Season 1

It's the Season One Finale!! It is Chapter Eighteen, and Claire and Rebecca speak with inspirational small business owner Chloë Enright. Chloë's company "Compassionate Co" focuses on Self-compassion, and she created the uniqu...

Chapter Seventeen has Claire and Rebecca chatting with fellow Corkonian, internationally best-selling, award-winning author Catherine Ryan Howard. She has just released her seventh crime thriller "The Trap" and her novels hav...

Chapter Sixteen has Claire and Rebecca interviewing the inimitable Rosemary Mac Cabe, writer, podcaster and best-selling author. Irish native Rosemary chats about life in America, writing her debut novel and crowdfunding it i...

We simply had to get chatting about our latest read “This is Not About You” by Rosemary Mac Cabe before our upcoming interview with the author! This book left lots to discuss but this episode is entirely spoiler free should y...

Chapter Fourteen and Claire and Rebecca chat to Yorkshire lass, New York Times best-selling author Hazel Gaynor.Hazel lives in Ireland with her husband and two children. She has written seven Historical Fiction Novels and co-...

Chapter Thirteen has Claire and Rebecca chatting to author Sophie White about writing, podcasting, and parenting. Sophie is a writer and podcaster from Dublin. Her books range from a cookbook-memoir and personal essay collect...

Where have we been!?!After an unplanned but needed hiatus, we are back with a catch-up episode! Claire and Rebecca chat current reads, life news and plans for the pod!𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲:⁣⁣"No One Saw a Thing" by ...

In Chapter 8 Claire and Rebecca sit down and delve a bit deeper into the world of non-fiction. Why do we read non-fiction? What constitutes non-fiction? And why do we not read as much non-fiction when we compare it to the amo...

January's readalong book asked "What if going back means you could begin again?"... Join hosts Claire and Rebecca as they discuss this novel about homelessness, addiction and the redeeming power of love. Lots of hot topics in...

If anyone can tell you how to make time to read amid the chaos of day to day life, it’s mum of 4 Aoife Cassidy! In this episode, Rebecca chats to Aoife and discovers what it is like to become an advocate for secular education...

In Chapter 5, with a glass of bubbles to toast both the new year and the new podcast, Claire and Rebecca reflect on their year of reading in 2022! In this episode - which is split in two for your convenience - they talk abou...

In Chapter 5, with a glass of bubbles to toast both the new year and the new podcast, Claire and Rebecca reflect on their year of reading in 2022! In this episode - which is split in two for your convenience - they talk abou...

"Mad Honey" by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan was our Readalong Book for December. Join us today as we talk about the book, based off our own experiences of it and those of the listeners who engaged in the chats, que...

When we were brainstorming who we could invite to be our first author interview, we had a short list of criteria: We wanted an Irish author, someone who had a book recently released, and someone who we could have a bit of cr...

Sinéad Cuddihy was the first person we both wanted to interview in a bookish podcast. Why? Because she runs the Tired Mammy Book Club and has encouraged us both to pick up a book and get back into reading at a time when we ne...

In Chapter One hosts Claire and Rebecca interview each other so you can get to know them better! They discuss the importance of books in their lives, how they got back into reading and how the bookish corners of the internet ...

Today's episode is the trailer - or Foreword - for the pod, with a brief introduction from our hosts Claire and Rebecca and some information on what to expect from the pod chapters going forward! Thanks to Helen Becerra for t...