With the wonderful Mark Billingham, talking what is happening to the book festival season with Sharon Canavar, the Chief Executive of Harrogate International Festivals, and Sara Bullimore, director of Newark Literary Festival.

Jasmine Blackborow is the woman who narrates the the DI Cupidi series for audiobook and she’s BRILLIANT! Paddy Magrane’s new book Red Desert is an Audible Original – it’s written specially for audio. We talk about how audiobooks is changing what books are.

Mark Edwards is a phenomenon; in the last eight years he’s sold over three million books. Hear him talking about his books Hear To Stay and The Guest List. Katy Connolly works for the East Riding Library service and the virtual book club they’ve set up while we’re in lockdown.

I will rave about this book at any attempt. As someone who wrote non-fiction books myself, I don’t mind saying how deeply jealous of Adam’s book here. It’s a really remarkable piece of work…

First Monday has had to cancel its events; instead Sophie talks about an ingenious thing they’re getting up to keep us all on our toes about crime… Top crime writer and script writer Jo Spain is spending a rare amount of time at home, for obvious reasons. She blames “the rain” for her troubles connecting to our chat from Dublin, but that gives me and Sophie the chance to talk about how great her books are.