This Month’s Programme

We don’t have a guest on Talking Books this month so we are able to chat a bit more about all things literary.

This month’s books were:

  • Lessons by Ian McEwan
  • Bourneville by Jonathan Coe
  • The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
  • Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
  • The Rome Affair by Karen Swan

Cosy Crime

  • The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
  • Death in a Cold Climate by Robert Barnard
  • Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert (golden age, 1950s)
  • Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
  • The Appeal by Janice Hallet
  • Agatha Raisin and … MC Beaton
  • Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers
  • Brat Farrar by Josephine They
  • Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
  • Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman
  • 3 Pines Series by Louise Penny
  • Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
  • Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens
  • A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
  • Missing Presumed by Susie Steiner

What’s coming up:

  • The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
  • Acts of Oblivion by Robert Harris
  • Colditz by Ben Macintyre
  • Charlie’s Good Tonight by Paul Sexton
  • Taste by Stanley Tucci
  • And Finally by Henry Marsh
  • This is the night they come for you by Robert Goddard

Suzie’s backlisted, with extract from:

  • Whip Hand by Dick Francis 

A new edition of Talking Books is broadcast on the third Monday of the month at 8pm on Petersfield’s Shine Radio. It’s repeated at many other times during the month.