Episodes

  • Summer Bonus

    Summer Bonus
    Dec 23 2025
    Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/BookRiot's reading logAustralian Society of Authors free webinar: Understanding readers and their habits, with Australia ReadsDymocks Sydney Books in Bars Valentine’s Day romance author panel with Karina May, Josh Hortinela, Natalie Murray, Leesa Ronald and Amy Andrews. Save the date – Thursday, February 12, 2026Dangerously Modern Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940 at The Art Gallery of NSW until 15 February 2026 (Spotify Playlist, Coffee table bookOne Golden Summer, Carly Fortune (2025)Love & Other Scores, Abra Pressler (2023)After the Siren, Darcy Green (2025)Power Moves, Leesa Ronald (2025)Engaged, Apparently, Amy Andrews (Coming January 2026)In Spite Of You, Patrick Lenton (2025)Hate You to Love You, Josh Hortinela (Coming September 2026)Heart the Lover, Lily King (2025)Table for One, Emma Gannon (2025)Chosen Family, Madeline Gray (2025)A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances, Steph Vizard (2025)Lights, Camera, Love, Natalie Murray (2025)Love Overdue, Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus (2025)Your Friend and Mine, Jessica Dettmann (2025)Ghosted, Amy Hutton (2025)The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial, Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein (2025)Chosen Family, Madeline Gray (2025)The Hiding Place, Kate Mildenhall (2025)Heart the Lover, Lily King (2025)The Heir Apparent, Rebecca Armitage (2025)The Light Years, Elizabeth Jane Howard (2024)How to End A Story, Collected Diaries, Helen Garner (2025)Everyone and Everything re-read, Nadine J. Cohen (2023)Almost Life, Kiran Millwood Hargrave (2026)Consider Yourself Kissed, Jessica Stanley (2024)Better Than the Real Thing, Brooke Crawford (2026)When the Party’s Over, Katie Hoskins (2026)Writers and Lovers, Lily King (2021)Loved One, Aisha Muharrar (2025)The Time After Now, Anne Freeman (2026)Side Character Energy, Olivia Tolich (February, 2026)The Boyfriend Clause, Bridie Blake (March, 2026)People We Meet on Vacation premieres 9 January on Netflix!Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    56 mins
  • Bitter & Sweet (with Amal Awad)

    Bitter & Sweet (with Amal Awad)
    Aug 5 2025
    Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/Guest: @amalmdawad or her website If you’d like to make a donation, Amal recommends the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund or Medecins Sans Frontieres. Courting Samira, Amal Awad (2011)This is How You Get Better, Amal Awad (2015)The Things We See in the Light, Amal Awad (2021)Our conversation with Saman Shad (who released her new novel The Sex Lives of Married Women earlier this year):https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/set-ups-with-saman-shad/id1703734806?i=1000651936624 https://thatromcompod.substack.com/p/episode-16-set-ups-with-saman-shad Bitter & Sweet, Amal Awad (2023)Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2007)Beyond Veiled Clichés: The Real Lives of Arab Women, Amal AwadMostly Martha (2002, available to rent on Prime)No Reservations (2007, Stan)Blessed Are The Cheesemakers, Sarah-Kate Lynch (2001, Penguin)By Bread Alone, Sarah-Kate Lynch (2003, Penguin)Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Rockstar Romance (with Laura Carter)

    Rockstar Romance (with Laura Carter)
    Jul 22 2025
    Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/Guest: @lauracarterauthor Catch A Falling Star, Laura CarterThe Idea Of You Lick, Kylie Scott Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid Deep Cuts, Holly Brickley Sing You Home, Jodi Picoult The Lost Love Song, Minnie Darke Love is a War Song, Danica Nava Never Been Shipped, Alicia Thompson August Lane, Regina Black | The Critical HeartHere Comes The Ex, Portia MacIntosh Back in the Saddle, Maggie Eckersley Rock My World, Camilla Isley Romance is Dead, Katie Bohn Head First, Claire Kershaw Say You’ll Remember Me, Abby Jimenez Isn't It Nice We Both Hate the Same Things, Jessica Seaborn Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Episode 40: Bucket Lists (with Holly Brunnbauer)

    Episode 40: Bucket Lists (with Holly Brunnbauer)
    Jul 8 2025

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    Guest: @hollybrunnbauer / website / No Shelf Control / The Write Track

    What Did I Miss?, Holly Brunnbauer (2025, HarperCollins)

    The Debut Crew 2025 (The Write Reads)

    It’s Been A Pleasure Noni Blake, Claire Christian

    Claire Christian on The First Time podcast

    Dying For Sex

    Someone Else’s Bucket List, Amy Matthews

    Emergency Exit Only, Michelle Upton

    The Life List

    Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert / Stan

    The Bucket List

    Salty, Spiced, and a Little Bit Nice, Cynthia Timoti

    Midnight Gate, S.K. Stapar

    Big Feelings, Amy Lovat

    Starry Eyed, Katharine Pollock

    Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Literary Love Stories (with Jessica Stanley)

    Literary Love Stories (with Jessica Stanley)
    Jun 24 2025
    Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/Guest: Jessica Stanley (@DailyDoseOfJess / Read. Look. Think. Consider Yourself Kissed / A Great Hope, Jessica StanleyThe Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst American Wife / Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld One Day /You Are Here, David Nicholls Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors Big Feelings / Mistakes and Other Lovers, Amy Lovat Less, Andrew Sean GreerSorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason Rise and Shine / Love and Other Puzzles, Kimberley Allsopp Alicia Thompson on miscommunicationHappiness Forever, Adelaide Faith Margot’s Got Money Troubles, Rufi Thorpe Careless People, Sarah Wynne Williams Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Publishing Trends (with Chloe Berry)

    Publishing Trends (with Chloe Berry)
    Jun 10 2025
    Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/Guest: @chloeraeberry / @booktokbookclub / The Berry AgencyThrone of Glass series, Sarah J Maas (Bloomsbury)Mountain Men Matchmaker series, Amy Daws (HarperCollins)‘Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI’ ASA Guidelines for authors on AI“‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements” Guardian Australia Laurie Gilmore@staceymcewanbooks831 Stories@DramaKingBooks Signs of Damage, Diana Reid FairyLoot‘Which Celebrity Book Club Could (Actually) Change Your Life?’ Emily GouldGertrude & AliceImmortal, Sue Lynn Tan Out on a Limb, Hannah Bonam-YoungSipsworth, Simon van Booy Seven Brides for Beau McBride, Amy Barry What Did I Miss?, Holly Brunbauer Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Marriage of Convenience (with Jodi McAlister)

    Marriage of Convenience (with Jodi McAlister)
    May 27 2025
    Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/Guest: @jodimccalisterAn Academic Affair, Jodi McAlister Cover Story, Mhairi McFarlane Marry Me Juliet series, Jodi McAlisterThe Love Contract, Steph Vizard The Devil in Winter, Lisa Kleypas The Hating Game, Sally Thorne The Paradise Problem, Roomies, Christina Lauren My Big Fat Fake Marriage, Charlotte Stein Seven Brides for Beau McBride, Amy Barry Tempest, Beverly Jenkins The Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer When a Scot Ties the Knot, Tessa DareFirst Comes Marriage, Mary Balogh To Seduce a Sinner, Elizabeth Hoyt The Geographer’s Map to Romance, India HoltonIn The Long Run, Emma Mugglestone Mother Tongue, Naima BrownRecorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    59 mins
  • Author special: Mhairi McFarlane

    Author special: Mhairi McFarlane
    May 13 2025
    Subscribe to our Substack for full, linked shownotes: https://thatromcompod.substack.com/Guest: Mhairi McFarlane (Follow Mhairi on Instagram @mhairimcf)Cover Story, Mhairi McFarlane (2025, HarperCollins)You Had Me At Hello, Mhairi McFarlane (2012, HarperCollins)Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld (2023, Penguin)I Never Met You, Mhairi McFarlane (2019, HarperCollins)Slow Horses (2022-24, Apple TV+)Lucy Prebble on Culture Amp podcastHow To Lose A Guy in 10 Days (2003, Stan)Spy (2015, Netflix)Here’s Looking At You, Mhairi McFarlane (2013, HarperCollins)Out Of Sight (1998, Binge)The Hating Game, Sally Thorne (2016, Hachette)Last Night, Mhairi McFarlane (2021, HarperCollins)Mad About You, Mhairi McFarlane (2022, HarperCollins)Who’s That Girl, Mhairi McFarlane (2016, HarperCollins)You Belong With Me, Mhairi McFarlane (2024, HarperCollins)Recorded on Gadigal land. | Editing: Joshua Broadbent, Marker Creative Co. | @thatromcompod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    55 mins