The Bert's Books Podcast

Featuring A Study in Drowning and The Children

In this episode, Bert gives his spoiler-free review of An Unlikely Visitor and Sally's talking about The Mercy Step

Bert is reading Flesh and Michael's reading The Gracekeepers

Featuring reviews of John of John and Tortoise By Candlelight

Featuring Evenings and Weekends and The Corpse Wore Tartan

Ilona Bannister, author of Five pops by for a chat about her new book!

Featuring reviews of Honey and Five

Featuring reviews of What Am I, a Deer? and Yesteryear

Bert's talking about Fruit Fly and Michael can't remember what book he's talking about...

Bert is reviewing The Drowning Place by Sarah Hilary and SAlly's been reading The Infamous Gilberts by Angela Tomaski!

Featuring reviews of The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clark and Die Trying by Eleanor Barker-White

Esme is reading The three Body Problem and Bert is talking about Elizabeth and Marilyn!

Love Lane by Patrick Gale and The Watermark

Featuring A Far Flung Life and Wreck

Keith comes back to talk about Robert Webb's How Not to be a Boy and Michael is talking Hell's Heart

Featuring a PG review of Game Changer by Rachel Reid and a Ordinary Time by Cathy Rentzenbrink

Featuring Witch Trial and The Kaiju Preservation Society

Featuring Adrift by Will Dean and Five Survive by Holly Jackson

Jennie talks about all things Barbecue at No 9

Featuring The Barbecue at No 9 and Mistborn

Featuring reviews of The Impossible Thing and The Book of Guilt

Featuring reviews of This Book Made Me Think Of You and My Husband's Wife

Featuring Sally's review of The Correspondent and Meet the Newmans

Bert is talking about Room 706, while Michael's been reading the newest Tom Hindle

Bert is joined by Esme to talk about Shatter me and My Grandfather, the Master Detective

Featuring a Curtain Call to Murder, Shatter Creek and Everybody knows

Featuring The Big Over Easy, The Safekeep and Thirteenth Guest

Bert, Michael and Sally discuss the books they've loved the most in 2025 - PLUS, what's to come in 2026

Featuring Objects of Desire and Fifteen Wild December's

Featuring The Silver Book and The Tainted Cup

Featuring The Other People and The White Octopus Hotel

Featuring Don't Make Me Laugh and The Nancy's and the Case of the Missing Necklace

Talking About The Coast Road and Cheesecake!

Featuring Saltwash and Think Again

Featuring The Murder at World's End and The Long Shoe

Featuring We Hexed the Moon and Death at The White Hart

Sally's been reading This House of Grief and Bert's talking to Michael about The Society of Unknowable Objects

Bert is talking about North Woods and Michael has been reading Shy Trans Banshee

Bert reviews The Two Roberts and Tracey is talking about Watching You

Featuring History is All You Left Me and The Impossible Fortune

Featuring Seascraper, A room Above A Shop and Our Beautiful Mess

Including of Ants and Dinosaurs and A Particularly Nasty Case

Michael and Bert are talking about The Killer Question while Sally's been reading The Wall - as recommended by Pedro!

Featuring When the Moon Hits Your Eye and the Cut Throat Trial

Featuring My Name Was Eden and The Game is Murder

Bert has been re-reading Scribbleboy and newbie to the podcast, Nicola has been reading The Treasures

Featuring the Here One Moment and The Man Who Died Seven Times

Featuring Snow White and the Seven Samurai and The Phoenix Pencil Company

Sally is talking about The Penguin Lessons and Bert is reading The Neighbour's Guide to Murder

Featuring some barely noticeable edits, If We Were Villains and Fake Heroes.

Featuring Kill your Darlings and Double Room