It's a Wrap 2023 - Part 1

Liv, Rach and Laura get together to wrap up the year and have SO much to chat about that the episode has to be split into two! In this episode (Part 1) we talk about the books of the year, our favourites, our customers' favourites, and our top recommendations for Christmas. This is PACKED full of books! Check out the HUGE list of books we mention: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton Axeman's Carnival and Pet by Catherine Chidgey The Girl from London by Olivia Spooner Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro The Deck by Fiona Farrell The Bone Tree by Airana Ngarewa The Last Days of Joy by Anne Tiernan Home before Night by JP Pomare Adventures with Emilie by Victoria Bruce Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw Kawai by Monty Soutar Laughing in the Dark by Barbara Else PS Come to Italy by Nicky Pellegrino Golden Days by Caroline Barron Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes Tom Lake by Anne Patchett Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano Darling by India Knight Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club Series If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery The Bee Sting by Paul Murray Prophet Song by Paul Lynch Water by John Boyne North Woods by Daniel Mason Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Good Material by Dolly Alderton Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by AF Steadman Crookhaven by JJ Arcanjo Hedgewich by Skye McKenna The Observologist by Giselle Clarkson At The Bach by Joy Cowley Leeva at Last by Sara Pennypacker Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis Five Survive by Holly Jackson PHEW!!