In The Good Books with Luke Bateman

There are some things the screen just can’t capture.
From all time classics to those in cinemas now, from tear-jerking romances to sci-fi epics, here are Luke’s top picks for books that are worth the read even when you’ve already seen the film.
What are your top picks on this topic? Got a book recommendation for Luke? Or anything else you want him to hear?
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The love goes on! Luke continues to unpack the literary relationships that give us all the feels.
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Hopeless romantics, meet Luke.
These are the books that make your heart ACHE — from the secret locker room romance of Heated Rivalry to the emotional wrecking ball that is The Song of Achilles and more…
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Join The Good Books Club as Luke reviews C.M. Nascosta's spicy read, 'Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic'.
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Paullina Simons talks how her life shaped her writing, The Bronze Horseman, her new book The Bell and the Blade, and why she writes 'love in loveless times'
[00:43] - Paullina on finding Luke
[02:21] - Paullina’s early life
[05:34] - How Paullina’s love of stories began
[07:35] - Paullina’s earliest literary loves: The Three Musketeers, Les Miserables, the Count of Monte Cristo
[12:22] - Paullina’s first story
[15:15] - Why Paullina is drawn to writing about hardship and resilience
[17:13] - Victor Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’
[18:48] - The Bronze Horseman
[25:00] - The Bell and the Blade
[33:22] - What is Paullina’s favourite out of everything she’s written?
[35:38] - what Advice would Paullina give to an aspiring writer?
[36:21] - East of Eden by John Steinbeck
[39:35] - Paullina’s Good Book
[40:45] - Ordinary People by Judith Guest
[41:06] - Shopgirl by Steve Martin
[41:50] - Paullina’s relationship to fantasy
[42:49] - The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
[43:07] - The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
[44:38] - What’s next?
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