A Pair of Bookends: On Air at Simply Books
Join us for an evening chatting all things bookish with a genre-spanning local author and smash-hit podcast host.
Hosted by your favourite bookish pals, Emma Hinds and Hannah MacDonald, join them as they record the latest episode of their podcast, A Pair of Bookends, live at Simply Books!
What is A Pair of Bookends?
A weekly bookish podcast hosted by Hannah MacDonald. The podcast hosts monthly Book Club episodes - where you can read the book at your own pace and then listen to them deep-dive with the author!
A Pair of Bookends' Debut Spotlight series is to put the freshest authors and their work firmly on your radar, and in their new series, they will bring you a monthly culture round up of all the recommendations that they have collected over the previous month of consuming!
New to the Pod? Here's what you can expect!
A Pair of Bookends will be recording the latest episode of their podcast live from our upstairs events space! Expect exclusive insights into Emma's latest book, Nightcurse, cosy autumnal read recommendations, a Christmas wish list for book adaptations, and so much more!
About Nightcurse
The perfect spooky read, as the nights turn dark and stormy...
Cursed with eternity, haunted by love - discover the truth about living forever in this queer enemies-to-lovers romantasy with a magical mystery at its heart, for fans of Juno Dawson and VE Schwab.
Emrys Swift is so dead. 157 years' worth of dead, to be exact. And eternity feels even longer when you're cursed to be seventeen forever, hidden from the world in a magical library, and desperate to remember how you died.
But when ancient spellbooks go missing, Emrys must join forces with annoyingly attractive shapeshifter, Aubrey Vale, to solve the mystery. Which would be fine...if they weren't (im)mortal enemies.
As they tangle with ghosts and battle mermaids, can they outrun the secrets of Emrys's death and Aubrey's life? And is it possible to fall in love when you're already dead?
About your Hosts: Emma Hinds
Emma is a queer author living and working in Manchester. Emma has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews and loves writing queer narratives across both Adult and Young Adult fiction, across a breadth of genres and themes.
Emma is also the author of The Heir to the House of Prince fanfic series, which currently stands at over a million words and over a million views on Ao3.
In a playwriting capacity, Emma’s play, PURE, an exposing account of purity culture in Christian evangelicalism, was featured in Turn On festival at Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester. Emma was the recipient of the Artist Development grant at Hope Mill Theatre.
About your Hosts: Hannah MacDonald
Hannah is a working-class Actor from Manchester, whose credits include Theatre, Short Film, Commercial & Voice-over. She is also a Writer, and is currently working on her debut novel.
Hannah hosts the A Pair of Bookends podcast, where she chats about books, alongside interviewing authors about their work.