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What Page Are You On?

Prolific readers Alice Slater and Bethany Rutter take a literary theme, from ghost stories to crime to fat women, and chat about it for the next 40 minutes.

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  • #136
    August 31 · 48 min

    136: The Lads' August 2026 Reading Update

    Alice and Bethany mosey their way through their August reads, plus chat about a TV adaptation of a beloved book, AND tell you about an interesting upcoming event!

  • #135
    August 3 · 1 hr 7 min

    135: The Lads' July 2026 Reading Update

    What have Alice and Bethany been reading in July? Only one way to find out. This episode has been tagged as containing explicit content due to Alice quoting a VERY rude song. Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here.

  • #133
    May 31 · 54 min

    133: The Lads' May 2026 Reading Update

    [Content note: several of the books discussed in this episode involve sexual violence] Alice and Bethany had a big reading month, though it was very heavy on the non-fic. We even read one book in common!

  • #132
    May 3 · 49 min

    132: The Lads' April 2026 Reading Update

    What have Alice and Bethany been reading this month? Turns out, a WHOLE LOT and they liked it all! Huge amounts of recommendations for your earholes.

  • #128
    Dec 24, 2025 · 58 min

    128: The Lads Choose Their 2025 Books of the Year

    Alice and Bethany pick one book they read each month of 2025 and pit them against each other to determine their book of the year. Full lists available on the What Page Are You On account on Instagram!

  • #125
    Nov 29, 2024 · 27 min

    125: The Lads Create Their 2024 Gift Guide

    Doing a spot of Christmas book shopping and thirsty for recommendations? Alice and Bethany have you covered. They each choose a fiction, a non-fiction, a food and drink, a reissue and the book they'd most like someone to give them.

  • #123
    Sep 12, 2024 · 33 min

    123: The Lads Gather Autumn/Winter Recommendations

    Alice and Bethany chat through a few of the books they're excited about for the rest of the year, and ask their author and bookseller friends for more recommendations! Because of the way we have to record episodes in advance, at least one of the books is already out, so if any of them sound good to you, it may be possible to read them already rather than wait!

  • #122
    Aug 29, 2024 · 34 min

    122: The Lads Talk Forthcoming Film Adaptations

    Following the escandalo that has dogged the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us, Alice and Bethany discuss a few forthcoming adaptations of books, plus one that's taking up a lot of Alice's brain space, released on the same day as this episode...

  • #121
    Aug 15, 2024 · 32 min

    121: The Lads Chat Big Date Energy AND Slowcoach

    Alice and Bethany look inward and discuss the two books Bethany has released this year! First up, Big Date Energy, aka what happens when you try to write a romcom where the main character is more like 'The Friend', and then Slowcoach, where we talk about how weirdly horrible and borderline traumatic PE lessons were.

  • #119
    Jul 18, 2024 · 1 hr 5 min

    119: The Lads List Their 10 Books of the 21st Century

    Inspired by the New York Times' list of the 100 greatest books of the 21st Century, Alice and Bethany each compile their own top 10s, and find they have only one book in common, but don't agree on what that book is about... Bethany's list: The Fact of a Body - Alex Marzano-Lesnevich What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Crimson Petal & The White - Michel Faber Fingersmith - Sarah Waters Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Life After Life - Kate Atkinson Alice's list: A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori) Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado Just Kids - Patti Smith Lanny - Max Porter My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt

  • #118
    Jul 13, 2023 · 35 min

    118: The lads chat to Eliza Clark

    Alice and Bethany have the huge pleasure of talking to girlie of the moment, Eliza Clark, largely about her new novel Penance but also about true crime, Tumblr, the wild success of Boy Parts and its upcoming stage adaptation!

  • #117
    Jul 6, 2023 · 39 min

    117: The lads chat body horror with Heather Parry

    Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to Heather Parry about her short story collection This Is My Body Given For You, which is a gnarly little thing full of troubling images and ideas. She also talks about the great work she does at the Society of Authors, and lots more!

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