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Books + Bits

About the Substack

A Pandora's Box of books and culture reccs.

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An edition of Books + Bits every other Tuesday: books, interviews, culture recs.

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Book Thoughts, where I deep-dive one book (sometimes I do this with movies and TV)
Shelf Request, where I answer reader requests with a selection of books
Book Chat with Bobby, a podcast where we discuss books. And sometimes it'll just be a random list of good stuff :)

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About Pandora Sykes

Author, journalist and podcaster based in London.

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