Pete Ross

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4,645 appearances 35 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 21 Sep

Pete Ross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 35 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 8.

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And it's so interesting and like so different from the real world that it just feels empowering.

In normal bookshops, the sections may be divided into crime, thriller, fiction and nonfiction.

But here the shells are labelled unhinged, monster smut and LGBTQ.

What's smut?

So smut is spice or hot scene.

So that term spice originated online to describe how hot a scene was.

So if there was a lot of tension or explicit scenes, it would have multiple chili peppers.

And so it just sort of evolved over the years to become a spice scale.

I'm Meg.

So what draws you into romanticism?

It's like pure escapism.

You can have like a really naff day.

You can go home and you can get lost in a book and it can be worlds away from where you are, which I love.

How important is it for you to be in a space like this, in an independent bookshop that is catered just for a man to see books?

I think it's just really important to support women.

It feels like a safe space to come.

It was such a shunned topic for so long.

Everyone was like, oh, I've got to hide my Fifty Shades of Grey that I'm reading.

Whereas now everyone's out about it and it's nice that we can all support each other.

I am James.

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