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Episode 360: Guest Host Nita Prose

BY MEGAN LABRISE • February 20, 2024

Nita Prose interviews Liz Nugent on the Fully Booked Takeover.

On this week’s Fully BookedTakeover, Nita Prose in conversation with award-winning Irish crime writer Liz Nugent.

The Fully Booked Takeover invites a beloved bestselling author to become our special guest host for one episode. They choose another author whose work they admire for an in-depth conversation, writer to writer. The questions they ask and the topics they explore are all up to them.

Guest host Nita Prose is the author of The Mystery Guest and The Maid—a #1 New York Times bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick that’s sold more than 1 million copies worldwide. Her compelling, fresh whodunits have been published in more than 40 countries. She’s in conversation with friend and colleague Liz Nugent, author of Unraveling Oliver, Lying in Wait, Skin Deep, Little Cruelties, and Strange Sally Diamond. Nugent is a former broadcaster, a recipient of the prestigious James Joyce Medal from the L&H Society of University College Dublin, and a master of the opening sentence.

After the interview, Laura Simeon, Mahnaz Dar, and Laurie Muchnick share their top picks in books for the week.

 

EDITORS’ PICKS:

Call Me Iggy by Jorge Aguirre, illus. by Rafael Rosado, color by John Novak (First Second)

The Observologist: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific Expeditionsby Giselle Clarkson (Gecko Press)

Ours by Phillip B. Williams (Viking)

 

ALSO MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE:

Odd Dot Books

Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson

 

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:

Ralph & Murray by Rick Glaze

Karmic Selling: Earning Business by Earning Trust by Stan Gwizdak

Scions of Icarus by Walker Lane Stranger

Botheration by Vito DiBarone

 

Fully Booked is produced by Cabel Adkins Audio and Megan Labrise.

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