Hi, Mike Bubbins here, comedian, podcast, a national treasure and star with a hit sitcom mammoth.

I'm heading across the UK and I live in 2026 and 27 with my brand new stand-up comedy tour show,

Ideas Man. Excuse a lack of thrills, I'm not really a promotional man, I'm an ideas man.

Anyway, come and have a great night with me. September, 26 to April, 27 at a venue near you.

Tickets on sale now at live

nation.co.com.uk.

Hello, all the More Books listeners, Vanessa at Yes here.

One last time to let you know about our winter break that we are on here at All the Books and All the More Books.

As of Tuesday, January 6th, we will be back with a brand new episode of All the Books.

And then, of course, on Friday with All the More Books.

Thank you so much for kind of rocking along with us during this winter break. We do have another episode of a podcast for you to listen to today that we hope you will enjoy. But I also have a very brief announcement, and that is that we are expanding the format of all the Bork books. Or not All the More Books, of All the Books, the Main Show in 2026. We have gotten your feedback, which is that you always just want more books, more new releases. So that's what we're going to give you. We're going to talk about more new releases on the show. We're going to try to cover more genres. We want to talk about these books more expansively and hopefully talk about stuff like what's selling, what's trending, what titles are maybe making it into the news. So we're really excited to bring you even more books in 26 and hope you'll join us on that journey. But for today, we're going to hop in our time machines and we're going to listen to our picks for the most anticipated books of 2025, which is an episode that we aired at the end of last year. We like to do this. It's kind of a tradition to do this little flashback because I find it at least really interesting to go back and revisit those lists and see like what held up, what didn't? What did our hosts actually read? And what didn't they? You know, did they enjoy the books. This episode is one that Liberty and Patricia recorded together. And I can tell you as their editor, that they did.

In fact, several of their picks did make it to their lists of their favorite books of the year, which is pretty cool.

So, hope you enjoy listening to that episode to see how those picks stacked up.

Thank you again so much for listening.

We're really, really jazzed to be bringing you even more books next year.

So, happy new year, and we'll catch you next week.

You're listening to All the Books,

a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm

regarding the week's new book releases.

This is episode 492,

and today we are talking about books coming in 2025

that we're excited about and more.

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