Hi everyone, before we start this week's show, we first of all want to make sure everyone's okay and hope that you're keeping well and keeping sane and you're getting through this lockdown okay.

But one thing we quickly wanted to say is that Dan is away still, he'll be back next week, but in his stead we have our good friend and colleague Ann Miller.

Yeah, that is right. And Miller's here and not only is Ann Miller a QIL for you're no very well, she's also a published author, which I'm sure you guys might know.

And honestly, if you're looking for a book to entertain your children while you're stuck at home with them, having to endure whatever it is that children do, do go and look up Ann's book.

It's called Mickey in the Animal Spies. I mean, I've actually read it and loved it and I realize I'm 34, but I do think I loved it in the mind of like a nine year old.

It's about basically a bunch of animals and array of animals who go around solving crimes together with the lead character.

This really adventurous kind of spunky Gail Ford Mickey. It's fab.

Yes, and actually the other person who's on this week's show as well as myself and Anna and Ann is of course Andrew Hunter Murray.

And of course he has a book as well, which we should mention. And that's for people who's reading ages above the age of nine.

So have you read that Anna?

I have indeed. So here I have to slip into my 10 year old self.

So really get to grips with that. No, that's called the last day and it's brilliant.

If what you're looking for to escape this kind of current dystopia is a fictional and much more exciting dystopia,

you want to go to the last day. The concept is amazing. So the concept is that the world stop spinning and half of it's plunged into darkness,

half of it's in light and it's all the repercussions of that combined with a thriller story.

And again, a great spunky female character. I think it might be Mickey when she's grown up.

Oh wow, imagine that if that's the same universe.

It is.

Oh my god, this whole thing has been blown wide open.

All right, so go and look up both of those books. The last day and Mickey and the animal spies.

Yes, especially at the moment when it's a really good time to be supporting authors and buying books.

It's such a good time to buy books. The whole book industry is massively struggling.

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