Jenny Bayliss & Karen Swan

Mostly Books Meets...

This week, Jenny Bayliss and Karen Swan join Jack for this holly, jolly Christmas Mostly Books Meets special.

Jenny Bayliss is the author of the 12 Dates of Christmas and The Winter of Second Chances and her latest book is the wonderful Meet Me Under the Mistletoe.

Karen Swan is the author of this year's The Last Summer, which is the first in the five-book Wild Isle series, and has now treated us to a second book this year, the brilliant The Christmas Postcards.

Purchase Meet Me Under the Mistletoe here

Purchase The Christmas Postcards here

• (01:43) - Jenny Bayliss and Karen Swan's Childhood Reads
• (09:09) - Reading Through the Teenage Years
• (15:48) - Jenny and Karen's Favourite Childhood reads
• (20:59) - Jenny Bayliss' Recent Reads
• (22:39) - Karen Swan's Recent Reads
• (29:21) - The Books That Changed Their Lives
• (39:36) - Meet Me Under the Mistletoe
• (43:08) - The Christmas Postcards
• (51:36) - Balancing Light and Dark Themes

Welcome to Mostly Books Meets, a weekly podcast by the independent award-winning bookshop, Mostly Books. Nestled in the Oxfordshire town of Abingdon-on-Thames, Mostly Books has been spreading the joy of reading for fifteen years. Whether it’s a book, gift, or card you need the Mostly Books team is always on hand to help. Visit our website.

The podcast is produced and presented by Jack Wrighton and the team at Mostly Books. It is edited by Story Ninety-Four. Find us on Twitter @mostlyreading & Instagram @mostlybooks_shop.

Meet the host:
Jack Wrighton is a bookseller and social media manager at Mostly Books. His hobbies include photography and buying books at a quicker rate than he can read them.
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Meet Me Under the Mistletoe is published in the UK by Pan Macmillan

The Christmas Postcards is published in the UK by Pan Macmillan

Books mentioned in this episode include:
Watership Down by Richard Adams - ISBN: 9780241953235
The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann - ISBN: 9783407743954
The Haunting of Aveline Jones by Phil Hickes - ISBN: 9781474972147
Wild by Cheryl Strayed - ISBN: 9780307476074
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry - ISBN: 9780571230587
It's Too Frightening for Me! by Shirley Hughes - ISBN: 9780140311587
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - ISBN: 9780307387899

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