The Joys of Binge Reading

Alyssa Maxwell – Gilded Newport Mysteries

09 Sep 2024

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Alyssa Maxwell is the author of the acclaimed Gilded Age, Newport mystery series featuring Emmaline Cross. She’s a Vanderbilt by heritage, a Ne...

Helen Brown – Memoirs & Magic

22 Aug 2024

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We’re celebrating a milestone with this podcast, the 300th episode of The Joys of Binge Reading show. And it’s wonderful to be able to sh...

Jeff Carson – For Baldacci Fans

02 Jul 2024

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Jeff Carson is the Amazon-Bestselling author of the David Wolf series, thrillers set in the high country of Colorado, chock-full of action, mystery, ...

Jennifer Deibel – Irish Magic

18 Jun 2024

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Irish magic from Jennifer Deibel – the best- selling and award-winning author of a series of charming Emerald Isle novels combining history, family...

Kel Richards – Country House Mysteries

04 Jun 2024

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Acclaimed Australian broadcaster and wordsmith Kel Richards is passionate about classical mysteries, and the Golden Age of the 1930s when Agatha Chri...

Lian Dolan – The Marriage Sabbatical

21 May 2024

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What if you could take a vacation on your marriage and for six months, pursue a lifetime dream your husband doesn’t share? And he could do the ...

Chris Draper – Optimistic Techno-Thriller

07 May 2024

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 Chris Draper is a Kiwi IT engineer with a passion for writing optimistic, techno-thrillers like Goodbye Woomera Belle the first in a series of ...

Amy Harmon – Butch Cassidy Revisited

23 Apr 2024

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 Amy Harmon grew up in a remote Utah valley, very close to where the famed outlaw Butch Cassidy really lived. Quite a few years before her, of c...

Sarah Sundin – WWII Drama & Romance

09 Apr 2024

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Best-selling award-winning novelist Sarah Sundin, author of beloved World War II stories, never had an ambition to write. She trained as a pharmacist...

Angela Hunt – Expect the Unexpected

26 Mar 2024

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For Easter 2024. Fiction set in Biblical Times. From New York Times bestselling author Angela Hunt comes a compelling new series set in the New...

Amanda Barratt – WWII Warsaw Peril

12 Mar 2024

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Inspirational author Amanda Barrett’s latest book, The Warsaw Sisters shines a light on an oft-forgotten corner of World War II Poland, and the...

Rachel Hore – Family Secrets & Lies

27 Feb 2024

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Rachel Hore is a UK Sunday Times bestselling author. whose latest book, The Hidden Years is the story of secrets, loss and betrayal set in Cornwall d...

Emma St Clair – Sassy Romcoms

13 Feb 2024

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Jenny Wheeler: USA Today bestselling romcom author Emma St Clair loves sassy heroines, witty banter, and love stories with heart and humor. Her books...

Rochelle B. Weinstein – Bitter Sweet Romance

30 Jan 2024

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 Rochelle Weinstein loves bitter sweet women’s stories about finding identity through love and loss and her latest, What You Do To Me intr...

Best of Binge Reading 2023 Part II

16 Jan 2024

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Welcome to The Best of Binge Reading 2023, Part Two, the second and final of our shows featuring the most listened to episodes on our popular fiction...

Best of Binge Reading 2023 – Part I

02 Jan 2024

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Welcome to The Best of Binge Reading 2023, Part One, the first of two shows featuring the most listened to episodes on our popular fiction podcast, c...

Lucy Burdette Culinary Cozies

19 Dec 2023

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Lucy Burdette’s Key West cozies feature a magazine food critic called Hayley Snow, her husband’s nosy dog, Ziggy, and an indomitable sidekick...

Jo Thomas Countdown To Christmas

12 Dec 2023

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Jo Thomas writes funny and sunny best-sellers about food, love and family. Books that wrap their arms around you and give you a “great big hug.” ...

Michelle Major – Queen Of Christmas

05 Dec 2023

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Michelle Major’s USA Today, best-selling romance is all about new beginnings, second chances, and always a Happily Ever After. Just the thing for C...

Emily Bleeker – Emotional Time Slip

28 Nov 2023

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Emily Bleeker is a best-selling author whose dual-time-line novel When We Were Enemies moves between a World War II prisoner of war camp in Indiana a...

Darry Fraser – Empowering Historicals

21 Nov 2023

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Darry Fraser writes bestselling, empowering feminist historicals that put women back in the Australian story. Her latest book, her twelfth novel is c...

Jim Eldridge – Pacey Mysteries

14 Nov 2023

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Jim Eldridge had a stellar career writing for TV and radio before he turned to World War II and late 19th century historical mysteries which demonstr...

Tessa Afshar – Inspired Historicals

07 Nov 2023

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Reviewers use all sorts of adjectives to describe inspirational fiction author Tessa Afshar’s work. Words like whimsical, intriguing, romantic, pro...

Fiona Sussman – Kiwi Domestic Thriller

31 Oct 2023

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This week on The Joys of Binge Reading. Internationally published Kiwi author, Fiona Sussman. And The Doctor’s Wife, a psychological thriller o...

Andrea Penrose – Regency Mysteries

24 Oct 2023

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Andrea Penrose is a USA Today, bestselling author of Regency era historical fiction, including the acclaimed Wrexford and Sloane mystery series. Andr...

Theodore Brun – Dark Age Historicals

17 Oct 2023

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Theodore Brun seemed to have everything. A high level, high earning job as a Paris based lawyer, a group of interesting friends and activities, a Fre...

Kate Gray – Honeymoon Thriller

10 Oct 2023

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Kate Gray wrote half a dozen uplifting feel-good novels and then her dark side took over. One night, she had a horrific nightmare and when she woke u...

Christine Wells – Royal Secrets

03 Oct 2023

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Christine Wells has a gift for digging out history’s hidden stories, and her latest book, The Royal Windsor Secret. is the perfect, delicious mix o...

Harry Whittaker – Atlas: The Pa Salt Story

26 Sep 2023

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​ Harry Whittaker inherited a heartbreaking task when his mother, the international best-selling author, Lucinda Riley, died in 2021. Millions of r...

Loretta Chase – Wickedly Funny Regencies

19 Sep 2023

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Loretta Chase is a doyenne of Regency romance with nearly 30 books in her back list. And she still winning awards. Ten Things I Hate About The Duke, ...

Amanda Geard – Evocative Timeslips

14 Sep 2023

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Amanda Geard has proven herself a master of evocative, triple timeline mysteries, linking generations across the abandoned clues of family history. A...

M.J. Porter – Addictive Saxon Chronicles

05 Sep 2023

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 M.J. Porter has developed an enthusiastic readership for her ninth century Saxon Chronicles set in the depths of a divided Britain. She writes ...

T.A. Williams – Escapist Romance and Mysteries

29 Aug 2023

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T.A. Williams writes highly entertaining, escapist romance and cozy mysteries. that take you to exotic locations without you having to leave your arm...

Sharon Sala – Romantic Suspense Queen

22 Aug 2023

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New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, Sharon Sala is a queen of romantic suspense with more than 130 books published in multiple genres, ...

Kerry McGinnis – Outback Serial Killer

15 Aug 2023

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Australian author Kerry McGinnis makes the Australian landscape come alive in suspenseful, best selling rural mysteries that capture the soul and spi...

Adrienne Chinn – Sweeping Epic

08 Aug 2023

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Adrienne Chinn’s Three Sisters, Great War series offers readers an epic sweeping historical saga, perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, and we&#82...

A. W. Hartoin – Best Selling Mysteries

01 Aug 2023

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On Binge Reading today, USA Today bestselling author A.W. Hartoin talks about her World War II, Stella Bled spy thriller series, and the young Americ...

Madeleine Eskedahl – Top Kiwi Thrillers

25 Jul 2023

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Madeleine  Eskedahl is the best-selling author of crime thrillers set in seaside, New Zealand. Local policemen, Bill Granger is hoping for a qui...

Annabel Monaghan – Evocative Romcoms

18 Jul 2023

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This week on Binge Reading, Annabel Monaghan and the ultimate summer nostalgia read about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love...

Mark Brandi – Aussie Noir

11 Jul 2023

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Mark Brandi is an award-winning crime novelist whose fifth book. Southern Aurora – as one reviewer noted, “takes hold of your heart. Breaks i...

Kelly Rimmer – WWII Dual Timeline

04 Jul 2023

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Kelly Rimmer’s sweeping World War Two historical suspense has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide and made international best seller lists, i...

Fiona Lowe – Contemporary Fiction

27 Jun 2023

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A small town scammed by one of their own in a Ponzi scheme. That’s the scenario for bestselling author Fiona Lowe’s, latest contemporary fict...

Amy Poeppel – Fresh Funny Romcoms

20 Jun 2023

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This week on Binge Reading, delightfully fresh and funny romcom from Amy Poeppel. Her latest romp, The Sweet Spot is a tale of spurned love, revenge,...

Juliette Fay – Tender & Touching Stories

13 Jun 2023

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Juliette Fay is the award-winning, best-selling author of tender novels that raise questions of loss, regret, second chances, and the influence famil...

Monty Soutar – For Such A Time As This

06 Jun 2023

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Monty Soutar is a respected New Zealand historian who took a big step and turned his life upside down to write a game changing novel. Kāwai For Such...

Jill Santopolo – Sweeping Italian Romance

31 May 2023

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Jill Santopolo is an international best-selling author who writes sweeping love stories about decisions, regrets, second chances and how families inf...

Amy Vansant – Friendly Mercenaries

23 May 2023

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Amy Vansant writes gritty thrillers and cozy mysteries which have one thing in common – they’re all funny because as Amy says – she tried to do...

Ann Parker – Silver Rush Mysteries

16 May 2023

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Ann Parker is the award-winning author of the Silver Rush mystery series set in 19th century Colorado. And yes, that is Silver Rush as distinct from ...

Carol Drinkwater – An Act Of Love

09 May 2023

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From Carol Drinkwater, the beloved star of the English TV show. All Creatures Great And Small comes a heart-wrenching World War II romance about a Fr...

Liz Nugent – Dark & Twisty Thrillers

02 May 2023

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This week on The Joys of Binge Reading, Strange Sally Diamond, the latest, dark and twisted thriller from award-winning Irish novelist, Liz Nugent. H...

Marie Benedict – Mitford Madness

18 Apr 2023

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On Binge Reading this week, biographical fiction author Marie Benedict talks about her latest best seller, The Mitford Affair, the story of the beaut...

Samantha Vérant – Food For Love

04 Apr 2023

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French American author Samantha Vérant delivers perfectly seasoned fiction that combines her passions in life – France, food and love. And her...

Lily Chu – Hilarious Romcoms

21 Mar 2023

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Lily Chu is leading the way in a new approach to publishing, launching her bestselling books in audio format first, and then following up with print ...

Catherine Ryan Howard – Mind-Twisting Thrillers

07 Mar 2023

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This week on The Joys of Binge Reading to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, a little bit of green. Irish thriller author Catherine Ryan Howard with ...

Roselle Lim – Encore – Love & Loneliness

28 Feb 2023

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Welcome to Encore on Binge Reading, the show where we invite back authors who’ve already been on The Joys of Binge Reading to talk about their ...

Diana Giovinazzo – World Changing Women

21 Feb 2023

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Today on The Joys Of Binge Reading, a real historical fiction treat. Diana Giovinazzo and Antoinette’s Sister, historical fiction bursting with...

Kate O’Keeffe – Swoonworthy Romance

07 Feb 2023

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Kate O’Keeffe is the perfect Valentine’s Day guest for this week’s Binge Reading. A USA Today. best selling author of laugh out lo...

Natasha Lester – Encore -World War II Spies

24 Jan 2023

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On Encore today, we have Australian author, Natasha Lester who was last on the show in August, 2020 with her international best seller, The Paris Sec...

Best of Binge Reading 2022 Part II

10 Jan 2023

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Happy New Year and welcome back to Part Two of the Best of Binge Reading 2022, and the seven top shows for the year as selected by you, our listeners...

Best of Binge Reading 2022 – Part 1

03 Jan 2023

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Happy New Year and welcome to The Best Of Joys Of Binge Reading for 2022. We’re presenting the Top 15 Shows for the year as selected by you, o...

Encore – Karen Swan – Holiday Treats

27 Dec 2022

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Karen Swan is a favorite with binge reading listeners. Her appearance on the show at Christmas time last year was one of the most listened to episode...

Faith Hogan – Irish Best Sellers

21 Dec 2022

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Faith Hogan is an award-winning and best-selling Irish author of nine contemporary novels, the latest of which is The Gin Sisters Promise. Her books ...

Melody Carlson – Inspirational Christmas

13 Dec 2022

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 Melody Carson is an award-winning author of inspirational romance with more than 200 books and 6.5 million copies sold. She certainly knows wha...

Douglas Skelton – Dark Scottish thrillers

06 Dec 2022

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Douglas Skeleton is one of Scotland’s most celebrated crime writers with dark stories that meld history and contemporary life stretching from t...

Avanti Centrae – Cleopatra’s Vendetta

29 Nov 2022

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Avanti Centrae is an international best-selling author who blends history, science and suspense into pulse pounding action thrillers. And she’s...

Jillian Cantor on Encore – Gatsby’s Women

22 Nov 2022

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Welcome to Encore our binge reading episode, where we chat to previous guests of the show about their latest releases. And today we’re talking ...

Jane Green – Swinging Sixties Romance

15 Nov 2022

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Jane Green has eighteen New York Times best sellers and ten million in sales in the woman’s fiction genre with several books picked up by film ...

Peter Papathanasiou – Greek-Aussie Noir

08 Nov 2022

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Greek Australian author Peter Papathanasiou follows up his first novel  –  the 2021 crime debut novel of the year  The Stoning &...

Halle Bridgeman- Romantic Suspense

01 Nov 2022

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Hallee Bridgeman is a USA today best-selling author of inspirational romantic suspense and she’s talking about her latest adventure series. Lov...

Kate Parker -WWII Aristocrats & Spies

24 Oct 2022

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Kate Parker’s best selling ‘Deadly’ series follows intrepid lady sleuth, Olivia Redmond a society reporter for a London newspaper a...

Encore – Julie McElwain – Time Travel Murders

17 Oct 2022

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Julie McElwain was first on The Joys of Binge Reading back in in 2018 with her first book in the Kendra Donovan time travel series Murder in Time abo...

Whitney Scharer – Rapturous Bio-Fiction

11 Oct 2022

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Whitney Scharer’s historical novel The Age of Light takes us from the glamor of Paris in the 1920s to the horror of World War II battlefields in a ...

Fiona Leitch – Cornish Murder Mysteries

03 Oct 2022

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On Binge Reading this week Kiwi-based mystery author Fiona Leitch and her Nosey Parker Cornish Murder mystery series, A Recipe For Murder. Hi there, ...

J F Penn – Arkane Thrillers

27 Sep 2022

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J F Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers, dark fantasy, and crime. We are talking about Tomb Of Relics, her twelfth...

Cate Quinn – Chiller Thrillers

20 Sep 2022

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You’d die for your best friend. But would you kill for her? That’s the question contemporary thriller author Cate Quinn poses in her latest book,...

Martin Walker

12 Sep 2022

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Martin Walker is one of the most listened to shows on Binge Reading of all times, so we are delighted to have him back discussing his latest book, To...

Sophie Green – Second Chances

12 Sep 2022

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Sophie Green’s stories of fresh beginnings, unexpected friendships and the power of love in small country communities are Top 10 Best sellers, and ...

Michael Bennett – Dark Kiwi Thriller

06 Sep 2022

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Michael Bennett is an acclaimed New Zealand screen writer and director who’s debut novel Better The Blood has already sold for translation rights i...

Santa Montefiore – Beach Blockbusters

29 Aug 2022

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Santa Montefiore is the women’s fiction queen, selling six million copies internationally of her heart-warming emotional sagas set in exotic places...

Anita Abriel – WWII -Spies & Stolen Art

23 Aug 2022

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Anita Abriel is well known to many readers because of her international hit The Light After The War.  Now she returns with another World War II ...

Pamela Aares- Eco Adventure Romance

16 Aug 2022

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Pamela Aares. USA Today bestselling author and award-winning author of contemporary and historical romance, talking about Book 11 in the Tavonesi ser...

Chuck Greaves – Jack MacTaggart Returns

16 Aug 2022

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Chuck Greaves was last on the Binge Reading Podcast in May, 2020. Now he returns to talk about his fourth book in the Jack MacTaggart series. The Chi...

Lee Goldberg – Eve Ronin Mysteries

09 Aug 2022

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Lee Goldberg is a #1 New York Times best selling author whose had a remarkably durable career as author and TV producer. His latest book is Movieland...

Brenda Janowitz – A Hollywood Twist

01 Aug 2022

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“The Liz Taylor Ring is a gorgeously written multigenerational novel, tracing the path of a diamond ring across decades, through the ups and down i...

Liese Sherwood-Fabre – Young Sherlock

26 Jul 2022

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Liese Sherwood-Fabre has a fresh angle on Sherlock Holmes, featuring Holmes as a wily adolescent saving his family from disaster, acclaimed by critic...

Gill Paul on Encore

26 Jul 2022

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Bestselling author Gill Paul returns with a brilliant novel about Lady Evelyn Herbert, the woman who took the very first step into the tomb of Pharao...

Adrian Hyland – Whip Smart Crime

19 Jul 2022

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Adrian Hyland is an award-winning Australian author of twisty crime stories that are perfect for the fans of Jane Harper, The Dry and Chris Hammer’...

Lise McClendon – French Mysteries

12 Jul 2022

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Lise McClendon’s Bennett Sisters Mysteries are for anyone wanting to lose themselves in the magic of France with heart-warming family stories invol...

Carol Wallace- Gilded Age Rivals

05 Jul 2022

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Carol Wallace has written more than 20 books, including the New York Times bestseller, To Marry an English Lord, which was an inspiration for the Dow...

Laura Frantz – Colonial Romance

28 Jun 2022

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Laura Frantz is a Christy Award winner and best-selling author of more than a dozen historical novels, with a special affection for 18th century Amer...

Deborah Challinor on Encore

28 Jun 2022

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Introducing Encore – a new monthly feature on Binge Reading – and Deborah Challinor, a top selling New Zealand historical fiction author ...

Katherine Howe – Vanderbilt Legacy

21 Jun 2022

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Katherine Howe is a New York Times bestselling historian and novelist and together with American journalist and author Anderson Cooper she co-au...

Erika Robuck – WWII Spy Thriller

14 Jun 2022

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Erika Robuck’s heart-stopping new World War II drama, Sisters of Night and Fog, was named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by BuzzFeed, BookBub, Boo...

Elissa Sussman – Delicious Romcom

07 Jun 2022

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Elissa Sussman’s hilarious break out rom com, Funny You Should Ask, is a witty romance built around the whole question and dynamic of celebrity jou...

Ella Carey – WWI Heartbreaker

31 May 2022

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Ella Carey and her epic heartbreaking World War I story, The Girl From Paris, kick off the show this week, taking us from war-torn Paris of the First...

Lynn Hightower – Spooky Suspense

24 May 2022

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Lynn Hightower is a New York Times best-selling author whose latest thriller has been described by Lee Child as a spooky suspenseful masterpiece that...

Stephanie Laurens – Romance Queen

16 May 2022

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Regency romance queen Stephanie Laurens has been in the top 100 Romance of the Year lists many times over. She is one of the most successful and popu...

Catherine Lea – Kiwi Crime Series

10 May 2022

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Catherine Lea is a thriller writer whose latest book, The Water’s Dead, is New Zealand’s answer to Vera Stanhope. It’s the first in a n...

Meg Waite Clayton – WWII Best Seller

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today on The Joys of Binge Reading Meg Waite Clayton, international bestselling author of The Last Train to London, returns with another haunting war...

Lynette Eason – Romantic Suspense

26 Apr 2022

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Bestselling and award-winning master of romantic suspense Lynette Eason talks about her new book, Life Flight, the first in the high-octane adventure...