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Join Rachel and Serena every Friday to discuss this week’s book and enjoy a signature cocktail tailor-made for that read! New themes every few weeks and bonus content on Patreon. So grab your book, grab your booze... for Booktails! For sponsorship and advertising opportunities contact: booktailspodcast@gmail.com

  1. 6D AGO

    Squeak by Vera Valentine

    Interspecies Valentines 4. It’s time to get squeaky… but not squeaky clean. Squeaky dirrrrrtyyyyy! 🎈 Join an aspiring artist who meets a balloon seller and his boyfriend and ends up falling for them both. Just one catch- they are secretly balloon animals under a spell. And the sorceress who cast it wants them back… ✨ We are channelling all the fun of the fair with our nostalgic sweetie cocktail this week 🍬so grab a strong one and discuss trauma bonding, balloon appendage and THAT ending with Serena and Rachel. Once you pop you can’t stop… 🎈

    40 min

  2. FEB 6

    Triceratops and Bottoms by Lola Faust

    Interspecies Valentines 3. Rawr. 🦖If your innocent dinosaur-obsessed inner child is ready to be traumatised, read on. Ready? Okay. It’s Dino Smut. And yes, some would say it’s deeply disturbing. But some people are into it (apparently!). And one thing is for sure, it’s a silly, tongue-in-cheek romp through prehistory so let’s just have a laugh about it, right? Riiiiight?!  Grab yourself a Palomasaurus (see what we did there?) and join Rachel and Serena to discuss the science of time travel and whether or not the author is really a palaeontologist as she claims. Wild! Come along and enjoy the riiiide! 🦕

    41 min

  3. JAN 30

    Ensnared by Tiffany Roberts

    Interspecies Valentines 2 Okay readers, let’s get weird 🕷️😈🔥 If you thought Ice Planet Barbarians was too strange you won’t believe what we’re talking about for our second book in our interspecies valentines series!Yup, it’s a spider romance. Kind of. We still don’t fully understand it. Ketahn is a vrix, an alien with armoured skin, mandibles and many legs. The queen of his community has been chasing him for some time when he stumbles across Ivy asleep in a crashed spaceship and decided to take her as a pet, but- well, you know where this is going…. So if spiders are your secret kink or you just fancy a laugh, join Rachel and Serena to discuss the ethics of getting freaky with a non-human and how, whatever form they take, apparently men will always be men. *eye roll*

    53 min

  4. JAN 23

    Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

    Interspecies Valentines 1 TW: This series features non human romance and questionable consent. Strap on your space belts because this is going to be a wild ride! Take a journey with Serena and Rachel to an icy far off planet full of VERY friendly locals! Grab a Big, Blue and Horny frozen cocktail and let’s get into it! For the first book of our alternative interspecies romance this Valentine’s month we will be discussing the representation and treatment of women and the surprisingly complex science of the characters staying alive on an inhospitable planet. But mostly discussing alien c**ks. Because wow is there a lot to discuss. Trust us you don’t want to miss this one!

    55 min

  5. JAN 16

    Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

    Greek Retellings 3 This book was new to both of us and we may have made a mistake calling it a Greek retelling but we certainly didn’t make a mistake including it in the podcast! Join Serena and Rachel as they sip our Albatross cocktail, discuss the book’s relation to the Covid 19 epidemic, the power of positive thinking, joys of isolation and try to work out what is actually going on with that ending! We will also draw our own labyrinth based on the house and try our best to find the way out (tune in to find out if we’re still lost to this day) or if we even want to be found!

    48 min

  6. JAN 9

    The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

    Greek Retellings 2: Serena's Recommendation  You know the story of Achilles right? A beautiful and strong demigod, destined to be the greatest and fastest warrior anyone has ever seen, never mind that pesky ankle of his! Well, get ready to see him in a new light, and to hear his tragic love story play out before you with nothing you can do to stop it, as much as you might wish you could! Join Serena and Rachel to explore love, loss and war, ancient LGBT histories, the confusing levels of godhood and epic centaur wingman skills. Make yourself an Ambrosia cocktail and float away to Mount Olympus with us before a classic game of 'guess whether the quote is by ancient Greek poet Sappho or Taylor Swift'. And tell us once and for all, is it Odysseus' world and we're all just living in it?

    45 min

  7. JAN 1

    A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

    Greek Retellings 1: Rachel's Recommendation It's time for a new year and a whole new Booktails theme! We are starting off strong with Greek myth retellings! First up is 'A Thousand Ships' by Natalie Haynes: a retelling of the Trojan war from the stories of the women who were front and centre! From slaves to queen's to goddesses, Haynes gives voice to them all and Serena and Rachel weigh in on why we are so obsessed with the Trojan war and play a classic game of Siblings or Lovers: Greek Gods Edition! Speaking of goddesses, this week's cocktail  Hera's Kiss just might be one of our favourites ever! Beautiful and delicious, it is also spicy and unexpected and packs one hell of a punch!

    54 min

  8. 12/26/2025

    Our Favourite Books In 2025

    Time for our yearly round up: the best books we read this year, whether surprise new releases or old favourites we've read many times, and our favourite episodes of 2025 in case you're wondering where to start! And our final game of the year is not to be missed: the Booktails Job Swap! Producer Mark is presenting, Rachel is editing and Serena is on 'music': it's going to be a riot.   Thank you so much for joining us this year on Booktails - next year is going to be super exciting and we can't wait to share it with you all!

    55 min
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Join Rachel and Serena every Friday to discuss this week’s book and enjoy a signature cocktail tailor-made for that read! New themes every few weeks and bonus content on Patreon. So grab your book, grab your booze... for Booktails! For sponsorship and advertising opportunities contact: booktailspodcast@gmail.com

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  • Creator
    Booktails Podcast
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    43
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    Clean
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