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When Ed said he wanted to write the romance quiz, Julia agreed with trepidation; however, she had nothing to fear. Of course, he did have to put his own twist on it... See if you’re lucky in love in Ed's Romance Quiz. Let us know how you did by tagging us on social media with #TLCQuiz.  Answers here .  Keep  in touch We love our listeners, and we want to hear from you. Please leave a review o...

Gloucester author, Anita Faulkner, has been shortlisted in the Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award category with her novel, A Colourful Country Escape , for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s (RNA) annual Romantic Novel Awards for 2023. The awards celebrate excellence in romantic fiction in all its forms. Anita writes warm and fuzzy romcoms from her upcycled bureau in the Cotswolds. Describ...

Milly Johnson was born, raised and still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. A Sunday Times bestseller, she is one of the Top 10 Female Fiction authors in the UK with millions of copies of her books sold across the world. In 2020, she was honoured with the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Outstanding Achievement Award and was a featured author in the Reading Agency’s Quick Reads and World Book Ni...

We love punctuation [insert interrobang here]. Friday is funday with our weekly quiz.  Let us know how you did by tagging us on social media with #TLCQuiz.  Answers here .  Keep  in touch We love our listeners, and we want to hear from you. Please leave a review on one of our podcast platforms and chat with us on social media: Twitter: @twolitchicks Instagram: @two_lit_chicks TikTok: @two_lit_chic...

Love it or hate it, the semi-colon has its uses. Ed and Julia wax lyrical about this oft misunderstood punctuation mark. NOTE: We discuss how the semi-colon was chosen as a symbol of strength for people who are struggling with mental health issues and suicide. If you are struggling, please reach out for help. MIND : Infoline - 0300 123 3393 Suicide Prevention Helpline (UK): 0800 689 5652 Samaritan...

Is it a chicken or a Dickens character? See if you can tell the difference in this week’s quiz.  Thank you to Gav Collins for being our special guest and running his quiz for us.  Let us know how you did by tagging us on social media with #TLCQuiz.  Answers here .  Keep  in touch We love our listeners, and we want to hear from you. Please leave a review on one of our podcast platforms and chat wit...

What went down when superfan Hans Christian Andersen went a-calling at Charles Dickens's house? It feels like one of those writing assignments that your teacher gives you, where you have to write about two historical characters meeting, except this actually happened . Keep  in touch We love our listeners, and we want to hear from you. Please leave a review on one of our podcast platforms and...

Jo Browning Wroe grew up in a crematorium in Birmingham. She has an MA in Creative writing from the University of East Anglia, and teaches at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education on their Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing. Her debut novel, A Terrible Kindness, was a Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the Bridport Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award and l...

Pit yourself against Ed's love of horror.  Let us know how you did by tagging us on social media with #TLCQuiz.  Answers here .  Keep  in touch We love our listeners, and we want to hear from you. Please leave a review on one of our podcast platforms and chat with us on social media: Twitter: @twolitchicks Instagram: @two_lit_chicks TikTok: @two_lit_chicks Email: hello@twolitchicks.org If you...

Who is Robert Burns? Why do we celebrate Burns Night on January 25? Find out in today's TLC Book Bite. Keep  in touch We love our listeners, and we want to hear from you. Please leave a review on one of our podcast platforms and chat with us on social media: Twitter: @twolitchicks Instagram: @two_lit_chicks TikTok: @two_lit_chicks Email: hello@twolitchicks.org If you do one thing today, sign...

We’re so excited to bring you our first of many TLC Book Bites QUIZZES. Today’s topic is Strong Female Characters (and their authors).  Let us know how you did by tagging us on social media with #TLCQuiz.  Answers here . Keep  in touch We love our listeners, and we want to hear from you. Please leave a review on one of our podcast platforms and chat with us on social media: Twitter: @twolitchicks...

In our new Wednesday segment, Julia and Ed give you short and snappy info snacks about topics ranging from literary concepts, to author biographies, writing advice, and book reviews, followed by our new Friday literary quiz. Today's TLC Book Bite is about the bildungsroman .  What is it and why should you keep this term up your sleeve to look impressive at your next literary debate or dinner...

Damian Barr is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and journalist. His memoir, Maggie & Me , won Stonewall Writer of the Year and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year. His debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here , was shortlisted for six major awards and named a Book of the Year in the Observer, Guardian and Mail . He’s written columns for The Times and Sunday Times and hosted Front Row on BBC Radio 4...

Welcome to part 2 of our Christmas episode, where we ask some more guests what they would put in the reading sack of the man known as either Santa or Father Christmas (delete as applicable), and Ed continues his war against Christmas – and faces some stern opposition. Our first guest is Philippa Hall, host of Quick Book Reviews, a weekly podcast that includes author interviews, book reviews, opini...

Ho ho ho and welcome to our Christmas episode: Part 1! We decided to catch up with some fellow podcasters (and one author) to find out what books they would put into Santa’s sack of books for his post-Christmas tropical island holiday with Mrs Claus. Well, at least that was the idea, until Ed wrote his version of a Christmas story… Our first guest in part one is Stacey Thomas, whose debut novel, T...

Francesco Sedita is an accomplished children’s publisher at Penguin, running Penguin Workshop, an imprint he developed over his 14 years at the company.       He attended NYU, where he studied writing and graduated with his MFA.  While working on his undergraduate degree, Francesco spent a year as a “Saturday Night Live” writing intern. In his time as a publisher, Francesco has worked with Anne Ri...

Georgia Pritchett is a multi-award-winning comedy and drama writer, who has five Emmys, six Writers Guild awards, two Golden Globes, a BAFTA and a Producer’s Guild award. She is currently a writer and co-executive producer on HBO's critically acclaimed show, Succession , which is currently filming the fourth season. Georgia was the co-executive producer and writer on the HBO multi-Emmy winnin...

Erin Kelly worked as a journalist before publishing her debut, The Poison Tree , which the ITV adapted for television. Since then, she’s published eight more psychological thrillers and in 2014 was chosen to write the novelisation of the BAFTA-winning Broadchurch. Her ninth book, The Skeleton Key , published in September.  Three of her books were Richard and Judy picks. Her books have sold over a...

Kit de Waal , born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the 60s and 70s.  Her debut novel My Name Is Leon was an international bestseller, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for 2017. In 2022 it was adapted for television by the BBC....

Stacey McEwan is a school teacher by day and fantasy writer by night. She is a book influencer on multiple platforms and began writing Ledge after book lovers of the internet begged her to share her story ideas. Stacey lives on the Gold Coast, Australia with her husband, two children and one questionable dog. When Stacey isn’t writing, teaching, or making ridiculous tiktoks, you’ll find her playin...

Frances Quinn grew up in London and read English at King’s College, Cambridge, realising too late that the course would require more than lying around reading novels for three years. After snatching a degree from the jaws of laziness, she became a journalist, writing for magazines including Prima, Good Housekeeping, She, Woman’s Weekly and Ideal Home, and later branched out into copywriting, produ...

Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels, including Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche. Since then, she has written 19 more novels, plus novellas, short...

In the opener for Season Two, we share book news with updates on previous guests, and announcements about the literary greats in our upcoming Season Two. We are thrilled to have the amazing Joanne Harris as our first guest on September 5. Mark your calendars! Also, we announce our second flash fiction competition with the theme Books Change Lives. More details to follow soon on our TwoLitChicks.or...

In the wrap up episode for Season One, we reveal the winners of our inaugural flash fiction award on the theme of courage . We also discuss how we judged the entries, so that future entrants have a clear idea of our thought processes.  Big thanks to the amazing Maria Austin for her dramatic readings of the two runners up and the winner. Maria is an award-nominated actress based between London and...

Born in Bristol and raised in Lagos, Nikki May is Nigerian-British. At twenty, she dropped out of medical school, moved to London, and began a career in advertising, going on to run a successful agency. Her debut novel Wahala was inspired by a long lunch with friends. Nikki lives in Dorset with her husband, two standard schnauzer and way too many books. Books chosen by Nikki: The Famous Five by En...