Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles.

Everybody thinks they know the Beatles, but how much do we really know?

My name is Jason Carty.

My name's Stephen Corkroft.

And this time round, we are going to talk about beetle books, books about the Beatles.

This is an extra podcast that we're going to give you because some of you may be going away

on holidays, maybe to a cottage in the Isle of Wight.

If it's not too dear.

Exactly.

That's a beetle reference there.

And so, Stephen, you've got a large collection of beetle books.

I have one or two books.

Exactly. So we are going to try and give you some choices that might help you read your beetle books by the pool this summer.

Stephen, I think it goes without saying that you are the person I know with more beetle books than anybody else.

I think that's my claim to fame.

I'm happy to accept that title.

Okay, fair enough.

And so in the preamble to this, I gave Stephen a list of headings

and asked him to kind of go into his beetle library and choose the books that he thought

would match the headings. So we're going to look at best overall biography. That's got nothing

to do with Mark Lewis. We're going to go with Best Factual Research Book, Best Beetle book with

an arcane topic, best book about a solo beetle, best book by a

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