Jake Williams

Well, yeah, you really drove the average up.

Important to know, I didn't know it was permanent marker.

I thought I was practising my signature for the big white world.

And you were quite serious being like, no, we do need to do some work.

Can you just quickly rub that off?

And I went to rub it off and I was like, that's going to stay.

I love sharing recommendations online I love like shouting about something I've read that I like really loved and why and I often do talk to people who like don't read that much but they've said like oh I really love your recommendations or I read this because you said that it was brilliant and I loved it I'm so excited to bring that to like a new level and to new people and to build that out a bit because like reading can be so singular and naturally the kind of like community aspect I think is what I'm really excited by and on the flip side is there anything that scares you

Obviously, all of this is fairly terrifying.

But ultimately, probably not that much.

I'm excited to get this voice out on the airwaves.

Ella, do you have any book hot takes?

That is quite hot.

And we're quite different on that because I am quite a finisher.

Almost religiously, I would say.

I couldn't actually name you a book that I've not seen to the end.

My hot take is books don't have enough merch.

Episode zero.

Let's do this.

Ella, what's your favourite book?

You couldn't name one.