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Hello and welcome to the literature podcast, A Novel Review. My name is Seamus and together we will explore, dissect and discuss the wonderful world of literature and the wonderful world of literature is a vast and dense jungle, so let’s start making our way through, one book at a time.
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- 4 days ago12 min
Non Fiction November | 2026 edition
Non-Fiction November. When fiction becomes fact and swapping fictional worlds for real-life stories, exploring the fascinating, surprising and sometimes unbelievable world of non-fiction. Because sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction... To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: • The Soul of France by Agnes Poirier • Lower than the Angels by Diarmaid McCullouch • Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction by Jerry Brotton • Napoleon by Andrew Roberts • The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan • The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Laura Selena Wisnom Substack: https://substack.com/@alexanderwoolven Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/ -------- #BookPodcast, #BookTube, #BookLovers, #ReadingCommunity, #LiteraryPodcast, #BooksAndSociety, #ReadingForChange, #LiteratureLovers, #ReadersOfYouTube, #PodcastEpisode, #SeasonalContent, #ThoughtfulReading, #BookDiscussion, #CulturalConversation
- 3 weeks ago10 min
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry | The World's Most Literary Hangover
To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is a literary experience. Set in 1938 Mexico, this masterpiece follows an alcoholic British consul stumbling through love, politics and personal ruin, all beneath the watchful gaze of two volcanoes. Is it a tragic meditation on self-destruction or just the world’s most complicated hangover? Let’s review this notoriously difficult classic. Painting: Today I painted a volcano Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry Substack: https://substack.com/@alexanderwoolven Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/ -------- #BookPodcast, #BookTube, #BookLovers, #ReadingCommunity, #LiteraryPodcast, #BooksAndSociety, #ReadingForChange, #LiteratureLovers, #ReadersOfYouTube, #PodcastEpisode, #SeasonalContent, #ThoughtfulReading, #BookDiscussion, #CulturalConversation
- Oct 4, 202610 min
The Unravelling of Ou by Hollay Ghadery | A Puppet Narrates Her Life
To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Hollay Ghadery’s The Unravelling of Ou is a strange, funny and deeply moving novel about motherhood, memory, identity and survival with a sock puppet telling us all. When Minoo’s daughter demands Ecology Paul disappear if Minoo would like a relationship with her, a lifetime of secrets begins to unravel. Painting: Today I painted a sock puppet Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: The Unravelling of Ou by Hollay Ghadery The Island of Missing Tree’s by Elif Shafak Purchase the book or browse other books from Palimpset Press: https://palimpsestpress.ca/ Substack: https://substack.com/@alexanderwoolven Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/ -------- #BookPodcast, #BookTube, #BookLovers, #ReadingCommunity, #LiteraryPodcast, #BooksAndSociety, #ReadingForChange, #LiteratureLovers, #ReadersOfYouTube, #PodcastEpisode, #SeasonalContent, #ThoughtfulReading, #BookDiscussion, #CulturalConversation
- Sep 20, 202616 min
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer | The World Ends. She Has to Milk the Cow.
To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com What if the world ended, but nobody told you why? Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall is a haunting blend of dystopian fiction, survival story and philosophical mystery. Today I explore isolation, nature, animals, civilisation and the strange domesticity of apocalypse… and ask what remains when humanity disappears. Painting: Today I painted some mountians Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: The Wall by Marlen Haushofer I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Substack: https://substack.com/@alexanderwoolven Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/ -------- #BookPodcast, #BookTube, #BookLovers, #ReadingCommunity, #LiteraryPodcast, #BooksAndSociety, #ReadingForChange, #LiteratureLovers, #ReadersOfYouTube, #PodcastEpisode, #SeasonalContent, #ThoughtfulReading, #BookDiscussion, #CulturalConversation
- Sep 6, 202621 min
The Collector by John Fowles | When Love Becomes Possession
To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com What happens when a lonely man wins the lottery, buys a secluded house, and decides the one thing missing from his collection is a woman? John Fowles’ The Collector is part psychological thriller, part Gothic nightmare, and part very uncomfortable thought experiment about love, possession and freedom. And, rather inconveniently, the inspiration for it gets even creepier. Painting: Today I painted a butterfly Some of the books and authors and content discussed in this episode include: The Collector by John Fowles Bela Bartok Herzog Blaubarts Burg Duke Bluebeard's Castle TALES FROM THE PAST: The Garden Secret, Lewisham On Collecting by Christopher Skelton-Foord Design and Meaning in The Ebony Tower by Thomas Loe Substack: https://substack.com/@alexanderwoolven Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/ -------- #BookPodcast, #BookTube, #BookLovers, #ReadingCommunity, #LiteraryPodcast, #BooksAndSociety, #ReadingForChange, #LiteratureLovers, #ReadersOfYouTube, #PodcastEpisode, #SeasonalContent, #ThoughtfulReading, #BookDiscussion, #CulturalConversation
- Aug 16, 202620 min
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson | Malazan Review
To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Steven Erikson’s Deadhouse Gates doesn’t so much invite you into its world as drag you behind a galloping horse and demand that you keep up. The second Malazan Book of the Fallen novel is bigger, darker and considerably less interested in holding your hand, throwing assassins, empires, gods, ancient grudges and one spectacularly brutal desert crossing into the same literary blender. Yet beneath all the bloodshed and battlefield chaos is something surprisingly human: a story about loyalty, suffering, vengeance and what people are willing to endure for one another. And just when you think you’ve figured out where Erikson is taking you, he cheerfully sets fire to the map. Painting: Today I painted a crow against a red sun landscape Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson Hannibal by Livy Substack: https://substack.com/@alexanderwoolven Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/ -------- #BookPodcast, #BookTube, #BookLovers, #ReadingCommunity, #LiteraryPodcast, #BooksAndSociety, #ReadingForChange, #LiteratureLovers, #ReadersOfYouTube, #PodcastEpisode, #SeasonalContent, #ThoughtfulReading, #BookDiscussion, #CulturalConversation
- Aug 2, 202611 min
William - an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton | Forgotten Women of Literature
To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Few novels puncture patriotic certainty with quite the elegance of William – An Englishman. In this episode, I wander through Cicely Hamilton's quietly devastating World War I novel, where satire, social observation, and unfortunate timing expose the absurdities of English life and what it mean to be ‘English’. A forgotten classic that remains uncomfortably modern. Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: William – an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton Substack: https://substack.com/@alexanderwoolven Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/ -------- #BookPodcast, #BookTube, #BookLovers, #ReadingCommunity, #LiteraryPodcast, #BooksAndSociety, #ReadingForChange, #LiteratureLovers, #ReadersOfYouTube, #PodcastEpisode, #SeasonalContent, #ThoughtfulReading, #BookDiscussion, #CulturalConversation
- Jul 19, 202611 min
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo | Ghosts, Memory, and the Haunted Past
To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com A haunting novel where ghosts whisper, memories return, and every silence echoes with unresolved longing. Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo uncovers haunted landscapes, fractured time, and unforgettable voices, revealing how the past refuses burial. Painting: Today I painted a skull under Pedro Paramo’s hat Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo Substack: https://substack.com/@alexanderwoolven Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/ -------- #BookPodcast, #BookTube, #BookLovers, #ReadingCommunity, #LiteraryPodcast, #BooksAndSociety, #ReadingForChange, #LiteratureLovers, #ReadersOfYouTube, #PodcastEpisode, #SeasonalContent, #ThoughtfulReading, #BookDiscussion, #CulturalConversation
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