Maggie O'Farrell

11/08/23 • 49 min

In this bonus episode, Elin and Tim travel virtually across the pond to Scotland to interview one of their favorite writers of the English language, Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait. The three discuss the differences between publishing in the UK and in the US, what it means to Maggie to be Irish, how she researches her settings, point of view and experimentation with the craft of language, publishing a plague novel during COVID-19, writing fiction about real people, and her memoir I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. You’ll immediately want to order every Maggie O’Farrell novel you can get your hands on because, as Tim and Elin say in the episode, they would "read her grocery list!"
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Maggie O'Farrell Reading List:
After You’d Gone
Instructions for a Heatwave
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
This Must Be the Place
I Am I Am I Am
Hamnet
The Marriage Portrait
What else are we reading in this episode:
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dar
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
Other authors mentioned:
Rudyard Kipling, Louis MacNeice, William Shakespeare, Alice Munro, Ann Patchett, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, William Boyd, and Anne Enright.
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Colleen Hoover

It Ends with Colleen Hoover. Yes, Season 1 of Books, Beach, & Beyond wraps up with the mega best-selling author of It Ends With Us and Verity, Colleen Hoover, or CoHo as she is known by all her adoring fans. Colleen, Elin, and Tim discuss Colleen’s super unique journey from self-publishing her books to today working with multiple publishers and editors, domestic abuse and secondary trauma in It Ends with Us, the ending of Verity, screen adaptations, and the connection she has made with her readers and fans, who are called “The CoHorts!” Tune in to see which writers Colleen is a super fan of, her favorite books, and her advice to aspiring writers.
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Colleen Hoover Reading List:
Slammed by Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Verity by Colleen Hoover
What else are we reading in this episode:
Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Franny & Zooey by J D Salinger
Other authors mentioned:
Tracey Garvis Graves, Emily Henry, and Tiffanie DeBartolo.
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Fredrik Backman

For our second bonus episode for 2023, we stay across the pond and get to chat with the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Beartown Series, A Man Called Ove, and Anxious People - Fredrik Backman! Elin and Tim chat with Fredrik about his origin story, his debut novel A Man Called Ove and where the idea for this iconic story came from, his Beartown series and the hockey team and town in the trilogy, and his writing process. We hear the differences between publishing in the U.S. and Sweden, why he thinks his characters resonate so much with people, the stigmas around mental health, and the screen adaptation A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks.
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Fredrik Backman Reading List:
A Man Called Ove
Britt- Marie Was Here
Beartown
Us Against You
The Winners
Anxious People
What else are we reading in this episode:
The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
Winter Street Series by Elin Hilderbrand
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Other Side of Sadness by George A. Bonanno
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