Books On The Go Anna Baillie-Karas, Annie Waters and Amanda Hayes

Anna and Annie discuss the man arrested for stealing manuscripts and whether new AI technology ChatGPT can write novels. 
Our book of the week is Trespasses by Louise Kennedy. Set in 1970s Belfast during the Troubles, it tells the story of a young Catholic woman and her affair with a married Protestant man. Described as "brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking" (New York Times) and named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, we loved this book.
Louise Kennedy will be at Adelaide Writers' Week in March.  We can't wait!
Also mentioned:
Scriptnotes podcast
In Suspense podcast
AlphaGo documentary
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Anna and Annie discuss Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf and Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka in our Keep or Cull segment.
Our book of the week is The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov translated by Michael Glenny. We have been meaning to read this Russian classic for ages.  A surreal, absurdist satire, it features Satan, Pontius Pilate, a poet and a talking cat.  Not what we were expecting! 
We'll be back in a few weeks.
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Anna, Annie and Amanda discuss our best books of 2022.
Our favourite reads were:
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
Border by Kapka Kassabova
Devotion by Hannah Kent
Love Marriage by Monica Ali
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi translated by Elena Pala
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide translated by Eric Selland
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
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Anna and Annie discuss how BookTok is helping young people discover a passion for reading.
Our holiday reading recommendations are:
Willowman by Inge Simpson
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margo by Marianne Cronin
Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
The Master: The Brilliant Career of Roger Federer by Christopher Clary
Coming up: Our Best Books of 2022
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Anna and Amanda discuss book shopping on TikTok. 
Our book of the week is Crossroads by award-winning author Jonathan Franzen.  This is a family drama set in 1971 American suburbia and is the first in a trilogy.  It was an instant New York Times best-seller, a Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2021 and has been described as 'a Middlemarch-like triumph' (The Telegraph). 
Coming up: our Holiday Reading Recomendations and TBR.
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Anna and Amanda discuss the National Book Award winner for fiction, The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty.
Our book of the week is The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell, the follow-up novel to her hugely successful Hamnet. It's set in the Italian Renaissance and follows Lucrezia de'Medici and her marriage aged 15 to the Duke of Ferrara.  All the ingredients for a great read, we had high expectations for this one!
Coming up: Crossroads by Jonanthan Franzen and our Holiday Reading recommendations and TBR!
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