Booktails Podcast
Episodes
Our Favourite Books In 2025
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Time for our yearly round up: the best books we read this year, whether surprise new releases or old favourites we've read many times, and our favouri...
The Gingerbread Christmas Village by Kiley Dunbar
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Festive Frolics 4: Serena's Recommendation Christmas is just around the corner and we are heartbroken that this is our final festive frolic of the pod...
The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas by James Paterson & Tad Safran
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Festive Frolics 3 On the first day of Christmas Booktails gave to you a baby Alan in a pear tree! It's the 12 days of Christmas as you've never seen...
Jenny Colgan Interview - The Secret Christmas Library
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Festive Frolics 2: The Secret Christmas Library and interview with bestselling author Jenny Colgan. It's a big one readers: it's our first author in...
The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Festive Frolics 1: Rachel's recommendation It's the most wonderful time of the year! That's right, the season is upon us, time to roast those chestn...
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prize Winners 3: British Book Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year We hope you're hungry readers, because if not you're about to be! Based on a true ...
The Safe Keep by Yael van Der Wouden
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prize Winners 2: Women's Prize for Fiction Winner Let's go girls! The Women's Prize was set up in response to the lack of female writers being shortli...
James by Percival Everett
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prize Winners 1: Pulitzer Prize Winner First up in this prize winning books of 2025 category is a retelling of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, whi...
Misery by Stephen King
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spooky Stephen King 4. Misery is the undisputed perfect name for this 1987 Stephen King classic, but we are here to ease your misery today! Listen alo...
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spooky Stephen King 3: Serena's Recommendation This is the book King himself rates as his scariest and it's clear why! A normal young family moves t...
IT by Stephen King
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spooky Stephen King 2: Rachel's Recommendation Whoa it's a biggie this week! Over one thousand pages to be exact! We are diving headfirst into the s...
The Shining by Stephen King
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spooky Stephen King 1 HEEEEEEERE'S BOOKTAILS! It's finally spooky season and we are celebrating with the master of horror this month, Stephen King! Jo...
The Last Supper by Rosemary Shrager
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cosy Murders 3. Are you hungry? Grab a seat at the table because Rosemary Shrager is about to serve you up quite the meal and we are here to pour the ...
The Trial by Rob Rinder
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cosy Murder 2: The Trial by Rob Rinder (Rachel's Recommendation) WE OBJECT, YOUR HONOUR - to the use of advocaat in a SECOND pod cocktail! But we do...
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cosy Murders 1: Serena's Recommendation Get the gang together on your zimmers because the time has come for... COSY MURDER SEASON! 🔪🧣🍁☕ C...
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deadly Competitions 3 That's right, it's the one you were all thinking of! There's no way we could do a Deadly Competitions series without including t...
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deadly Competitions 2 If you thought your school was bad, it had nothing on this one! It's time to dive into the Battle Royale phenomenon- 42 kids are...
The Running Man by Stephen King
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deadly Competitions 1: Rachel's Recommendation Minus 55 minutes and counting On your marks, get set... DEADLY COMPETITIONS TIME! ⏳🔪 Grab your r...
The Trial by Franz Kafka
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Centenery Series 3 (Rachel's Rec) If you've ever missed your stop on the train this episode is for you. We're channeling Kafka and staying alcohol fre...
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Centenery Series 2. There's no way we could do a series on books from 1925 without including one of the most studied and revered books of all time! Th...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Centenary Series 1: Serena's Recommendation "Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever." Th...
Toxic Bachelors by Danielle Steel
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Summer Beach Read 3: Serena's Recommendation Serena and Rachel may be hungover this week but my oh my do they have some strong views on this book! P...
One Summer by Taylor Cole
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Summer Beach Read 2 It's the beginning of summer, your boyfriend has just left you for someone else - but the sun is shining, it's time to get out of ...
You and Me On Vacation by Emily Henry
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Summer Beach Read 1 - Rachel's recommendation Peach schnapps lovers and sunscreen experts unite: this is your time. It's classic romantic comedy thi...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Science Fiction 3 What do you do at the end of the world? DON'T PANIC. Go to the pub and have a few pints of our Black Hole cocktail, then jump on a s...
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Science Fiction 2 - Rachel's Rec This week we are very excited to dive into Philip K Dick's trippy 1969 masterpiece Ubik, so use your anti-precog powe...
Dune by Frank Herbert
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sci- Fi 1- Serena's Recommendation 🎶Scieeeeence Fictiooon, triple feature 🎶 The time has come for us to take our protein pills and put our h...
Goosebumps by R.L. Stine
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nostalgia 3 - Serena’s Recommendation Are you scared of things that go bump in the night? What about living dummies or giant man eating blobs? It's ...
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nostalgia 2 - Rachel's Recommendation Fancy reliving your teens? Maybe not, but join us to reminisce about ours in the second instalment of our Nostal...
Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nostalgia 1 What makes you feel nostalgic? For us it's reindeer ice cream, Barbie motor homes, Groovy Chick everything and Fatdog Mendoza. And, of cou...
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Romantasy 3 - Serena's Recommendation A reader without a cocktail is a tragedy. A reader with too many cocktails is drunk. Is your favourite hobby sta...
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Romantasy 2 - Rachel's Recommendation Trigger warnings: Discussions of Sexual assault and violence. The moment has come! Two real Scottish lassies dis...
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Romantasy 1 This week Rachel found a dead fox in her garden and was whisked away to a fairy kingdom. Do you have the hots for Tamlin or Rhysand, our r...
Doomed Romances - Edited by Joanne Ella Parsons
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gothic Romance 3 It's a slightly different one for the third week of gothic romance as instead of a novel we are looking at the British Library's anth...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gothic Romance 2 - Serena's Recommendation Get lost on the Yorkshire moors with Rachel and Serena as they debate how much of a red flag Heathcliff and...
Dracula by Bram Stoker
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gothic Romance 1 - Rachel's Recommendation Is Van Helsing sexy? This and other burning questions will be answered by Serena and Rachel as they examine...