Seeing as we're all going to die this year, Eve and Cath are keeping this one short. And on the theme of brevity, we're following up Robert McCrum's recent articleand asking if it's a crime to skip the boring bits when reading. Or is wasting a reader's ti

It's the Scribatious review of 2011! So much has happened in the book world this year that it's difficult to fit it all in (as the actress said to the bishop) but as ever, Eve and Cath are ready to woman up and give it a try. Martin Amis, Monica Ali, Meg

It's the bad sex awards! Eve and Cath feel it is their duty to read some extracts, just to check how truly awful the likes of Stephen King and Haruki Murakami are at writing about lerve. Cue lots of squelchy noises and uncontrollable giggling, because tha

Eve and Cath  have a couple of cases of plagiarism to discuss, including one which sounds like more hard work than just writing the book in the first place. We move on to translated fiction and want to know why Stieg Larsson's books were so popular. Eve

It was inevitable Eve and Cath would end up talking about porn. They tried to stop themselves, but not very hard. And that subject inevitably led to the works of Jane Austen, the passion of the Brontes, Twilight and arsenic poisoning. Listen and find out

Does Dawn French write with her tits?  Eve and Cath want to know why Dawn wins a book prize, her weight is the only thing the papers are interested in. This week the Scribationers are joined by the rather fabulous Graham Marks, children's author and spot

After last week's excess of ladyness, Eve and Cath talk about manly books. But first, the Scribationers set the tone by talking about reading on the toilet. And there's space for a couple of rants too.