{"podcast":{"title":"Ask Penguin","slug":"ask-penguin-555431","podcast_index_feed_id":555431,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/d2a69c65-3300-4484-abcb-ea3e7d712478","website_url":"https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/podcast","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60eecae845fc69e6c03398b2/1759395784307-946f7f84-df95-4115-8e44-621373467698.jpeg","author":"Penguin Books UK","episode_count":266,"summary":"What should I read next? Ask Penguin is the podcast where your quirkiest, trickiest, and most urgent book questions get answered. Hosted by Rhianna Dhillon, we bring bestselling authors and Penguin insiders to explore some of your favourite books and discover new ones that you are yet to read. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T10:21:13.437335+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ask-penguin-555431"},"episode":{"title":"What should you read this summer? With Anthony Horowitz","slug":"what-should-you-read-this-summer-with-anthony-horowitz","published_at":"2025-06-19T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ask-penguin-555431/what-should-you-read-this-summer-with-anthony-horowitz","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ask-penguin-555431","url":"https://shows.acast.com/thepenguinpodcast/episodes/s2-e6-summer-reads-with-anthony-horowitz","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/thepenguinpodcast/e/6824b3b6a9ce4d369412891c/media.mp3","summary":"What are the books that give you all the Summer feels? Can you recommend the perfect thrillers to take on holiday? And which books evoke the song  Summertime Sadness  by Lana Del Rey? We put your questions to our panel of Penguin experts and speak with Marble Hall Murders author Anthony Horowitz about his final book in the Magpie Murders series. Explore the full list of books discussed on this episode and read the transcript by visiting: Season 2, Episode 6: Summer Reads Want to have your say on what's next for Ask Penguin? Click here! Send us a question: penguinpodcast@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk Website: www.penguin.co.uk/podcast Bestselling author  Anthony Horowitz  has written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels,  The House of Silk  and  Moriarty ; three James Bond novels,  Trigger Mortis ,  Forever and a Day  and  With a Mind to Kill ; the acclaimed bestselling mystery novels  Magpie Murders ,  Moonflower Murders  and  Marble Hall Murders ; and the Detective Hawthorne novels,  The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death ,  A Line To Kill ,  The Twist of a Knife  and  Close to Death . He is also the author of the teen spy Alex Rider series, and ris esponsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most loved and successful TV series, including  Midsomer Murders  and  Foyle’s War . In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"What are the books that give you all the Summer feels? Can you recommend the perfect thrillers to take on holiday? And which books evoke the song Su…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2836,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ask-penguin-555431/episodes/what-should-you-read-this-summer-with-anthony-horowitz/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ask-penguin-555431/what-should-you-read-this-summer-with-anthony-horowitz.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}