The Bookcast Club

Jenny, Belle and Sarah share their favourite books of the year so far and a few honourable mentions.

Books mentioned
The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood
Monsters by Emerald Fennell
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
Always Home Always Homesick by Hannah Kent
I Feel Bad About my Neck by Nora Ephron
Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken

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Jenny, Belle and Sarah try to predict the winner of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction. We share our thoughts on each of the shortlisted books and give you our favourites and winning predictions. We've got this episode out ahead of time for once, so will we be right? We also want to give away a Bookcast Club exclusive hoodie to one lucky listener. Listen to April's episode for the answer and fill in this entry form for your chance to win.

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We welcome friend of the pod Cobby this month to discuss the classic book Wuthering Heights and how it compares to the 2026 movie "Wuthering Heights" by Emerald Fennell. Are we team Heathcliff or Martin Clunes? We also want to give away a Bookcast Club exclusive hoodie to one lucky listener. Listen to April's episode for the answer and fill in this entry form for your chance to win.

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In our very first episode of the year, Jenny, Belle and Sarah are back and we’re kicking things off with a big update! We’re moving away from seasons and switching to a monthly episode format, and in this episode we chat through why the change felt right for us (and hopefully for you too).

Alongside that, it’s a proper catch-up - what we’ve been reading, what we’ve been loving, and how our reading year is shaping up so far. Expect plenty of bookish tangents, honest thoughts, and the usual cosy, conversational vibes as we ease into a new year of the podcast.

We’ll also be sharing more over on our Patreon each month, alongside the main episodes, if you’d like to support the show and get extra content, you can join us here: https://www.patreon.com/c/bookcastclub

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Fate of Mary Rose — Caroline O’Donoghue
The Correspondent — Virginia Evans
Memorial Day — Geraldine Brooks
Wild Dark Shore — Charlotte McConaghy
The Rose Field — Philip Pullman
Always Home, Always Homesick — Hannah Kent
Audition — Katie Kitamura
Elegy, Southwest — Madeleine Watts
Love, Sex and Frankenstein — Caroline Lea
Death in Her Hands — Ottessa Moshfegh

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Jenny and Sarah chat about their favourite reads of 2025, along with some great recommendations from listeners

What have your standout reads of 2025 been? Are any of these on your TBR?

Books mentioned:

Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakam
A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
The Good People by Hannah Kent
The Dance Tree by Kiran Milwood Hargrave
Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen
Ripeness by Sarah Moss
My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss
Bunny by Mona Awad
We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad
Almost Life by Kiran Milwood Hargrave
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy
The Book of Dust trilogy by Philip Pullman
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
As Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

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