The Book Festival you can enjoy in the bath. Interviews, Readings and Rambling chat. Journalist James Kidd talks to (not at the same time): Hanya Yanagihara, Gary Younge, Richard Russo, Tom Drury, David Mitchell, Michel Faber, LS Hilton, DBC Pierre, Sloane Crosley, Karen Joy Fowler, Vendela Vida, David Gates, Laura Lippman, Tomas Gonzalez. Amit Chaudhuri. New episode: Amanda Coe.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 16 hours 38 minutes
episode 1: Episode 40 - David Mitchell and Michel Faber in conversation: Trailer
As a trailer for thisWriting Life Extra Special, Michel Faber and David Mitchell discuss their firstmeetings, before Faber pulls a mix-tape out of the bag. I will post the rest of the interview -without doubt one of the most memorable ones I have...
Episode 39 - Tom Drury Live at Bookseller Crow: Part 3
The final part of my conversation with Tom Drury at one of London's finest independent bookstores, Bookseller Crow. We start with the Q&A is included, alongside many and erroneous references to Tolstoy. Bookseller Crow's website is: here.
Episode 38 - Tom Drury Live at Bookseller Crow: Part 2
Part two of my live conversation with Tom Drury at Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace.
Episode 37 - Tom Drury Live at Bookseller Crow: Part 1
A special episode in which I talk to Tom Drury, my favourite author of 2015, and possibly 2016 too, live in front of a lovely audience at the lovely Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace, one of the finest bookstores I know. ----more---- The first of thr...
Episode 36 - Kate Hamer: Part 2
Part two of our interview with Kate Hamer begins with a discussion of Carmel, the 'Girl' in The Girl in the Red Coat. ----more----Having avoided the subject of her special power - spoilers alert etc - we move onto: love and its distortions 'I am not...
Episode 35 - Kate Hamer: Reading from The Girl in the Red Coat
As a trailer for the second part of our interview with Kate Hamer, she reads a second excerpt from her Costa-nominated debut The Girl in the Red Coat.
Episode 34 - Kate Hamer - Girl in a Red Coat: Part 1
If Kate Hamer's debut novel The Girl in the Red Coat sounds familiar, in part because it joins a horde of books with the word 'Girl' in the title,----more---- then readers might be pleasantly surprised by the strange story that awaits. By turns Gothi...
Episode 33 - Kate Hamer reads Chapter 1 of The Girl in the Red Coat
As a trailer for my two part interview with Kate Hamer, author of the Costa-nominated debut The Girl in the Red Coat, she reads from the opening chapter.
Episode 32 - Sloane Crosley: Part 2
The second part of my conversation with Sloane Crosley about her debut novel The Clasp began with us discussing how books give bookish young people a map for their lives. ----more---- Crosley read a passage from the novel - in which poor Victor prepa...
Episode 31 - Sloane Crosley: Part 1
Sloane Crosley is a journalist, essayist and now, thanks to her bright and funny debut The Clasp, a novelist. ----more----Sloane took a break from her home city New York to visit London and talk about the challenge of shifting gears from non-fiction ...