Better Reading Book Chat: episode 5

Better Reading’s Cheryl Akle and Jane Tara discuss their favourite new releases, Better Reading Preview, the Top 100… and the 2021 Indie Book Award winners.


Books mentioned:

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

Honeybee by Craig Silvey

Phosphorescence by Julia Baird

The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor

A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan

The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson

The Serpent's Skin by Erina Reddan

The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor

The Believer by Sarah Krasnostein


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