It's our Christmas Special!

Today Abby and Jess try to bring some festive cheer by discussing Charles Dickens' Christmas classic. Naturally, going via a discussion of 'why ghosts', poor politics, Mariah Carey, and which ghost are you?

We'd also like to take the opportunity to suggest some donations that are close to our hearts. If you are able to we'd love for you to make a one-off, or recurring, donation to any of these charities in our name if you've enjoyed the podcast this year.

Refuge

Trussell Trust

Shelter

Merry Christmas, we'll see you in the new year x

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Abby has finally done it, Jess has read a Twilight book.

Our resident YA fiction queen recalls her childhood of reading the Twilight books, and discusses the story written from Edward's perspective in terms of rewriting, target audience, and of course, brooding.

New episodes every Tuesday – join us next week for our Christmas special!

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One of the most famous modernist novels, Jess and Abby tackle Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and, yes, even try to summarise the plot.

What do we think of Woolf's male characters? What even is a "social" novel? And how on earth does Abby manage to weave Twilight into the discussion? We all know there's only one way to answer these questions.

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