Bring Your Own Book

BYOB is proud to present the first episode in our Tolkien mini-series! We will be releasing a new episode exploring each instalment of the Lord of the Rings series every week until September 8th - just in time for Amazon's new show, The Rings of Power. But first, The Hobbit ! Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit   was first published in 1937 and has been critically acclaimed...

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Surprise! We’ve got a fun little BYOB Shot episode for you about the first volume of Alice Oseman's beloved graphic novel, 'Heartstopper'. This book was recently adapted into a Netflix show and took the world by STORM, so we couldn't wait to watch and compare the show t...

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Surprise! We’ve got a fun little BYOB Shot episode (or, as Nikki calls this one, a Sloppy Seconds episode!) for you about the latest instalment in the Blood and Ash series, “The War of Two Queens” by Jennifer L. Armentrout. This book made some serious waves among its readers on Goodreads a...

Welcome to BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. Surprise! We’ve got a fun little BYOB Shot episode for you about the witchy romance novel “Go Hex Yourself” by Jessica Clare. The book just came out a few days ago, on April 19th, and we all we...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In our last episode of season 2 (can you believe it?!),  we’re talking about one of Tilly's all-time favourite books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary novel, “The Goldfinch” b...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we’ve got something a little different for all of you. We are so excited to have debut author Mazey Eddings join us to talk all about her contemporary romance novel,...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we’re talking about one of Nikki's favourite books, the popular paranormal mystery YA novel, “The Diviners” by Libba Bray, which was published in 2012. The drink...

BYOB is excited to announce our first ever mini-series of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien! 🗡🏹💍🐉 This mini-series will be released this summer and there will be something in this for everyone; whether you have a lot of knowledge of the stories or you are just starting out and might be a bit intimidated to get started, BYOB will be there ever...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we’re talking about the classic Southern novel, “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe” by Fannie Flagg, which was first published in 1987 and was adapted int...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. This week, we are joined once again by our friend and fellow book lover Jess Owens! We're going to be talking about “The City We Became” by N.K. Jemisin, a newer book by one of T...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we’re talking about the first book in the wildly popular The Lunar Chronicles series, “Cinder” by Marissa Meyer, which was first published in 2012. This is a YA sci-f...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. Hey listeners! We’ve got a surprise *bonus* BYOB Shot episode about our best and worst books of 2021! We thought it would be fun to record our thoughts about what we read, what we lov...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this Shot episode we’re talking about the alien romance novel “Ice Planet Barbarians” by Ruby Dixon, which was published in 2015, but has now expanded into a series of 20 books. Ju...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we’re talking about the first book in the beloved Flavia de Luce mystery series, “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” by Alan Bradley, which was first published i...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. We’re so happy to have Jess Owens as a special guest once again! In this episode, we’re talking about “The Marrow Thieves” by Cherie Dimaline, which was first published in 2017. It’s...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this Shot episode, we'll be taking a special bookish quiz to determine just how much of a bookworm each of us are! Because this is a Shot episode, there is no themed drink. In...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. This episode, we’re talking about the modern gothic classic “Rebecca” by Daphne Du Maurier, which was first published in 1938. The drink we’ve chosen to pair with this episode is quit...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this Shot episode, we'll be talking about the contemporary romance novel “The Love Hypothesis” by Ali Hazelwood, which was published just last month, September 2021. We were a...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we discuss Tiffany D. Jackson’s first novel, "Allegedly". This YA Thriller was published in 2017 and follows a young black girl named 'Mary B. Addison...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we discuss Helen Hoang’s contemporary romance series, The Kiss Quotient, which features the following novels: “The Kiss Quotient”, “The Bride Test”, and “The Heart Pr...

BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, is back for Season 2 featuring your favourite bookworms Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we discuss Faridah Abike-Iyimide's debut novel, "Ace of Spades". We also have a very special guest for this episode, an American Booktuber we all know...

Episode 12  of BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, the final episode of Season 1, we discuss R.F. Kuang's historical fiction fantasy, "The Poppy War". This episode's drink is a Poppy Cocktail! It features gin, pomegranate juice,...

Episode 11 of BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, the penultimate of Season 1, we discuss Silvia Moreno-Garcia's horror mystery, "Mexican Gothic". This episode's drink is a Mexico City Mule! This drink is a spin on a Moscow Mule...

Episode 10 of BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we discuss Jennifer L. Armentrout's fantasy romance, "From Blood and Ash". This episode's drink is a luxurious Apothic red wine! Apothic Wine: https://www.apothic.com/ "From...

Episode 9 of BYOB, the Bring Your Own Book Podcast, featuring Nikki, Kelly, and Tilly! Every episode we'll discuss the book we read and pair it with a drink inspired by the book. In this episode, we discuss Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass", and we even take a quiz from Epic Reads to figure out what anima each of our daemon's would appear as. If you want to find out yo...