The Hello and welcome to Batlisted the podcast that gives new life to old books.

As usual, we're gathered around the kitchen table in the luxurious offices of our sponsors

unbound, the website which brings authors and readers together to make great books.

I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of unbound. And I'm Andy Miller, author of my own misfortune and other stories.

I'm also the author of the year of reading Dangesty.

This is going to be a slightly different show folks as we are focusing not on one specific book

we're going to talk about what we've been doing over the past six weeks since we were last gathered together

Basically what we read on our holidays. Yeah, this is in a, we always like to shake things up on backlisted,

listener as you know.

And so this is our summer reading episode.

Normally people do for summer reading is they invite

celebrities or special guests in to talk about what they're going to be reading in the

summer but what we've decided to do is have no special guests, no

celebrities and do it retrospectively.

At the end of the summer.

At the end of the summer, a kind of round up, an actual round up.

Are you saying I'm not a special guest stand?

You are joined as usual by Matthew Clayton, author and celebrity.

Thank you.

And also we're joined by our producer Matt, who normally is sitting at the table.

Because we don't have a guess.

He's got a microphone all of his own this time, everyone.

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