Amy & Book Club

Amy & the podcast team sit down to discuss Aya de Léon's romantic suspense novel,  Side Chick Nation, as part of our Climate Fiction month!  Aya de León is an acclaimed writer of poetry, prose, stage, and screen. She teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley and is the 'acquiring editor for a new climate justice fiction imprint Fighting Chance Books , which will publ...

Amy   & Justina chat with Jennifer Mills, a celebrated writer of climate fiction and dystopian novels and author of The Airways (2021), Dyschronia (2018) and Gone (2011). Her latest book, Salvage , is out on May 27. Join us as we chat about ambiguous utopias, the ethics (or lack thereof) of space billionaires, and the responsibility we have to each other and the world in the face of clima...

Amy   & Payton talk with special guesties Dr Alex Cothren and Dr Rachel Hennessy about climate-fiction writing and scholarship – but we’re fun nerds, I promise. You can find Alex’s satirical short stories in basically any literary mag you could possibly think of, and by August 2025, his debut anthology Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere will be published by Pink Shorts...

Amy & season regulars, Payton and Millie, are joined by special guestie Melanie Ross to talk climate fiction. Listen in as we talk climate disasters, the subtlety of cli-fi, and the potential of a forest's imagination. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amy & the podcast team sit down for our very first live bookclub where we chat, with earl grey cocktails (and tea) in hand, about all things Pride and Prejudice.  From Mr. Darcy's exorbitant Pemberley and the reality of where this generational wealth comes from, the misjudgement of Lydia Bennet, and what Mr. Collins' hinge profile would look like, no topic of conversation is off limits.&n...

This week our host, Amy Matthews, is joined by season regulars Justina Ashman and Harry Stewart...But wait! There's more! Today, we are graced by two iconic guests. They are the masterminds behind the smash-hit  For the Love of Austen series, including the joyous Emma of 83rd Street  and well-loved  Elizabeth of East Hampton.  It's none other than the authors of contemporary Au...

Amy & season regulars, Payton, Harry, and Abby, demonstrate just how far our conversations can digress (like why, exactly, Harry would be a beaver), and discuss which song Jane Austen is going to sing when she joins us for karaoke.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amy & season regulars, Justina, Millie, and Abby, welcome you to the very first episode of the Amy & Podcast! This week we chat Jane Austen facts, like just how far Austen's hate for Bath goes, and Amy tells us about that one time she received a wedding favour of 250 goldfish. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amy &  is a bookish podcast with benefits. Amy Matthews is joined by series regulars Justina Ashman , Abby Guy , Millie Heffernan , Payton Hogan and Harry Stewart and by a cast of guesties, both special and specialer. Featuring genre deep dives, author Q&As, and a live book club with a signature cocktail/mocktail, we’re your new favourite interactive book club with an accessibly...