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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