We love the classics - and want everyone to read them!
That’s it.
That’s our mission.
Hosted by Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole, Secret Life of Books is a podcast and live event program dedicated to keeping the great books of the past alive and relevant.
Each week, we release an episode devoted to a great book and invite our listeners to read and share their thoughts through our website and socials. We also do shows at bookshops and festivals.
For students and their parents, we offer short “crammers” (under 30 mins) about syllabus texts, focusing on insights and tips to enhance essays. And we take the live show into schools.
Sophie Gee
Sophie is an English professor at Princeton University, and is currently the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Sydney. She’s leading a project that shares the ideas and skills of humanities across all parts of the university and into the public. She is the author of acclaimed fiction and literary criticism, including The Scandal of the Season: a novel; Making Waste and The Barbarous Feast.
Jonty Claypole
Jonty Claypole is CEO of Red Room Poetry, Australia's largest poetry and creative learning nonprofit. He was formerly Director of Arts at the BBC and ran many literature programs and campaigns, sat on the advisory board of the Booker Prize and was regularly in The Bookseller’s ‘100 Most Influential People in Publishing’. He is the author of Words Fail Us: In Defence of Dysfluency.
The SLoB
Production Team
From left to right:
Olivia di Costanzo
Sophie Gee
Jonty Claypole
Boyd Britton