Sentimental Garbage
Episodes
Crazy Rich Asians with Wei Ming Kam
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to pair your Yves Saint Laurent smoking jacket with your $3 batik shorts? We're joined by publisher and writer Wei Ming Kam to talk Crazy Rich A...
Who's That Girl with Mhairi McFarlane
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
CW: Suicide. This week we're joined by author, historian and bookseller Emma Southon in the rather fitting setting of my hotel room to talk about Mhai...
Circle of Friends LIVE with Sarah Maria Griffin
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're live from Body & Soul Festival in Ireland talking Maeve Binchy's classic CIRCLE OF FRIENDS. This 700 page epic about a single academic schoo...
A Countess Below Stairs with Laura Wood
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hold onto the precious jewel trapped in your dachshund's stomach and get ready for a whirlwind post-war fairytale that will make you hum the entire An...
The Devil Wears Prada with Lindsey Kelk
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gird your loins! This week wrestling podcaster and author of the I HEART series Lindsey Kelk is here to relive all your worst memories of being an ent...
The Other Boleyn Girl with Ella Risbridger
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to read about the Tudors, you want to read about the SEXY Tudors, and The Other Boleyn Girl is the sexiest of all. Returning guest and aut...
Knock Wood with Karen Tongson
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You know Candice Bergen, even if you don't think you do: you've seen her reject Carrie Bradshaw as Enid, the editor of Vogue, and you've seen her try ...
Americanah with Candice Carty-Williams
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're talking to Queenie author Candice Carty-Williams about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, a book that stands out on Sentimental Garbag...
LIVE: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging with Holly Bourne
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re going back to school this week with YA author Holly Bourne for our first ever live show at London Book Fair. We’re talking about Louise Renn...
BONUS: Sarra Manning on Unsticky
23 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re talking to YA hero and sex writing genius Sarra Manning about her 2009 adult debut Unsticky. We talk about everything from life in the m...
Unsticky with Jeanne Sutton
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week it's indecent proposals, being broke in media, and having grandly un-feminist wanks to deeply inappropriate men with Sarra Manning's Unstick...
The Undomestic Goddess with Daisy Buchanan
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re talking to the author of the newly-minted The Sisterhood, Daisy Buchanan, about Sophie Kinsella’s The Undomestic Goddess! Workahol...
BONUS: Joanne Harris on Chocolat
09 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joanne Harris has been talking about Chocolat for literally 20 years, which is why we're so flattered she came and talked to us even MORE about it. We...
Chocolat with Amy Jones
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pancake Tuesday has just gone and we’re kicking it off with the most Lent-en book in all of chicklit: Joanne Harris’s megahit Chocolat! Food write...
Under the Tuscan Sun with Rose McGowan
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: fans of Frances Mayes' 1996 travel memoir Under The Tuscan Sun won't find a lot of meaningful discussion of the book here, because neither Ca...
Flowers in the Attic with Julie Cohen
21 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
*CONTENT WARNING*: FIRST UP, there's discussions of rape and child abuse throughout that some people might find off-putting. SECOND: this is a book wh...
Eat, Pray, Love with Abigail Bergstrom
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To launch season 2, we embark on an ambitious journey to work out just what makes Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 memoir so brilliantly enthralling. We discu...
Career Girls with Helen O'Hara
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Sentimental Garbage is pretty blue so maybe don’t listen with kids in the car. This week we’re talking sex, lies, class and Oxford...
BONUS: Jill Mansell on Millie's Fling
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline chats to Jill Mansell, author of Millie’s Fling, about snacks, how it feels when people are “ashamed” to read your books in public, and...
Millie's Fling with Ella Risbridger
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ready for chick-lit Middlemarch? Today we dive into Jill Mansell’s Millie’s Fling with author of the forthcoming Midnight Chicken & Other Reci...
Bridget Jones's Diary with Ayisha Malik
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bridget Jones drinks like a fish, smokes like a chimney and dresses like her mother - and somehow became a global multi-million dollar franchise in th...
BONUS: Marian Keyes on Watermelon
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After talking all things Watermelon with Lucy Vine, we grabbed Marian Keyes on Skype to tell us more about her debut novel. We discuss feminism in the...
Watermelon with Lucy Vine
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week is full of firsts: we're discussing Marian Keyes' first book, Watermelon, which also happens to be the first chick-lit that our guest Lucy V...
BONUS: Eva Rice on The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After speaking to Lauren Bravo about The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, we tracked down the author of the book, Eva Rice, to talk Take That, Julian the ...
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets with Lauren Bravo
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and author of "What Would the Spice Girls Do?" Lauren Bravo talks about Eva Rice's 2008 smash-hit The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, a book that'...
Sentimental Garbage: The Trailer
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Sentimental Garbage, a podcast celebrating chick-lit and the so-called guilty pleasures you’re done feeling guilty about.In series 1, aut...