Your summer reading list, the business of book covers and Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray | The Low Battery Book Club (December)

[Apologies for some dodgy bits of audio in this episode, unfortunately we couldn’t come up with a solution that we could get to in time because our batteries are low but we still love you and thank you for listening anyway] Welcome back to the third and final part of The Low Battery Book Club, where we consume way too much culture and talk way too much trash. If you need to play catch up on the first episode of this series, you can find it here. The second episode, where we unpacked cancel culture and Clare Stephens’ new book, The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done, can be found here.

On the show today:

• We share our favourite recs of the month (something old, something new, something high, something low)
• We deep dive Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray
• We talk about the business of book covers.
• AND! Charley gives you a whole lot of recs based off what you’ve been loving reading.

And here’s our ‘something old, something new, something high, something low’ for December…

Charley:

Old favourite: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

New: Mushroom Tapes!!

High: The Fashion Neurosis podcast with Bella Freud and The Rachel Incident filming underway!

Lowbrow but loving: Great British Bake Off

Lu:

Old: Heartburn by Nora Ephron

New: One Battle After Another on Apple TV

High: Sophie Gilbert interview on the Wheeler Centre podcast

Low: That the Lily Allen album came out just before we recorded our last episode.

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