Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A cosy book haul awaits!
00:00 intro
01:22 book 1
02:47 book 2
03:17 book 3
04:00 book 4
05:32 book 5
06:35 book 6
10:01 book 7
12:15 book 8
14:07 book 9
Payback by Margaret Atwood
The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
City of Rats by Copi
St Pancras International (The History Press)
On Fridays, We Eat Meat by A.S. Hopewell
Our Little Group by Patricia Rivers
New Skin by Sarah Wang
A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Boating for Beginners by Jeanette Winterson
Bookshops mentioned:
Housemans
Libraria
Foyles Charring Cross
The London Review of Books
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• A free weekly podcast
• Access to a secret DISCORD and Facebook group
• Exclusive poetry and playlists made by me
• Secret videos and digital downloads available to Gumption Club members only
• AND you get access to all of my YouTube videos before anyone else sees them!
(Quick tip for Apple device users: due to Patreon's arrangement with Apple being weird, it's actually more expensive to sign up to become a Gumption Club member via the Patreon app on an Apple device. If you are on an Apple device I would advise joining via a web browser (just visit patreon.com/c/thegumptionclub/), not the app. However, once you’ve signed up and paid elsewhere, you can still use the app on Apple devices to access Patreon as normal - easy peasy!)
CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP - for those lovely people who don't want to use Patreon and aren't bothered about the patreon perks, but who'd like to buy me a drink as a thank you for the free videos... youtube.com/channel/UCpqf-UHCeCSd0BqoxxrDv8g/join
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ORDER my poetry collection, 'BARGAIN BIN ROM-COM' https://linktr.ee/bargainbinromcom
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leenanorms.com/shop
// COME AND HANG WITH ME IN BETWEEN UPLOADS //
Listen to my podcast, NO BOOKS ON A DEAD PLANET: https://linktr.ee/nobooksonadeadplanet
IF NEWSLETTERS ARE YOUR THING, sign up to get a little letter in your inbox from me once in a while! As a thank you for signing up, you’ll get a FREE downloadable list of my best books of all time: leenanorms.substack.com/subscribe
INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/leenanorms
TWITTER: twitter.com/leenanorms
I use Octopus Energy which are a clean green sustainable energy company - if you're in the UK and are curious, here are the two videos I talk about them in:
youtu.be/O0TR7RvVRlI and youtu.be/IEqf94lb44U
And here's my referral link if you'd like to get £50 off (I get £50 off too, woo!) https://share.octopus.energy/fun-hawk-883
All music used is licensed through Epidemic Sound - I've been using them for years and hand-on-heart it's really fab. You get unlimited use of their music per month for a pretty bargain fee. Here's my referral link (if you sign up through it I get a free month): epidemicsound.com/referral/1b1yhj
If you're a company that makes plastic-free products, pays their tax and doesn't exploit people, I'd love to hear from you if you'd like to sponsor the channel: leenanorms@gmail.com
A cosy book haul awaits!
00:00 intro
01:22 book 1
02:47 book 2
03:17 book 3
04:00 book 4
05:32 book 5
06:35 book 6
10:01 book 7
12:15 book 8
14:07 book 9
Payback by Margaret Atwood
The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
City of Rats by Copi
St Pancras International (The History Press)
On Fridays, We Eat Meat by A.S. Hopewell
Our Little Group by Patricia Rivers
New Skin by Sarah Wang
A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Boating for Beginners by Jeanette Winterson
Bookshops mentioned:
Housemans
Libraria
Foyles Charring Cross
The London Review of Books
/// SUPPORT ///
JOIN THE GUMPTION CLUB: patreon.com/thegumptionclub
Being in the club means you get:
• A free weekly podcast
• Access to a secret DISCORD and Facebook group
• Exclusive poetry and playlists made by me
• Secret videos and digital downloads available to Gumption Club members only
• AND you get access to all of my YouTube videos before anyone else sees them!
(Quick tip for Apple device users: due to Patreon's arrangement with Apple being weird, it's actually more expensive to sign up to become a Gumption Club member via the Patreon app on an Apple device. If you are on an Apple device I would advise joining via a web browser (just visit patreon.com/c/thegumptionclub/), not the app. However, once you’ve signed up and paid elsewhere, you can still use the app on Apple devices to access Patreon as normal - easy peasy!)
CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP - for those lovely people who don't want to use Patreon and aren't bothered about the patreon perks, but who'd like to buy me a drink as a thank you for the free videos... youtube.com/channel/UCpqf-UHCeCSd0BqoxxrDv8g/join
ORDER my book ‘HALF-ARSE HUMAN’: leenanorms.com/halfarsehuman
ORDER my poetry collection, 'BARGAIN BIN ROM-COM' https://linktr.ee/bargainbinromcom
Nab yourself a POSITIVE PANIC PATCH:
leenanorms.com/shop
// COME AND HANG WITH ME IN BETWEEN UPLOADS //
Listen to my podcast, NO BOOKS ON A DEAD PLANET: https://linktr.ee/nobooksonadeadplanet
IF NEWSLETTERS ARE YOUR THING, sign up to get a little letter in your inbox from me once in a while! As a thank you for signing up, you’ll get a FREE downloadable list of my best books of all time: leenanorms.substack.com/subscribe
INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/leenanorms
TWITTER: twitter.com/leenanorms
I use Octopus Energy which are a clean green sustainable energy company - if you're in the UK and are curious, here are the two videos I talk about them in:
youtu.be/O0TR7RvVRlI and youtu.be/IEqf94lb44U
And here's my referral link if you'd like to get £50 off (I get £50 off too, woo!) https://share.octopus.energy/fun-hawk-883
All music used is licensed through Epidemic Sound - I've been using them for years and hand-on-heart it's really fab. You get unlimited use of their music per month for a pretty bargain fee. Here's my referral link (if you sign up through it I get a free month): epidemicsound.com/referral/1b1yhj
If you're a company that makes plastic-free products, pays their tax and doesn't exploit people, I'd love to hear from you if you'd like to sponsor the channel: leenanorms@gmail.com
