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🎾Geoff Dyer on Roger Federer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sensing an Ending…🎾
There are few people who can write so brilliantly, about so many subjects, all at once, as Geoff Dyer. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endi…
3 years, 10 months ago
👨❤️👨On Love, Grief and Male Friendship, with Michael Pedersen👨❤️👨
This week’s guest is Michael Pedersen, whose new book Boy Friends is a profoundly personal, searingly honest examination of grief, inspired by the de…
3 years, 11 months ago
🎙️🍃Ali Smith on Companion Piece (live in the bookshop!)🍃🎙️
We were joined in store this week by the wonderful Ali Smith to discuss Companion Piece, the the fifth-volume in the increasingly inaccurately named …
3 years, 11 months ago
🐑Ottessa Moshfegh on Power, Magic…and her Pirate Ancestors🐑
Lapvona, Ottessa Moshfegh’s extraordinary fourth novel, unfolds in a medieval fiefdom of the same name. It’s a story of struggle in a world in which …
3 years, 11 months ago
🥀On Darkness, Fables and Heartbreak, with Vanessa Onwuemezi🥀
A collection of seven extraordinary short stories, Vanessa Onwuemezi’s Dark Neighbourhood resists interpretation and elides description, shifting bet…
3 years, 11 months ago
A World Without Men, with Sandra Newman (Live at Hey Festival)
In this special live episode, recorded at the Hay Festival, we were joined by Sandra Newman, whose new novel The Men takes a very stark idea and runs…
4 years ago
On Bodies, Freedom and Change, with Olivia Laing
This week, we’re joined by Olivia Laing, one of the finest non-fiction writers at work today, to discuss her latest book Everybody: A Book About Free…
4 years ago
Meg Mason on Sorrow and Bliss
This week’s guest is Meg Mason, author of the literary sensation Sorrow and Bliss.
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'It is impossible to read this novel and not be moved. It is also …
4 years ago
📱Love (and Life) in the time of Algorithms, with Jem Calder📱
This week’s guest is guest is Jem Calder, author of Reward System a series of interlinked stories that charts a group of friends in their mid-twentie…
4 years ago
🐍🎲Luck, Life and Little Snakes, with DBC Pierre🎲🐍
DBC Pierre’s Big Snake Little Snake is a characteristically freewheeling, riotous account of a couple of years the author lived in the Caribbean, spe…
4 years, 1 month ago