Welcome back to Fiction Friction! In this episode Bill and Joe discuss their Summer Fantasy Box Office picks and share some underrated books. They also discuss:
Disney Live Action remakes.
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Margo's Got Money Troubles
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18 Mar 2026
Q1 Wrap Up
In this episode, Joe and Bill reflect on their Q1 reading and watching habits, discuss upcoming games, and give an update on the fantasy box office.
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19 Feb 2026
The Oscars 2026
In this episode Bill and Joe go through all the nominated moives (that they're interested in) at this year's Oscars!
23 Jan 2026
Fantasy/Sci-fi
In today's episode of Fiction Friction Bill and Joe talk about two of their favourite genres, science fiction and fantasy. They talk about books that got them into the genre and series they'd like to get round to, as well as discussing how the genre is viewed on Booktok.
8 Jan 2026
Reading Goals and Uncompleted Series
In this episode Joe and Bill discuss their reading goals for the upcoming year and series they're partway through, including The Wheel of Time, Mistborn, and The Poppy War, and whether they'll continue with them.
12 Dec 2025
Favourites of 2025
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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28 Nov 2025
2026 Anticipated Releases
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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13 Nov 2025
Reader This or That: The Ultimate Book Debate
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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30 Oct 2025
The Art of Adaption
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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15 Oct 2025
Autumn Reads and the World of Books Challenge
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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1 Oct 2025
Be Right Back and the Google Translate Challenge
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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25 Sept 2025
Fiction Friction - Teaser
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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