In this episode Bill and Joe discuss their favourite books, movies and tv shows from 2025, with maybe a few tangents along the way!

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Welcome back to (a slightly late) Fiction Friction!

This week Bill and Joe talk about some books coming out in 2026 that they're looking forward to, whether we'll ever see The Winds of Winter and whether the Wicked movies are ugly.

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In this episode of Fiction Friction Bill and Joe do a reader this or that and discuss their reading preferences, talking about their hatred of hardbacks and how online book shopping will never beat the feeling of going to a good old fashioned bookshop. 

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In this episode Joe and Bill delve into the world of book adaptations, discussing books wish to see adapted, how they'd want to see them adapted and the challenges that come with translating books to screen!

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Welcome back to Fiction Friction!

In this episode we discuss books that are perfect for spooky season and play the World of Books challenge.

We also discuss:
- Among the Burning Flowers and the Roots of Chaos
- Wicked and Wicked: For Good
- Slow Horses (and the state of streaming)
- Panto season
Thank you for listening! 

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Welcome to the very first episode of Fiction Friction!

In this episode we discuss Bill's upcoming book Be Right Back and play the Google Translate Blurb Challenge.

We also discuss:

- The Hex Girls

- Claire Keegan

- Infinity War vs Endgame (and superhero fatigue)

- Dune

- Alien: Earth

- Going to the gym

- Scary videogames

Thank you for listening! 

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Coming Thursday 2nd October, join booktokkers Bill and Joe as they discuss books, film and tv, and anything else they might want to talk about! Welcome to your new (sort of) bookclub!

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Bill's books are available to buy here and here.

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