We promised to share some until-now exclusive-to-Patreon content while we're on our little maternity leave, so please enjoy this super extra bonus episode where we detail just a few of the books we've read and loved of late!

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We received a DM this week that read, and I quote: "Could you and/or Bea PLEEEAAAASSSSEEEE SHARE SOME BOOKS ♥️♥️" 

It strikes me (Rosemary) now that I may have misquoted this person in the episode but sure look here we are now with a WHOPPER list of books we'd recommend reading – just for you, our beloved, loyal patrons! In case you don't have a pen to hand, we have even listened all (er… we think) of the authors and books we mention below. Enjoy!

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• Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again Yes
• Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
• Richard Russo
• Tana French, The Wych Elm
• John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
• Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
• James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
• Sarah Turnbull, Almost French
• Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
• The Twilight trilogy
• Fifty Shades of Grey
• Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series
• All of Louise Bagshawe's sexy romances
• Frank Herbert, Dune
• Lee Child's Jack Reacher series (don't mention Tom Cruise)
• Michael Connelly's Bosch series
• John Connolly
• Julia Keller's Bell Elkins series
• Jo Nesbo
• Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander series
• JM Coetzee, Disgrace
• Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series
• Firefly Lane (the TV show, but it's based on the novel by Kristin Hannah!)
• Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
• John Banville
• Colm Tóibín
• Raven Leilani, Luster
• Rebecca Roanhorse, Trail of Lightning and Storm of Locusts
• Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
• Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
• Glennon Doyle, Untamed
• Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
• Colm Tóibín, The Master
• Sophie White, Filter This and Unfiltered
• Richard Russo, Empire Falls
• Philip Myer, American Rust
• Art Spiegelman, Maus
• Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man
• Bizarrely, the trailer for The Matrix 4 
• Jane Austen
• Edith Wharton
• The 1995 mini-series, The Buccaneers starring Carla Gugno
• Enid Blyton
• Louise Lawrence, Children of the Dust

We didn't include any links, mostly because honestly THE PAIN OF IT ALL but, if you are planning on buying any of the above, please consider buying from your local bookshop – they have undoubtedly had a very terrible 18 months and would appreciate your custom! (Our local bookshop is Barnes & Noble so, er, we don't feel all that bad about buying books on Kindle via Amazon… although both options are not great, honestly.) 

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Not Without My Sister is presented by sisters Beatrice Mac Cabe and Rosemary Mac Cabe, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This episode was edited by Tall Tales, talltales.ie. Sound and original music by Don Kirkland. Original illustration by Lindsay Neilson.

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