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Simon Mayo's Books of the Year

Callie Hart Q&A

Simon Mayo's Books of the Year

Bauer Media

Arts, Books

4.9994 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Simon and Matt learn more about the fantasy and romantasy genres, from bestselling author Callie Hart. She also shares some of her favourite books and authors, and introduces us to binaural beats! We also surprise her with a question from Saara El-Arifi - and discover who she'd invite to her fantasy dinner party!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sean has had some good ideas over the years,

0:05.0

but using Canva was a really good one.

0:08.0

Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.

0:13.0

They looked good, really, really good.

0:17.0

Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.

0:23.6

Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.

0:27.6

Thanks, Canva. Hello and welcome to our bonus Q&A episode of Books of the Year.

0:46.1

And I'm very pleased to say we are still with international bestselling author Callie Hart.

0:51.9

We've been talking about Romantasy.

0:53.8

As we established, she's originally a Brit. She's living in California. I think, you know, with one thing and another, maybe you might be tempted to come back to the UK. Chances are rising, on the daily. Okay. Who knows why? You know, we get a lot of things wrong, but we don't cancel comedy shows.

1:12.0

No, we don't.

1:12.7

No.

1:12.8

For example.

1:13.3

Oh, my gosh.

1:14.5

Okay.

1:15.2

Now, that's your nightmare to live with just for the moment.

1:18.7

Thanks.

1:19.3

Right.

1:20.0

Lovely.

1:20.6

So question number one to Callie Hart, what was the last book you really, really enjoyed reading?

1:28.9

So the second really is very important.

1:31.1

It's not just something that you quite liked.

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