How to Choose a Book for Your Book Club (with Andrew Hunter Murray)

Nobody Panic

Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 of this week’s book club special is about picking those all-important novels. Stevie and Tessa are joined by best-selling author of The Last Day, QI elf, No Such Thing As A Fish podcaster and Austentatious regular Andrew Hunter Murray with some brilliant recommendations and a left field excel spreadsheet.

Follow Andrew Hunter Murray on Twitter: @andrewhunterm

Andrew’s book ‘The Last Day’ is out now – buy it here.

Andrew’s Recommendations:

Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey by Richard Ayoade

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Stevie’s Recommendations:

Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The History of Bees by Maja Lunde

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Tessa’s Recommendations:

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Nobody Palic Book Club Special How to Choose Your Book Club Town!
0:18.6	Welcome to the podcast.
0:21.1	Today we are joined by round of the podcast author political pundit
0:26.2	QI L all-round top egg Andy Hunter Murray.
0:30.6	Do you go by your Andrew Hunter Murray now?
0:35.0	Oh yeah.
0:36.0	I think we'd better had.
0:38.0	Yeah, I've got to have some internal brand consistency at this point and I think as that's the name on the front of the book I better be that forever now so
0:48.8	That's great well Andrew Hunter Murray
0:52.4	Thank you for being here. So today we're going to be talking about,
0:56.0	me and Tessa each brought three book club book recommendations, and then we've also got Andrew Hunter Morrie here talking about his book which I just think you'll love so it's just very that that is both book club book and just like have a readmate book.
1:10.6	Andy of course shares his name with passing and good tennis.
1:17.0	Yeah.
1:18.0	That's why the hunters in there is because I was Andy Murray to All and Sundry for years, years and years.
1:24.5	And then when I was about 17, people started saying,
1:28.5	hey, have you heard of this young tennis player?
1:31.0	He's pretty good. And slowly it became more and more irritating
1:35.6	until I thought wait a second I'm gonna throw my middle name in there.
1:38.9	If your middle name is Hunter then you're fine.
1:43.0	I know, I know, so it's all right.
1:45.0	It turns out to have been a big relief.
1:48.0	Thanks, ma'am, wanted to get that on the record.
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