Chapters at The Book Shop
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Chapters at The Book Shop
Chapters at The Book Shop - Episode 6
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Indie bookshop week, shop favourites and fan email
PLUS someone got engaged !
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It's podcast day. What miserable weather. I cannot believe how miserable it's been after that heat wave two weeks ago. Well, you know what that means. What? We've had our summer. It was supposed to be really nice this weekend, wasn't it? Because we're off to the Jane Austen Festival at Chatsworth House up in the Derbyshire Dales. Because we're really cool people. We are such book nerds. We have got our Regency dresses. We have. So we will with our long white satin gloves. Yep, can't wait for that. And our little picnic. Yep. And we will be sat on the South Lawn watching Pride and Prejudice. Woo! Yeah, we're very excited. Yeah, we are. I think we'll get tickets and visit Chatsworth House during the day. They've got the festival on all weekend, and you can go to a Pemberley ball on the Saturday night, but that's sold out, isn't it? Yeah, which is a shame. Afternoon tea as well, didn't we? But that was also sold out. It's awesome. But there are some lovely little classes and things that you can go to, aren't there? There's um Regency embroidery classes and a watercolour class, and yeah, they encourage everyone to dress up, so we aren't going to be the only ones, are we?
SPEAKER_01I really hope not. Because I'm going home if we are.
SPEAKER_00Well, it's been quite a um busy week in the shop. We've had a couple of events, haven't we? We had um Richard Jones in last Friday. Don't need to talk about that because we took because we did the podcast. We did the podcast, that's right. Um, so you can still listen to his 30-minute talk about the A to Z of gospel. He talked about a few things that were in the book, but you can't give too much away. Yeah. So and then did we have something Monday night? I don't think we did, did we?
SPEAKER_01Let me grab the event lift. Just art club Monday night.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Monday night we had art club, but that's um exclusively for our book club subscribers, but they had a good evening. It was um someone's birthday, wasn't it? And they had a few, they had a birthday cake and some nibbles, and I think they crocheted crowns, didn't they? Yes, they did, yeah. Uh, this Saturday sees the start of Independent Bookshop Week. Yeah. So Saturday to Saturday, we've got a few things going on all week. We've got the big book swap on Tuesday. Um, it's only for an hour, but that's really good fun. I think we mentioned it before. It was like hungry hippos for books last time, wasn't it? That always makes me laugh that Kelly said that. That is exactly what it was like when everybody had the chance to choose their book at the end of all the pitches. It was a free-for-all. It was. Yeah, so that's quite funny. It was scary. It was. Uh, we're at Crofton School a couple of days this week doing their transition evening. And then on Saturday, it is the bookshop's birthday. 98 years old. Unbelievable. So for the next, so starting Saturday and for the next seven or eight days, we are going to be giving away a free five pound national book token with every spend over £20. Yep. That is always a bargain. Um, and we'll have some other special offers on in the shop to um celebrate and thank all the people that choose to shop with us. Very important. As an independent bookshop. So, um, what have we read since last week? I don't know. So I have done the picture of Dorian Grey. Yeah. So in the last week, what have we read in the last week? Okay, so in the last week, I read the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Really enjoyed that. Really enjoyed that. I was, yeah, very surprised as his prose and his opinions and his is everything is just wonderful. Hang on a minute, no, that was Robert Lewis Stevenson, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_01But Oscar Wilde is also great.
SPEAKER_00That's the picture of Dorian Grey that I've also finished. Yep. Yeah, well I read talked about how short it was, hadn't it? But I read Some of Us Are Liars by Fiona Cummins. That is our latest crime book. If I read you the blurb from the back of the book, it says, There's your side, my side, and the truth. Three sisters, one wedding, a tragedy that changes everything. When global superstar Winter Kelleway hosts a Lavage Beach side party to celebrate her sister Jen Miller's wedding, a single misstep suddenly tears apart their close-knit family. With Jen's world in ruins, forgiveness seems impossible. Enter young detectives soul anguish as the investigation unfolds and a shocking secret is uncovered. The family must confront the truth. Escaping the past is never easy. I really enjoyed this. We've done Fiona Cummins in Book Club before, and this was another really good one. Nice and easy to read, couple of little plot twists. Yeah, brilliant. Highly recommend. Published by Pam Macmillan. Yeah, really good one. Yeah, that's terrible. Um, I also read Days of Light by Megan Hunter. I finished that. That was a good book, very beautifully written. Um the story in that was almost the background feature of it. You get so engrossed in how lovely the writing is. It was just stunning. Let me grab a copy, hang on. And this was our Positivity Book Club book. So it says, Easter, Sunday 1938. Ivy is 19 and ready for her life to finally begin. In the idyllic Sussex countryside, her sprawling Bohemian family and their friends gather for lunch and to await the arrival of a longed-for guest. Days later at a funeral, Ivy is kissed by the man she will marry and grieves with the woman who will become the love of her life because that single enchanted Easter ended in tragedy, and Ivy will spend the rest of her life searching for the answer to what happened. She kissed the man that she'll marry. That reminds me, Jasmine, you got engaged! Jasmine got engaged! Jasmine got engaged! Oh my god, I cannot believe I didn't open with that. I can't believe you didn't open with that either. Congratulations. Thank you. And where did your lovely Beau propose to you?
SPEAKER_01Well, as said in the last podcast, I was going to Oxford to the Bodleian Library for a private tour. He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him, and I said yes, and then I said thank you because my manners are impeccable. And it seemed rude not to say thank you, and apparently that's really weird. But I thought that do people not say thank you when they get proposed to?
SPEAKER_00I don't know actually. I don't I mean apparently I think it's usually yes, and then lots of crying on the female part and lots of um relief on the male part.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, I yeah, I said yes, obviously.
SPEAKER_00And what a beautiful setting, the Bodleian library.
SPEAKER_01It was absolutely gorgeous. He did very, very well, and I was very impressed. Oh, well, congratulations! Thank you, thank you. Anyone that's been in the shop in the last three days has probably had me immediately shove my ring in their face and tell them that I got engaged. So I think everyone's aware by now. But um, yes, I am engaged. Oh, that's lovely. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Anyway, back to books.
SPEAKER_01Yep, oh yeah, the thing we're here for.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I also read The Picture of Dorian Grey, I finished that, Oscar Wilde. Wow, I loved that. Absolutely loved that. It was brilliant. The prose, his his opinions are very much, you know, intertwined and interlaced all the way through. Oh, it was wonderful. Really, really enjoyed that, and we will be doing that as a candlelight event this Saturday. Well, a week Saturday for the bookshop on the bookshop's 98th birthday. What have you read in the last week? Have you read it?
SPEAKER_01I haven't read anything because I just got engaged, and that is gonna be my excuse for the next few months. Sorry, I just got engaged, I can't do anything. And to be honest, I think it's quite rude that you've expected me to be in work this week because I just got engaged and I think I deserve time off.
SPEAKER_00Okay, right. Yes, well, how many days have you will you actually have worked by the end of this week? Three three whole days? No, not three whole days. Was it two hours Tuesday, two hours yesterday? I will report you to HR. I am HR. Okay, so I am still trying to finish Little Women. I think I've got about eight chapters left. Wow. I am reading One Dark Spring, which was the 1920s true crime book we talked about last week. But I noticed that we've had quite a few proofs come in this week, haven't we? Yeah. Well, actually, these proofs that we've got here came in today. We've got The Devoted by Catherine Cho. It says on the back the stunning debut novel of family, love, betrayal, and fate. Oh yeah, it says, I could claim what was mine, I was my father's daughter, I had the truth, it had been given to me, all the pieces were here, the board had been set, it was the ending that mattered. Doesn't really give too much away, does it?
SPEAKER_01I know.
SPEAKER_00That's the devoted. We've got the Twittenham Summer, the upside down world of three friends, and the writing of Gulliver's Travels by Hester Grant. Says in March 1726, exactly 300 years ago, Jonathan Swift travelled from Dublin to London with an unfinished manuscript of Gulliver's travels in his bag. The hot summer that followed changed forever what fiction could do. This is the story of the Twittenham summer, during which Swift and his friends, Alexander Pope and John Gay, sharpened their pens and nursed giants and yahoos in a Twickenham garden. It is a brilliant evocation of political rage, the joy and stench of 18th century life, and a moving portrait of male friendship. Wow. Oh, that sounds quite good. Ah, so what's this one? No one can hurt slash love you like a sister. Oh, this is called well, it looks like it's called Two Sisters by Laura Dockrill. There is absolutely no hint on the outside.
SPEAKER_01It's on the inside.
SPEAKER_00It's on the inside. Two Sisters, a warm, laugh out loud, funny, and poignant novel about sisterhood and finding your place in the world. Leone and Nora couldn't be less alike. Leone is brave and bold. She left the Isle of Pitt behind in search of adventure and swore she'd never return. Nora prefers the cozy embrace of home, and besides, one of them has to take some responsibility. When Leone's reckless lifestyle catches up with her, she returns home to Pitt to recover in the comforting, clawing care of her younger sister. But instead, she's surprised to find reliable, steadfast Nora is just as lost as she is. Oh, that's quite good. That's actually out in June. That's actually out this month.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, and this one is called An Unlikely Visitor by Joanna Cannon. If you knock on a few doors, you might just find another end to your story. Oh. I do like a proof. Proofs are the size tend to be the size of hardbacks, don't they? Yeah. With nice big prints, but they've got paper covers. Yeah. So I love reading a proof. That stay for a spell was a proof, wasn't it? The green one at first. And then when they brought the book out, it was just beautiful. It really was. We were um having a chat this morning, weren't we, about our favourite books in the shop.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00And we were having we were going through the shelves to see what we could um see what our favourite were were at present, particularly because we got the chain back in this week, didn't we? Adrian McKinsey. You love that book. Oh, that is such a good book. Came out in 2020. We were putting it in lots of different positivity boxes at the time because it had just came out, and people that were requesting crime books during lockdown, um, it was a winner, wasn't it? Yeah. I think the nightingale was the opposite of that. So if people wanted crime, we gave them the chain, and if people just wanted a contemporary fiction, I suppose, um, we gave them the nightingale. And both of those books are still my favourite in the shop.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Those along with The Echo Man. Um, I believe filming has just wrapped on um The Nightingale, so we should be seeing that film out soon. Um, for those that don't know, I mean, I'm sure everybody must know about this book, set in France 1940, The Nightingale by Kristen Hanna. Wow, what a book! When I finished this, I remember coming downstairs into the shop and looking at the bookshelves and thinking, what am I gonna read next? I could not find a book to follow it. And I think I ended up reading another Kristin Hanna. It might have been, and it was very similar to the where the crawl dads sing, I can't remember what that's called now, but it was fantastic. But if I tell you about The Nightingale, for those of you who don't know, this is a story about what it is like to be a woman during World War II when women's stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked. Vianne and Isabelle Moriac are two sisters separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love, and freedom in war-torn France. It is a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the endurance of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for lifetime. Wow, yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Yeah. What a brilliant story it was. It's gonna be a soon to be a major major motion picture. It is honestly. Um, and then of course the chain. Now, the chain, if crime isn't your sort of thing, crime thrillers, then obviously you're not gonna like this, but this is a heart stopping roller coaster of a book. I'll I'll tell you the um the story. Your phone rings, a stranger has kidnapped your child. To free them, you must abduct someone else's child, and your child will be released. When your victim's parents kidnap another child, if any of these things don't happen, your child will be killed. Victim, survivor, abductor, criminal, you will become each one, and you are now part of the chain.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00Could you kidnap someone else's child to save your own? No. I could. I should hope so. I'm right here. If you got kidnapped, I would be brought straight back. Okay, in a weird world. In an ideal world. In an ideal world where you would not be brought straight back. Yeah. If somebody kidnapped you and the only way I could get you back would be to kidnap another child, I would do it.
SPEAKER_01That's so cruel. Why are you kidnapping children?
SPEAKER_00Because yeah. It's so it's it's hard.
SPEAKER_01Kidnapping children, I imagine it is.
SPEAKER_00I would have to do something to notify the parents of that child discreetly why I was doing it. I mean. Yeah, I don't know if I would be brave enough to put your life at risk by contacting the police and telling them what I was doing.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, if this happened and you're just going around telling people I'm absolutely getting killed.
SPEAKER_00Why Well no, it's like you said, in the real world, if you got kidnapped, someone would bring you back. Yeah, they would. They would not be able to put up with you for long. One, because of the way you behave when you j when you don't have monsters. Okay. You're I've never seen you gobsmack before.
SPEAKER_01You can't just attack me like that. I've just been kidnapped.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, and I'm just about to kidnap a child to save you, but Wow, I thought the children we're talking in this book that we're talking about, I'm sure they're like seven, eight, nine years of age.
SPEAKER_01I was a biter at that age. No one's kidnapping me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, anyway, it's an interesting premise, um, up for discussion. Yeah, I think you I think in in good conscience I could only do it and somehow notify that parent of what I was doing. Maybe I would go to the police. Yeah, I can't remember how it works in the book properly, but it's not that nice.
SPEAKER_01You can't just rock up to one of your nieces' houses and just be like, come on, let's go.
SPEAKER_00So there are two of my books in the shop that are my favourite at the moment, along with the Echo Man, of course, Sam Holland. We had Sam Holland in Killer in Room Five, uh, which is book five in the Echo Man series. Um, I think episode three, you can listen to Sam the Ham Sam Holland interview. Did I say Ham Holland?
SPEAKER_01You've got to keep that.
SPEAKER_00Oh goodness me. The Echo Man, serial killer that copies of a serial killer's. So yeah, they're probably my three favourites in the shop at the moment. What what would you say is your I mean, looking at what we've got on our shelves. Yeah. Is there something that is your favourite book at the moment?
SPEAKER_01Um, definitely Broken House is is up there. It is a good book. I always say to people, oh, you have to read it because I'm in it. But it genuinely is a really, really good book.
SPEAKER_00That's Broken House by Louisa Scar, who funnily enough is the real name of Sam Holland. Yeah. Um, and that's book three, isn't it? But all her books can be beautifully read as a standalone, can't they?
SPEAKER_01Yes, they can. But um this one just I feel like it discusses a lot of things that need to be discussed. Yeah. Um, and it talks about a lot of stuff that is they're quite touchy subjects, but the way she explains it, I don't want to give anything away, so I'm just talking in riddles. But I will just read the back because I don't want to give anything away. So the truth, you you have to gasp, by the way, because I do it for you. The truth never stays buried. Lauren Shaw went missing ten years ago, leaving her house to rot. Let me finish the sentence. But new evidence shows that she didn't start a new life, someone ended it.
SPEAKER_00Oh no.
SPEAKER_01That's yeah, okay. You're terrible at this. Uh PC Lucy Halliday and her dog Moss are called in as part of the search, and it doesn't take Moss long to track down human remains. DCI Jack Ellis leads the case, but their friendship's on a knife edge after he kept a huge secret about her past, something Lucy can't ignore forever. A strange feeling hangs over the house. Lauren's husband never returned there, and what is her sister desperately trying to conceal? Thank you. Can Lucy and Jack put their issues behind them and uncover the darkness at the heart of Broken House?
SPEAKER_00Brilliant. Thank you. Another another excellent book. And I believe Leicester Square is gonna be out in October. Possibly.
SPEAKER_01That is definitely definitely one of your favourites. Yeah. Um I can remember reading because we got we didn't even get a proof. We did get a proof, but we got um she had to email the whole book to us, didn't she?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because I'm in it and she needed my permission. So I can even remember reading. To make sure that you were happy with what she'd written about you. Which I was obviously. Um, but I absolutely loved that.
SPEAKER_00Another favourite of mine is What's the book you always try and convince people to read if they've not tried fantasy before?
SPEAKER_01Usually I would either go for Alice by Christina Henry.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, good choice. That's quite dark. Love Alice by Christina Henry. I don't think we've got any in stock at the moment, have we? We don't.
SPEAKER_01As soon as we get it in, I recommend it to someone.
SPEAKER_00Tell us a bit about Alice then.
SPEAKER_01So Alice is a twisted version of Alice in Wonderland. It is the book I have read most in my life. The copy that I have has travelled with me to every single country I've ever been to. I'm currently on my third copy of it because I've read it so much, they literally fall apart. Alice is a story of a girl called Alice who is in what's the politically correct way to say it? Like a hospital.
SPEAKER_00Psychiatric hospital.
SPEAKER_01Yes, Alice is in a psychiatric hospital. Um, she has been there for 10 years, and her only say relief from the horrors of living there and the way they're treated is there is a small hole in the wall of her room, which leads to the room of the man next door, who is a man called Hatcher, who can't even fully remember why he was there, but he remembers it involved killing a lot of people with an axe. Ah, and so Hatcher is a play on Hatter. Yes. Yeah, so everything is related to Alice in Wonderland. So you have Alice, Hatcher is the mad hatter, you have the rabbit, there is a very funny little man in there called Cheshire, who is obviously the Cheshire, although he's not actually a cat, but the rabbit is actually a rabbit. It's very, it's very hard to explain without sounding like there's something wrong with you, but it is one of my favourite books of all time.
SPEAKER_00And Chris and Christina Henry's fantastic. She wrote a few other twisted originals, didn't she?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she did a Peter Pan one that uh is about Captain Hook. Yeah. She did a um a Little Mermaid one that is about a mermaid, and it also this was long before um The Greatest Showman came out, which obviously brought all that stuff to light, but it does have uh Pete Barnum in it.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01Um and I believe he's like captured her.
SPEAKER_00Is that just in the mermaid ones?
SPEAKER_01Yes. I haven't I haven't actually read that one. I do have it, but I haven't read it, but I think that's what that's what it's about.
SPEAKER_00And Red Riding Hood one as well, wasn't there?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So that's kind of what she writes other stuff. And yes, she just writes quite twisted but very, very interesting books. She's a she's a great author. We met her in Waterstones in London once, didn't we? Long before we had the shop. Yeah. Long before we had the shop, yeah. And she was lovely. We brought her because she's American, she's from Chicago. I think so. Yeah, and they don't have Cadbury's over there or didn't advertise.
SPEAKER_00We took her a big bag of Cadbury's, didn't we?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we were able to go to the Cadbury shop over Portsmouth when it was still there and get her a huge bag of chocolate that quite frankly was too much for anybody. Yeah. Um but she was very grateful for it.
SPEAKER_00And if I remember rightly, you gave her a very, very scruffy edition of Alice for her to sign and she loved it, didn't she? She did, yeah. She said it was very well loved.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was very self-conscious about it because you know you want to see things taken care of, and everyone had absolutely pristine copies of the book, and they were all very well looked after. Whereas, as I said, mine has been to every country I've been to. I take it everywhere with me. I used to keep it in my school bag, and everyone kind of placed theirs gently on the counter and asked to sign it, and I kind of chucked mine down and yeah, she was she was very happy with it though.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, although I think that's lovely, that shows that you've had that book for a long time, and you didn't just buy it that day just because you were meeting her, just because she was there. Yeah, I think that shows that you were a you know a bona fide fan of that book, which yeah. Um anything else? Um, you've always been a big fan of um A Court of Thorns and Roses. Yes. You got me on. That's the only fantasy, yeah, that I've read for a while. Yeah. Um, and you convinced me to read that. And yeah, I love book one, book two, and book three. I think book three is up for um is gonna be up for awards in the bookshop book awards that we're gonna be announcing on our birthday.
SPEAKER_01No, it's book five that's in the book awards, yes. Oh, okay. Silver Flames is in the book awards. I love the entire Aqatar, well, most of the Aqatar series. There is a character in particular in this book series that I do not like, and the last book is about her. So I have been unable to read the whole series. I have tried several times, but haven't been able to get through it. But I do stand by the rest of the books. I think they're amazing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, isn't it funny how you can come across a character that you don't like in a book? In its own, and I suppose it's all the more unsettling when people point out that that person that you don't like is very similar to you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, everyone I've spoken to about my hatred for this character has laughed and said they're quite surprised because I remind them of that character, which is not flattering, um, because I really, really do not like this character. I think the more I read of it, the more I see it, and I think that's why I hate it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, because I do see the resemblance and it hurts my feelings.
SPEAKER_00I wonder if anybody else has read a book and seen themselves in a character, whether they've liked them or whether they've not liked them. I'd be interested to know what those characters are.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I know I do see a lot of people online saying that they've really struggled with this character in particular, and then by the time they got to book five, they realised that they do really relate to the character. So I think she's definitely an interesting character because she makes people re-evaluate themselves.
SPEAKER_00And she's quite feisty. For those for those that don't know, we are talking about Nesta. I'm not allowed to swear.
SPEAKER_01But I was gonna, yes, we are talking about lovely, interesting Nesta.
SPEAKER_00But she is quite ballsy and she's quite feisty. Yeah. On the Spotify or Amazon Music or wherever you're listening to this podcast, you there should be a button that says send fan mail. Now we don't expect fan mail from you, but you can use that to let us know if you have ever read a book and you have seen yourself and a character you've read, and I'd be interested to know whether you you like that character or you don't like that character, but who that character is. Yeah, I think that's really interesting, especially because people that live to that listen to this kind of podcast they're book lovers. So, yeah, let us know because you must have read so many books. You know, a lot of our customers, a lot of our bookworms, a lot of our book club people have read more books than we have. So let us know. Don't use that button sending fan mail to fangirl over us, use it to communicate with us. Fangirl. Um, because we'd be really, really interested to know. Have you got any others, or do you think that's it? I think that's it a lot at the moment.
SPEAKER_01Because as soon as they come in, I recommend them and they're gone.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So yeah, that's it for everything we've got in at the moment.
SPEAKER_00And we've just had this new one in the Sunday garden.
SPEAKER_01Yes, that looks very cute.
SPEAKER_00It's very cute by Ashley Poston. She was the one who wrote the seven year slip. This is a beautiful peach colour with purple writing on the front, but all the sprayed edges that they're bright green with red flowers and yellow leaves. It's very so pretty. Yeah. We've had a couple of the uh book club people have put them by already. Yeah. But it's an absolutely delightful book. Funny as well. Um, it says on the back Sophie Dreer never expected to fall in love, but over a summer in Maine, she does, with the dazzling flowers and towering hedge maze of Lily Moore House. But then a door appears, never in the same place twice, leading only to a dishevelled garden and a beguiling thundercloud of a man confined inside. Battling with the vines, just as she is with Lily Moore's owners to inconvenience that doesn't make sense. Battling with the vines, just as much as she is with Lily Moore's owners, two inconveniently handsome neighbours, nephews. Sophie knows that she is the only person battling with the vines just as much as she is with Do you need to read it? Battling with the vines!
SPEAKER_01I can't read it now. Let me do it. Battling with the vines just as much as she is with Lily Moore's owner's two inconveniently handsome nephews. Sophie knows that she is the only person who can help Lily Moore bloom again. But when you're stuck between the men on the outside and the one trapped within, can the seeds of romance bloom into something more?
SPEAKER_00Oh, it's delightful. Yeah, delightful. Well done. So in the future, oh yeah. Monday the 22nd, which is a week on Monday, we've got our true crime evening with Richard Foster, the ex-policeman. Oh yeah. That'll be quite good. We'll have a chat with him for about 45 minutes, then we'll do a QA, and then he'll sign some books and meeting everyone, which will be lovely. Um, and then our next candlelight classics, I think we've got one space left. Jane Eyre. Oh yeah. So remember, if you need us for anything, you can text us on 07771 41074. You can check out all our events and information at www.lebookshop.co.uk. Yeah, you can send us fan mail.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. But fan mail doesn't mean fangirling. Fan mail just means communicating with us, send us a little message. But be warned, if you send us fan mail, we will read it out on our podcasts. Yes. Because if you go to the or go to the effort of sending us a little message via fan mail, then I think it's only right that we read it out. Absolutely. Unless you unless it's obscene. Yes. Okay, right. Well, we will wrap things up and say goodbye. Yeah, are you gonna sing again? No. Cool. Okay. Alright then, thank you. Bye.
