Alyssa Maxwell is the author of the acclaimed Gilded Age, Newport mystery series featuring Emmaline Cross. She’s a Vanderbilt by heritage, a Newporter by birth and a force to be reckoned with. Each book is set in a famous Newport Gilded Age mansion, some of them still open for viewing. Welcome to the Joys of […]
Women's Fiction
Helen Brown – Memoirs & Magic
We’re celebrating a milestone with this podcast, the 300th episode of The Joys of Binge Reading show. And it’s wonderful to be able to share it with best-selling author Helen Brown. Helen is a good friend and a former colleague who is appearing on the show for the second time, so it’s just like all […]
Lian Dolan – The Marriage Sabbatical
What if you could take a vacation on your marriage and for six months, pursue a lifetime dream your husband doesn’t share? And he could do the same. That’s the premise for Lian Dolan’s latest book, The Marriage Sabbatical. Hi, I’m your host, Jenny Wheeler and today Lian, the author of the popular The Sweeney […]
Rachel Hore – Family Secrets & Lies
Rachel Hore is a UK Sunday Times bestselling author. whose latest book, The Hidden Years is the story of secrets, loss and betrayal set in Cornwall during World War ii, and then looking ahead closer to contemporary times, to the heady days of the 1960s. Hi there. I’m your host, Jenny Wheeler, and today on […]
Rochelle B. Weinstein – Bitter Sweet Romance
Rochelle Weinstein loves bitter sweet women’s stories about finding identity through love and loss and her latest, What You Do To Me introduces pioneer female Rolling Stone magazine, journalist Cecilia, who obsessively pursues the story while – unacknowledged – her closest relationship crashes and burns around her, Hi, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in […]
Best of Binge Reading 2023 – Part I
Welcome to The Best of Binge Reading 2023, Part One, the first of two shows featuring the most listened to episodes on our popular fiction podcast, chosen solely on the basis of the number of times you, our audience, listened to them. They include an intriguing range of genres, from a contemporary thriller, to a […]
Lucy Burdette Culinary Cozies
Lucy Burdette’s Key West cozies feature a magazine food critic called Hayley Snow, her husband’s nosy dog, Ziggy, and an indomitable sidekick, Miss Gloria, who’s rapidly becoming a reader’s favorite, all that set in page-turning beautiful action in Florida’s laid back tropical archipelago. Hi. I’m your host, Jenny Wheeler. And today on Binge Reading, Lucy […]
Jo Thomas Countdown To Christmas
Jo Thomas writes funny and sunny best-sellers about food, love and family. Books that wrap their arms around you and give you a “great big hug.” And her latest release Countdown to Christmas is billed as “the most uplifting and feel good romance of Christmas 2023.” Hi, I’m your host, Jenny Wheeler and on Binge […]
Emily Bleeker – Emotional Time Slip
Emily Bleeker is a best-selling author whose dual-time-line novel When We Were Enemies moves between a World War II prisoner of war camp in Indiana and the feverish fame of contemporary Hollywood in a story that was partly inspired by her own family history. Hi there. I’m your host, Jenny Wheeler, and today on Binge […]
Darry Fraser – Empowering Historicals
Darry Fraser writes bestselling, empowering feminist historicals that put women back in the Australian story. Her latest book, her twelfth novel is called The Milliner of Bendigo. Hi there. I’m your host, Jenny Wheeler. And today on the show, Darry talks about her fascination with the contribution women have made in every generation, whether recognized […]