Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club - Coming Up in 2024

Episode Date: February 15, 2024

In this week's episode Sara and Cariad trawl through their reading piles and shopping baskets to discuss books they're excited to read this year. Some new, some old, some that might feature on the Weirdos book Club, some that might not! We look forward to reading with you this year!Tickets for the rescheduled live show on Tue 9 April at Foyles, Tottenham Court Road are available to buy here.Sara’s debut novel Weirdo is published by Faber & Faber and is available to buy here.Cariad’s book You Are Not Alone is published by Bloomsbury and is available to buy here.You can find a list of all the books we've discussed on the series so far here or on Apple Books here.Follow Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club on Instagram @saraandcariadsweirdosbookclub and Twitter @weirdosbookclub Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.Artwork by Welcome Studio.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Pasco. Hello, I'm Carriad Lloyd. And we're weird about books. We love to read. We read too much. We talk too much. About the too much that we've read. Which is why we've created the Weirdos Book Club.

Join us. A space for the lonely outsider to feel accepted and appreciated. A place for the person who'd love to be in a real book club, but doesn't like wine or nibbles. Or being around other people. Is that you? Join us. Check out our Instagram at Sarah and Carriad's Weirdo's Book Club for the upcoming books we're going to be discussing. You can read along and share your opinions.

Or just skulk around in your raincoat like the weirdo you are. Thank you for reading with us. We like reading with you. Hello. Hi there. Hi there. Hi. Welcome to the Weirdo's Book Club.

This is a special episode, isn't it? It's really special. I've got all these emotions about this episode. Okay. Because what we're going to be talking about is, you know, books coming out. Yeah, exciting books coming out in 2024. So I've got that on one hand. Yeah.

And it's like hunger. Hunger for new books. hunger for the exciting books coming out with authors I love. But also, on the other hand, absolutely no time to read. No time. It's like having a small baby, people could be going, have you seen da-da-da-da-da in the cinema? It's like, no.

No. No. I haven't seen it. No. So much stuff I haven't seen. So many things that people cannot believe I haven't seen. Like they're so shot. You haven't seen it? No, I haven't seen it. I've watched Gladiator.

What's that one? What's that one? What's that one about science? Oppenheimer. I haven't seen that. No, no. No, no. So I've not seen that. I did see Barbie. I saw Barbie.

I managed to go to cinema by myself to watch that. Yeah. So this is a conversation that I'm really excited about, but I need to stop buying books that I can't read. Yeah. And also I wanted to say that in case people are listening, don't have time to read, who think that we are ignoring our families. Well, we are, but the podcast comes first, guys. Podcast comes first.

I don't want to read shame anyone. No, no. Because people, sometimes people write to me and they go, but how? when and it's really, really hard. But what we're doing with this episode, I think, is just like these are books that have peaked our interest. Doesn't mean we're going to read them. But if you also peak your interest, maybe in your bookshop,

you think, oh, yeah, they mentioned that one. So it's just like, oh, have you heard this coming up? Yes, yeah. So for people who are fans of books. Fans of looking at books. And the really great thing about them is they exist forever. They don't go off. This is the thing.

And I do find looking at like the lists overwhelming. Because what you realize is there's too many books. there's too many books everyone writes them there's too many there's too many books so you have to be ruthless usually she screams this in waterstones

but it's nice that you're saying it's so calmly on the podcast there are when you see you're like fuck there's too many but you get that reaction whereas I get I need to quit my job

and just do full-time reading no I feel like I can't read all of these my fantasy when I was at Sussex maybe a bit afterwards was that I would get run over but not so badly that I just wanted to be stuck in a hospital bed

and someone just to go Okay, read all of Dickens. That's my fantasy. Every time I have been majorly ill, I have done so much reading. Yeah. And that's the wrong consolation. Yeah. I think so much reading.

That's why some people love going on holiday, because that's their time to properly read. They might not have small children because that is not the time to read one. You don't do any reading on holiday. You just cry and go, why did we bother? Why do they call it a holiday when it's just as much work as being at home? But with less of the things that make it easier. Yeah.

I haven't got as many toys. Okay, have you got a list of things that you've, that piqued your interest? No, I've got, I'm going to listen to your list. Okay, and then I'm going to add some maybe that you haven't got, and it's going to be not as organised. Oh, okay, well, mine's news. One is coming out, it's already out, I think, comes out today, is the new Kylie Reid, come and get it.

Oh, so I'm really excited about it. The brilliant, such a fun age. Such a fun age, which was huge. It was so huge. It was so brilliant. It's being made into a television show, I think, or a film or something. I don't even care. It was such a great book.

I don't think that's necessarily. really the compliment TV thinks it is. But I also gave it to an annie. Oh, did you? Yeah. Oh, interesting. I had a manny, I should say, because that's how he refers to himself. He only came around once to look after Theodore, but he managed to get him to sleep when I had a gig in Brighton.

So I was very grateful. And then he said, you've got a lot of books. Would you recommend any? And I've just finished. Kind of really said, well, actually. We have this one about being. Yeah. Such a fun age was brilliant.

Such a good book. It's a really good book club book. a really good book to discuss with friends if you like books. And I don't even know what come and get it is about, but I'm excited about reading it. Do you want to find out? Well, I, because I would like to at least give, otherwise our listeners are just hearing us.

If you listen to this, you know Kylie Read. That's my top choice. But it comes out January 30th. So the time you listen to this, it's already out. So that's a good one. Well, I tell you what, I am going to get that. Yeah, that would be definitely. Do you want to say there where I put it into my basket?

Yeah, you put it in your basket. Can I put it in my basket? Yeah, put it in your basket now. Okay, great. I've still got a book voucher left over from Christmas. My next one is Mongol by Hanako Footman, which is a debut novel. She is a British-Japanese writer who's also an actor.

Now, it doesn't matter. Why do I feel the need to say it as a woman? But she's beautiful. I'm just adding that in. She's so beautiful. I felt bad saying it so much about Zoe Kravitz when we did the Nick Kornby episode. Why didn't I say she's so talented? No, but Zoe Koward is so beautiful.

But saying both things because sometimes people are so beautiful, it's worthy of mention because it's so. And just saying, I appreciate, it doesn't devalue how talented they are. It's just making sure you say both things. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And she, a lot of buzz about this book, Mongrel, I've seen loads of stuff, including Lisa Todayo has said, wrote like an incredible thing about it on Instagram being like very rarely you see pros like this. So I think it's going to do very well. So this is Mongrel. And it's about three girls shifting between three intertwining narratives.

Monga reveals a tangled web of desire, isolation, belonging and ultimately hope. And Lisa Todayo said, simply it must be read. It's so beautiful I became lost in it. I can't find the right words because they are all in this book. I didn't gain that as your quote for your debut novel. So yeah, I'm very excited about that one. And look, beautiful cover as well. It's very beautiful cover.

You'll be seeing it on Instagram, guys. So that's my number two. The next one, The Gallupers by John Ransom. I love John Manson. We're going to do a John Manson book on this podcast, aren't we? We want to do The Whale Tattoo, which came out. We're going to do the Whale Tattoo. This is his new novel.

Yeah. So we talked about him before. I have mentioned this book before, but this comes out this year. And the Whale Tattoo won the Polari Prize. And he writes a lot about LGBTQ issues and queer working class issues. And he's just a brilliant writer. And I haven't read Gallupers yet. And everything I've seen online is just already saying like, bloody hell is it's amazing.

I'm just so happy for him because he's such a lovely, kind, brilliant person. I'll give you a little bit of this. Ely is 19 years old and lives alongside a cursed field with his strange aunt dreamer. Six months before, his mother disappeared

during the North Sea flood. I'm just already there. It's the nicest kindest, nicest man. I hear the same about Simon Rushdie. Who I always text when he has a new book out. Oh, do you? And then one that you recommended to me that you were like, this looks up your shop.

Up your shop. Up your shop. Yeah, that's me. That's the exact quote of the kind of thing I say. Oh my God, up your shop. Asa, the girl who turned into a pair of chopsticks. Oh, yes. By Natsuko I'm Murmura.

Yeah, the Faber releasing that. A shop, you thought. Up your shop. It reminds me of some of the wacky sketches you used to write when you started doing comedy and in your sketch show. Yes. And the idea of women turning into chopsticks. I thought, that's the kind of thing Carrie Ed would have written.

Up her shop. Up her shop. Yeah, no, it looks really interesting. And it's a translation as well. So that'd be interesting. I've got some others. Yeah, keep going. Oh, should I keep going?

Yeah. This nonfiction. How much nonfiction do you read? What's your ratio? I think you read more. I have to really be interested in that specific nonfiction. It doesn't like... I don't think I do read more.

I think I buy more nonfiction. Oh, you buy so much more. I'm aspirational in nonfiction. And then I sit there. It's like someone who only eats pudding. I should eat some... I should eat a vegetable. That's how I feel.

Yeah. Yeah, I have to really be interested. interested in the non-fiction thing. Yeah. This, I think, will be interesting. Blood. The science, medicine and mythology of menstruation by Dr. Jennifer Gunter.

Okay. And I don't know if you follow her on Instagram, Dr. Jen Gunter. She's one of these people who does a lot of debunking. Oh, lovely. About like, and she's, I would highly recommend her on Instagram, especially if you're interested in periods, menstruation, menopause. She's one of these people who just gets on there and there's like, that's rubbish. That's not how vaginas work.

That's not how women don't sync up on their periods. Yes. She's absolutely full of this stuff. Are we all? Every month. And she's got a non-fiction book coming out. So I thought, oh, that'll be interesting. That's a very carry-ard book.

Yeah, yes, very easy. Because when you weren't writing wacky sketches. I was talking about periods. You're bleeding all over the place. You used to perform as the period bag lady. Sanctuary bag lady. Sanctuary bag lady. Yeah.

I just had to clear out a cupboard. Yeah. And I just had to throw away my last sanctuary bag lady hat. Oh. If you are struggling to imagine, I need to explain, sometimes when you're going terrible toilets. They have a white paper bag for menstruation products. For your shame. And they used to occasionally be a black and white lady who looked like an old timey southern bell. Yeah, sort of like a my fair lady. Yeah. And she was on this and I would make a giant

cardboard hat. So I looked like I was the lady in the bag and I would say, As male bleeding. Yeah, that's it. She'd sniff all the audience to find out who had blood for a bag. To look for a tampon. Yeah. And then one woman was like, can you genuinely smell? me. And I was like, oh, it's a nice. Wasn't that how you got free membership to the Groucho as well that you did it there? You did it at a charity gig at the Groucho and then they had to let you in for a year. Yeah. I think I forgot to go. Yeah. I never saw you there. When was you there, 925? I never went either. I was just imagining who hangs out there. So yeah, that is up my street and up my shop. Well, this is one I thought of you.

Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Hetty. Oh, I'm very excited. I know you are. Very excited. I still haven't read Sheila Hetty's last one. I have read two Sheila Hetty's and I really love her. I didn't read the shape of colour. I've got it.

Let me read you this little bit because this is from The Guardian just to... Like many writers, Hetty, author of the novel's motherhood and pure colour, keeps a journal. More unusually,

she fed approximately 500,000 words of it into a spreadsheet and arranged all the sentences in alphabetical order. The result is a unique and strangely poetic memoir. Well, with the motherhood one,

She was throwing... Was it Iching? Was it Iching? I think it was Iching? Yeah. I really doubted myself then. Yeah, and I felt it and then I thought, no, I think it was Iching. Don't doubt yourself, babes.

But that sounds like an interesting. It would be really interesting. Definitely by that as well. Okay. My next one. Yeah. I'm just rattling through. Go, go.

Burma Sabib. Sabib, how do you say that? Burma Sabib by Paul Theru. Paul Theru? Because this is obviously, it's obviously the year for this kind of thing. In this fictional retelling, George Orwell's years as a colonial policeman in Burma are key to his political and literary development.

So I feel like with the year of George Orwell's spin-offs is happening. So we've had Weifedom, we've had Julia, and now this is all about us. Do you think it's because it's out of the copyright? It's out of copyright. Everybody has decided they can do it. So I thought that sounds interesting. It does sound interesting. Because he was a policeman in Burma for ages.

Do you want to read more books about George Orwell, having read Wiffton? Or do you feel like full up? Wiftham's getting so much shit. It's getting so much shit. I feel very conflicted now because I really liked it. But people, it was described as a semi-imagined autobiography by Helen Lewis. Really, really compelling things have narrativised. Sure.

Sure. Yeah. You know what I mean? Created a story out of. Fact. And actually, sometimes being too compelling is a downside. And people go, well, you've made it a really good story so people believe it. But facts are really dry and boring and complicated and two things can be true at the same time.

I say that having not read it, and also not thinking it probably deserves the criticism. Yeah, I just think it's interesting, just interesting time that he's being so... But you'd always be wary of a too compelling a biography of someone. Yes, true, true. But I'm interested in George Orwell, I'm interested in his time in Burma.

I've been on an Orwell pub walk in London. And I'd really recommend. Oh, okay, great. Not reading, no, sir, so save that for your pub podcast. Oh, after I'm drunk, when I'm drunk, I read. I read the Orwell, I forget the Orwell. It's just things like the building that he worked in in Bloomsbury. There's just, there's lots of lovely things that you can see as well as pubs.

Next one. Yeah. Who's afraid of gender by Judith Butler? Oh. It's a blast from the past for you. It's a blast from the past. We had to read lots of Judith Butler at Sussex. The influential American theorist examines the way gender has become both a political

bogey man and a liberatory framework for understanding ourselves. And I like Judith Butler. I find her one of those people that even though it's nonfiction and extremely intellectual, I feel like you do understand it. You're able to be like, I do know what Judith's trying to tell me. And that sounds interesting, doesn't it? We're afraid of gender. I might be bored of feminism.

Oh, you're done. No, I'm just having some time off. Fair play. I'm really into misogyny. I'm just for balance. Just want to have a go with it, see how it feels. I hope it's not because I've had two sons. I live with four men.

As a mother of sons, you can say that then. As a mother of sons, I've really opted out of feminism. It's a mother of sons, I don't need to worry about it. Yeah. So, not for me. Yeah. I can't do that, Sarah, because I've got one of them. I've got to keep and be invested in feminism.

Oh, God. I know. I wish I could just let it go, unfortunately. Next one? I'm loving this. Okay. Until August by Gabriel Gassiel, Marquez. Oh, yes, yes.

This is the lost novel that's been translated. So I don't know if I'll read it. I'm not, do you know what? I know nothing about it, and I'm not going to read it. So I tell you what I've got against it right off the bat. Okay. Lost, you didn't want it published. Yeah.

Last, not finished. Not good. Or not as good. Can I read you this? Let me just read this. A married woman takes a new lover on one day every year. What? She on strictly.

Boom! Take that, Gabriel. One a year? One day every year. So she's got a lover. So it's the same lover she sees for a day a year. Hang on. That's one day by David Nichol.

It's a whole pass. I don't know. That's what I said. That was the breakdown. That was the breakdown. Obviously, we have existing books by Gabriel Garcia-Marches that I have not read. So I haven't read all of the books. It's interesting that lost thing, isn't it?

Like, is it worth it? Not is it worth it? But like, yeah, like you said, they didn't want it published. Like, I can tell you, if you've ever read America by Franz Kafka, his unfinished novel, you shouldn't have it. Well, Kafka didn't want anything published. But America is unfinished. Yeah.

It's very confusing. Yeah. And I read it. Even friends of a novelist when they go, hey, it's my unfinished novel, I want notes. Would delete their email address. Unless you're writing a dissertation or you're writing a book about. Kafka. I just thought people, I thought it's an interesting, you know what? We like to

think of this show occasionally, it's the smash it of books. And I felt like you've got to mention Gabrielle's got a new one out. I always think we don't mention men enough, so I'm glad you've mentioned back both that and David Nichols. David Nichols's book. Yes, David Nichols, you are here. It's supposed to be brilliant, very excited about that comes out in April.

How many times in your life have you thought Gabriel Garcia-Mercase was a woman? Because quite a lot for me. Oh, did you? And I, for years, thought Agatha Christie was a man. Why? I thought Agatha was a man's name. Agatha is a brilliant name though. It really took me so long when I saw a picture.

I was like, who's that? I was like, but Agatha Christie's a man. Like, I couldn't believe a woman was writing those stories. I do think you need that Judith Butler book about gender. You mentioned already, he's a close personal friend and he's got a new book out. It's Knife by Sam and Rushdie. Oh yeah, my friend.

Your friend, which is about his attack. He's written a book about it. I'm fascinated to read this, So it's about his, he was, had an assassination attempt in 2022. Yeah. And this is his account of the attack and it's fallout. Wow. Yeah, I mean.

Yeah, it will be incredible. It's got an amazing cover as well. To talk about another author, Hanif Koreshi, what he's writing about his illness and stay in hospital on Twitter and his substack. I think it's a substack as well. Oh. It's so incredible. To have, you know, an incredible writer. Yeah, writing about.

Writing from inside that experience. Wow. I mean, he'll probably send you a copy because I know your friends, so let us know. Oh, he sent me an unfinished version. and I blocked his email. Last one. Okay. I've been rattling through them.

Caledonia Road by Andrew O'Hagan. Oh, you used to live on Caledonian Road. Yep. So it's another North London book. What can we say? That's where the good people live and they write books about it. I'm interested in this because it is so North London.

A celebrity art historian is beguiled by his student in a state of a nation panorama about class and privilege built around one man's fall. Yeah, I do sound. I thought that sounds like right up my shop. Yeah, right up your shop. shop. Right.

Oh, get that up your shop. I want to read it. And then also part of me is like, oh God, another man with a young woman and middle class people. But I mean, another North London book. The conversation about the power lines and how we are reassessing and understanding them. And a novel is a really interesting place to do it because you're not getting angry at

a real person or being feeling let down by a real person. And the novelist, very usually, like I don't know if you've read books like Vanessa, which is about a female teacher. But the fictional version gets to sort of reflect what's going on in society but be quite intelligent about where you manipulate sympathy and empathy. It definitely caught my eye, piqued my interest. I thought, oh yeah, that looks interesting. And I like Andrea Hagen.

It's a lot in the LRB. Well, I don't know. I don't know who is then. Previous listeners, you know, Sarah, rejects the LRB as a form of communication. Carrier takes a lover one day a year from there. And we read the LRB and then we have pudding. So just some little add-on. I took pictures of my reading my sex to the bed.

Okay, look, one of them I've started already. Sorry, and it's already out. All right, come in. But Paul Murray, the Beasting. Oh, yes, that looks so good. It looks so good. So the thing is, it was recommended to me by my ex-boyfriend's best friend. So we're not exactly chatting. No. And he said, he wrote a text saying, and this is a few months ago, have you read the Beasting?

And I said, I haven't. And he said, I need to talk someone about it. And no one's ready yet. And I thought you might have. So that's how desperate he was. He texted his best friend's ex-girlfriend, just thinking she likes reading. She might have read it. That is the start of a novel.

That is a great premise for a novel. It's my novel, after the Beasning. Okay. It's great. So I started reading it and I'm being naughty because I don't have time. Yeah, but I've seen that everywhere. And I've read two, I read obviously, a bit heavy though, isn't it?

He's a bit funny, and I've read, Skippy Dyes. And he's very funny, Paul Rovey. And he's David O'Dockety's friend, which is how I first read him, Skippy Dies. But the book's a bit heavy, right? Heavy on the wrist? Oh, you went heavy in size. No, yeah, I'm talking size here. It's pretty funny.

And yeah, it's a big book. I might kindle it. Yeah, you can kindle it. Yeah, I might kindle it. But that will be out in paperback this year. Oh, a bit lighter. Maybe I'll cope. My bag will cope.

So the book I've been sent that. I don't think. It comes out on the 29th of February. Yeah. This is one, you know, when a book calls to you, this is on my bedside. Sarah. And it's like, when the time is right, when the time is right. And this is the book I'm most excited to read this year.

It's called Butter. Oh, yes. I saw that on another list. I saw it on a list. I've just taken a picture of the back to describe. you. There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate, feminists and margarine. I want to read it. It's about a gourmet chef and a serial murderer with a taste for life's luxuries. A journalist has an appetite for a good story, a shocking gastronomic exchange.

That sounds so up your shop. It's so, it's... That might as well be called Pasco's shop. Yeah, it just sounds so interesting. A journalist and a gourmet chef who's a serial killer meeting out. I think the journalist goes to the prison. Anyway, it sounds so brilliant. I've sent a book called Zoe, which sounds so interesting. It's a provocative, tender and darkly funny novel that explores the painful truths of modern-day connection and the complicated and unexpected forms that love can take. It's about a woman finding an animatronic sex doll in the garage and the conversations they have. Oh, brilliant.

Super fun. That's super fun. That's by Sarah Crosson, who's from Dublin. Sarah Crosson. Yeah, Crosson. Oh, okay. Here's a non-fiction one for you. This is, this will be coming, it's already out in hardback, but it'll be coming out in paperback. How the Female Body drove 200 million years of human evolution.

It's called Eve by Cat Bonnerham. Oh yes, I've had seen that one. That looks really, really good. Sounds really, really good. I've got it in hardback, but again, it's coming out and paperback for people who hate big books like Carriad. Which is Michaela Loach's book. It's not that radical climate action to transform the world. I've decided I'm going to solve climate change.

Great. Someone's got to. I'm doing a new tour next year. That would be about climate change. Which will be walking. around the country, obviously, to save carbon. You can offset Sting's what I've said. And I basically have decided it's all just to beat Greta Thunberg.

Oh, you want to take her down and be number one? No, not going to beat her. I'll be nice about it, but I'll be like, oh, good try. I did it, Greta. But also, I don't have any information yet, so... Do you know what's annoying? I feel like Greta won't care. No, she won't. Yeah. You won't get the satisfaction of a win. Oh, I'll care. Yeah, okay. And so, well, the planet, when...

Actually, she will care. She'd have to thank me for saving her and everyone. I think she'll be fine with her. I know I think she'll be fine with her, but she'll still have to thank me. Shirley Hazard, you'd be pleased. I know this isn't a new book, but I'm reading The Bay of Noon. You're doing it? I'm going to read the Bay of Noon.

Oh, my God, I'm so excited. Oh, we have to mention, top of my shelf is Breaking Entering by a friend of the podcast, Andy Hunter Murray. Yes, I'm really excited. It looks really funny. Everything about it seems really exciting. And obviously it's commenting on the empty housing, people with too much money, buying second houses in places like London and being empty. Andy is such a funny person. He's one of the funniest men I've ever spent time with.

And he's written two books already, which have been quite... Page Turner's, Thrillerie. And speaking to him about that book, Breaking and Entering in May, he said it's the most fun he's had writing. And I could feel it. And I got my proof this week. And what's so great is they've done little house paper clips with the stuff. Incredible.

Yeah. What a nice detail. You're probably thinking it's not that cool to be a book influencer. But actually, guys, we get sent paper clips of the shape of house. Paperclip. We've got one free paper clip. Beginners Guide to Breaking and Entering. That looks amazing. So that's there.

Also, this isn't a new book, but I'm reading the Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Because it's been mentioned in so many other things we've read. Obviously, in Monsters, Claire Dedewa mentioned it. And it was talked about a lot in the pram on the staircase feminist book. Female Artist's book. And I've just remembered another one, The Chain by Shemaine Silliman, which is a non-fiction book about this horrific relationship that she's. had and then she found out how many other women this man was involved in and she spoke to all the

this is a true this is non-fiction yeah and she's an amazing writer she's worked a lot with Nick Esch one of our former guests yeah on the good immigrant series and yeah I'm very excited about that coming at March yeah the green dot oh again it's one of those books that's had so much praise already from lots and lots of other writers that's by madeline grey and that's about a woman having an affair with a married man oh yeah um she's got amazing quote so that's not out yet and then all of my other books are already out. I'm really like of woman born by Adrienne Rich. Do you know that one?

No. Motherhood as experience and intuition. Again, it's been talked about and lots of other books about motherhood that I've read. A book that is quite new is Nell, Zinks, Avalon, which I actually think might be really good for the weirdos bookcast. Okay. See, mine's less of a list and more of a, I've got so much to read.

You've got so much to read. So if we can sync up what we talk about on the podcast. Okay. With what I also want to read, that would be great. Yeah. But I do need to read more men. Yeah. So people have got good recommendations by male writers.

We've got Salman Rushdie and Andrew Hunter Murray. So Simon Rushdie and Andrew Hunter Money. And Andrew Hogan. And Andrew Hagen. And Andrew Hagan. Gabriel Garcia Marquins. And John Ransom, actually. So here we go.

Paul Theroo. Actually, too many men. Actually, enough, don't send us any men. Yeah. Let us know who you're excited about for 2022. Oh, nearly forgot. I saw it only yesterday. Rachel Cusk has a novel coming last.

Oh, yes. Yes. Later in the year. You like Rachel Cask. I love Rachel Cust. Apologies. Like, as in love with, as in slow down. As in, oh, just get yourself a black coffee and sit somewhere where you don't like in a cafe.

It's those, those, you know. Oh, those ones. Yeah, well you have to take it. You can't just go, I'm on the tube. I'm going to start my new book. I'm in the bath. It's like, no, no, this is mementous. Getting a new book from an author that you love is so exciting.

It's so exciting. And there's so much coming up in 2024. Do tell us at Sarah and Carriad's Widow Book Club. what you're excited about? Yeah. Share your reads. And if there are books that you think would, you know, from any time, if it would work, would work, please let us know.

We're just looking at, we're collecting a new crop. Yeah. Also, if you've got an idea of a guest who would really match well with a book, and you think I'd love to hear what so-and-so's got to say about this, then help us with that as well. Because sometimes we get it wrong. And they don't want to read it. Sometimes they get it wrong.

Thank you for talking to me, Sarah, about your books for 2024. Thank you for talking to me. I love talking to you. Next week's book guest is Fight Nights by Miriam Taves. Sarah's novel Weirdo and my book, You Are Not Alone, are available to actually pick up in actual bookshops. Go. Go and get them.

They're small enough to put in a bag. You can pop in a bag. You won't even know it's there. Also, I've got a live Weirdo event at Southamack Center on the 9th of May if you'd like to come. Thank you for reading with us. We like reading with you.