Podcast Episodes

🎤 Sunday Poetry: Tayi Tibble reads from Poūkahangatus🎤

A new series of short readings from some of our favourite poets.

Tayi Tibble (Te Whānau ā Apanui/Ngāti Porou) was born in 1995 and lives in Wellington…

3 years, 8 months ago

🎹Ian McEwan on Lessons🎹

Lessons, Ian McEwan’s new novel, works from an intimate perspective, but on an epic scale. We accompany Roland Baines at different moments of his lif…

3 years, 8 months ago

🇺🇸 A.M. Homes on Satire, the American Dream, and Reaching Across the Political Divide🇺🇸

This week’s guest is A.M. Homes whose new novel The Unfolding invites readers into the lives of a wealthy, John-McCain supporting Republican family o…

3 years, 9 months ago

🐇On Transcendence, Parental Failure & writing Indiana, with Tess Gunty🐇

This week's guest is Tess Gunty, winner of the 2022 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for her novel The Rabbit Hutch.

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The Rabbit Hutch is a low-cost ho…

3 years, 9 months ago

☭🎩When Young Stalin came to London, with Stephen May🎩☭

This week’s guest is Stephen May whose fifth novel, Sell Us the Rope is a fictional retelling of events surrounding the 5th Congress of the Russian S…

3 years, 9 months ago

After Sappho, with Selby Wynn Schwartz

This week we welcome Booker-longlisted Selby Wynn Schwartz, whose debut novel After Sappho is a fountain of fleeting fragments that together depict i…

3 years, 9 months ago

👨🏼✨Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man✨👨🏾

The Last White Man, Mohsin Hamid’s startling new novel, holds up a shattered mirror to readers, reflecting back a recognisable, but heightened and re…

3 years, 10 months ago

⏳Time Travel, Autofiction & Never-ending Book Tours, with Emily St John Mandel⌛

Emily St John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility is a book of large scope—spanning more than four centuries—and even larger ideas. In fewer than 300 pages w…

3 years, 10 months ago

🎓😵‍💫Disorientation: A Wild Satire of 21st-Century Campus Life, with Elaine Hsieh Chou😵‍💫🎓

This week we welcome former S&Co bookseller, Elaine Hsieh Chou, to discuss Disorientation, a campus novel retooled for the 21st century. Disorientati…

3 years, 10 months ago

🇬🇧🔨How Britain Broke the World, with Arthur Snell🔨🇬🇧

This week we’re joined by former diplomat Arthur Snell to discuss How Britain Broke the World: War, Greed and Blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 19…

3 years, 10 months ago