The Cosy Cup Book Club
Welcome to 'The Cosy Cup Book Club,' the podcast where two bibliophiles dive into the pages of trending and classic books, sparing you the need to dissect them yourself.We're here for all you book lovers who find joy in reading but sometimes feel like you're talking to your bookshelf more than actual people. Fear not! We've got your back. Each episode, we'll be sipping on literary-inspired cosy drinks while unraveling the mysteries, quirks, and downright drama within the pages of our chosen books.From timeless classics to the latest bestsellers, we're on a mission to make literature as...
Episode Forty Two S2: Beasts, Fae & ACOTAR Chapters 5 to 11
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This week Katy and Rosie sink further into A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, picking up with chapters five to eleven. Feyre, a human huntress, has been taken across the wall into the faerie lands of Prythian after a very ill-advised wolf incident, and now she has to find her feet in a world where nothing is quite what it seems and her captors are far more complicated than she expected.
We retell the main moments, pause for opinions along the way, and try...
Episode Forty One S2: Into the Forest, Into the Night & A Court of Thorns and Roses Begins ft. Lenora Evernight
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This week we kick off our brand new segment with the wonderful Lenora Evernight, who joins us to convince us to read Of Briars and Darkness — her debut dark fantasy about cautious, rule-following Elizabeth Penton, who throws every instinct aside when her sister Alice disappears into the forbidden Hales Forest. What they find under the decaying canopy is nothing like they imagined — twisted people, strange rituals, and a darkness that feeds on more than just fear. Found family, forbidden magic, and the kind of atmosphere that wraps around you like fog. Did she conv...
Episode Forty S2: We Need to Talk & The Lady of Rooksgrave Manor Finale
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This week Katy and Rosie wrap up A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon and we have finally reached the end of Esther’s time at the manor. We have thoughts. We have feelings. We have opinions about every single gentleman in that house and we are not keeping them to ourselves.
We also have some exciting news about the future of the Cosy Cup — we are shaking things up! Going forward you can expect deeper, juicier deep dives every single week, plus a brand new short segment every other week...
Episode Thirty Nine S2: Fully Serviced, Mermaids & a Very Exciting Announcement
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First things first — a massive congratulations to Richard Hall, author of I'm Fine, for being longlisted for the Polari Prize. We are absolutely delighted for him and not at all surprised. Go Richard!
This week Katy and Rosie wrap up Fully Serviced by Ruth Cordello — the final instalment in the Cutlery series — and we have feelings about the ending. Specifically, we are disappointed. The cutlery universe deserved better and we will be processing this for some time.
We also welcome the brilliant Marisa Noelle...
Episode Thirty Eight S2: Chilli Chocolate, Smut & Rooksgrave Chapters 11-21
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This week Katy has a plan. Rosie does not know about the plan. The plan involves chilli chocolate and some very spicy passages from A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon and it goes about as well as you'd expect — which is to say the chocolate was a complete letdown and Rosie was robbed of the full experience. We will not be accepting feedback about this.
We dive into chapters eleven to twenty one of this Victorian monster romance and things are getting considerably more complicated for Es...
Episode Thirty Seven S2: Serviced Part One & I'm Fine ft. Richard Hall
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This week Katy is on holiday so Rosie holds the fort solo — and she does a brilliant job of it.
Rosie sits down with the remarkable Richard Hall to chat about his debut memoir I'm Fine — a book that is brave, searingly honest, and at times genuinely difficult to put down. In 1996, at fourteen years old, Richard met a man who changed the course of his life. Two and a half decades later, he called the police. The result was a twenty-two year prison sentence. This is the stor...
Episode Thirty Six S2: Solo Katy, a Sentient Ampersand & Wandering Strong ft. Hope Bytheway
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This week things look a little different at the Cosy Cup — Rosie is poorly, Katy is running on no sleep whatsoever, and Rosie is also on holiday so she's missing out twice over. We soldier on regardless because that is the Cosy Cup way.
Katy is joined by the wonderful Hope Bytheway — pen name of English teacher, editor and saxophone player Lorraine Watson — to chat about her debut novel Wandering Strong, book one of the Coeur Legacy series. Farran Armstrong has always felt that her story is part of som...
Episode Thirty Five S2: Rosie vs the Quiz & A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor Chapters 1-10
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This week Katy has once again surprised Rosie with a game she was absolutely not prepared for and we are not sorry about it. Rosie's reaction speaks for itself. Katy's smugness also speaks for itself.
We also dive into the first ten chapters of A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon — book one of the Tempting Monsters series and an absolute BookTok institution. Esther is a young Victorian maid on the brink of losing her position and with very few respectable options left — so naturally she ends up a...
Episode Thirty Four S2: Scrubbing Up & The Onus ft. Lee Adam
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This week Katy and Rosie are joined by the brilliant Lee Adam to chat about his debut novel The Onus — a gritty, high octane crime thriller set in the mean streets of Glasgow. Amos Fisher is a broken man with a fractured relationship with his estranged daughter Mary — and when she is kidnapped by her crime lord boyfriend, Amos will tear through an entire city's worth of underworld to get her back. Fast paced, emotionally gutting, and absolutely relentless from the first page. We had a brilliant chat with Lee about bringing this one...
Episode Thirty Three S2: Twenty Questions & the Quicksilver Finale (We Have Notes)
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This week Katy and Rosie finish Quicksilver by Callie Hart and we have THOUGHTS. Strong thoughts. Loud thoughts. The ending has been discussed and we were not impressed and we will not be keeping that to ourselves.
We also play twenty questions book character with Rosie in the hot seat — and let’s just say her performance was not what we would call impressive. Katy did her best. Rosie did not. We love her anyway.
☕ Grab your cuppa. We finished the book and we nee...
Episode Thirty Two S2: Clowns, Balloons & Blood Hunt
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This week Katy and Rosie have a proper chat about Blood Hunt by the brilliant Marnie L. Norton — book one of the Female Rage series, and yes, it is exactly as feral as it sounds. Bronya is a Strzyga cursed to avenge witchkind and wreak destruction upon all men in a world where witch blood is a currency and a commodity, and witches have been hunted and bled for a century. It is dark, atmospheric, fiercely feminist and we had a lot of thoughts. Marnie couldn’t join us this time but she will...
Episode Thirty One S2: Who’s Got Your Back & Quicksilver Chapters 23-34
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This week Katy and Rosie are back with chapters twenty three to thirty four of Quicksilver by Callie Hart and things are getting SIGNIFICANTLY more unhinged. We are not okay. We were not prepared. We will not be taking questions at this time.
We also tackle this week’s big question: which book character would be the best at actually protecting you if things went sideways? Not the most attractive option, not the most fun option — the one you’d genuinely want in your corner when it all kicks...
Episode Thirty S2: Old Bastards, Scottish Accents & a Man Who Used to Be a Drink ft. Stevie Duffy
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Episode Thirty S2: Old Bastards, Scottish Accents & a Man Who Used to Be a Drink ft. Stevie Duffy
This week Katy and Rosie are joined by the wonderfully chaotic Stevie Duffy to chat about his debut novel Old Bastards — a gloriously filthy, outrageously funny comedy set in a nursing home where the residents are absolutely feral, the staff are barely holding it together, and nobody is behaving themselves. Think less peaceful twilight years, more booze-soaked chaos with extremely questionable decisions and characters you will fall completely in love wi...
Episode Twenty Nine S2: Chapters 11-22 Kingfisher & the Woman Behind the Press ft. Rhonda Penders
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This week Katy and Rosie are back with chapters eleven to twenty two of Quicksilver by Callie Hart and things are getting considerably more complicated for Saeris and Kingfisher. We have thoughts. Strong, chaotic, slightly feral thoughts. No spoilers here but the slow burn is doing its job and we are not coping well.
We are also joined by the remarkable Rhonda Penders, co-founder, President and Editor in Chief of The Wild Rose Press — a publishing house built from scratch in 2006 by two authors who were thoroughly fed up...
Episode Twenty Eight S2: A talking pickle & The Ink Beneath ft. Elenor Pountain
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This week Katy and Rosie are joined by the wonderful Elenor Pountain to chat about her debut novel The Ink Beneath, book one of the Shadows of London series. Lucas doesn’t exactly fit the usual profile — a precise, solitary man who has been perfecting the art of control since he was fifteen. Then he meets Jas, a water-loving barista who is light and mischief and quiet strength all at once, and suddenly his very carefully constructed world starts to come apart at the seams. He saved her life. She claimed his thoughts. The...
Episode Twenty Seven S2: Who's Your Book Best Friend & Quicksilver by Callie Hart
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This week Katy and Rosie tackle the question that really matters: which book character would you want as your actual best friend? Not your love interest, not your nemesis, your best friend. The answers were very telling and we stand by all of them.
Then we dive into the first eleven chapters of the BookTok phenomenon that had the romantasy community in an absolute chokehold — *Quicksilver* by Callie Hart, book one of the Fae and Alchemy series. Saeris Fane is a 24-year-old thief hiding secret alchemical powers in an...
Episode Twenty Six S2: Biscuits, Betrayal & Medieval Florence ft. Emma Hine
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This week Katy and Rosie are joined by the wonderful Emma Hine to chat about her debut novel The Power of the Wouivre: Fiorenza, a YA historical time travel adventure that will pull you straight into the streets of 13th century Tuscany. A Cornish teen discovers he can slip into the mind of a medieval Sienese nobleman called Guidaloste, just as Guidaloste uncovers a family legacy soaked in betrayal, deadly rivals, and secrets he was never supposed to find. Binding them across the centuries is a mysterious amulet called a wouivre. It is...
Episode Twenty Five S2: We’re Back, Baby! Solved, Sentient Cubes & The F*ck-It List ft. H.R. Lloyd
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We’re back! Did you miss us? Don’t answer that.
This week Katy and Rosie return from their little hiatus with an absolute belter of an episode. We’re joined by the lovely H.R. Lloyd to chat about The F*ck-It List, book one of the series. It’s a grumpy sunshine romcom set in the cosiest little café you’ve ever imagined, it’s got spice that will make your ears go pink. We had thoughts. Many warm, chaotic thoughts.
Plus Rosie’s...
Episode Twenty Four S2: The Wise Witch of Orkney & a Girthy Golf Club ft. Anna Caig
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This week Katy and Rosie are joined by the wonderful Anna Caig to chat about her debut novel The Wise Witch of Orkney — and it is an absolute gem. Set in 1593 Scotland, King James VI is launching a bloody witch hunt across the country — but the women he fears most are already inside his court. Elspet Balfour is a spae-wife — a wise woman and healer from the Orkney isles — disguised as a lady-in-waiting and trapped between serving a queen who needs her and a king who would see her dead. Throw in Kitty Muirhead...
Episode Twenty Three S2: Stuck in a Lift & Ice Planet Barbarians
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This week Katy and Rosie tackle the question everyone has secretly thought about — which book character would you actually want to be stuck in a lift with? The debate gets chaotic, the choices get suspicious, and nobody picks someone sensible.
Then we deep dive into the BookTok phenomenon that started it all — Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon. Georgie is an ordinary woman abducted by aliens and abandoned on a remote ice planet with a group of other human women and absolutely no survival plan.  The only native inhabi...
Episode Twenty Two S2: Noses & Built on Love ft. JJ Cross
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This week Katy and Rosie are joined by the lovely JJ Cross — romance author, caffeine enthusiast, and proud owner of more notebooks than is strictly reasonable — to chat about her debut novel Built on Love, book one of the Peterson Brothers series. It’s a friends-to-lovers romantic suspense with found family vibes, a book boyfriend thoroughly wrapped in green flags, and enough twists to keep you questioning everyone and everything.  Emmy discovers her boyfriend cheating  and what unfolds from there is warm, spicy, and genuinely gripping. We had a brilliant chat with JJ about brin...
Episode Twenty-One S2 - Red Queen vs. Powerless
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This week, Katy and Rosie are trying something a little different… and potentially a little dangerous for the internet. Rosie has been reading Powerless by Lauren Roberts by, while Katy has been reading The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.
And we’re asking the question BookTok has been arguing about for months…
Is one a rip-off of the other?
Or are they simply two completely different stories written by two different authors that happen to share a handful of familiar fantasy tropes and themes?
We’re divin...
Episode 20 S2: Loving Sofas and Jess's Story ft. Ali Fischer
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This week Katy and Rosie are joined by the wonderful Ali Fischer — Finance Manager by day, hopeless romantic by night — to chat about Jess’s Story, the final book in her spicy Book Club series. Jess has spent her whole life being told to look pretty, marry well, and produce an heir — until her dad tries to use her as a bargaining chip in a business deal. That is, until a trip to Vegas, Julian Hadley, and only one bed offers her a very different kind of solution. It’s primal, it’s spicy, it’s go...
Episode Nineteen S2: The Poison Daughter and fictional vs. real men
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This week Katy and Rosie dive into The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson — the USA Today bestselling dark romantasy that BookTok has been absolutely feral about. Meet Harlow Carrenwell: poison-lipped vigilante, reluctant assassin, and woman who has killed every man she’s ever kissed — until she meets the one man who survives. When her new betrothed Henry Havenwood turns out to be immune to her magic and inconveniently aware of her double life, things get complicated — fast. Arranged marriage, enemies-to-lovers, a dash of vampires, and a heroine with genuinely lethal personal boundaries. We had opinio...
Episode Eighteen S2: Getting down with pasta and Julia Sleeps ft. Zoe Caryl
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This week we are joined by the wonderful Zoe Caryl, to talk about her first novel Julia Sleeps — a female-driven historical fiction set in 1930s Glasgow following Evie Jameson, a tenement girl with a voice that stops rooms, who is determined to turn her passion for singing into a career.
Plus Rosie’s Bit on the Side this week features a piece of pasta that becomes a man and has a very lovely time indeed. Katy had thoughts. Many thoughts.
Grab your cuppa. ☕ It’s a good one...
Episode Seventeen S2: Fictional Nurses and Haunting Adeline
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This week Katy and Rosie tackle the big questions — specifically, which fictional character would you actually want looking after you when you’re ill? The debate gets heated, the choices get questionable, and nobody is picking sensibly.
Then we dive into Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton — the BookTok sensation that broke the internet (and briefly got banned from Amazon). It’s a dark romance following Adeline, a young author who inherits her late grandmother’s gothic manor, only to discover her great-grandmother was murdered there — and that history might be repeating itself, cour...
Episode Sixteen S2: Spatula or fishslice & Everything is Hearsay by Rebecca Black
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This week things get a little unconventional — Rebecca Black (no, not that one) couldn’t join us in person, so Katy asked the questions and Rosie channelled her inner author to read out Rebecca’s written answers. Was it journalism? Was it theatre? Everything is hearsay, really.
We do a shallow dive into Rebecca’s debut Everything is Hearsay — a rockstar romance following a Bristolian single mum B&B owner whose life gets a lot more complicated when a certain someone checks in. Cosy setting, chaotic energy, and we absolutely had opinions.
Plus R...
Episode Fifteen: The Deal and a life-long book friend
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The Cosy Cup Bookclub | The Deal by Elle Kennedy
This week Katy and Rosie are diving into a certified BookTok classic — The Deal by Elle Kennedy, book one of the Off-Campus series. We’re talking fake dating, slow burn, hockey boys with suspiciously good banter, and one very inconvenient deal that was never going to end well for anyone’s heart. Hannah and Garrett, we see you.
We break down all the best bits, get into our feelings about it (Rosie had feelings, Katy had opinions), and tackle this week’s...
Episode Fourteen S2: Vined, Dined and In Plain Sight ft. Esme Taylor
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This week, we’re sipping something questionable and diving into In Plain Sight with the brilliant Esme Taylor—chatting twists, tension, and the kind of moments that make you immediately distrust everyone, including yourself.
Rosie’s Bit on the Side takes a turn into Vined and Dined… which is exactly as chaotic as it sounds. Expect strong opinions, questionable connections, and at least one point where we completely lose the plot (in a fun way, obviously).
It’s mystery, misdirection, and mildly unhinged side chat—served with a cosy drink and ju...
Episode Thirteen: Two Truths and a Lie by Annie Abel and Chaotic Characters
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This week, we’re diving into Two Truths and a Lie by Annie Abel — a book that had us questioning everything… including our own emotional stability.
We’re talking:
enemies-to-lovers tension that feels personally targeted chaotic men with suspiciously soft centres and the very real question… who exactly would drag us into a life of chaos, and why are we saying yes so quickly?Expect strong opinions, questionable life choices, and at least one moment where we fully reconsider our standards.
Grab your cosiest drink, settle in, and...
Episode Twelve - Humanoid groceries and Veiled Obsessions ft. Billie Jade Kermack
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This week we’re joined by author Billie Jade Kermack, chatting about her book Veiled Obsessions, the inspiration behind it, and what it’s really like writing stories that live rent-free in readers’ heads.
Along the way we get into the usual cosy chaos, including writing chat, bookish confessions, and the kind of tangents that make perfect sense at the time but sound completely unhinged afterwards.
Meanwhile, Rosie’s Bit on the Side takes a particularly surreal turn this week with a story about a bag of...
Episode Eleven: Lights Out and Fictional Life Advice
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This week on The Cosy Cup Book Club, Katy and Rosie dive into Lights Out by Navessa Allen, a dark romance that proves the line between terrifying and tantalising is apparently very thin. Expect chaotic opinions, questionable life advice inspired by fictional men, and the usual honest reactions when a book decides to absolutely unhinge itself halfway through.
We attempt to answer the very important question: should anyone actually take life advice from romance novels… or would that lead to immediate disaster?
Grab a cosy dr...
Episode Ten S2: Jugs and Cute Little Hand Grenade ft. Jadella Gold
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This week we are joined by author Jadella Gold to chat about her book Cute Little Hand Grenade, a story that packs far more punch than its title politely suggests. We talk about the inspiration behind the book, the characters that refuse to behave themselves, and the kind of plot twists that leave you staring at the page thinking, “well… that escalated quickly.”
As always, things take a slight detour when Rosie brings Rosie’s Bit on the Side, this time discussing Cold Sweat and an unexpectedly memorable jug-related moment t...
Episode Nine S2: Deep End and Weddings
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We’re doing a full deep-dive into Deep End by Ali Hazelwood — the tension, the tropes, the chemistry that could power the National Grid, and the moments that had us pausing to stare dramatically into the middle distance. Is it peak Hazelwood? Is it feral? Is it soft? Is it both? We discuss.
There is, of course, chaos.
And because we can never stay on topic for long, we also answer the extremely important, civilisation-defining question:
Which fictional character would you trust to plan your...
Episode Eight S2: Veiled in Grey and Stuffed ft. Merel Van der Valk
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This week on The Cosy Cup Book Club, we’re joined by author Merel van der Calk to chat about her romantasy novel Veiled in Grey — secrets, tension, morally questionable decisions, and the kind of emotional damage we absolutely signed up for.
Meanwhile, Rosie’s Bit on the Side takes a truly unhinged turn into literary territory nobody asked for but everyone now has to live with: a story about a sentient pillow. Yes. A pillow. With thoughts. And feelings. And frankly more emotional availability than most fictional men.
Cosy d...
Episode Seven S2: First Time Caller
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This week we’re diving into First Time Caller
We chat first impressions, emotional damage, romantic tension, and the characters we would one hundred per cent argue with in real life. Is confidence attractive or just loud? Who thinks they’re mysterious but is actually just bad at communicating? And which book boyfriend would crumble the second he heard “you’re live on air”?
As always, expect strong opinions, mild delusion, questionable loyalty to problematic favourites, and at least one character we defend far more passionately than they deserve.
Pop t...
Episode Six S2: Clouds and The People We Trust ft. S. J. Gathercole
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This week, Katy and Rosie are joined by S. J. Gathercole for a chat about her gripping novel The People We Trust. They dig into messy friendships, buried secrets, and those unsettling moments when the people closest to you might not be quite who you think they are.
Meanwhile, in Rosie’s Bit on the Side, things take a turn… skyward. A cloud. A sexy cloud. We’re not saying it awakens anything, but we’re also not not saying that. It’s whimsical, it’s slightly unhinged, and it raises far more ques...
Episode Five S2: Best Villains and Credence
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This week we’re asking the important questions. What actually makes a great villain? Is it the trauma? The moral greyness? The unhinged behaviour we absolutely should not be rooting for… but kind of are?
We dive into our favourite fictional villains, the ones who live rent-free in our heads, before turning our attention to Credence – a book that is many things, not least emotionally chaotic, deeply uncomfortable, and impossible to stop talking about. Expect messy family dynamics, questionable decisions, and at least one moment where we all collectively go, “oh… oh no.”
Episode Four S2: Knifed and Broken Princess ft. Laura Bennett
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This week on The Cosy Cup Book Club, we’ve somehow ended up discussing two wildly different books in one cosy little episode.
First up: Knifed — featuring a super soldier and a premise that made us pause, blink, and say, “Right. Go on then.” It’s weird, it’s bold, and it sent us down a very specific rabbit hole.
Then we swing hard into Broken Princess, a dark mafia romance that delivers exactly what it promises: power, control, danger, and characters making choices that would absolu...
Episode Three S2: Scrapbook of an unfound songstress and the Apocalypse
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This week, we’re chatting about Scrapbook of an Unfound Songstress by Vicky Nolan — a book that feels like flicking through a scrapbook of half-remembered songs, lost voices, and the stories we build around them. We talk creativity, memory, identity, and the quiet ache of things that almost were.
Somewhere along the way, the conversation takes a turn into an apocalypse hypothetical — specifically, who we’d want to spend the end of the world with (emotionally, not strategically). It’s reflective, a bit unhinged in places, and exactly the sort of ta...
