This is a bumper episode where we reflect on the year that was 2024. Hear about our top ten bestsellers, our favourite books, the highlights, the challenges and the joys of being booksellers. There's laughing, there's screaming, there's Christmas lights and music and...well, cockroaches.
Books mentioned in this episode:
Place of Tides by James Rebanks
Table for Two by Amor Towles
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Dusk by Robbie Arnott
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Juice by Tim Winton
The Songbirds of Florence by Olivia Spooner
Moon Road by Sarah Leipciger
The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour/Jude Dobson
You Are Here and One Day by David Nicholls
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
James by Percival Everett
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
The Women by Kristin Hannah
The Space Between by Lauren Keenan
Precipice by Robert Harris
All Fours by Miranda July
Days of Innocence and Wonder by Lucy Treloar
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Because All Fades by Freddie Giles
Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst
Playground by Richard Powers
The City and its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
17 Years Later by JP Pomare
Eden Undone by Abbott Kahler
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Ruby Loud Mouse by Alice Pearce
Well Woman by Dr Frances Pitsilis
Marry Me in Italy by Nicky Pellegrino
Lioness by Emily Perkins
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Runt by Craig Silvey
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Wild Dark Shore & Once there Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
The Postcard by Anne Berest
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Delirious by Damien Wilkins
The Kill Factor by Ben Oliver
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
The Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Knowledge Gene by Lynne Kelly
The Horse by Timothy Winegard