Matt Cain on writing love stories that we can all fall in love with.

Best Book Forward

18-01-2024 • 1 hr 4 mins

In today’s episode my guest is the wonderful Matt Cain., I have been chatting to Matt on Instagram for such a long time so to get to speak to him about his books and the books that he loves was such a treat.  We talked about all of Matt’s books but especially about his latest novel

One Love which comes out on 18 January and is an absolutely brilliant read.

We talked about the five books that have shaped Matt’s life and three of them are also favourites of mine.

Matt’s Desert Island Book choices are:

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis

Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig

Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

One Day by David Nicholls


Throughout our discussion, we talked about lots of other books and these are all listed below.


Other books mentioned in this episode


The Madonna of Bolton by Matt Cain

The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain

The Becoming Ted by Matt Cain

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

A Stitch in Time by Kathryn Coltrin

The Stranding by Kate Sawyer

This Family by Kate Sawyer


I hope you have enjoyed this episode as much as I did, I loved chatting to Matt.  I would be so grateful if you would take the time to like, subscribe and most importantly tell your friends about it.

Do keep an eye out as there is a bonus episode with Matt coming soon.

In the meantime, for more content from me you can follow me on Instagram or visit my website www.bestbookforward.org

This episode of Best Book Forward was produced by Buckers at Decibelle Creative