What Page Are You On?
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- Nov 2, 2026
About the podcast
Prolific readers Alice Slater and Bethany Rutter take a literary theme, from ghost stories to crime to fat women, and chat about it for the next 40 minutes.
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Episodes 139
138: The Lads' October Reading Update
Alice and Bethany recap their November reads, and discover that you read more books when you're reading books you really like.
137: The Lads' September 2026 Reading Update
Alice and Bethany discuss what they've been reading in September, as Bethany makes a bold claim that she's read her favourite novel of 2026...
136: The Lads' August 2026 Reading Update
Alice and Bethany mosey their way through their August reads, plus chat about a TV adaptation of a beloved book, AND tell you about an interesting upcoming event!
135: The Lads' July 2026 Reading Update
What have Alice and Bethany been reading in July? Only one way to find out.This episode has been tagged as containing explicit content due to Alice quoting a VERY rude song.Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm …
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What have Alice and Bethany been reading in July? Only one way to find out.
This episode has been tagged as containing explicit content due to Alice quoting a VERY rude song.
Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here.
134: The Lads' June 2026 Reading Update
What have Alice and Bethany been reading in June? You'll have to listen to find out...
133: The Lads' May 2026 Reading Update
[Content note: several of the books discussed in this episode involve sexual violence] Alice and Bethany had a big reading month, though it was very heavy on the non-fic. We even read one book in common!
132: The Lads' April 2026 Reading Update
What have Alice and Bethany been reading this month? Turns out, a WHOLE LOT and they liked it all! Huge amounts of recommendations for your earholes.
131: The Lads' March 2026 Reading Update
What have Alice and Bethany been reading this month? Only one way to find out.
130: The Lads' February 2026 Reading Update
Alice and Bethany get a little bit spicy with their February roundup...
129: The Lads' January 2026 Reading Update
What have Alice and Bethany been reading this month? You'll just have to listen to find out...
128: The Lads Choose Their 2025 Books of the Year
Alice and Bethany pick one book they read each month of 2025 and pit them against each other to determine their book of the year. Full lists available on the What Page Are You On account on Instagram!
127: The Lads Return with a Mid-Year Roundup
Alice and Bethany catch up halfway through 2025 and chat about some new releases and backlist titles that have charmed them thus far.
126: The Lads Give Their 2024 Books of the Year
Alice and Bethany make a cheeky little top 10 of their favourite books of the year! Head to our Instagram for the full list.
125: The Lads Create Their 2024 Gift Guide
Doing a spot of Christmas book shopping and thirsty for recommendations? Alice and Bethany have you covered. They each choose a fiction, a non-fiction, a food and drink, a reissue and the book they'd most like …
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Doing a spot of Christmas book shopping and thirsty for recommendations? Alice and Bethany have you covered. They each choose a fiction, a non-fiction, a food and drink, a reissue and the book they'd most like someone to give them.124: The Lads Catch Up On Their Recent Reading Habits
Alice and Bethany catch up on what they've been reading, but it turns out it's been a weird reading year for them both. Much yapping lies ahead.
123: The Lads Gather Autumn/Winter Recommendations
Alice and Bethany chat through a few of the books they're excited about for the rest of the year, and ask their author and bookseller friends for more recommendations! Because of the way we have to record …
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Alice and Bethany chat through a few of the books they're excited about for the rest of the year, and ask their author and bookseller friends for more recommendations! Because of the way we have to record episodes in advance, at least one of the books is already out, so if any of them sound good to you, it may be possible to read them already rather than wait!122: The Lads Talk Forthcoming Film Adaptations
Following the escandalo that has dogged the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us, Alice and Bethany discuss a few forthcoming adaptations of books, plus one that's taking up a lot of Alice's …
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Following the escandalo that has dogged the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us, Alice and Bethany discuss a few forthcoming adaptations of books, plus one that's taking up a lot of Alice's brain space, released on the same day as this episode...121: The Lads Chat Big Date Energy AND Slowcoach
Alice and Bethany look inward and discuss the two books Bethany has released this year! First up, Big Date Energy, aka what happens when you try to write a romcom where the main character is more like 'The …
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Alice and Bethany look inward and discuss the two books Bethany has released this year! First up, Big Date Energy, aka what happens when you try to write a romcom where the main character is more like 'The Friend', and then Slowcoach, where we talk about how weirdly horrible and borderline traumatic PE lessons were.120: The Lads Give Their Midyear Reading Roundup
Alice and Bethany talk through what they've been reading so far in 2024, and how not recording the pod has affected their reading habits.
119: The Lads List Their 10 Books of the 21st Century
Inspired by the New York Times' list of the 100 greatest books of the 21st Century, Alice and Bethany each compile their own top 10s, and find they have only one book in common, but don't agree on what that …
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Inspired by the New York Times' list of the 100 greatest books of the 21st Century, Alice and Bethany each compile their own top 10s, and find they have only one book in common, but don't agree on what that book is about...
Bethany's list:
The Fact of a Body - Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Crimson Petal & The White - Michel Faber
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
Alice's list:
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Lanny - Max Porter
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor
Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt118: The lads chat to Eliza Clark
Alice and Bethany have the huge pleasure of talking to girlie of the moment, Eliza Clark, largely about her new novel Penance but also about true crime, Tumblr, the wild success of Boy Parts and its upcoming …
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Alice and Bethany have the huge pleasure of talking to girlie of the moment, Eliza Clark, largely about her new novel Penance but also about true crime, Tumblr, the wild success of Boy Parts and its upcoming stage adaptation!117: The lads chat body horror with Heather Parry
Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to Heather Parry about her short story collection This Is My Body Given For You, which is a gnarly little thing full of troubling images and ideas. She also …
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Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to Heather Parry about her short story collection This Is My Body Given For You, which is a gnarly little thing full of troubling images and ideas. She also talks about the great work she does at the Society of Authors, and lots more!116: The Lads Chat Unlikeable Female Characters with Anna Bogutskaya
Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to the film journalist and programmer Anna Bogutskaya about her new non-fiction book Unlikeable Female Characters! They take a dive into the world of …
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Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to the film journalist and programmer Anna Bogutskaya about her new non-fiction book Unlikeable Female Characters! They take a dive into the world of 'unlikeable' women through film and TV from erotic thrillers to Skyler White via the Hays Code and Amy Dunne from Gone Girl.115: Fat Talk with Virginia Sole-Smith
Bethany has the huge pleasure of chatting to Virginia Sole-Smith about her revolutionary new book Fat Talk: Coming of Age in Diet Culture, which investigates the radical possibility of abandoning our cultural …
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Bethany has the huge pleasure of chatting to Virginia Sole-Smith about her revolutionary new book Fat Talk: Coming of Age in Diet Culture, which investigates the radical possibility of abandoning our cultural fears around 'childhood obesity' to create bodily autonomy in children and beyond.114: The Lads Celebrate Death of a Bookseller
Alice's debut novel, Death of a Bookseller, is out NOW! So obviously Bethany had to ask her all the nosy questions about it!
113: The lads chat to actual Katherine Heiny
Alice and Bethany have a whale of a time with the funny, smart Katherine Heiny, author of the new collection Games and Rituals, as well as the novels Standard Deviation and Early Morning Riser. Games and …
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Alice and Bethany have a whale of a time with the funny, smart Katherine Heiny, author of the new collection Games and Rituals, as well as the novels Standard Deviation and Early Morning Riser. Games and Rituals is out now!112: Q1 reading report
Alice and Bethany atone for not putting out an episode for the first three months of the year by telling you all about everything they've read in the first quarter of 2023.
111: Our books of 2022
Alice and Bethany are BACK from their unplanned hiatus! And they've got a long, juicy episode for you about their favourite books of 2022, which obviously they should have recorded weeks ago... but didn't. Enjoy!
110: The Lads Chat to Sara Gran
If you've been listening to WPAYO for a little while you'll know that a true Book of the Pod is Come Closer by Sara Gran. We are so hyped that she has a NEW book out, called The Book of the Most Precious …
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If you've been listening to WPAYO for a little while you'll know that a true Book of the Pod is Come Closer by Sara Gran. We are so hyped that she has a NEW book out, called The Book of the Most Precious Substance, and that we got to talk to her about it for this episode! The Book of the Most Precious Substance is out NOW from Faber!109: The Lads Chat to Chelsea G Summers
Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of interviewing Chelsea G Summers, author of the bloody and brilliant A Certain Hunger!
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