Welcome to A Few Good Books, the Luna Books Podcast!
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As booksellers, it can be overwhelming for us at times to see the sheer number of books being published every week around the world. And the range in quality is extremely broad, which is what makes it feel more like 'noise'. In our lifetimes we will, each of us, read but a few thousand books. Best not to think, therefore, about what's coming out each day or each week, and simply focus, to paraphrase Voltaire, on cultivating our own little reading gardens. To make sure that what we read is worth our time, that it does something meaningful for us beyond the satisfaction of ticking yet another book off our target list. We invite you - and remind ourselves - to slow down and to enjoy our reading. To focus on quality rather than quantity. To re-read old favourites whenever we feel like it.
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On this podcast, we will talk about a few of our most favourite books and authors, old and new, books that stayed with us long after we were done reading, the ones we might gently press into the hands of other readers.
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Since we are generally drawn to the long form, to things that feel slower and more deliberate, we felt that a podcast, like our blog, allows us to do this on our own terms, without the accompanying noise of social media. For now, the podcast resides only here, on our website. :)
Episode 4 (February 2026): The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Sapna talks about The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. This is a book about books that is a charming fictional account of Queen Elizabeth who takes to reading in her 80's thanks to a mobile library on the palace grounds that she stumbles upon. Among the various books about books that we've read, this one stands out for its wonderfully drawn characters, and the way it describes the delightful journey of a once non-reader into the world of books.
Episode 2 (January 2026): A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan
Sapna talks about A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan. This is one of his earliest books, published in 1997. It's a book about building and architecture, a wonderful account of him learning and acquiring the skills he needed to build himself a writing room - a place of his own.
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Episode 3 (February 2026): All The Beauty in the World, by Patrick Bringley
Shilpa talks about All The Beauty in The World, a memoir by Patrick Bringley. Reeling from the loss of his brother, Patrick felt he needed to drop out of the world for a bit, by taking in his own words "the most straightforward job he could think of in the most beautiful place he knew" As a guard in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This is an account of his decade at the Met and all that it changed within him.
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Episode 1 (January 2026): Discovering Barbara Pym
Join Shilpa as she talks about one of her favourite writers, Barbara Pym, who made a remarkable comeback after being inexplicably dropped by publishers in the 1960s who believed there was no longer a market for her gentle social comedies focused on the lives of ordinary women. How wrong they were.
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