Shelf Indulgence: A Bookish Podcast

Amy Watt and Liv Cormack-Widdop
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Join us each week, as we read a new book and talk about it enough that you’ll be able to ignore your book club read and use our observations instead! We’re here to make read good books, have fun and indulge in our favourite hobby, with you.

  1. 2D AGO

    Episode 74: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

    Surprise! We've rebranded, look at us all shiny and new, except we're exactly the same, just with a snazzy new name and a logo, almost like we've gone into Witness Protection ... but Laurie Gilmore doesn't have the budget to take out a hit on us. This week in our not so brand new podcast, we're discussing The Raven Scholar, Amy takes ages to choose a contingent to pledge to, Liv stumbles her way through deciding whether this is high fantasy and together they get excited for the sequel and all the plot it contains. Spoilers as always and welcome to the first of many shelf indulgences. Liv x

    1h 3m

  2. FEB 24

    Episode 73: The Death-Made Prince by Lisette Marshall

    It’s business as usual today as we discuss a new romantasy offering, The Death Made Prince. Full dislclaimer: we call one of the main characters by the wrong name the ENTIRE episode. It turns out he is not named after a pungent smelling fruit popular in southeast Asia - sorry! Hope you still enjoy! A x

    1h 9m
  3. Episode 72: Our 2025 Bookish Wrapped

    FEB 17

    Episode 72: Our 2025 Bookish Wrapped

    We're baaack! We promised we would be! To ease us in we've decided to Tier list all of the books we read in 2025 and we've even played around with using video! We're so hot in 4k! Thankyou for sticking with us and thankyou for all the Heated Rivalry love, if you'd have told us we'd have gotten 650+ listens on that one episode alone, we'd have said "Liar. Liar told you that." Anyway, see you next week for some sexy necromancers as they attempt to make us love Romantasy again...

    42 min

  4. JAN 8

    Update from Liv

    Hello everyone! Thankyou for sticking with us, we'll be back and I can only apologise for the amount of times I say UM in this video - Amy and I do well from the edit as you can tell. Amy sends her love too and we hope you're still listening to us when we're back in February! Maybe there'll be some more changes other than my hair?? All our love xx

    2 min

  5. 11/05/2025

    Episode 70: When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy

    Well Nat Cassidy, I hope you're proud of yourself - it's not unlike Amy and I to get deep and emotional on the podcast but we definitely went deeper and sadder than we ever have and it's all your fault. Happy belated Halloween - this week we talk all things parental issues, masking is just shapeshifting for boring humans and how therapy made Nat Cassidy write a book and probably become a well adjusted member of society. We stan a therapy king #therapygirlies Enjoy and see you next week for our finale of halloween - My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

    1h 10m

  6. 10/28/2025

    Episode 69: Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

    Happy Spooky Season! We know there's nothing scarier than our upload schedule but we promise we are back! In this episode we discuss the newest offering by Rachel Harrison. Enjoy x

    1h 9m

  7. 10/06/2025

    Episode 68: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    Kicking off spooky season with a literary classic that shaped the gothic horror genre. There's so much rain and we try to add our own unique thoughts to a book that has already been over analysed for years. Expect, some wanking chat, us attempting to make everyone gay and as always Stars in their Eyes references. Happy Reading! Liv x

    1 hr

  8. 09/29/2025

    Episode 67: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

    We're back!!! Apologies for our longer than planned break (and the likely terrible edit to explain why in this episode...) but we are back and raring to go! This week, we accidentally read literary fiction and...enjoyed it!? It's time for another "TikTok Sensation" but this time expect less dragons, spice and shadow daddies and a lot more terrifying existential-crisis inducing questions. Enjoy! Amy x

    1h 16m
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Join us each week, as we read a new book and talk about it enough that you’ll be able to ignore your book club read and use our observations instead! We’re here to make read good books, have fun and indulge in our favourite hobby, with you.

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  • Creator
    Amy Watt and Liv Cormack-Widdop
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    74
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Amy Watt and Liv Cormack-Widdop
  • Show Website
    Shelf Indulgence: A Bookish Podcast

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