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Bert's Books


    • May 17, 2026 LATEST EPISODE
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    Latest episodes from The Bert's Books Podcast

    You Can't Put a Toothpick in a Mini Cheddar

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2026 40:47


    Featuring reviews of John of John and Tortoise By Candlelight

    Which Tory MP Would you Sit on?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2026 42:50


    Featuring Evenings and Weekends and The Corpse Wore Tartan

    An interview with Ilona Bannister

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2026 30:10


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

    Oh, Not Pedro?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2026 31:45


    Featuring reviews of Honey and Five

    What am I, a Podcast?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2026 37:26


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

    Cruising with Jane McDonald

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2026 38:18


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

    Is That a Headstone?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2026 31:42


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

    The Promise of a Premise

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2026 45:44


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

    Blame it on the Weatherman

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2026 42:37


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

    A Bus Ride up a Glacier

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2026 41:20


    Love Lane by Patrick Gale and The Watermark

    The Kangaroo Killer

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2026 41:14


    Featuring A Far Flung Life and Wreck

    Carpe Librum

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2026 43:44


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

    Hot, Incredible & Frequent

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2026 47:26


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

    Pigeon Talk

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2026 39:31


    Featuring Witch Trial and The Kaiju Preservation Society

    I'll lick you when you get here

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2026 38:25


    Featuring Adrift by Will Dean and Five Survive by Holly Jackson

    An interview with Jennie Godfrey

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2026 42:19


    Jennie talks about all things Barbecue at No 9

    I don't know him from Adam

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2026 44:55


    Featuring The Barbecue at No 9 and Mistborn

    Margate does actually exist

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2026 47:33


    Featuring reviews of The Impossible Thing and The Book of Guilt

    My Ugly Wife

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2026 41:17


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

    Live from Swindon

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2026 39:01


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

    OnlyBerts

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2026 35:38


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

    But how was the lamb shank?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2026 40:12


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

    The Rest of 2025 Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2025 34:34


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

    The Rest of 2025 Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2025 30:57


    Featuring The Big Over Easy, The Safekeep and Thirteenth Guest

    Review of the Year

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2025 58:14


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

    Stylish Black Boots

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2025 49:47


    Featuring Objects of Desire and Fifteen Wild December's

    Donald Sutherland is a Real Person

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2025 44:54


    Featuring The Silver Book and The Tainted Cup

    What Sally Wants Sally Gets

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2025 37:47


    Featuring The Other People and The White Octopus Hotel

    Just a Pair of Gay Boys Solving Crime

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2025 43:19


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

    Nothing Went Wrong!

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2025 37:16


    Talking About The Coast Road and Cheesecake!

    Shut up and Dance

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2025 38:02


    Featuring Saltwash and Think Again

    Was there even a shoe?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2025 37:35


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

    Michael Moons Again

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2025 49:05


    Featuring We Hexed the Moon and Death at The White Hart

    Is whiskellier a word?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2025 39:42


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

    This is Not A Pedcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2025 44:21


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

    Two Bookshops One Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2025 50:40


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

    There's Not Even One Robert

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2025 48:37


    Featuring History is All You Left Me and The Impossible Fortune

    Our Beautiful Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2025 46:52


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

    A Particularly Nasty Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2025 41:48


    Including of Ants and Dinosaurs and A Particularly Nasty Case

    How Do You Even Milk A Cow?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2025 41:21


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

    Are We Talking Fondue?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2025 40:38


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

    You Can't Do That In a Pair of Chelsea Boots

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2025 37:47


    Featuring My Name Was Eden and The Game is Murder

    Scribbledacious

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2025 30:32


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

    I Wasn't Going to Lick It!

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2025 44:10


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

    Humpty Dumpty Lives in Reading

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2025 40:09


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

    Don't Cry for Me Alan Partridge

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2025 41:45


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

    Get Midgley!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 44:07


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

    The Money Saving exBert

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 44:12


    Featuring Kill your Darlings and Double Room

    It's Not Even Set in Wales

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2025 37:28


    Featuring Getting Away and The Psychology of Secrets

    Sexy Drunk Ghost

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2025 37:07


    Featuring a Family Matter by Claire Lynch, Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton and a mystery in the shop...

    In the Sea?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 31:35


    Michael's back and reading The Dying Squad and Bert's bene reading Some of Us Are Liars

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