The latest edition of The Thursday Book Club was broadcast on 20th March 2025 at 2pm on Phonic FM. Joining host Jonathan Posner were Su Bristow and Richard Handy Click the names to find out more about them, and use the audio bar below to listen to the full show.
We reviewed The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna.
This month I again carried on for the second hour, playing some old favourite tunes from 1982. So if you love these, keep listening after The Thursday Book Club finishes! (Apologies that the final part of the show finishes a bit abruptly!)
Listen to the show in full here:
The next show is at 2pm on the 17th April 2025.
We’ll be reviewing Lock, Stock and Harold by Ebberley Finch.
NEWS
Last month we mentioned a new book, and this month it came out (20th March). It’s called Hopes and Expectations, which continues the heartfelt tales of Eastwood Minster, a community where love and loss, joy and laughter, and hope overcoming adversity bind lives together. It’s a contemporary story bringing relatable characters and touching moments that celebrate the beauty and messiness of life. A brand-new publication from Chronos Publishing, it’s the third novel in the Eastwood Story series by Devon-based author, Richard Frost MBE. You can order on Amazon.
Ali Simpson’s first book in a new series of murder mysteries called Murder under the Rock is due out at the end of April. It’s set in 1930s Torquay – and features Kitty & Nora Markham as private investigators. Inspired by a famous local true life historic crime, book 2 Death by Misdirection will be out later in the year. If you want to meet Ali in person and get a signed copy (and a complimentary hot drink in their café!) you’ll find her in Waterstones Torquay on 7th June.
Angela Joyce’s debut novel The Rydle Year will be launched on 26th March at Ocean Studios, Plymouth. A nostalgic tale set in 70s Plymouth. Now available on Amazon. Email Angela if you want to come to the launch, which is 5:30 to 7:30pm on 26th March at the Ocean Studios, Plymouth: ajoyce.novels25@gmail.com.
Talking of 70s nostalgia, The Barmouth Affairs is available on Amazon. Set in Barmouth, Wales in the mid 70s, this family saga is by Devizes-based author Vanessa M. Tanner, and features two women’s search for love and happiness after their husbands are unfaithful. Buy on Amazon.
There’s a cozy mystery with added catitude coming! The Secret Detective Agency by Helena Dixon comes out on Thursday March 27th and is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie. Pre-order on Amazon.
Here’s an advanced ‘heads-up’. Lin Treadgold’s new book, The Trail to Freedom is coming out later this year but she doesn’t have a date yet. Keep us informed, Lin, once you have a date.
Jonathan’s new book The River of Fire is now available on Amazon.
POETRY TEIGNMOUTH’s next event features the fabulous Raymond Antrobus MBE FRSL. He is a British poet, educator and writer, who has been performing poetry since 2007. In March 2019, he won the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry. In May 2019, Antrobus became the first poet to win the Rathbones Folio Prize for his collection The Perseverance, praised by chair of the judges as “an immensely moving book of poetry which uses his deaf experience, bereavement and Jamaican-British heritage to consider the ways we all communicate with each other.” Antrobus was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020. The event is at Pavilions Teignmouth at 8pm on Saturday 29th March. Tickets are available from the Pavilions website, or you can go direct to the booking form on poetryteignmouth.com/events.
