Brownlee and Brownlee's Unsung Book Club

Nick and Lucie make a trip to their hometown of Newcastle in search of inspiration and lunch. Topics for discussion include beard oil, female narrators, "Manfield Music", and why nowhere is open for lunch at 11am. The featured author in this week's episode is short story writer Vicky Grut, who will discuss her latest collection, Live Show, Drink Included- and you can also hear an extract from one of the stories. Find out more about Vicky at www.vickygrut.com For more details about this show go to www.unsungbookclub.com We're also on Twitter @unsungbookclub

Lucie is otherwise engaged this week, so Nick takes command of the show. He takes a look at the Slush Pile, the place where unsolicited manuscripts go to die - unless they are plucked from obscurity and turned into bestsellers, that is. Helping him to get to the bottom of this mythical repository of hopes and dreams are commissioning editor Lauren Parsons and industry expert (and self-help writing guru) Scott Edelstein. For more details about the podcast go to www.unsungbookclub.com Contact us @unsungbookclub

In this episode Nick and Lucie Brownlee talk Enid Blyton and the Yorkshire Ripper, the high-brow contents of Sebastian Faulks's bookcase, and the lexicological origins of the word "squabble". If that wasn't enough, this week's featured author is horror writer Rod Glenn who reads an extract from his stomach-churning debit novel "Slaughterville". Not for the faint-hearted... To contact the show, go to @unsungbookclub on Twitter or check out the website www.unsungbookclub.com

Welcome to Brownlee & Brownlee's Unsung Book Club. In this first episode of the podcast we'll be answering your burning questions - ie, who we are and what the hell we know about anything anyway. More importantly we'll also be shining a light on an unsung author, by featuring an extract from one of their books and hearing their own writing story. This week our featured author is Ruth Sutton, who will be telling us about her Lakes-based trilogy "Between the Mountains and the Sea", and reading from the first book in the series "A Good Liar". For full details of this episode, and how to submit your work for consideration, go to our website www.unsungbookclub.com.

We weren't planning on releasing anything new till the launch of the podcast proper in the New Year, but such has been the reaction from listeners, writers and readers to our madcap scheme, we just wanted to say thanks.

Coming soon: Brownlee & Brownlee's Unsung Book Club podcast - championing books and authors who deserve to be read and heard.