This week's podcast looks at 'Smoke and Ashes' by Abir Mukherjee, the third book in the very successful Wyndham and Bannerjee series. In fact, the sixth book in the series comes out next month, so it seems like a good time to visit this series as an 'out of order' reader.

In this episode, Mal sees connections between the events and themes in this book and 2025. Plus, she goes off on a tangent about the content of her history lessons at school, gets a little obsessed (confused?) with how much research is involved in writing a historical novel, and the importance of historical novels shining a light on things we know nothing about. Spoiler: It's important!

Contents: Contains some swearing

You can contact Mal on Bluesky: outoforderbookclub.bsky.social

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