Books Of The Year (2023 so far...)

Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

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Arts, Books, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Simon Mayo and Matt Williams have taken a break from usual proceedings, to look back on some of the books we have featured this year so far. They pick out some of their favourite books that we have featured (and some we haven't) and we feature a few suggestions from some of our guests too. In case you were wondering which books and authors we have featured on the pod this year so far - here's a full list to jog your memory... Jason Mott – “Hell Of A Book” Cariad Lloyd – “You Are Not Alone” Linwood Barclay – “Look Both Ways” David McClosckey – “Damascus Station” Harlan Coben – “I Will Find You” Catriona Ward – “Looking Glass Sound” Cecelia Ahern – “In A Thousand Different Ways” Joanne Harris – “Broken Light” Sadiq Kahn – “Breathe” SA Cosby – “All The Sinners Bleed” TJ Newman – “Drowning” Kate Mosse – “The Ghost Ship” Daniel Finkelstein – “Hitler, Stalin, Mum And Dad” Lisa Jewell – “None Of This Is True" Steve Cavanagh – “Kill For Me Kill For You” Sebastian Faulkes – “The Seventh Son” Adele Parks – “Just Between Us” Louise Doughty – “A Bird In Winter” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.7	at Books of the Year the podcast which likes to feature books of the year yes that's
1:22.0	right I think it's fair to say this year is a bit early for a
1:25.5	retrospective but we have had just looking back on the list we have had some
1:30.0	brilliant authors yeah we have obviously year, far from over.
1:34.0	Loads have been joining us and there's plenty more to come over the next couple of months.
1:39.3	We've got Terry Hayes, for example.
1:41.2	His longer-awaited follow-up to I am Pilgrim is called Year of the Locust, it's
1:45.9	rather large, and international bestseller John Boyne is going to be talking about his new book
1:51.2	Water.
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