Hey bookends! We are thrilled to introduce our latest guest in our 'Top Of Your TBR' series, the author of the incredible dystopian novel 'Dreamland'. This is the longest conversation we've done so far but Rosa was truly the most warm and generous guest and we really hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

Books & Authors mentioned:
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Z For Zachariah by Robert C.O'Brien
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Garth Greenwell
The Jane Austen Book Club & Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Howard's End by E.M Forster
Sally Rooney
Bonjour Tristesse & A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Doris Lessing
The Ice People by Maggie Gee

Top Of Your TBR recommendations:
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

Other recommendations:
Book bodega - @bookbodega (Based in Ramsgate, can order online)
The Bear- Disney +
Euphoria- HBO
Feel Good - Netflix
In My Skin - BBC Iplayer

You can follow Rosa @rosarankingee on Instagram and Twitter, and you can follow us @apairofbookendspod on Instagram, @apairofbookends on Twitter and Tik Tok.

Order Dreamland: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/dreamland-an-evening-standard-best-new-book-of-2021-9781471193842/9781471193842

We hope you enjoy getting stuck into this juicy list of recommendations and if you haven't already read Rosa's novel, please do order via the link above- you won't regret it! Please do rate/review/subscribe as it helps us to reach new listeners. See you next time, Han and Lyd x