No one took me up on my suggestion that a few heads on pikes might have greatly enlivened this week’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, but other than that a wholly satisfactory podcast, in which Rochelle Handley, of Paige’s Book Gallery in Whanganui, Todd Atticus, of Unity Books in Wellington, and Nevena Nikolic, of Time Out Bookstore in Auckland, discuss Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies.

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