Welcome back! I’ve been away for a while, and never even said see ya later or goodbye.

This episode covers a little bit about why I stopped the podcast, what I’ve been up to, and where the podcast will go in the future.

books recommended:

100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda

Someone To Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob Wakesburg

COMING UP: interviews with Matt Smith (Hometree CEO) & Ellie Middleton (author of UNMSKED & How To Be You), and a review of ‘The Compassionate Mind’ by Paul Gilbert

let me know if you have any suggestions for guests or topics you want me to look in to aneedtoread.podcast@gmail.com

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Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist, writer, and speaker with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama.

His book Entangled life was a Sunday Times Bestseller.

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In this episode, I chat about some fiction books that you might like to read this year.

Books discussed

When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamin Labtut

Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 by Cho Nam Joo

A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Someone To Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksburg

First Person Singular by Hariku Murakami

If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura

The Virgin Suicides & Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

A Little Life by Hanya Yangihara

Siddartha & Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All of the links will take you to Bookshop.org, a website where when you buy books, you support small bookstores, and I also get 10% of the sale. Which is quite nice, init.

Support for the podcast

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If you have any feedback, requests, or well-wishes, send me an email at hello@aneedtoread.co.uk