high seas intrigue, this is a fun and clever mystery. We loved it!

Kemper recommends:

My Eight Deranged Days on the Gone Girl Cruise by Imogen West-Knights

Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever by Gary Shteyngart

DEATH ON THE NILE by Agatha Christie

THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware

THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER by Stuart Turton

MURDER IN THE SUBMARINE ZONE by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr)

In Our Time podcast

Coming up:

DISAPPOINT ME by Nicola Dinan

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Website: Kemper Donovan

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A special episode : Anna chats with author Anthony Nocera.

We discuss Anthony’s brilliant essay WEDNESDAY BANG in the current issue of SPLINTER and his upcoming plays: Log Boy, My Hair is Thinning and Someone Like You.

Anthony’s book recommendations:

NOSTALGIA HAS RUINED MY LIFE by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

THE GUEST by Emma Cline

AN EXCITING AND VIVID INNER LIFE by Paul Dalla Rosa

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Instagram: @abailliekaras and @anocera02

Anthony: https://anthonynocera.me/

Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com

Credits

Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna, Annie and Amanda reveal our favourite reads of 2024!

Books discussed:

MAGIC PILL by Johann Hari

ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD by Patrick Bringley

THE ALTERNATIVES by Caoilinn Hughes

THIS STRANGE AND EVENTFUL HISTORY by Claire Messud

RAPTURE by Emily Maguire

WOO WOO by Ella Baxter

THE GENTLEMAN FROM PERU by André Aciman

JUICE by Tim Winton (Annie recommends the audiobook)

INTERMEZZO by Sally Rooney

QUESTION 7 by Richard Flanagan

THE WYCH ELM by Tana French

Children’s Pick

LANDOVEL by Emily Rodda

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Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com

Coming up: Book recommendations with author Anthony Nocera