Bookable Space with Yvonne Battle-Felton
By: Yvonne Battle-Felton
Language: en
Categories: Arts, Books, Fiction
Hosted by award-winning author and podcaster, Yvonne Battle-Felton, Bookable Space is a podcast where authors read to us, answer three questions about their books, and tell us where to find them. It's a space for writers to reach readers, for readers to find writers, and for everyone in between.Thanks for listening. If you enjoy the show and would like to support what I do, please consider buying me a coffee. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Bookable Space with Lacy Fewer
Jan 08, 2026In this episode of Bookable Space, we’re joined by Lacy Fewer. Lacy readds to us from Yankeeland and talks about writing heartache, family history, living out dreams on the page, and connecting with the past.
About Yankeeland:
Brigid feels hindered by the strict society of her small Irish town in the early 1900’s and dreams of a new life in the land of opportunity they call Yankeeland—America. Brigid’s quest to have a child see’s her mental stability questioned. Caught up in a patriarchal medical establishment she has little power to fight. The new...
Duration: 00:15:12Bookable Space with Joyce Yarrow
Jan 01, 2026In this episode of Bookable Space we’re joined by Joyce Yarrow. Joyce reads to us from Zahara and the Lost Books of Light. We talk about writing the past, inspiration, and bringing places to life through research and imagination.
About the book
Journalist Alienor Crespo discovers a trove of irreplaceable books rescued from the flames of the Spanish Inquisition. Using her gift of second sight, Alienor exploits her knowledge of the past to confront extremists, who are bent on destroying all evidence of harmony between Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval Spain. The fu...
Duration: 00:27:29Bookable Space with Eric Grandy
Dec 23, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space, we’re joined by Eric Grandy. Eric reads to us from Accidental Paradise and talks about writing books where good people make good decisions.
About the author
Eric Grandy was born and raised in Baltimore. After graduating from City College and from Essex Community College, he was drafted by the Chicago Cubs and played six years for them. He went on to be a photographer, lab manager, driver for DHL and warehouse manager. Today he writes full time.
About the book
In Acc...
Duration: 00:27:43Bookable Space with Ilana Debare
Dec 11, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space, we’re joined by Ilana Debare. Ilana reads to us from Shaken Loose and Shaken Free. It’s an interesting discussion about writing Hell, researching and developing characters, and more.
About the author
Ilana DeBare is a former newspaper reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and Sacramento Bee. She’s author of a nonfiction book, Where Girls Come First: The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Revival of Girls’ Schools, as well as two fantasy novels, Shaken Loose and Shaken Free. She lives in Oakland, California.
About the book
<... Duration: 00:33:42Bookable Space with Lucie Andre
Dec 01, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space, Lucie Andre reads to us from Never Ready and talks about writing about the Aids crisis, what writing NYC and memory make possible, writing as a time capsule and more.
About the Author: Lucie André moved to New York with a BA from UVa and few skills beyond waitressing and reading. Her love of art, people, and art-people led her to fundraising for some of the city’s best organizations.
In Atlanta she and her husband renovated a house and raised a daughter, as shebuilt a consulting busine...
Duration: 00:28:22Bookable Space Riddle of Spirit and Bone
Nov 27, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space, we’re joined by Carolyn Korsmeyer reading from Riddle of Spirit and Bone. Carolyn talks to us about influences for the book, writing and researching places you know well, what location makes possible, and more.
About Riddle of Spirit and Bone
The discovery of a skeleton buried beneath a city sidewalk leads a group of student archaeologists to the nineteenth century spiritualist movement and the journey of three women seeking answers from beyond the grave. As the past collides with the present, layers of time peel back to re...
Duration: 00:29:34Bookable Space with Megan Mary
Nov 20, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by Megan Mary. Megan reads to us from The Dream Haunters: A Metaphysical Mystery of Magick. Book 1 of the Witches of Maple Hollow Trilogy. We talk about writing spaces, the importance of writing and reflecting on dreams, and more.
About the book: Hannah Skye receives a cryptic letter from her missing Aunt Jewelia. Her experience of a recurring pumpkin patch dream unfolds into a spiritual journey to Maple Hollow, a mysterious island of eternal autumn, where she discovers the mystical Skye Manor and her magickal family legacy.About the author: Megan Ma...
Bookable Space with Wendy Pratt
Nov 13, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by Wendy Pratt. Wendy reads from The Ghost Lake and talks about what she learned about herself and the world around us while writing this moving memoir about grief, place, and the natural world.
About the author:
Wendy Pratt is a poet, author, editor and workshop facilitator living and working on the North Yorkshire coast, where she grew up. She is the author of five collections of poetry. Her latest collection When I Think of My Body as a Horse (Smith|Doorstop Books) won the Poetry...
Duration: 00:23:14Bookable Space with Marcia Hutchinson
Jul 24, 2025In this engaging episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Marcia Hutchinson reading The Mercy Step.
About the Author
After attending Oxford University and working as a lawyer in the City Marcia Hutchinson relocated back to Yorkshire where she founded and ran educational publishing company Primary Colours from 1997 - 2014. She was awarded an MBE for services to Cultural Diversity in 2010 and is now a full time writer.
About the book
The Mercy Step follows precocious child Mercy from birth to her relationships with her family in 1960's...
Duration: 00:27:03Bookable Space with A.C. Adams
Jul 17, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by A.C. Adams reading from Chasing Shadows. It's a heartfelt discussion about family, fictions, writing, and more.
About the Book
When renowned professor Dr. Aidan Ryan vanishes without explanation, he leaves behind a haunting message revealing he has a new life and can never return. His devastated daughter Sofia embarks on a global search to uncover the truth behind her father’s disappearance. What she finds is more shocking than she could have imagined—a web of family secrets and lies that chal...
Duration: 00:30:23Bookable Space with Kelechi Okafor
Jul 10, 2025In this engaging episode, we’re joined by Kelechi Okafor. Kelechi reads to us from her debut novel, Awakened. We talk about adventures, writing future present, and more.
About the Author
Kelechi Okafor is a Nigerian-born, London-based writer of fiction, journalism, stage and screen. Her work explores global issues through an anti-colonial, anti-white supremacy, and anti-heteropatriarchy lens. In 2024, she launched her subscription platform, Keleidoscope, and opened ‘Child of Light’, a children’s home and resource centre in Nigeria. Known online as @Kelechnekoff and affectionately as ‘just a Baby Girl,’ Kelechi draws creative strength from writers like...
Duration: 00:31:27Bookable Space with Sara Sartagne
Jun 19, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space with Yvonne Battle-Felton, we're joined by Sara Sartagne reading from The Year of Yes and No.
About the Author
Having wanted to be a journalist when she was a teenager, Sara actually ended up in PR. From there, it was a short skip to writing for pleasure, and from there to drafting her first book, a romance series where gardens feature in a BIG way. This allows her to indulge her passion for gardening, inherited from her grandmother. Sara’s English Garden Romance series started as a...
Duration: 00:45:54Bookable Space with Del Howison
Jun 10, 2025In this delightful episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Bram Stoker Award-winning editor, author Del Howison. Del reads from The Survival of Margaret Thomas and What Fresh Hell is This. Del has recently been awarded the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award.
About the author:
Del Howison is an author, journalist, and SAG actor. He is a Bram Stoker Award-winning editor of the anthology series Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World’s Greatest Horror Writers. He has written articles for Fear.net, Gauntlet Magazine, and Writers Digest among others...
Duration: 00:39:43Bookable Space with Deborah Rudell
Apr 22, 2025In this uplifting episode of Bookable Space with Yvonne Battle-Felton, we’re joined by Deborah Rudell. Deborah reads to us from Grace and Grit: The Transformation of a Ship and a Soul and talks to us about writing, the difference a supportive writing group can make, and getting to know herself through writing.
About the author:
A college professor in San Diego, California, Deborah Rudell participates in her city’s vibrant writing community. She is a graduate of Hay House Writer’s Workshop and the Certificate in Memoir Writing program at San Diego Writers, Ink. He...
Duration: 00:19:12Bookable Space with Moira Darrell
Apr 17, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space with Yvonne Battle-Felton, we’re joined by Moira Darrell.
Moira reads to us from Selena and Her Mysteries and Messed Up Choices, and talks to us about questions, secrets, writing, and more.
For information about Yvonne's books, events, and more vist https://www.yvonnebattlefelton.com/ or sign up to Yvonne's Substack https://yvonnebattlefelton.substack.com/
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Duration: 00:30:15Bookable Space with Valerie Nieman
Apr 01, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Valerie Nieman. Valerie reads from Upon the Corner of the Moon: A Tale of the MacBeths. She talks to us about writing, researching, and imagining.
About the author:
Valerie Nieman is the author of Upon the Corner of the Moon, In the Lonely Backwater (Sir Walter Raleigh Award), five other novels, a short fiction collection, and three poetry books. A graduate of West Virginia University and Queens University of Charlotte, she has held NEA and regional writing grants.
About the...
Duration: 00:29:04Bookable Space with Joan Ramirez
Mar 25, 2025In this episode, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Joan Ramirez. Joan reads to us from The Write Rules and talks to us about writing, communication, and what writing makes possible for her.
Joan Ramirez, an award-winning published photojournalist, has short suspense stories in Anthologies, and teaches English as a Second Language to students around the globe.. Her latest endeavor is The Write Rules, which is now in the London Consortium of Libraries. She trains professionals in the nuances of entrepreneurship.
About the book:
My writing handbook, originally for the Engineering...
Duration: 00:26:26Bookable Space with Natalie Leon
Mar 11, 2025In this delightful episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by Natalie Leon. Natalie reads from The Japanese Art of Living Seasonally and talks about travel, living seasonally, and believing in your projects.
About the Book: The Japanese Art of Living Seasonally, is a treasure trove of the traditional Japanese foods, flowers, festivals and folklore that have delighted and inspired me since I started travelling to Japan almost a decade ago, which has forever changed how I connect with the natural world and the seasons.
This beautiful guide unlocks the secrets of Japan's seasonal culture t...
Duration: 00:19:19Bookable Space with Maisie Nesbitt
Mar 04, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by Maisie Nesbitt. Maisie reads to us from Stay Calm and Cheerful. We talk about writing, safe spaces, and more.
About the writer: Maisie Nesbitt is the nom-de-plume of a teacher who has dabbled in poetry since the Covid-19 pandemic. Writing about her experiences with online learning and more broadly, the rollercoaster of emotions that is relating to her pupils and colleagues, Maisie now delves into something more personal with this newest work. She enjoys cooking, practicing yoga and mindfulness (with a
wonderfully contradictory passion for to-do...
Duration: 00:26:04Bookable Space with Kristina Kelly
Feb 25, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by Kristina W. Kelly. Kristina reads to us from Tavern Tale and Imaginari and talks about writing, gaming, and the joy of exploring the side quest.
About Tavern Tale:
What if the side quest is really the main quest?
Divine has chased the thief who stole her talisman across half of Trelvania. The talisman is the key to accessing her magic well, and without it, she is powerless. Divine meets Saph, a flirty tavern owner with an eyepatch who will help Divine l...
Duration: 00:16:06Bookable Space with Allie Cresswell
Feb 18, 2025In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Allie Cresswell. Allie reads to us from The Cottage on Winter Moss.
About the author:
UK-born Allie Cresswell has a BA and an MA in English Literature.
She was a print-buyer, pub landlady, bookkeeper and college lecturer, but nowadays she writes full time, producing the kinds of books that she herself enjoys reading; character-driven historical and contemporary fiction and prose as delicious as a rich, truffle chocolate.
She lives in remote, coastal NW England, where The Cot...
Duration: 00:34:11Bookable Space with Joanne Limburg
Feb 04, 2025In this engaging episode of Bookable Space, we’re joined by Joanne Limburg. Joanne reads from Small Pieces and talks to us about writing grief, taking care of yourself while writing, and writing as a monument.
About the book
When Joanne Limburg's brother Julian took his own life, she found herself holding the fragments of a shattered family narrative. In Small Pieces, she assembles them into a new pattern, with pieces from their shared childhood, their wider family history, their Jewish background, the three-year period between her brother's death and that of her mother, and th...
Duration: 00:28:54Bookable Space with Laura Gwendolyn Hill
Jan 28, 2025Bookable Space is a reading podcast that celebrates books and introduces readers to books we may have missed the first time around. In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Laura Gwendolyn Hill. Laura reads to us from The Saxon Sword: The Song of Artemis Book One
About the book:
On a remote Scottish island, a baby girl, Artemis, is born. As a child, she is determined to unravel the mystery of her father’s identity. As a young woman with the heart of a warrior, she leaves home to fi...
Duration: 00:24:28Bookable Space with C.C. Legault
Jan 21, 2025Bookable Space is a reading podcast that introduces readers to books we may have missed the first time around. In this episode of Bookable Space, Yvonne Battle-Felton, author of Curdle Creek, is joined by C.C. Legault. C.C. reads to us from Who is Bobbie-Mae?
About the book:
Bobbie-Mae wakes up alone in a hospital room. In the aftermath of a life-threatening car accident, there is complete darkness in her recall. Unsure whether her memories will ever return, Bobbie-Mae starts to read her old journals with the hope that they will help her u...
Duration: 00:21:28Bookable Space with Victoria Bennett
Jan 14, 2025Bookable Space is a reading podcast that introduces readers to books we may have missed the first time around. In this episode of Bookable Space, Yvonne Battle-Felton, author of Curdle Creek, is joined by Victoria Bennett. Victoria reads to us from All My Wild Mothers.
About the book:
Weaving together memoir and herbal folklore, All My Wild Mothers is a story of motherhood, grief, and growing. At seven months pregnant, Victoria learns that her eldest sister has died in a canoeing accident. In that moment, her life changes. Five years later, and struggling with t...
Duration: 00:45:12Bookable Space with Sharon Tyers
Jan 07, 2025Bookable Space is a reading podcast that introduces readers to books we may have missed the first time around. In this episode of Bookable Space, Yvonne Battle-Felton, author of Curdle Creek, is joined by Sharon Tyers. Sharon reads to us from Linen and Rooks.
About the book:
Linen and Rooks is set in 1830’s Denbigh, North Wales at the time when cholera visited twice. The Bleachworks where the linen was whitened just outside the town is long gone but rooks still circle the town and in this story a white rook visits and leaves car...
Duration: 00:16:07Bookable Space Yvonne Battle-Felton Holiday Edition
Dec 28, 2024In this special holiday edition of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton turns the tables as she reads from Curdle Creek. This episode was recorded live at Autumn Book Launch 2024. Curdle Creek was published by Holt/Macmillian in the US and Dialogue Books/Hachette in the UK.
About the book Osira, a forty-five-year-old widow, is an obedient follower of the strict conventions of the remote all-Black town that’s stuck in the past and governed by ominous rituals including a one in, one out population policy. Osira has always been considered blessed, but her luck changes when he...
Duration: 00:10:57Bookable Space with Emily Grandy
Dec 17, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Emily Grandy. Emily reads to us from Michikusa House.
About the book
While spending a year on a small farm in rural Japan, a young woman struggling with mental illness finds meaning in learning to grow her own food and cook with the seasons. But transformation is often bittersweet, and she will be forced to choose between the familiarity of old ties and the desire for fulfillment.
For information about Yvonne's books, events, and more vist https://www.yvonnebattlefelton.com/ o...
Duration: 00:29:30Bookable Space with Francine Pozner Ehrenberg
Dec 10, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Francine Pozner Ehrenberg. Francine reads to us from America's Candidate.
About the author
Francine Pozner-Ehrenberg has been an attorney for over 30 years. She was a Supervising Deputy Attorney General who specialized in Financial and Computer Crimes. She also served as a Major in the U.S. Army, Judge Advocate General's Corp. America's Candidate is her first novel.
About America's Candidate
America’s Candidate suspensefully tells the story of Annie and her fiancé Amir who want to produ...
Duration: 00:22:15Bookable Space with Kathy Harms
Dec 03, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Kathy Harms. Kathy reads from Resilience in the Rubble.
About the Book
As paramedic Kathy Harms navigates the devastation in the aftermath of the catastrophic 2005 Kashmir Earthquake as a first-time medical aid worker, she is confronted by the scale of suffering she observes in the region, and her own lack of experience in the area of humanitarian work.
In the field, she meets Nadeem Malik, a 19 year old student struggling to come to terms with personal loss and the d...
Duration: 00:27:33Bookable Space with Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Sep 24, 2024In this engaging episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Bryan Thomas Schmidt. Bryan reads to us from his book Shortcut.
About the book:
A mathematical genius. A formula that speeds up space travel called SHORTCUT. His loving wife. When Laura Maxx disappears after an attack that leaves Jason Maxx in the hospital, his only goal is to find her and bring her back. Then he gets a message: Laura is alive. Somewhere in space. To get her back, he’ll do whatever it takes—even taking on government agents who migh...
Duration: 00:35:22Bookable Space with Dr Khadijah Ali-Coleman
Sep 17, 2024We're back with Season III. In this episode of Bookable Space Dr Khadijah Z. Ali- Coleman. Kadijah read to us from her book For The Girls Who Do Too Much. In this lively discussion with novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton, Khadijah talks to us about writing influences, impact, creativity, vulnerability, and more in this engaging and uplifting episode.
About the writer:
Dr. Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman is a visionary cultural curator with over two decades of experience transforming spaces into vibrant centers of artistic and educational engagement. She is the founding director of Black Writers for Peace and...
Duration: 00:29:49Bookable Space with Michal Spiegelman
Jul 09, 2024In this engaging episode, we are joined by Michal Spiegelman. Michal reads from Becoming Soulful Six Keys for Profound Transformation in Your Therapy, Coaching, or Healing Practice and talks to us about her writing practice, listening to our souls, and more.
About Michal:
Michal Spiegelman is the visionary behind Beacons of Change, a transformative platform dedicated to guiding women and healing professionals toward a soul-fueled life lived at full power. As the founder and creator of the Soulful Healer Method for Profound Transformation, Michal empowers a diverse community of individuals to find their...
Duration: 00:31:32Bookable Space with Rosie Wilby
Jun 13, 2024In this engaging episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Rosie Wilby. Rosie reads to us from The Breakup Monologues: The Unexpected Joy of Heartbreak and talks to us about writing, science of relationships, immersive research, and more.
About the author:
Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, writer and podcaster who has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman's Hour, Saturday Live, Unsafe Space and Four Thought and TV programmes including Good Morning Britain and Sunday Morning Live. Her latest book The Breakup Monologues is based on her acclaimed podcast (a...
Duration: 00:37:12Bookable Space with Ines G. Labarta
Jun 04, 2024In this engaging episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Inés G. Labarta. Inés reads from The Three Lives of Saint Ciarán and talks to us about writing, reading, life, and more.
The Three Lives of Saint Ciarán
A young girl, un-dead and un-alive, brought to the shores of Iberia and nurtured to become the saviour of Madrid. A crippled boy drowning in the waters of Loughmichnois, called to preserve the secrets of a civilisation. A nun who instigates the bombing of Neo Dubl...
Duration: 00:35:57Bookable Space with Steve Schlam
May 28, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Steve Schlam. Steve reads from The Harvesting of Haystacks Kane and talks to us about writing, dreaming, creativity, taking readers on a journey on the river of words, and more.
About the Author: STEVE SCHLAM was born and brought up in the Borough of Brooklyn in The City That Never Sleeps, and has since lived in cities and towns across the United States and in Mexico. An actor as well as a writer, he has performed on stages in all the places he's called ho...
Duration: 00:27:08Bookable Space with Angie Elita Newell
May 07, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, Angie Elita Newell joins host Yvonne Battle-Felton. Angie will be reading from her novel, All I See is Violence.
About the Book:
Following the real-life historical events caused by colonialism, such as the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, Indigenous author Angie Newell dives into the chaos that resulted from these events and the fallout modern Indigenous peoples still bear today in her historical fiction novel, All I See is Violence.
About the Author:
Angie Elita Newell belongs to the Liidlii Kue First Nation from the De...
Duration: 00:34:54Bookable Space with Ishi Robinson
Apr 25, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Ishi Robinson. Ishi reads from Sweetness in the Skin. We talk about home, family, and food.
About the Book
Sweetness in the Skin is set in 90s Kingston, Jamaica and tells the story of the irrepressible Pumkin Patterson who is trying and failing to find her place: at home, at school, and in wider society.
When her family implodes, Pumkin chooses to become master of her fate and embarks on an epic journey to find a new home. Duration: 00:24:35
Bookable Space with James Morehead
Apr 23, 2024Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, in this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by James Morehead. James reads from The Plague Doctor.
About the writer
James Morehead is Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, author of three collections of poetry, and host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast. James' poem "tethered" was transformed into an award-winning animated short and "gallery" was set to music (baritone and piano). His poems have appeared in multiple publications.
About The Plague Doctor
The Plague Doctor is both accessible and layered with meaning, a visual...
Duration: 00:21:38Bookable Space with Laine Love, part 3 of 3
Apr 18, 2024In the final part of this three-part episode, Laine Love reads another chapter from A Bigger Mission. Written in the style of a script, this chapter is about love, acceptance, and belonging.
BIO:
Lainne Love is an Award Winning Spiritual Psychology Coach & Bestselling Author, Leading Edge Healer, Founder + CEO of A Bigger Mission, and Momma.
She’s dedicated to standing for others as they rise up, reclaim their power, and lead by birthing their bigger mission.
Her process is rooted in Universal Law and Metaphysics. Informed by spiritual psy...
Duration: 00:26:15Bookable Space with Lainne Love Part 2 of 3
Mar 27, 2024In part two of this three-part episode, Lainne Love joins host Yvonne Battle-Felton and reads from another section of A Bigger Mission. Lainne reminds us all that there is only one us.
BIO:
Lainne Love is an Award Winning Spiritual Psychology Coach & Bestselling Author, Leading Edge Healer, Founder + CEO of A Bigger Mission, and Momma.
She’s dedicated to standing for others as they rise up, reclaim their power, and lead by birthing their bigger mission.
Her process is rooted in Universal Law and Metaphysics. Informed by spiritual psy...
Duration: 00:13:27Bookable Space with Lainne Love (part 1)
Mar 14, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by Lainne Love reading A Bigger Mission. This is the part one of a three-part episode.
BIO:
Lainne Love is an Award Winning Spiritual Psychology Coach & Bestselling Author, Leading Edge Healer, Founder + CEO of A Bigger Mission, and Momma.
She’s dedicated to standing for others as they rise up, reclaim their power, and lead by birthing their bigger mission.
Her process is rooted in Universal Law and Metaphysics. Informed by spiritual psychology and neuroscience, and supported with subconscious reprogramming & ene...
Duration: 00:27:23Bookable Space with Laurie Kaye
Mar 12, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, the show where writers read to us, we're joined by Laurie Kaye reading Confessions of a Rock 'n' Roll Name-Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon's Last Interview.
About a Rock 'n' Roll Name-Dropper
Laurie Kaye is a writer and producer, and 'Confessions of a Rock ’n’ Roll Name-Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon’s Last Interview' is her long-awaited memoir. In it, we read about Kaye's rock music-related early life wrapped around that day in December 1980 which Kaye spent with John Lennon and Yo...
Duration: 00:21:58Bookable Space with Maxine Blake
Mar 05, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, Maxine Blake reads Teacher Bloopers and Pouty Mouth Stories and reminds us to show ourselves grace, enjoy what we do, and learn from our mistakes.
About the author:
Maxine Blake is of Jamaican descent and was born and raised in Wolverhampton in the UK. She dedicated 37 years of her life to teaching and held management positions within educational institutions across the country before retiring in 2020. She holds a Master of Education degree.
In her retirement, Maxine remains active both nationally and internationally within education. She...
Duration: 00:32:45Bookable Space with Gloria Galloway
Feb 29, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by author Gloria Galloway. Gloria reads from and talks about her book Amber's Way.
About the book:
Young Adult/Amber's Way is the story of a young girl's struggle with childhood cancer. The narrative is about courage, inner strength, and a fighting spirit. Above all, it is about the powerful bond of love between a mother and daughter.
About the author:
Gloria Galloway has enjoyed storytelling since her dolls were the characters for her stories. She grew up in Sa...
Duration: 00:28:28Bookable Space with Anton Skornyakov
Feb 27, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, Anton Skornyakov reads from The Art of Slicing Work: How to Navigate Unpredictable Projects.
About the Book
Ignoring the problem won’t make it go away.
And yet, that’s exactly what most organizations do when unpredictability arises. Instead of fighting against it, why not work with unpredictability instead?
In The Art of Slicing Work, Anton Skornyakov shows you how to navigate unpredictability and stay focused on delivering results that matter—allowing for steady and controllable progress, creating a sense of shared owners...
Duration: 00:19:36Bookable Space with Madeline Bocaro
Feb 22, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Madeline Bocaro. Madeline reads from her book In Your Mind- The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono.
About the book:
In Your Mind - The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono
The true story of the woman John Lennon loved. This is the ultimate biography and reference guide to Yoko Ono's life and work. It is the first complete exploration of her avant-garde art, activism, films and music in stunning detail. Includes deep insights about Ono’s life (thirty-three years befor...
Duration: 00:21:45Bookable Space with Tim Stretton
Feb 20, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Tim Stretton. Tim will be reading from Catfish Alley.
From the book:
I once had a girlfriend back in Scotland, Lorna, who was into astrology, karma, healing crystals and all that shite. She always said the universe had a way of knowing when you needed something and providing for you. In my experience, what it generally provides is a kick in the bollocks.
Tommy Chisholm is in trouble.
His dream life in Barcelona is unravelling. He’s brok...
Duration: 00:20:33Bookable Space with Micki R. Pettit
Feb 08, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Micki R. Pettit. Micki reads from A Kiss for Maggie Moore and talks about research, writing, and more.
Born in Wyoming and raised in New Mexico, Micki R. Pettit has been a Texan for twenty-six years, living in Houston with her husband and now twenty-one-year-old, A&M sons.
Micki is a former radio personality and voice talent with vocal experience spanning musical theater, opera, big band, rock, and country. She is currently lead female singer with the folk group Ba...
Duration: 00:21:31Bookable Space with Linda Jean Hall
Feb 06, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host, novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Linda Jean Hall. Linda Jean reads to us from Gifting Resilience: A Pandemic Study of my Black Female Resistance and talks about fear, writing, and hope.
Linda Jean Hall is a teaching-researcher specializing in Science and Technology Studies at the University of California Riverside. Hall’s book, Gifting Resilience: A Pandemic Study of my Black Female Resistance is a self-analysis of her journey from Pennsylvania's juvenile justice system to the ivory towers of California's leading educational institutions.
About the book:
... Duration: 00:33:50Bookable Space with Annie Dawid
Feb 01, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Annie Dawid. Annie reads from Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown.
About the book
Paradise Undone, A Novel of Jonestown is a part real, part imagined retelling of the tragic events that led to the USA's biggest single loss of civilian life in the twentieth century.
On November 18th 1978, nine hundred and nine people died in the Guyanese jungle. Published on the 45th anniversary, Annie Dawid’s compelling story of Jonestown explores the tragedy through the voices of four prot...
Duration: 00:25:14Bookable Space with Gary Hermus
Jan 25, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Gary Hermus. Gary reads from and talks about his novel, The Port Edgerton Chronicles.
About the Book:
Leaving your childhood home to build a new life is a rite of passage. But what happens when you have to go back?
Self-reliant artist Penelope “Nellie” Simpson, has made a place for herself in the New Mexico art scene, but when her father becomes ill she is forced to leave the life she’s built and return to her hometown of Port Ed...
Duration: 00:32:53Bookable Space with Larry Zuckerman
Jan 23, 2024In this special edition of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Larry Zuckerman. Larry reads from Lonely Are the Brave.
About the book
Historical novelist Larry Zuckerman talks about Lonely Are the Brave, in which an American war hero returns to his small town in 1919, grieving his late wife, and decides to stay home to raise his infant daughter, only to hear a rumor the child isn’t his.
About the author
Larry Zuckerman, named for a Shakespearean actor, has been blending drama with history since he too...
Duration: 00:39:38Bookable Space with W.C. Aldridge
Jan 18, 2024In this engaging episode, poet W.C. Aldridge joins host Yvonne Battle-Felton. W.C. reads from My Soul's Journey, discusses her poetry journey and offers poets/writers advice on creating a poetry collection.
About the book:
My Soul’s Journey, collected poems, by Chicago poet W.C. Aldridge, was released in 2021 as part of Amador Publisher’s Worldwind Books Poetry Series. Ms. Aldridge was involved in all aspects of the project. Her choices for cover and interior art, and her thoughtful arrangement of the poems into chapters with evocative titles such as “Forgiveness is Not a...
Duration: 00:27:39Bookable Space with Claire Culliford
Jan 11, 2024In this episode, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Claire Culliford. Claire reads from If You Believe... and talks about writing the collection and hope.
About the book
A collection of short stories about the poignant, possible and positive in our world. If You Believe... invites readers to imagine all that can be through tales depicting the best of humanity and the wonderful powers of the natural world.
About the author
Claire Culliford is an author, screenwriter, poet and lyricist who adores writing about the themes that matter to...
Duration: 00:20:20Bookable Space with Walker Zupp
Jan 09, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Walker Zupp. Walker reads to us from Nakadai.
About the book
Twickley, England – when Hiroshi Nakadai is studying for his PhD in Linguistics he comes into contact with a powerful and evil force...
His supervisor, Professor Mutton, has been enslaved by The Great Word: an intergalactic being
hell-bent on conquering the world.
When Nakadai becomes a professor, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Using his phenomenal
intelligence, he decides to...
Duration: 00:24:11Bookable Space with Jane Austin
Jan 04, 2024In this episode of Bookable Space, novelist Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Jane Austin. Jane reads from Renegade.
About the book:
My second novel, Renegade, is the story of Justin, a 70s urban guerrilla, who late in life is confronted by the consequences of his rebellious youth and grapples with the fallout for his family. When his son is drawn into radical politics in Rojava, Syria, Justin is devasted. It’s a modern tale of political turmoil, loyalty and betrayal and one man’s search for identity.
About the au...
Duration: 00:17:56Bookable Space with Rebecca Keller
Jan 02, 2024In this episode, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Rebecca Keller. Rebecca reads to us from You Should Have Known.
About the book:
A grieving grandmother turns to murder in YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN (Crooked Lane Books / April 4, 2023 / $29.99) a literary suspense that explores the bonds of family and the grudges we can’t let go.
When retired nurse Frannie Greene moves into a senior living apartment, she finds a compelling friendship with her new neighbor Katherine, only to discover that Katherine is married to the judge who Frannie believes is implicated in...
Duration: 00:27:38Bookable Space with Steffi Gardener
Dec 26, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Steffi Gardener. Steffi reads to us from Charlie to the Rescue.
About the book
Charlie was different. True he was a Black and White Border Collie, as were his brothers and sister. However, there were two marked differences. One ear stood up whereas the other lay flat against his head.
Secondly, he had eyes of different colours. One was blue, the other looked almost like amber. Now what do myths and legends say about people and animals born with eyes...
Duration: 00:19:00Bookable Space with Ron Roman
Dec 19, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space, author Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Ron Roman. Ron reads to us from Of Ashes and Dust.
About the book:
At the time of the Millennium three people struggle for survival in a small New Hampshire town as the world spins into chaos, not realizing that each harbors secrets that will eventually pit them against one another. The story evolves from the U.S. Government’s earlier two classified secret projects during the Vietnam War (the USAF’s revelation about UFOs and Project Sixty-Seven). Of Ashes and Dust is a...
Duration: 00:15:52Bookable Space with Ronna Detrick
Dec 12, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Ronna Detrick reading from Rewriting Eve: Rescuing Women's Stories from the Bible and Reclaiming Them as Our Own.
About the author:
Ronna Detrick left the church and its dogma nearly twenty years ago but took the stories of women with her. She has combined her love of writing with a diverse and winding career that has included coaching, spiritual direction, professional development training, corporate leadership, and entrepreneurship. She shocked and delighted her audience in a provocative TEDx presentation on an Eve who in...
Duration: 00:24:55Bookable Space with Stephanie Cotsirilos
Dec 05, 2023Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, in this episode of Bookable Space Stephanie Cotsirilos reads from My Xanthi.
About the author:
Tapping prior careers on Broadway and in law, Stephanie Cotsirilos is author of the novella My Xanthi. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Narrative, Mississippi Review and Beacon Press’ New England essay anthology, Breaking Bread. A Sewanee Writers’ Conference alumna, she was Katahdin Fellow at Storyknife’s inaugural retreat for women writers in Alaska. She holds degrees in comparative literature, music, and law from Brown and Yale. She live...
Duration: 00:25:22Bookable Space back with Debbie Burke
Nov 28, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Debbie Burke. Debbie reads from Deep Fake Double Down and talks to us about writing a series, researching deep fakes and more.
About the Book:
Deep fakes mean deep trouble for investigator Tawny Lindholm and her attorney husband Tillman Rosenbaum. A female corrections officer begs them for help after video goes viral, showing she broke a young Native inmate out of prison. She swears she’s innocent and claims her life is in danger because she witnessed a murder. Then she disappears.
... Duration: 00:30:59Bookable Space with Naomi Kruger
Nov 21, 2023Just in time for lunch, welcome back to Bookable Space! In the first episode of Season 2, we're joined by Naomi Kruger reading from and talking about her book May.
About the author: Naomi Krüger is a prose writer and Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Central Lancashire. Her debut novel, May was published by Seren in 2018 and her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, featured in Wag’s Revue, commended in Aesthetica and commissioned for various anthologies. In 2021 she was awarded an Eccles Centre Fellowship at the...
Duration: 00:31:54Bookable Space with Yvonne Battle-Felton
Aug 29, 2023Just a quick thank you for listening to Season I and news about Season II.
Thanks for listening and for your support. To read more about what I'm up to, visit my website here or sign up for my newsletter on substack to hear/read about Curdle Creek, my upcoming novel.
I hope you'll join in for Season 2. If you would like to be a guest on the show, get in touch. If you'd like to recommend a writer, please ask them to get in touch. All the best and here's to books and...
Duration: 00:02:07Bookable Space with Tammy Euliano
Aug 24, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Tammy Euliano. Tammy reads from Misfire and Fatal Intent.
Please note, Misfire is now available.
About the author:
Tammy Euliano’s writing is inspired by her day job as a physician, researcher and educator at University of Florida. She’s received numerous teaching awards, ~100,000 views of her YouTube teaching videos, and was featured in a calendar of women inventors. In addition to numerous short stories, her first medical thriller, “Fatal Intent,” was published by Oceanview in March, 2021. Kathy Reichs called i...
Duration: 00:22:08Bookable Space with Lynn McAllister
Aug 22, 2023This episode of Bookable Space features Lynn McAllister reading from
About the author: Lynn lives in Twickenham with her family. She has two daughters who are 15 and 17. She has worked in education for some years and was compelled to write about current issues affecting the pre-teens of today, sensing a need to highlight the dangers of living in a technological bubble! Lynn originates from Lancashire and grew up in Lincolnshire, moving to London in the 1990s, migrating from South East London to South West London over the years. Her girls provide the inspiration for the protagonist...
Duration: 00:25:14Bookable Space with Robert Rosen
Aug 17, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Robert Rosen reading A Brooklyn Memoir.
About the book:
Robert Rosen, author of the international bestseller Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon, is back with A Brooklyn Memoir, a childhood journey through 1950s and 60s Flatbush, an insular neighborhood where Holocaust survivors lived side-by-side with WWII vets, and the war lingered like a mass hallucination.
About the author:
Robert Rosen is the author of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon, Beaver Street: A History of Modern Porn...
Duration: 00:21:15Bookable Space with Laura Stegman
Aug 15, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Laura Stegman reading Summer of L.U.C.K.
About the book
Three struggling kids stumble upon a magical carnival that’s about to change their world.
Eleven-year-old stuttering Darby believes she's supposed to be perfect, just like her mother demands. But summer away at camp promises temporary escape. There, she befriends Justin, who hasn’t uttered a word since his dad died, and Naz, who is trying to learn English. When mysterious calliope music from a nearby warehouse grants the trio power to c...
Duration: 00:27:48Bookable Space with Nimbilasha Cushing Part II
Aug 03, 2023This is the second part of a two-part episode featuring Nimbilasha Cushing reading her memoir Come This Way There is an Exit.
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Duration: 00:17:13Bookable Space with Nimbilasha Cushing
Aug 01, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by Nimbilasha Cushing reading from Come This Way, There is an Exit.
This is part one of a two-part episode.
About the book
The story of growing up in the South as a sharecropper in the 1950's.
A deeply-felt account of the girlhood of an African-American, Nibilasha Cushing, who was born in St.Louis, Missouri in 1948 as the sixth child of what she describes as 'a dirt poor family of share-croppers'. This is her extremely revealing and moving memoir about growing...
Duration: 00:27:35Bookable Space with C J Neill
Jul 28, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by C.J. Neill reading The Money Go Round.
About the book:
Max Stephens` life is falling apart. He`s lost his high-powered City Desk journalist job, his wife has left him, and he`s turning into the drunk his father was when he stumbles on a massive fraud during a visit to the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Sensing a scoop that could help him regain professional respect Max digs deeper into the fraud and follows the money trail to offshore tax havens and...
Duration: 00:30:29Bookable Space with Patrick D Hahn
Jul 25, 2023In ths episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Patrick D Hahn reading Obedience Pills: ADHD and the Medicalization of Childhood.
About the book:
Every day across this great land of ours, millions of children are swallowing pills for something called "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," or "ADHD." This has long been almost exclusively an American obsession, although the rest of the world is catching up with us.
So what are the harms of this mass drugging of children? What are the benefits? Who benefits? These questions form the basis of t...
Duration: 00:22:03Bookable Space with Anara Guard
Jul 20, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Anara Guard reading Like A Complete Unknown.
About the Book:
In 1969, a girl’s life is not her own. When Katya Warshawsky’s parents demand she drop out of school to join a cleaning crew, she runs away instead. But Chicago’s counterculture isn’t as welcoming as she dreamed, even in an age of peace and love. Starry-eyed and in trouble, she turns to Dr. Robert Lewis for help, then disappears into the streets. The widowed doctor's rash impulse to save her might rejuvenate his mela...
Duration: 00:25:37Bookable Space with Kathie Giorgio
Jul 18, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space Kathie Giorgio reads All Told and Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism in Haiku.
KATHIE GIORGIO is the author of 6 novels, 2 story collections, 3 poetry books, and an essay collection. Her novel, All Told, was released in 1/2022, and a poetry chapbook, Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku, will be released in 8/2022. Her stories/poems appeared in hundreds of magazines.
About the books:
AUTHOR KATHIE GIORGIO discusses the variety and diversity of a writer's work, and disses the idea of "branding", as she reads from...
Duration: 00:26:17Bookable Space with Katya Cengel
Jul 13, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Katya Cengel. Katya reads From Cheronobyl with Love: reporting from the ruins of the Soviet Union.
About the book:
In 1986 an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic helped trigger the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Three and a half decades later, in 2022, the plant’s capture by Russian forces reminded Ukraine – and the world – that, for Russia, it isn’t over.
In between an American reporter and a Ukrainian...
Duration: 00:31:24Bookable Space with Ross Dreiblatt
Jul 11, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Ross Dreiblatt. Ross will be reading from I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories.
About the author: Ross Dreiblatt is an author who was born and grew up in New York. His father was a truck driver, and his mom was a retail manager. He attended Hofstra University and moved to Los Angeles where he attended Cal State Northridge. While in Los Angeles, he studied under John Rechy’s master writing workshop at UCLA.
He has worked in the corporate offices of...
Duration: 00:26:56Bookable Space with Portia Yvette Clare
Jul 06, 2023in this episode of Bookable Space host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Poria Y. Clare. Portia reads from Best Friends Forever: A Puppy’s Tale.
About the book:
Best Friends Forever: A Puppy’s Tale is a tender, heart-warming story about love, loss, and everlasting friendship. It is a wonderful resource of care for parents and teachers that will help them guide children through the real-life experience of owning, loving, and losing a beloved family pet, and finding the courage to share that love again.
About the author:
Porti...
Duration: 00:12:19Bookable Space with Michael Favala Goldman
Jul 04, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Michael Favala Goldman. Michael reads from The Trouble with Happiness
About the book:
“This quiet and devastating collection of vignettes from Ditlevsen . . . [reveals] all the simmering, explosive tensions found in marriage, family, and parenthood . . . The stories are simple; the characters ordinary and immensely human. Their motivations are mysterious and subtle, and Ditlevsen is acutely sensitive to the way normal life can wear at their hearts . . . Alongside this discomfort, though, is the opportunity for deep transformation. Already renowned for her memoirs, Ditlevsen is now...
Duration: 00:22:41Bookable Space with Chris Dickon
Jun 27, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Chris Dickon reading Dutch Children of African American Liberators.
About the book:
In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America. Though their African American fathers had brought liberation from Nazi tyranny at the end of World War II, they were in a segregated American military derived from a racially divided American society. Decades later, some of...
Duration: 00:36:19Bookable Space with Deirdre Fagan
Jun 22, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Deidre Fagan. Deirdre will be reading
About the author:
Deirdre Fagan is a widow, wife, mother of two, and the award-winning author of the memoir Find a Place for Me (forthcoming, 2022), a collection of short stories, The Grief Eater (2020), and a poetry chapbook, Have Love (2019). She is an associate professor and coordinator of creative writing at Ferris State University. Meet her at deirdrefagan.com
About the book:
A memoir about Fagan’s philo...
Duration: 00:26:36Bookable Space with Annie Kirby
Jun 20, 2023In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Annie Kirby reading The Hollow Sea.
Author Bio
Annie Kirby lives on the south coast of England where she works as a university researcher. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and broadcast on national radio. Annie is a winner of the Asham Award for short fiction and a graduate of Penguin’s WriteNow programme.
The Hollow Sea
When Scottie realises that she may never become a mother, she makes the heart-breaking decision to flee to...
Duration: 00:21:33Bookable Space with Anne Goodwin
Jun 15, 2023Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Anne Goodwin reading Matilda Windsor is Coming Home.
About the book:
In the dying days of the old asylums, three paths intersect. Henry was only a boy when he waved goodbye to his glamorous grown-up sister; approaching sixty, his life is still on hold as he awaits her return. As a high-society hostess renowned for her recitals, Matty’s burden weighs heavily upon her, but she bears it with fortitude and grace. Janice, a young social worker, wants to set the world to rights, bu...
Duration: 00:25:16Bookable Space with Jerome Gold
Jun 13, 2023Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Jerome Gold reading from Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility.
About the book
Adapted from the publisher’s description: For fifteen years, Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for juveniles in Washington State. Throughout his time there, he kept a journal of his experiences with youths who had been incarcerated for murder, kidnap, assault, sex offenses, auto theft, and selling drugs. What started as a journal became one man’s nuanced perspective on a unique group of youn...
Duration: 00:28:06Bookable Space with Sandra Coffey
Jun 08, 2023Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Sandra Coffey reading Breaking into the Media: The Journalist's Guide to Publicity.
About the book
A journalist's inside look on what it takes to get publicity.
About the author:
Sandra Coffey is a former senior journalist and editor who now works as a PR Manager covering Ireland and the UK. She has gained coverage for clients in publications such as Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Independent, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail. Sandra also helps beginner PR pr...
Duration: 00:40:37Bookable Space with Bobbie Jean Huff
Jun 06, 2023Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Bobbie Jean Huff reading The Ones We Keep.
About the book
What would you do if you discovered that one of your children had drowned—but now which one? Would you try to discover which child you had lost? Or would you make a different choice? The Ones We Keep follows the splintered lives of four family members in the years following an unspeakable tragedy, and the choices they make to find their wasy back to each other.
Bio - Bobb...
Duration: 00:19:23Bookable Space with Steven Mayfield
Jun 01, 2023Steven Mayfield joins host Yvonne Battle-Felton in this episode of Bookable Space. Steven will be reading from Delphic Oracle, U.S.A.
About the book
It is 1925 when a love affair between enchantress Maggie Westinghouse and con man July Pennybaker upends the small town of Miagrammesto Station, tumbles it about, and sets it back down as Delphic Oracle, Nebraska. Will their love fulfill its destiny? The narrator of this wry, entertaining novel, Father Peter Goodfellow, weaves back and forth in time to answer that question. Along the way, he introduces the Goodfellows, the...
Duration: 00:25:58Bookable Space with Susan Cole
May 30, 2023Susan Cole joins host Yvonne Battle-Felton in this episode of Bookable Space. Susan will be reading from Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss.
About the book
HOLDING FAST is Susan Cole’s story of leaving everything behind to follow her husband's lifelong dream of sailing away. Susan’s journey took her from the glitzy world of Madison Avenue advertising to riding out Hurricane Mitch, the largest hurricane on record at the time, on a sailboat in Guatemala. She hadn’t wanted to go in the first place, but ended up on a life-c...
Duration: 00:23:30Bookable Space with Arnie Bernstein
May 25, 2023Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Arnie Bernstein reading from Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing and two other pieces.
Arnie Bernstein bio: Arnie Bernstein delves into the forgotten corners of history through narrative nonfiction. His explorations of American Nazis, Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, has earned world-wide acclaim, including The NY Times, Publishers Weekly, and media in Poland, Germany, England, Israel, and more. Arnie is a member of PEN, The Authors Guild, International Federation of Journalists, and Soc...
Duration: 00:48:40Bookable Space with Laura Pashby
May 23, 2023Love being read to? Hosted by writer, Yvonne Battle-Felton, inthis episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Laura Pashby reading from Little Stories of Your Life.
About the book:
It’s easy to feel that our own lives are not enough, but real lives are not defined by bright, exciting events: we don’t need a grand narrative arc. It’s the stretches of time in between that matter, the tiny moments and the daily choices that make us who we are. Little Stories of Your Life shows you how to use words and photogr...
Duration: 00:15:38Bookable Space with AA Abbott
May 04, 2023Love being read to? Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features AA Abbott reading Lies at Her Door.
About the book:
She forgot about her childhood friend… until his body is found under her garden. Can she prove she didn’t commit the decades-old murder?
Lucy Freeman struggles to find satisfaction in life. Trapped in the shadow of her rock star brother, the thirty-two-year-old craves more than her days at home caring for her terminally ill mother. But her routine takes a turn for the horrifying when a gia...
Duration: 00:19:25Bookable Space with Debbie Burke
May 02, 2023Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Debbie Burke reading Until Proven Guilty.
About the book: A guilty rapist freed on a technicality. A father wrongfully convicted of molesting his daughter. An unknown son from the past with a dark secret. Investigator Tawny Lindholm and attorney Tillman Rosenbaum struggle to resolve three baffling cases where DNA doesn’t lead to the truth. Instead, it lays bare lies, deception, and betrayal, threatening Tawny and Tillman’s new marriage and endangering their family.
About the author: Debbi...
Duration: 00:30:33Bookable Space with Trudy Krisher
Apr 27, 2023Love being read to? Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Trudy Krisher reading from On the March: A Novel of the Women's March on Washington.
About the author:
Trudy Krisher an award-winning author of a number of historical novels with social justice themes (SPITE FENCES, KINSHIP, UNCOMMON FAITH, FALLOUT). She has a reputation as a trailblazer in writing and speaking out about sensitive issues surrounding self-identity, race, and gender through her fictional works. You can read more about her at her website: www.trudykrisher.com. ON THE MARCH is available as...
Duration: 00:18:53Bookable Space with Emily Johnson
Apr 25, 2023Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Emily Johnson reading Pushing Through the Cracks.
Pushing Through The Cracks
Four years ago, Emily, a divorced mother of two, was living her best life with a new partner and a blended family of six. But then addiction and mental illness entered her home uninvited, threatening to tear the whole family apart.
With an alcoholic husband and two teenage sons – one a depressed gambler and the other with chronic obsessive-compulsive disorder – Emily is left to cope alone. And w...
Duration: 00:26:38Bookable Space with Carolyn Korsmeyer
Apr 20, 2023Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space, joined by host Yvonne Battle-Felton, Carolyn Korsmeyer reads Charlotte's Story.
About the author: A longtime admiration for Jane Austen led Carolyn Korsmeyer to write Charlotte’s Story. Her second novel, Little Follies, will be published in January, 2023. She is also the author of numerous philosophical works, including Things: In Touch with the Past, Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics, and Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy.
About the book: Charlotte Lucas, a character first appearing in Jane Austen’s Prid...
Duration: 00:22:59Bookable Space with Kate Frost
Apr 18, 2023Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space, Kate Frost reads An Italian Dream.
About the author: Kate Frost is the author of several bestselling romantic escape novels including The Greek Heart and The Amsterdam Affair. In 2021, she signed a six book deal with Boldwood. Two books have been published so far, An Italian Dream and Amazon UK Kindle top 50 bestseller One Greek Summer
About the book:
Follow your heart and then your dreams…
Best friends since childhood, Fern Chambers and Stella Shaw have been thro...
Duration: 00:19:47Bookable Space with Sorayya Khan
Apr 11, 2023Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space, Sorayya Khan reads We Take Our Cities with Us.
About the book: Even when we leave them, our cities never leave us. After her Dutch mother’s
death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents’ lives, and
her own Pakistani-Dutch heritage in a multicultural memoir that unfolds over seven cities and
three continents. We Take Our Cities with Us takes us from a childhood independence forged in
her grandparents’ home in Lahore; to her adolescenc...
Duration: 00:24:03Bookable Space with Lorraine Wilson
Apr 06, 2023Joined by host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Lorraine Wilson with The Way the Light Bends.
Lorraine is a conservation scientist who now lives by the sea in Scotland writing speculative fiction influenced by folklore and the wilderness. She runs a mentorship programme for marginalised writers and The Way The Light Bends is her second novel, with a third coming out later this year.
About the book:
The Way The Light Bends is a story about who we become, and what we will believe in, when we lo...
Duration: 00:21:30Bookable Space with Roslyn Reid
Apr 04, 2023Love being read to as much as I do? In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Roslyn Reid reading The Spiricom.
Bio:
Amazon best-selling and international award-winning author Roslyn Reid lives with her Great Pyrenees and husband in Downeast Maine, where she gardens, lifts weights, and hikes. A former model, she contributed to Llewellyn's annual almanacs for several decades and has written for a few of the local newspapers. She is a member of the Author's Guild and you can follow her on LinkedIn, Instagram (@realroslynreid), BookBub and Twitter.
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Duration: 00:23:51Bookable Space with Joseph Hutchison
Mar 30, 2023Love being read to? Hosted by Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Joseph Hutchison reading Under Sleep's New Moon.
About the book: Poet Joseph Hutchison on rescuing unfinished poems from the faraway land called youth.
About the poet: Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate (2014-2019), has published 20 poetry collections, including Under Sleep’s New Moon; The World As Is: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2015; and Marked Men. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, he directs the Professional Creative Writing online program at the University of Denver’s University College.
For information about Yvonne...
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