What Page Are You On?
119 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsProlific readers Alice Slater and Bethany Rutter take a literary theme, from ghost stories to crime to fat women, and chat about it for the next 40 minutes.
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118: The lads chat to Eliza Clark
July 13, 2023 23:02 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBAlice and Bethany have the huge pleasure of talking to girlie of the moment, Eliza Clark, largely about her new novel Penance but also about true crime, Tumblr, the wild success of Boy Parts and its upcoming stage adaptation!
117: The lads chat body horror with Heather Parry
July 06, 2023 23:04 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBAlice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to Heather Parry about her short story collection This Is My Body Given For You, which is a gnarly little thing full of troubling images and ideas. She also talks about the great work she does at the Society of Authors, and lots more!
116: The Lads Chat Unlikeable Female Characters with Anna Bogutskaya
June 08, 2023 23:02 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBAlice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to the film journalist and programmer Anna Bogutskaya about her new non-fiction book Unlikeable Female Characters! They take a dive into the world of 'unlikeable' women through film and TV from erotic thrillers to Skyler White via the Hays Code and Amy Dunne from Gone Girl.
115: Fat Talk with Virginia Sole-Smith
May 04, 2023 23:02 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBBethany has the huge pleasure of chatting to Virginia Sole-Smith about her revolutionary new book Fat Talk: Coming of Age in Diet Culture, which investigates the radical possibility of abandoning our cultural fears around 'childhood obesity' to create bodily autonomy in children and beyond.
114: The Lads Celebrate Death of a Bookseller
April 27, 2023 23:02 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBAlice's debut novel, Death of a Bookseller, is out NOW! So obviously Bethany had to ask her all the nosy questions about it!
113: The lads chat to actual Katherine Heiny
April 21, 2023 08:19 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBAlice and Bethany have a whale of a time with the funny, smart Katherine Heiny, author of the new collection Games and Rituals, as well as the novels Standard Deviation and Early Morning Riser. Games and Rituals is out now!
112: Q1 reading report
April 06, 2023 23:02 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBAlice and Bethany atone for not putting out an episode for the first three months of the year by telling you all about everything they've read in the first quarter of 2023.
111: Our books of 2022
February 03, 2023 00:02 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBAlice and Bethany are BACK from their unplanned hiatus! And they've got a long, juicy episode for you about their favourite books of 2022, which obviously they should have recorded weeks ago... but didn't. Enjoy!
110: The Lads Chat to Sara Gran
November 04, 2022 00:02 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBIf you've been listening to WPAYO for a little while you'll know that a true Book of the Pod is Come Closer by Sara Gran. We are so hyped that she has a NEW book out, called The Book of the Most Precious Substance, and that we got to talk to her about it for this episode! The Book of the Most Precious Substance is out NOW from Faber!
109: The Lads Chat to Chelsea G Summers
October 06, 2022 23:02 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBAlice and Bethany have the great pleasure of interviewing Chelsea G Summers, author of the bloody and brilliant A Certain Hunger!
108: The Lads Chat to Erin Kelly
August 25, 2022 23:02 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBAlice and Bethany have the extreme joy of interviewing friend of the pod, thee Erin Kelly, author of Alice's fave, The Poison Tree and Bethany's fave, The Burning Air, as well as huge bestseller He Said She Said! Her new novel, The Skeleton Key, is out on September 1.
107: The Lads Had To Remove This Post
June 23, 2022 23:02 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBAlice and Bethany discuss the dark and delicious novella We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets, translated by Emma Rault. We Had To Remove This Post deals with the corrosive nature of repeated exposure to violence on a content moderator for a tech giant, and we loved it.
106: The Lads Chat to Torrey Peters
May 19, 2022 23:02 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBIt's no secret that WPAYO loved Detransition, Baby - we dedicated a whole episode to it! So we're beyond delighted to speak to Torrey Peters ahead of the British Book Awards, where she's nominated in the Discover category. Detransition, Baby is out now in paperback!
105: Blockbusters: Red Dragon
May 12, 2022 23:02 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBAlice and Bethany go deep on Red Dragon by Thomas Harris as part of their Blockbusters series, since they both love Silence of the Lambs.
104: The Lads Interview Joanne Harris
May 05, 2022 23:02 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBThis week we had the huge pleasure of talking to literary legend Joanne Harris about her latest book, A Narrow Door, which is absolutely brilliant, thrilling and haunting. We also chatted about the great work done by the Society of Authors, and Joanne's generosity with informal creative writing education via Twitter! A delight.
103: The Lads Talk Through Their TBR Piles
April 28, 2022 23:02 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBAlice and Bethany go through the five books they're each planning to read in the near future. If you want to see a list of the books, head to the podcast Instagram or Twitter!
102: The Lads Predict the British Book Awards
April 21, 2022 23:02 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBAlice and Bethany take a look at a few categories from the British Book Awards and chat through their thoughts and feelings, as well as trying to predict what will win. Lots of chat, speculation and conjecture!
101: The Lads Read New Animal
April 14, 2022 23:02 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBAlice and Bethany take messy gal fic into a darker direction with New Animal by Ella Baxter, which is out now from Picador.
100: The Lads Interview Coco Mellors
April 07, 2022 23:04 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBAlice and Bethany absolutely loved Coco Mellors' glittering debut Cleopatra & Frankenstein, a portrait of a marriage in early noughties NYC, and in this episode they get to ask the author all about it! The book is available now from 4th Estate.
99: The Lads Discuss Welcome To Your Life!
March 31, 2022 23:02 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBBethany's adult debut novel is out NOW and she and Alice have a lil chat about the book and its creation! You can buy it from Waterstones here - https://www.waterstones.com/book/welcome-to-your-life/bethany-rutter/9780008469948
98: The Lads Interview Catherine Ryan Howard
March 18, 2022 00:02 - 52 minutes - 48 MBBethany attempts to keep calm as she and Alice meet Catherine Ryan Howard, author of several of the best 21st century thrillers, including her latest novel 56 Days. Catherine talks about her frankly fascinating writing process, her relationship with true crime, writing a 'lockdown novel' and loads and loads more.
97: The Lads Read Notes On An Execution
March 11, 2022 00:02 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBAlice and Bethany do a deep dive on the brilliant Notes On An Execution by Danya Kukafka, exploring the life and death of a murderer on death row and the women whose lives he affected.
96: The Lads Chat to Lucy Foley
March 04, 2022 00:02 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBAlice and Bethany get to sit down with the 21st century's answer to Agatha Christie, the excellent Lucy Foley! They chat all things murder mystery as they celebrate the launch of Lucy's latest thriller, The Paris Apartment, which is out now.
95: The Lads Read Attica Locke
February 25, 2022 00:04 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBOver the past two months, Bethany has become obsessed with the crime author Attica Locke, so this episode is a little introduction to her major themes and her most famous novel Bluebird, Bluebird.
94: The Lads Do BookTok
February 11, 2022 00:02 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBAlice educates Bethany on the wonderful world of BookTok, a place that Alice is spending a lot of time these days. They talk virality, what makes a BookTok hit, and what publishers can do to hop on the TikTok train.
93: The Lads chat to Daphne Palasi Andreades
February 04, 2022 00:02 - 42 minutes - 39 MBIf you don't know about Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades, where have you been?! It's one of the most anticipated books of the year, and in the words of Raven Leilani, 'an ode to girlhood'. We've been so lucky to talk to Daphne on today's episode, and we hope you enjoy the chat and the book, which is out now from 4th Estate.
92: The Lads' Books of 2021
December 10, 2021 00:02 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBAlice and Bethany wrap up the year in style and let you know their respective top 10s of 2021! For a full list, please see our Instagram account for WPAYO!
91: Blockbusters: The Lads Read Agatha Christie
December 03, 2021 00:02 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBShe's sold over 2 BILLION COPIES and is the most-translated author in history. Alice has never read any Agatha Christie, so the WPAYO gals read And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express.
90: Dark Tales with Jen Campbell
November 19, 2021 00:02 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBJen Campbell is a Proper Expert on fairytales, especially as they relate to disability and disfigurement, so Alice and Bethany were extremely keen to talk to her about her new book, The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers And Other Gruesome Tales. They travel around the world discussing the fairytale tropes from different countries and continents and ask Jen all their burning fairytale questions like why disability is so prevalent in tales of yore.
89: Bethany Talks Romance with Lindsey Kelk
November 12, 2021 00:02 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBWhat are the essential ingredients of a romantic interest? Are people gagging for escapism right now? Why do you love Twilight so much? These are all questions that baby romance author Bethany asked very well-established romance author Lindsey Kelk to celebrate the publication of her new novel, On A Night Like This!
88: Alison Rumfitt Tells You You're Worthless
October 28, 2021 23:02 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBAlice and Bethany celebrate the release of Tell Me I'm Worthless with an interview with the book's esteemed author Alison Rumfitt. A truly audacious addition to the great tradition of haunted house novels!
87: Blockbusters: The Lads Read Twilight
October 21, 2021 23:02 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBAlice and Bethany continue their slow and intermittent series on blockbuster books with an episode about Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Has it stood the test of time?
86: Calla Henkel Wrote A Book You Will Love
October 14, 2021 23:02 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBBethany interviews the extremely interesting Calla Henkel about her phenomenal novel Other People's Clothes, which - if you listen to this podcast and enjoy Alice + Bethany's recommendations - you will almost certainly adore.
85: The Lads Get Scared
October 07, 2021 23:02 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBAlice and Bethany kick off Spooky Season with this rundown of 10 scary novels, from thrillers to horror to noir, that they rate in three very important categories.
84: The Lads Get Beastly
September 30, 2021 23:02 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBAlice and Bethany take a look at two recent reissues of novels about women getting *very* intimate with nature, Bear by Marian Engel and Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls.
83: The Lads Do A BookTube Reading Tag
September 23, 2021 23:02 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBAlice and Bethany do a rest-of-the-year reading tag as seen on Ariel Bissett's YouTube channel and talk about their plans, ruminate on ghostwritten books and start cautiously thinking about 2022 books.
82: The Lads Do The Sally Rooney Campaign
September 06, 2021 23:02 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBAlice and Bethany navigate Rooney Fever by discussing the masterful marketing campaign by Faber for Beautiful World, Where Are You? which is released this week.
81: The Lads Play A Game
August 26, 2021 23:02 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBAlice and Bethany read each other the first line of five books from their TBR pile and try to guess what they're from.
80: The Lads Celebrate Women In Translation Month
August 19, 2021 23:02 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBAlice and Bethany take you through a non-comprehensive list of some translated fiction they've enjoyed for Women In Translation month.
79: The Lads Get Short and Sweet
August 12, 2021 23:02 - 32 minutes - 30 MBAlice and Bethany take you through some quick reads: novellas to consume on a train journey, on the beach or chilling in a pub garden this summer.
78: The Lads Talk to Nina Mingya Powles
August 05, 2021 23:02 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBAlice and Bethany are so lucky to be able to speak to Nina Mingya Powles, author of previous WPAYO fave Tiny Moons, about her new book, Small Bodies of Water. It's out now from Canongate and you can buy it at all good bookshops!
77: The Lads Love The Service
July 22, 2021 23:02 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBAlice and Bethany discuss The Service by Frankie Miren, a genuinely brilliant book that you should buy and read right now.
76: The Lads Do The Latest Cat Person Discourse
July 15, 2021 23:04 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBAlice and Bethany discuss the article Cat Person And Me by Alexis Nowicki and try to grapple with the question of whether it's okay to lift other people's lives to use as material in your writing.
75: The Lads Go Blockbuster
July 08, 2021 23:02 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBAlice and Bethany take a look at the best-selling books of all time, and attempt to crack the key to the DaVinci Code('s success).
74: The Lads Do A Mid-Year Roundup
July 01, 2021 23:04 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBAlice and Bethany go through their books of 2021 so far. A full list will be posted on the What Page Are You On account on Instagram!
73: The Lads Do A Writing Q&A
May 13, 2021 23:02 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBAlice and Bethany answer YOUR questions about writing, from the first draft all the way through to what we would avoid in a publisher.
72: The Lads Survive the Apocalypse
May 06, 2021 23:04 - 39 minutes - 36 MBAlice and Bethany survey the terrain of post-apocalyptic novels, from The Road to Severance.
71: The Lads Get Witchy
May 02, 2021 23:02 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBAlice and Bethany discuss the brilliant Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore before musing over the Women's Prize shortlist. Spoiler: they're not happy.
70: The Lads Explore Author Etiquette
April 22, 2021 23:02 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBAlice and Bethany try to navigate the wild behaviour of a fellow author online this week, who prompted a backlash by complaining about 4* reviews.
69: The Lads Go Shopping
April 15, 2021 23:02 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBAlice and Bethany celebrate the reopening of bookshops in England with an episode singing the praises of bookshops they've known and loved, and recommend you some titles to purchase in your favourite bricks and mortar store.