Podcast Corner: You’ve read the book... now hear it discussed

Like a lot of podcast genres — and browsing a bookshop — when it comes to book shows, it’s about finding what suits you. Fiction is a category all to itself on Apple Podcasts — Welcome to Night Vale is among the most successful examples — but there are myriad shows that enhance the reading experience.

Sentimental Garbage is hosted by Cork-born, London-based writer Caroline O’Donoghue, who is joined by a new female author every week to “talk about the chick-lit that made us who we are”, the so-called guilty pleasures.