BONUS: Eva Rice on The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

The Other Boleyn Girl with Ella Risbridger: 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 author of Midnight Chicken Ella Risbridger comes by to talk about masque balls, women in history, sexual ... by Sentimental Garbage

50 min listen

Flowers in the Attic with Julie Cohen: *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 where half the enjoyment comes from the many nutty twists and turns, so definitely read it before l... by Sentimental Garbage

44 min listen

Bridget Jones's Diary with Ayisha Malik: 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 the process. This week, we talk to Bridget super-fan and writer of the Sofia Khan series Ayisha Malik. A... by Sentimental Garbage

43 min listen

Sentimental Garbage: The Trailer: Welcome to Sentimental Garbage, a podcast celebrating chick-lit and the so-called guilty pleasures you’re done feeling guilty about. In series 1, author and journalist Caroline O'Donoghue talks to writers Lauren Bravo, Lucy Vine, Ayisha Malik, E... by Sentimental Garbage

1 min listen

BONUS: Jill Mansell on Millie's Fling: 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 her past as a clinical neuro-physiology technician. Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day. Recorded... by Sentimental Garbage

25 min listen

Career Girls with Helen O'Hara: 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 University with Louise Mensch’s 1995 debut Career Girls. Film critic and Oxford graduate Helen O’Hara def... by Sentimental Garbage

45 min listen

Who's That Girl with Mhairi McFarlane: 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 Mhairi McFarlane's WHO'S THAT GIRL?, an extremely funny romcom about Edie, a 30-something c... by Sentimental Garbage

49 min listen

A Countess Below Stairs with Laura Wood: 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 Anastasia soundtrack. We talk to YA and children's author Laura Wood about A COUNTESS BELOW ST... by Sentimental Garbage

57 min listen

BONUS: Marian Keyes on Watermelon: 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 1990s, growing up in a big family, and how she became the indisputable queen of chick-lit. Music by... by Sentimental Garbage

20 min listen

Eat, Pray, Love with Abigail Bergstrom: 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 discuss what she learns about soul mates, how religion is snuck into the memoir and why women seek suc... by Sentimental Garbage

52 min listen

BONUS: Sarra Manning on Unsticky: 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 magazine world, to orgasms, to the importance of happy endings in chick-lit novels. Don’t forget to liste... by Sentimental Garbage

43 min listen

Millie's Fling with Ella Risbridger: Ready for chick-lit Middlemarch? Today we dive into Jill Mansell’s Millie’s Fling with author of the forthcoming Midnight Chicken & Other Recipes Worth Living For, Ella Risbridger. When 25 year old Millie witnesses the famous romance novelist Orla ... by Sentimental Garbage

52 min listen

Americanah with Candice Carty-Williams: Today we're talking to Queenie author Candice Carty-Williams about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, a book that stands out on Sentimental Garbage for neither being sentimental nor garbage. In fact, it was very well reviewed from the mom... by Sentimental Garbage

48 min listen

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets with Lauren Bravo: 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's part Nancy Mitford, part Dodie Smith, and entirely delightful. The book is set i... by Sentimental Garbage

52 min listen

Under the Tuscan Sun with Rose McGowan: 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 Caroline nor our guest Rose McGowan liked it very much. Instead, we talk about Italy, Rose... by Sentimental Garbage

48 min listen

Knock Wood with Karen Tongson: 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 to blow up a Miss America pageant in Miss Congeniality. But there's more to this a... by Sentimental Garbage

54 min listen

Valley of the Dolls with Ella Risbridger: CONTENT WARNING: rape, fat shaming, homophobia, literally all possible triggers a person could have. This week it's another special edition of Sentimental Garbage, where we talk about the novels that are getting us through the corona virus! Tod... by Sentimental Garbage

76 min listen

BONUS: Joanne Harris on Chocolat: 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 talk about motherhood, magic, giving advice to writers, how to use research in your writing and ... by Sentimental Garbage

27 min listen

Chocolat with Amy Jones: 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 writer and novelist Amy Jones joins us to talk about the first book that helped her resolve her relationship wi... by Sentimental Garbage

50 min listen

Unsticky with Jeanne Sutton: This week it's indecent proposals, being broke in media, and having grandly un-feminist wanks to deeply inappropriate men with Sarra Manning's Unsticky. Ex-magazine journalist and romance novel aficionado Jeanne Sutton talks us through this d... by Sentimental Garbage

49 min listen

Watermelon with Lucy Vine: 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 Vine ever read. We get into the Walsh sisters, emotional abuse and why all debut novels are e... by Sentimental Garbage

44 min listen

The Fortnight in September with Andy Miller: Grab your bucket and spade and your flask of ginger beer, because we're taking a trip back to 1930s Bognor Regis! Today we're talking about RC Sheriff's The Fortnight in September with Backlisted's own Andy Miller. We talk family ho... by Sentimental Garbage

54 min listen

The Undomestic Goddess with Daisy Buchanan: This week we’re talking to the author of the newly-minted The Sisterhood, Daisy Buchanan, about Sophie Kinsella’s The Undomestic Goddess! Workaholic Samantha Sweeting is a brilliant contract lawyer working for the highly pressurised firm Carter Spink. ... by Sentimental Garbage

42 min listen

The Signature Of All Things with Gavin Day: It's the last episode of the season, and we're rounding it off with one of my favourite books of all time The Signature Of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, with one of my favourite people of all time, artist and photographer Gavin Day. We tal... by Sentimental Garbage

65 min listen

Reading Recommendations: No new episode this week, but here are some fiction recommendations that you might be interested in given the current political climate: Heads Of The Coloured People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires Kindred - Octavia E Butler Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison N... by Sentimental Garbage

13 min listen

The Thorn Birds with Caroline Kepnes: We're back for season 4 with Caroline Kepnes, the bestselling author of YOU, to talk about the book that made her lock herself into an ice-cream shop. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough is a sweeping inter-generational epic that focuses on a lo... by Sentimental Garbage

46 min listen

BONUS: Eva Rice on The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets: 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 Loaf and why the 1950s are such an intriguing time period to set a novel in. Music by Harry Harris, ... by Sentimental Garbage

37 min listen

The Devil Wears Prada with Lindsey Kelk: 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 entry level employee. We're talking about Lauren Weisberger's debut THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, a bo... by Sentimental Garbage

53 min listen

LIVE: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging with Holly Bourne: 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 Rennison’s teen classic Angus Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging. We chat about preteen desires, trying to trap ... by Sentimental Garbage

45 min listen

Postcards from the Edge with Tessa Coates (with audiobook extract!): To celebrate the release of the audiobook of Caroline's book, Promising Young Women, writer, podcaster and now audiobook star Tessa Coates comes to talk to us about Carrie Fisher's Postcards From The Edge, as well as discussing the unnerving... by Sentimental Garbage

63 min listen

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BONUS: Eva Rice on The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

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