Lit Me Baby is a fun, informative and silly podcast about books. Each episode Shirley and Howard - who both have very different literary tastes - chat about what they've been reading.
This episode we're talking about The Dock Girl's Shame by AnneMarie Brear and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.
Highlights include: the Cold War being Disney's inspo for Frozen and what a successful modern-day remake of Mansfield Park might look like.
This is Lit Me Baby (one more time) where Shirley and Howard - who have very different literary tastes and takes - discuss what we've been reading.
6 Mar 2026
The Duke and I and The Blue-Footed Booby
This episode we're talking about The Duke and I by Julia Quinn and The Blue-Footed Booby by Rob Biddulph.
Highlights include: is laughing sexy and the best World Book Day outfits.
This is Lit Me Baby (one more time) where Shirley and Howard - who have very different literary tastes and takes - discuss what we've been reading.
25 Feb 2026
Treasure Island and Jingo
This episode, for the first time in this podcast's long and prestigious history (approx 3 months), we're talking about a book that we've already talked about and that's because Howard read Treasure Island on Shirley's recommendation from a previous episode. This is micro-influencing in real life. We'll cover Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Howard's version) and then Jingo by Terry Pratchett.
Highlights include: the boring things Howard would buy with his treasure and the baby stopping play.
This is Lit Me Baby (one more time) where Shirley and Howard - who have very different literary tastes and takes - discuss what we've been reading.
11 Feb 2026
The Girl with the Pearl Earring and Come Home Already
This episode we're talking the facts of how the painting of The Girl With the Pearl Earring was made - as fictionalised by Tracy Chevalier. Plus we're back on Howard's favourite genre which is books to read at bedtime, this time we're diving deep into the plot holes of Come Home Already by Jory John and illustrated by Benji Davies.
Highlights include: Shirley being the needy duck from the kids' book, almost nothing about famous painter Vermeer and a side-note about the Super Bowl sugarcanes coming to Dunsinane.
This is Lit Me Baby (one more time) where Shirley and Howard - who have very different literary tastes and takes - discuss what we've been reading.
28 Jan 2026
The Eyre Affair and Down and Out in Paris and London
This episode we're talking about fun fun fun literary sci fi The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and more serious back catalogue George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London.
Asking the big questions such as: if you could go inside any book, which book would you choose?
This is Lit Me Baby (one more time) where Shirley and Howard - who have very different literary tastes and takes - discuss what we've been reading.
21 Jan 2026
A Tale of Two Cities and Confessions of a Bookseller
This episode we're talking about literary classic A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and the inside story of a life lived in books: Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell.
Featuring a general lack of information about the French Revolution and weighing up to pros and cons of running a bookshop.
This is Lit Me Baby (one more time) where Shirley and Howard - who have very different literary tastes and takes - discuss what we've been reading.
14 Jan 2026
Stickman and A Field Guide to Getting Lost
This episode we're talking about the children's book Stickman by Julia Donaldson and an essay collection by Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
Expect a searing critique of the wooden nuclear family and how Shirley was inspired to look at getting a camper van for about 48 hours.
This is Lit Me Baby (one more time) where Shirley and Howard - who have very different literary tastes and takes - discuss what we've been reading.
10 Dec 2025
The Lord of the Rings and Justinian the Second
This episode we're talking about huge book series The Lord of the Rings which surprisingly we have both read. Next up we have Justinian the Second, Byzantine emperor from the 700s which only one of us has read.
Highlights include: how I leave everything until the last minute because of Literature and how the Byzantine people pulled a real "we got your nose".
This is Lit Me Baby (one more time) where Shirley and Howard - who have very different literary tastes and takes - discuss what we've been reading.
3 Dec 2025
How to Grow a Mermaid and Lessons in Chemistry
This episode we're covering one of Howard's favourite genres - short (children's) stories about mermaids - and Shirley's just finished modern bestseller Lessons in Chemistry. Highlights include taking paper underwater to communicate with merfolk and how calling salt 'sodium chloride' can get you a Masters.
This is Lit Me Baby (one more time) where Shirley and Howard - who have very different literary tastes and takes - discuss what we've been reading.
26 Nov 2025
Sense and Sensibility and The Chronicle of Theophanes
This episode Shirley and Howard are talking classics. First up we have literary classic Sense and Sensibility and then classical history The Chronicle of Theophanes - both at the polar opposite ends of our respective literary tastes. You can expect: bad guys and social etiquette, plus signs in the sky and a brief rundown of Western vs. Eastern Roman Empire.
This is Lit Me Baby (one more time) where Shirley and Howard - who have very different literary tastes and takes - discuss what we've been reading.
19 Nov 2025
The Ref's Call and Treasure Island
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Lit Me Baby. This episode Shirley and Howard discuss The Ref's Call and Treasure Island (guess who read which book). Highlights include: the perfect father/son Christmas gifts, gentle pirating and the muppets computer game.
It's Lit Me Baby (one more time) where Shirley and Howard - who have very different literary tastes and takes - discuss what we've been reading.
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