Just to get you folks warmed up for Season 5. Yes! Season 5 is just around the corner and we are giving you our monthly 30 Dirty. June's #tbntbookchallenge2021 is to read a translated work OR a book written by a non-nativeEnglish speaker. We have...

Notes: A few more sleeps till we kick off Seasons 5 (and it'll be our 100th episode too!). So till then, enjoy this throwback to our 7th episode on Murakami's Killing Commendatore. We thought it'd be a good one to indulge in, especially because his...

Notes: A few more sleeps till we kick of Seasons 5 (and it'll be our 100th episode too!). So till then, enjoy this throwback to our 7th episode on Murakami's Killing Commendatore. We thought it'd be a good one to indulge in, especially because his...

Yes, we're on a break, but we couldn't let you go without another 30Dirty episode! So we roped in our interns to give you the low-down on coming-of-age and family drama recommendations… all as graphic novels - fun! Not to worry, we do have some novels...

Notes: Just because Season 4 is over, does not mean you have to stop listening! We've got lots of exciting tid-bits coming your way. But, for now, here's an oldie but a goldie; a perfect read for our April #tbntbookchallenge too! |..| We are back...

This has been a loooooong season folks, but in our final episode of Season 4 we discussed Klara and the Sun, quite possibly the book of the moment. Often we find ourselves quite agreeable on the books that we review but ever so often, we have...

This is an edited version of our LIVE stream discussion with Lauren Marino, author of Bookish Broads and Ain Aissa, host of podcast Seek to Speak. We had a gala time talking about forgotten women authors, inspirational trailblazers and of course...

Another 30 Dirty and we have to say we do enjoy putting these mini-shows together for you folks because it lets us look back on some of our favourite reads and discover a whole lot more other reads. Rest assure our TBRs grow ever longer too with each...

We spent a delightful hour talking to Viji Krishnamoorthy and Shireen Zainuddin the editors of a collection of short stories called Lockdown Chronicles. After the first MCO ended they decided to record down the Malaysian experience of the pandemic in...

Việt Thanh Nguyễn fans rejoice! The sequel to The Symphatiser, the spy thriller that goes deep into the Vietnam War that won the 2016 Putlizer Prize for fiction is sharper, more violent and just as absurd. This novel has layers like a kek lapis and...