The Binge Reading Bookclub
Episodes
Episode 15 - The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow (With Special Guest L.R. Lam)
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Best selling author Nicholas Binge and literary newbie Hugo Powell are joined today by equally bestselling (USA Today and New York Times bestselling) ...
Speed Binges - The Chair Company
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In our new Binge Reading Bookclub Podcast spin off series we watched The Chair Company. A surrealist dark comedy written, produced and starring intern...
Episode 14 - Excession by Iain M Banks (with guest author David Goodman)
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are talking about Excession by Iain M Banks - A sprawling sci-fi epic that explores a distant, post-scarcity future, where an inter...
Speed Binges - Extremity by Nicholas Binge
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing the brand new show - Speed Binges - where your roguish and lovable hosts Nicholas Binge and Hugo Powell will talk about a wide variety of ...
Episode 13 - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (or Writing Psychological Realism)
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode of the Binge Reading Bookclub, Nicholas Binge and Hugo Powell discuss The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Rather than simply ref...
Episode 12 - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (or a Plot Twist? How About a Narrative Twist?)
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode of the Binge Reading Bookclub, Nicholas Binge and Hugo Powell discuss The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. A second wolrd fantasy that fo...
Episode 11 - Behind Frenemy Lines by Zen Cho (or how to write conflict without killing anyone)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode of the Binge Reading Bookclub, Nicholas Binge and Hugo Powell discuss Behind Frenemy Lines by Zen Cho. A delightful romance novel that...
Episode 10 - Xenos by Dan Abnett (or How does one blend genres?)
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we dive deep into the lore of Warhammer 40K with Xenos by Dan Abnett, the first in the Eisenhorn trilogy from the Black Library. Whil...
Episode 9 - Homefire by Kamila Shamsie (or a nice change of perspective)
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Nicholas and Hugo delve deep into literary fiction, a term so deeply confusing that they only just make heads or tails of it. Kamila Shamsie...
Episode 8 - Leech by Hiron Ennes with guest Sunyi Dean
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are overjoyed to be joined by the marvelous Sunyi Dean, multiple award losing author of The Book Eaters (her words not ours). She chose the Novel L...
Episode 7 - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (or Epistoral Structure, the emphasis on the
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we chat about Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel, a story told through very unconventional epistoral technique of the discovery of a giant alie...
Episode 6 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (or the Importance of Voice and Narrative Tone)
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we chat about A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, a story of the Count Rostov and his various encounters while under house arrest the Metrop...
Episode 5 - Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (or A Weekend in the Countryside by Samanta Schweblin)
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we chat about Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, a tense and heartbreaking horror that investigates the repercussions of 'Soul Splitting&apo...
Episode 4 - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor (or Laini's Superpower is Writing Prose)
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we chat about Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor, a fantasy novel the follows the story of orphan Lazlo Strange and Godspawn Sarai. Nick breaks...
Episode 3 - Planetfall by Emma Newman (or An Unreliable Narrator, or Were They?)
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we chat about Planetfall by Emma Newman, Sci-fi set 20 years after humanity sets foot on a new planet in search of God's City. Nicholas hel...
Episode 2 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker (or How to Write Wide Characters)
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month we read We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker, a crime/thriller set in a small Californian town in the late 1990s but not all is as it seem...
Episode 1 - What is the point of this podcast?
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let's get to know each other! In this episode we talk ghost writing a YA novel, our favourite creative outputs, and we write the first sentence o...