Eliza Clark

Alice and Bethany have the huge pleasure of talking to girlie of the moment, Eliza Clark, largely about her new novel Penance but also about true crime, Tumblr, the wild success of Boy Parts and its upcoming stage adaptation!

118: The lads chat to Eliza Clark

Heather Parry

Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to Heather Parry about her short story collection This Is My Body Given For You, which is a gnarly little thing full of troubling images and ideas. She also talks about the great work she does at the Society of Authors, and lots more!

117: The lads chat body horror with Heather Parry

Anna Bogutskaya

Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to the film journalist and programmer Anna Bogutskaya about her new non-fiction book Unlikeable Female Characters! They take a dive into the world of 'unlikeable' women through film and TV from erotic thrillers to Skyler White via the Hays Code and Amy Dunne from Gone Girl.

116: The Lads Chat Unlikeable Female Characters with Anna Bogutskaya

Bethany has the huge pleasure of chatting to Virginia Sole-Smith about her revolutionary new book Fat Talk: Coming of Age in Diet Culture, which investigates the radical possibility of abandoning our cultural fears around 'childhood obesity' to create bodily autonomy in children and beyond.

115: Fat Talk with Virginia Sole-Smith

Alice's debut novel, Death of a Bookseller, is out NOW! So obviously Bethany had to ask her all the nosy questions about it!

114: The Lads Celebrate Death of a Bookseller

Katherine Heiny

Alice and Bethany have a whale of a time with the funny, smart Katherine Heiny, author of the new collection Games and Rituals, as well as the novels Standard Deviation and Early Morning Riser. Games and Rituals is out now!

113: The lads chat to actual Katherine Heiny

Alice and Bethany atone for not putting out an episode for the first three months of the year by telling you all about everything they've read in the first quarter of 2023.

112: Q1 reading report

Alice and Bethany are BACK from their unplanned hiatus! And they've got a long, juicy episode for you about their favourite books of 2022, which obviously they should have recorded weeks ago... but didn't. Enjoy!

111: Our books of 2022

Sara Gran

If you've been listening to WPAYO for a little while you'll know that a true Book of the Pod is Come Closer by Sara Gran. We are so hyped that she has a NEW book out, called The Book of the Most Precious Substance, and that we got to talk to her about it for this episode! The Book of the Most Precious Substance is out NOW from Faber!

110: The Lads Chat to Sara Gran

Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of interviewing Chelsea G Summers, author of the bloody and brilliant A Certain Hunger!

109: The Lads Chat to Chelsea G Summers

Prolific readers Alice Slater and Bethany Rutter take a literary theme, from ghost stories to crime to fat women, and chat about it for the next 40 minutes.Follow us on Twitter @WhatPagePod (https://twitter.com/WhatPagePod)

The only issue with this podcast is that it makes me want to buy all the books that Bethany and Alice mention. The two hosts are engaging and hilarious (and so well read!) It&#39;s a fun conversation about books that I very much want to read, and I&#39;m so glad they&#39;ve started this. I can&#39;t wait to hear more!

I love this!

Prolific readers Alice Slater and Bethany Rutter take a literary theme, from ghost stories to crime to fat women, and chat about it for the next 40 minutes. Follow us on Twitter @WhatPagePod (<a href="https://twitter.com/WhatPagePod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/WhatPagePod</a>)

What Page Are You On?

Alice and Bethany grapple with Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. They don't necessarily agree on it but have a lot to say about it anyway, before going on a meander towards classics, contemporary classics, the literary legacy of Jane Eyre and more. Join us at 8pm on Tuesday 7th August for the Twitter chat on the hashtag #WPAYOSargasso.

Alice and Bethany grapple with Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. They don't necessarily agree on it but have a lot to say about it anyway, before going on a meander towards classics, contemporary classics, the literary legacy of Jane Eyre and more. Join us at 8pm on Tuesday 7th August for the Twitter chat on the hashtag #WPAYOSargasso.

22: Book Club - Wide Sargasso Sea

Before Alice and Bethany take a summer break, they go through their respective top 10s of books they've read this year. Not just books released in 2019, but of all the books they've read.

44: Mid-year faves

Alice and Bethany finish up the year with their top 10s of 2018. Alice's book of the year is Women by Chloe Caldwell - https://amzn.to/2QiG9PM Bethany's book of the year is Skin Deep by Liz Nugent - https://amzn.to/2zP3IFm Bethany's top 10: Skin Deep by Liz Nugent - https://amzn.to/2zP3IFm Women by Chloe Caldwell - https://amzn.to/2QiG9PM Normal People by Sally Rooney - https://amzn.to/2AYKxc0 House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara - https://amzn.to/2QCrheq Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro - https://amzn.to/2B3ktML Lullaby by Leila Slimani - https://amzn.to/2Pqi8B0 Revolting Prostitutes by Molly Smith and Juno Mac - https://amzn.to/2L598QU Bad Blood by John Carreyrou - https://amzn.to/2Pp96E1 Sabrina by Nick Drnaso - https://amzn.to/2B3lbcT I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara - https://amzn.to/2L1o56P Alice's top 10: Women by Chloe Caldwell - https://amzn.to/2QiG9PM Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - https://amzn.to/2SC1259 Normal People - https://amzn.to/2AYKxc0 Lullaby by Leila Slimani - https://amzn.to/2Pqi8B0 Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro - https://amzn.to/2B3ktML What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah - https://amzn.to/2PseLJA Ponti by Sharlene Teo - https://amzn.to/2Qig1El I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara - https://amzn.to/2L1o56P Little Eve by Catriona Ward - https://amzn.to/2B3ljsT Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott - https://amzn.to/2PkWcqR The 2019 releases we can already recommend are My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Red Snow by Will Dean Stone Mothers by Erin Kelly Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

Alice and Bethany finish up the year with their top 10s of 2018. Alice's book of the year is Women by Chloe Caldwell - <a href="https://amzn.to/2QiG9PM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2QiG9PM</a> Bethany's book of the year is Skin Deep by Liz Nugent - <a href="https://amzn.to/2zP3IFm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2zP3IFm</a> Bethany's top 10: Skin Deep by Liz Nugent - <a href="https://amzn.to/2zP3IFm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2zP3IFm</a> Women by Chloe Caldwell - <a href="https://amzn.to/2QiG9PM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2QiG9PM</a> Normal People by Sally Rooney - <a href="https://amzn.to/2AYKxc0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2AYKxc0</a> House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara - <a href="https://amzn.to/2QCrheq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2QCrheq</a> Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro - <a href="https://amzn.to/2B3ktML" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2B3ktML</a> Lullaby by Leila Slimani - <a href="https://amzn.to/2Pqi8B0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2Pqi8B0</a> Revolting Prostitutes by Molly Smith and Juno Mac - <a href="https://amzn.to/2L598QU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2L598QU</a> Bad Blood by John Carreyrou - <a href="https://amzn.to/2Pp96E1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2Pp96E1</a> Sabrina by Nick Drnaso - <a href="https://amzn.to/2B3lbcT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2B3lbcT</a> I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara - <a href="https://amzn.to/2L1o56P" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2L1o56P</a> Alice's top 10: Women by Chloe Caldwell - <a href="https://amzn.to/2QiG9PM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2QiG9PM</a> Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - <a href="https://amzn.to/2SC1259" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2SC1259</a> Normal People - <a href="https://amzn.to/2AYKxc0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2AYKxc0</a> Lullaby by Leila Slimani - <a href="https://amzn.to/2Pqi8B0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2Pqi8B0</a> Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro - <a href="https://amzn.to/2B3ktML" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2B3ktML</a> What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah - <a href="https://amzn.to/2PseLJA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2PseLJA</a> Ponti by Sharlene Teo - <a href="https://amzn.to/2Qig1El" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2Qig1El</a> I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara - <a href="https://amzn.to/2L1o56P" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2L1o56P</a> Little Eve by Catriona Ward - <a href="https://amzn.to/2B3ljsT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2B3ljsT</a> Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott - <a href="https://amzn.to/2PkWcqR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2PkWcqR</a> The 2019 releases we can already recommend are My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Red Snow by Will Dean Stone Mothers by Erin Kelly Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

27: Top 10 of 2018

In this episode, Alice and Bethany interrogate each other about what they read, how they read it, who they listen to when they want recommendations and how they treat the books in their possession. You probably won't get too many new book ideas from this episode, but it'll make you laugh.

In this episode, Alice and Bethany interrogate each other about what they read, how they read it, who they listen to when they want recommendations and how they treat the books in their possession. You probably won't get too many new book ideas from this episode, but it'll make you laugh.

6: Reading habits

In this episode, Alice and Bethany talk through their favourite film adaptations of great books, adaptations they feel missed the mark, and what we're looking forward to coming out in cinemas.

In this episode, Alice and Bethany talk through their favourite film adaptations of great books, adaptations they feel missed the mark, and what we're looking forward to coming out in cinemas.

3: Book to Film Adaptations

In this episode Alice and Bethany have drawn up their own lists of their top 10 books of the year, and come together to compare notes. Will there be overlap? Will there be disagreements? Only time will tell...

In this episode Alice and Bethany have drawn up their own lists of their top 10 books of the year, and come together to compare notes. Will there be overlap? Will there be disagreements? Only time will tell...

7: Our Top 10s of 2017

Alice and Bethany were both born in the eighties, so while we're riding the Stranger Things nostalgia wave, we decided to take it back and do an episode on literature of the 1980s. We discuss Less Than Zero - Bret Easton EllisBeloved - Toni MorrisonThe White Hotel - DM ThomasTiger Eyes - Judy BlumeA Pale View of Hills - Kazuo IshiguroAn Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo IshiguroRemains of the Day - Kazuo IshiguroJitterbug Perfume - Tom RobbinsPerfume - Patrick SuskindHousekeeping - Marilynne RobinsonMort - Terry PratchettThe Silence of the Lambs - Thomas HarrisCat's Eye - Margaret Atwood 

Alice and Bethany were both born in the eighties, so while we're riding the Stranger Things nostalgia wave, we decided to take it back and do an episode on literature of the 1980s. We discuss Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis Beloved - Toni Morrison The White Hotel - DM Thomas Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins Perfume - Patrick Suskind Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson Mort - Terry Pratchett The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood

5: The Eighties

In this episode, Alice and Bethany wrestle with ethical questions around how much they enjoy true crime books, what makes true crime fiction good or bad, and whether fiction inspired by real crimes is any different to non-fiction marketed as true crime. The books we discuss are: The Fact of a Body - Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich The Red Parts - Maggie Nelson The Adversary - Emmanuel Carrere Forensics - Val McDermid See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmidt  Little Deaths - Emma Flint The Girls - Emma Cline

In this episode, Alice and Bethany wrestle with ethical questions around how much they enjoy true crime books, what makes true crime fiction good or bad, and whether fiction inspired by real crimes is any different to non-fiction marketed as true crime. The books we discuss are: The Fact of a Body - Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich The Red Parts - Maggie Nelson The Adversary - Emmanuel Carrere Forensics - Val McDermid See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmidt Little Deaths - Emma Flint The Girls - Emma Cline

2: Contemporary True Crime

In this episode Alice and Bethany talk about 5 thrillers that were released in either hardback or paperback this year which they think would make amazing summer holiday reads. They are: He Said She Said by Erin Kelly - https://amzn.to/2shIeMZ Darling by Rachel Edwards - https://amzn.to/2saLt8O The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton - https://amzn.to/2xciXcQ The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen - https://amzn.to/2GRd1FL The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn - https://amzn.to/2KXzIKu

In this episode Alice and Bethany talk about 5 thrillers that were released in either hardback or paperback this year which they think would make amazing summer holiday reads. They are: He Said She Said by Erin Kelly - <a href="https://amzn.to/2shIeMZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2shIeMZ</a> Darling by Rachel Edwards - <a href="https://amzn.to/2saLt8O" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2saLt8O</a> The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton - <a href="https://amzn.to/2xciXcQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2xciXcQ</a> The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen - <a href="https://amzn.to/2GRd1FL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2GRd1FL</a> The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn - <a href="https://amzn.to/2KXzIKu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2KXzIKu</a>

17: Summer Thrillers

In this episode Alice and Bethany discuss classic-in-the-making I'll Be Gone In The Dark with Grace and Emma from Foul Play magazine, which you can find out about here - http://www.foulplaymag.com

In this episode Alice and Bethany discuss classic-in-the-making I'll Be Gone In The Dark with Grace and Emma from Foul Play magazine, which you can find out about here - <a href="http://www.foulplaymag.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.foulplaymag.com</a>

18: Book Club - I'll Be Gone In The Dark

Beth McColl

In a special bonus episode, Alice and Bethany talk to Beth McColl aka internet fave TeddyBless about her new book, How To Come Alive Again, which is out now from Unbounders.

In a special bonus episode, Alice and Bethany talk to Beth McColl aka internet fave TeddyBless about her new book, How To Come Alive Again, which is out now from Unbounders.

34: Beth McColl interview

Alice and Bethany come back from their extended hiatus with an episode about a phenomenal book from 1995 that was just reissued: In The Cut by Susannah Moore.

45: Deep Cut

Alice and Bethany take a look at two fictionalised accounts of the music industry via newly-released faux oral history Daisy Jones &amp; the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and revisits A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.

Alice and Bethany take a look at two fictionalised accounts of the music industry via newly-released faux oral history Daisy Jones &amp; the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and revisits A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.

33: Almost Famous

In today's episode we focus on Stephanie Danler's Sweetbitter, and are joined by writer, academic and former waitress Rebecca May Johnson. There will be a Twitter chat to accompany this Book Club episode at 7pm on Tuesday 10th April under the hashtag #WPAYOSweetBitter. [You can buy Sweetbitter here - https://amzn.to/2GAIU5U]

In today's episode we focus on Stephanie Danler's Sweetbitter, and are joined by writer, academic and former waitress Rebecca May Johnson. There will be a Twitter chat to accompany this Book Club episode at 7pm on Tuesday 10th April under the hashtag #WPAYOSweetBitter. [You can buy Sweetbitter here - <a href="https://amzn.to/2GAIU5U" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2GAIU5U</a>]

13: Book Club - Sweetbitter

In this Book Club episode, Alice and Bethany discuss When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy, and then go off-piste to chat about book prizes and celebrity-endorsed book clubs...

In this Book Club episode, Alice and Bethany discuss When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy, and then go off-piste to chat about book prizes and celebrity-endorsed book clubs...

20: Book Club - When I Hit You

Oyinkan Braithwaite

You've heard Alice and Bethany gush about My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, now hear Bethany chat to Oyin herself about what inspired the character Ayoola, how she feels about that cover, and the charmed road to publication...

You've heard Alice and Bethany gush about My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, now hear Bethany chat to Oyin herself about what inspired the character Ayoola, how she feels about that cover, and the charmed road to publication...

30: Oyinkan Braithwaite interview

Alice and Bethany usher in 2019 with an episode about girls covering up for each other. They discuss Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott, and My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite ahead of releasing a mini episode featuring an interview with Oyinkan.

Alice and Bethany usher in 2019 with an episode about girls covering up for each other. They discuss Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott, and My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite ahead of releasing a mini episode featuring an interview with Oyinkan.

28: Girls in Cahoots

Alice and Bethany discuss three books that deal with women on the edge.  Problems by Jade Sharma - https://amzn.to/2yptG4i The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - https://amzn.to/2t59GPb Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen - https://amzn.to/2t4Qot8

Alice and Bethany discuss three books that deal with women on the edge.  Problems by Jade Sharma - <a href="https://amzn.to/2yptG4i" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2yptG4i</a> The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - <a href="https://amzn.to/2t59GPb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2t59GPb</a> Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen - <a href="https://amzn.to/2t4Qot8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2t4Qot8</a>

19: Girls Interrupted

Alice and Bethany indulge in new fiction release Supper Club by Lara Williams and pair with last year's non-fiction banger Eat Up by Ruby Tandoh.

42: Bon Appetit

This week, Alice and Bethany talk about girls going wild, whether thats for booze or love. The books we discuss are  Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth - https://amzn.to/2JBmGlm Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger - https://amzn.to/2KnbJF6 I Love Dick by Chris Kraus - https://amzn.to/2jiIeYW We also mention  Ponti by Sharlene Teo  Marlena by Julie Buntin  The Awakening by Kate Chopin

This week, Alice and Bethany talk about girls going wild, whether thats for booze or love. The books we discuss are  Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth - <a href="https://amzn.to/2JBmGlm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2JBmGlm</a> Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger - <a href="https://amzn.to/2KnbJF6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2KnbJF6</a> I Love Dick by Chris Kraus - <a href="https://amzn.to/2jiIeYW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2jiIeYW</a> We also mention  Ponti by Sharlene Teo  Marlena by Julie Buntin  The Awakening by Kate Chopin

14: Girls Gone Wild

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