Episodes

L.B. Hathaway’s Posie Parker mysteries are Amazon bestsellers and that’s not surprising because they combine the charm of the classic Golden Age country house mystery – the Agatha Christie set – with the glamour and excitement of 1920s London. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today L.B., or Lily as she’s called, talks about her latest book, Murder on the White Cliffs – yes, that is the White Cliffs of Dover. She tells why Noel Coward’s favourite bay and beach house feature in the stor...

Rachael Johns began writing as a broken hearted teen and she’s now recognised as one of Australia’s best-selling rural romance and life lit authors. She’s also highly productive, with two books out this year and another due early in 2021. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in today’s Binge Reading episode Rachael talks about romance for women with grown up complicated lives, and why she dislikes her work being categorized as “chick lit.” Six things you’ll learn from this Joys of Binge R...

Lorrie Holmgren’s Emily Swift Mystery series are cozy mysteries which break the conventions. Instead of taking place in a small town community with a predictable set of friends – the convention for cozies – international travel writer Emily is in Hawaii in one book and the beautiful English Cotswolds in the next, and her armchair travelling readers love her for it. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and Lorrie talks about her second career as an author of fiction and the mystery in her own ...

Pamela Redmond’s funny, perceptive romcom Younger is a current popular TV series – billed as “the next Sex in the City” – and now she’s back with a comical and poignant sequel called – you’ve guessed it – Older. What happens when a woman lies about her age to get a job and then where is she left when the charade has to come to an end? Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and Pamela talks about the ageism both men and women face in the workplace these days, feeling the fear and doing it anyway...

Mandy Robotham’s first World War II story The German Midwife was an international best seller, and she hasn’t looked back since. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and today on The Joys of Binge Reading Mandy talks about where the idea to write a book about Hitler’s baby came from, why WWII stories are hot, and how she transitioned from being a midwife herself to a fulltime author. Six things you’ll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode: Where the idea of Hitler’s baby came from T...

Romantic suspense author Lori Matthews likes putting strong women up against tough-guy protectors – but not so they’ll race in and save anybody. Not at all. The strong women learn to save themselves – with a little help from their friends – and readers enjoy seeing two alpha personalities get together and learn to work it out. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in today’s episode Lori talks about her latest book, Hit and Run, number three in the Callahan Security series, with a cutting e...

Gill Paul’s latest book, Jackie and Maria, takes two of the world’s most glamorous and privileged women of their time – Jackie Kennedy Onassis and opera star Maria Callas – and offers us a novel about their love of the same man. A man who also happened to be the world’s richest man at that time, Aristotle Onassis. It’s tagged ‘First comes love, then comes betrayal’ and it’s an addictive read that offers a front-row seat to an infamous rivalry as well as the opportunity to hobnob vicariously with...

Kathryn Lane’s Nikki Garcia international thrillers are a great way to enjoy armchair travel if you can’t get on an aeroplane right now. Her latest book, Revenge in Barcelona, number three in the series, provides the perfect escape for people with itchy feet. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in today’s Binge Reading podcast Kathryn talks about how her previous career as an international fraud investigator inspired her Nikki character, and why her creation is a lot more courageous – or ...

Fiona Palmer is a natural born storyteller who chanced into writing because she wanted to create something that she’d like to read – never thinking it might be published. Nearly twenty books later, she’s one of Australia’s most popular – and beloved – rural fiction authors. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in today’s Binge Reading episode Fiona talks about her typical year – combining writing with farming – and a family heritage that taught her there’s no such thing as failure, just m...

Nikki Crutchley is about to publish her third crime mystery novel, set in small town New Zealand. These are thrillers with beautiful settings and, sadly, an ugly social underbelly, found anywhere, but that’s what crime’s all about, isn’t it? Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Nikki talks about her latest book, The Murder Club, and the encouragement she draws from other women writers in the mystery field. Six things you’ll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode: Learning h...

Evie Dunmore’s debut romance, Bringing Down the Duke, was named as one of the best romances of the year by Publishers Weekly – a remarkable win for a first-time novelist – and even more surprising when you know that English is Evie’s second language. Now Evie continues with a new book in the series, A Rogue of One’s Own. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in this Binge Reading episode Evie talks about why she was attracted to an extraordinary group of women – the first women students at...

Stephen King called international crime writer Michael Robotham an “absolute master” so it’s no surprise that he’s sold millions of books all around the world. His first thriller, The Suspect, was snapped up in more than twenty countries in just three hours and the superlatives have kept on rolling in ever since. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Michael talks about his latest book, When She Was Good, and expands on that remarkable career, first as a journalist, then as a ghost w...

Victoria Purman is a USA Today and Australia top ten best-selling historical fiction author who loves to tell the stories of the forgotten people – the mothers and wives, the wharfies and land girls and nurses who pitched in for their country during a war and then were forgotten when the peace came. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Victoria talks about her latest book, The Women’s Pages, reflects on the moment when she knew her time to write had come and tells us what she tells ...

Lindsey Davis has had a long and celebrated career as the creator of the Falco and Flavia Albia mysteries set in ancient Rome. But when she started out, publishers weren’t interested in the period. Nobody, they told her, wanted to read about ancient Rome. She persevered, brought ancient Rome to life, and created a whole new sub-genre in popular fiction with lots of authors following in her footsteps. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Lindsey talks about her remarkable series – fi...

John Bishop M.D. is an orthopedic surgeon whose Houston Doc Brady thriller series reveals a dark underbelly of medical malpractice, breaches of patient confidentiality and legal conspiracies. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and today Dr John talks about how he made the switch from medicine to writing and reflects on the personal experiences that fuel his plotlines. We’ve got three copies of Book Two in the Doc Brady series, Act of Deception, to give away to three lucky readers. It’s a ri...

Deborah Challinor is a best-selling historical novelist whose books consistently rank in New Zealand’s top five for fiction, many of them making it to number 1. Her latest book, The Jacaranda House, is her seventeenth and it’s a story of mothers and daughters, dark secrets and the healing power of love, set in the King’s Cross Sydney club scene of the 1960s. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Deborah talks about how she was discovered by her publisher because she wrote an “enterta...

A 20th century scientist time travels back to Ancient Jerusalem in John Fergusson’s dual time line mystery King Solomon’s Deadly Legacy, a faith-themed story which combines murder, betrayal, and corruption in business with deeper questions of healing and redemption. Hi there, I’m your host jenny Wheeler and today John talks about how he came to write this challenging thriller and what King Solomon might be able to teach us in a time of pandemic. We’ve got three E-books of King Solomon to give a...

Award winning author Lucinda Brant fell in love with the 18th century as an 11 year old who picked up a dusty historical tome and started reading about a world she felt she’d once lived in. Hello there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in todays Binge Reading episode Lucinda talks about her career as a best selling author of Georgian romance, and the international following who adore the aristocratic families she writes about almost as much as she does. You can download the first book in the Ro...

Lyndee Walker’s journalist investigator Nichelle Clarke juggles stud muffin boyfriends while she takes on “Mafia hotties, corrupt politicians, old flames and murder.” Hi there. I’m your host jenny Wheeler and LynDee talks her new crime thriller Hidden Victims as well as a new Texas Ranger law and order series on The Joys of Binge Reading. We’ve got three E book copies of Hidden Victims to give away to three lucky readers. Enter the draw on Joys of Binge Reading.com or on our Binge Reading Face...

Jenny Wheeler: Nicky Pellegrino’s last book was called A Dream of Italy and it was one of the hottest sellers of 2019. Now she’s back with a new heart wrencher, Tiny Pieces of Us, combining her familiar themes of friendship, food, and romance, but this time underlined with a gritty story. Hi there, I’m your host, Jenny Wheeler, and in today’s binge reading episode, Nicky talks about the new book, her new podcast and the big life changes she’s facing that are creating new opportunities. Six thi...

Stephanie Thornton’s latest book, And They Called It Camelot – a fictionalized account of Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s life – was being vaunted as the Book Club Pick of the Year from the day it was launched, a great starting point for any author. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and today Stephanie talks about the challenges in writing an intimate portrait of the former First Lady’s life, nearly 60 years after the shocking events in Dallas. We’ve got a special Fourth of July Giveaway – three ...

Natasha Lester is a New York Times and USA today best-selling author of historical fiction. She’s a master storyteller who loves nothing better than creating strong, daring and enigmatic leading women. Hi there. I’m your host, Jenny Wheeler and Natasha talks about the remarkable, true life stories of the woman who underlined her timeline series in the latest Binge Reading episode, women like Catherine Dior, the sister of her much more famous brother, Christian Dior, the fashion designer, who wa...

Past and present collide in Kathleen McGurl’s dual timeline stories, where family secrets and past mysteries are unlocked in the present day. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and today Kathleen talks about the stories her readers love, interwoven tales of social upheaval, emotional drama, and lost love spanning centuries. And we’ve got three e-Books of Kathleen’s new book, The Secret of the Chateau, an absorbing timeslip saga which stretches from the Paris of the guillotine to the South o...

Catherine Isaac is a best-selling romcom author who is also a master of bittersweet family stories, the sort of stories that break your heart at the same time as they make it soar. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Catherine talks about her uplifting stories that delight readers with their glorious French and Italian settings, while challenging them to accept that sometimes it takes darkness to see how we shine. We’ve got three copies of Catherine’s latest book, Messy, Wonderful...