Shelf Indulgence: A Bookish Podcast

This week we are bringing you a double-bill! We have read two books by the anonymous Japanese author, Uketsu. Tune is as we discuss eerie vibes, surreal twists and whether the mysteries were mysterious enough to satisfy our wannabe-detective desires.

Surprise! We've rebranded, look at us all shiny and new, except we're exactly the same, just with a snazzy new name and a logo, almost like we've gone into Witness Protection ... but Laurie Gilmore doesn't have the budget to take out a hit on us. This week in our not so brand new podcast, we're discussing The Raven Scholar, Amy takes ages to choose a contingent to pledge to, Li...

It’s business as usual today as we discuss a new romantasy offering, The Death Made Prince. Full dislclaimer: we call one of the main characters by the wrong name the ENTIRE episode. It turns out he is not named after a pungent smelling fruit popular in southeast Asia - sorry! Hope you still enjoy! A x 

We're baaack! We promised we would be! To ease us in we've decided to Tier list all of the books we read in 2025 and we've even played around with using video! We're so hot in 4k! Thankyou for sticking with us and thankyou for all the Heated Rivalry love, if you'd have told us we'd have gotten 650+ listens on that one episode alone, we'd have said "Liar. Liar told...

Hello everyone! Thankyou for sticking with us, we'll be back and I can only apologise for the amount of times I say UM in this video - Amy and I do well from the edit as you can tell. Amy sends her love too and we hope you're still listening to us when we're back in February! Maybe there'll be some more changes other than my hair?? All our love xx

Well Nat Cassidy, I hope you're proud of yourself - it's not unlike Amy and I to get deep and emotional on the podcast but we definitely went deeper and sadder than we ever have and it's all your fault. Happy belated Halloween - this week we talk all things parental issues, masking is just shapeshifting for boring humans and how therapy made Nat Cassidy write a book and probably become...

Happy Spooky Season! We know there's nothing scarier than our upload schedule but we promise we are back! In this episode we discuss the newest offering by Rachel Harrison. Enjoy x

Kicking off spooky season with a literary classic that shaped the gothic horror genre. There's so much rain and we try to add our own unique thoughts to a book that has already been over analysed for years. Expect, some wanking chat, us attempting to make everyone gay and as always Stars in their Eyes references. Happy Reading! Liv x

We're back!!! Apologies for our longer than planned break (and the likely terrible edit to explain why in this episode...) but we are back and raring to go! This week, we accidentally read literary fiction and...enjoyed it!? It's time for another "TikTok Sensation" but this time expect less dragons, spice and shadow daddies and a lot more terrifying existential-crisis inducing qu...

The author of the Air Awakens series and the Married to Magic series, comes the first in a suspected trilogy, maybe a duology about Tarot Card magic in an academy setting, with a fake engagement, a missing sister, an evil king, an evil brother, a heist and a bunch of other tropes along with some one dimensional side characters lumped in to make this 600 page book feel like an epic. Sorry guys, not...

Don't listen to this one if you're eating! This week we sink our teeth into (heh) a dystopian nightmare where canibalism is not only legal but industrialised. There are so many trigger warnings for this one so please take a listen to these before diving into the discussion. We're back in the bosom of romantasy next week so if this isn't your bag, join us for that instead! x

This week, we're completing our thoughts on Holly Black's Stolen Heir duology and boy are we glad to see the back of it! You will hear some pretty tough comparisons about the writing, genuine anger at plotholes and true despair at the unmaking (heh) of OG plots. I think you can actually hear Liv's depression consume her at one point in the episode. And alas, there is more hoof chat. Ne...

Remember last summer when we recorded a 2 parter about The Folk of the Air Series? Well good because this week, we're back in Elfhame and to celebrate, we've treated you to another double bill! In this first part, we chat for far too long about Oak's hooves and the possible wider implications these may have... clip clop, clip clop!

Join us this week for our first ever THROWBACK episode. Reading a book we both loved from the early 00s and hoping we still love it. *Spoiler Alert* It's as ugly as it's name and we're ashamed of our 13/14 year old selves for championing it so utterly. Young Liv and Amy have a lot to answer for...

Oh boy we LOVED this one! Join as we discuss our unhinged theories and ultimately gush over how much we enjoyed this book. We delve back into crime this week and it doesn't disappoint unlike another book we won't mention... cough.. With a Vengeance...cough... enjoy!

Is anyone there? Hello? Are we reading the same thing? Does anyone understand? This week we struggle through trying to sound like we know what we're talking about as we discuss time travel, inevitable love stories and pornographic feelings without a single genital touch. This is indeed, how we lose the podcast war... probably.

This week we read a contemporary romance and we....enjoyed it?! That's right, join us as we move out from the rocks we have been living under and devle into the hugely popular Boys of Tommen Book 1!

What do you do when an author has convinced you that this book isn't a who-dunnit but in fact a who-didn't-actually-do-it? This week, Liv gets very angry at plot points that make no sense, Amy guffaws at the availability of special effects knowledge of the 1950s and once again we learn our lesson on letting Amy pick books. Enjoy! Cos we certainly didn't.

Another day, another sapphic vampire romp being read by the Page Turners girlies. We have been waiting to chat about this one but did it live up to our lofty expectations? We cover women's rights (and wrongs), dodgy Scottish internal monologues and 1... 2... 3.... very unreliable narrators!

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom! Mel Gibson and his questionable character aside - this week we're donning our tartan and painting our faces with the saltire. We discuss how refreshing it is to not have to lean on trope talk, Scottish independence and frankly a pretty mean review! RM Brown - congrats, you've written a patriotic romp that even our resident Sa...

We're baaaack! After a slightly longer than planned hiatus, we're back in your ears this week to discuss one of our most anticipated reads of 2025. Thanks for sticking with us and welcome to Season 4! xx

Who'd have thought a 600+ page series taking inspiration from Criminal Minds with a badass FMC serial killer would be right up our street? Well yeah, probably us too. Massive TWs for this episode - be careful! Join us for our last episode of Season 3 where we'll discuss whether characters are made to do bad things to make their partners look less bad in the grand scheme of things and we ta...

Well howdy! This week we're wrangling ourselves a cowboy romance and it's wilder than a tumbleweed in a tornado! Saddle up and join us as we discuss this tension filled slowburn and what makes a manly man the manliest man in mansville. Oh and we do make some quite good points some of the time. Giddy up and give it a listen! Enjoy!

Can philosophy ever be made interesting? We're still searching for that answer even now. Join us as we discuss why anyone would wear a cardigan with nothing underneath it, if you can make boredom a personality and whether traditional publishing, with it's restraints and expectations is all it's cracked up to be! Another exciting week!

This week, we are back in the warm bosom of fantasy romance and we're reading a book with very big shoes to fill! It's filled with trickster faes, regency romance and of course a dark and broody x wet lettuce love triangle!