Our guests this week are Chief theatre critic at The Guardian and author of Consumed, Arifa Akbar, and New Yorker writer, Ed Caesar, who recently published The Moth and the Mountain. If you would like the read the extracts discussed in this epi

Episode 6: Ellah Wakatama and John Self

Nov 22nd, 2021 38m 32s

Our guests this week are Ellah Wakatama, chair of the Caine Prize for African writing and Editor-at-large for Canongate Books and the critic John Self, who writes about books on his own blog Asylum, as well a broad variety of newspapers and rad

Episode 5: Nigella Lawson and Aminatta Forna

Jul 26th, 2021 43m 45s

Our guests for this food-related episode are the author and chef Nigella Lawson, whose most recent book is Cook, Eat, Repeat and the award-winning novelist Aminatta Forna, author of Happiness and, most recently, a collection of essays called Wi

Episode 4: Linda Grant and Sathnam Sanghera

Jun 17th, 2021 38m 41s

Our guests for this episode are Sathnam Sanghera, a British journalist and author of EmpireLand: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial Past and Linda Grant, the Orange Prize for Fiction winning novelist whose latest book A Stranger City,

Episode 3: David Baddiel and Gill Hornby

Apr 28th, 2021 34m 59s

Our guests for this episode are Gill Hornby, author of The Hive and the number one bestseller Miss Austen and David Baddiel, comedian, writer and author, most recently, of Jews Don’t Count. If you would like the read the extracts discussed in t

Episode 2: Naomi Alderman and Philip Hensher

Apr 1st, 2021 38m 26s

Our guests for this episode are Naomi Alderman, author of The Power, winner of the 2017 Bailey’s Women’s Prize For Fiction, and Philip Hensher, whose most recent novel is A Small Revolution in Germany. If you would like to read the extracts di

Episode 1: Irenosen Okojie and Helen Lewis

Mar 17th, 2021 35m 7s

A conversation about beginnings with Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch and winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for her short story Grace Jones, and Helen Lewis, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of Difficult Women. If you would like t