The Bookslingers Bookslinging Podcast #10: A disproportionate number of poisonings and a couple of assassinations

This week in books: Scholastic's new Storia e-book platform - and did you know that 500 new fairytales were recently discovered in Germany? You can thank Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, apparently.

For some reason, many of this week's books involved poisoning. A couple of them had assassinations. Corene's convinced this has something to do with The Ides of March. This feels like a good moment to re-iterate that we at Bookslingers.com are only in favour of fictional murders.

Books from this week's podcast:

• A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine
• Chime by Frannie Billingsley
• Timeless by Gail Carriger
• Horton Halfpott OR The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor OR The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset by Tom Angleberger
• Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
• Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
• The Silver Bowl by Diane Stanley
• The Lady Grace Mysteries by Grace Cavendish

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