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E.K. Wise - The Keepers of the Rock Book 1 - The Debilis Rising
Episode 453
From her home in Los Angeles, author E.K. Wise tells Robert Kirkwood about The Keepers of the Rock - Book 1 The Debilis Rising, a thrilling YA fantas…
8 months, 1 week ago
Annaliese Avery - The Wycherleys plus Renita Boyle and Charlotte Bennie - Wigtown Book Festival
Episode 452
In the final show this year recorded in Scotland's Book Town, we chat to author Annaliese Avery about her new series, The Wycherleys, storyteller Ren…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Nicholas Jubber and Ambrose Parry - Wigtown Book Festival
Episode 451
Today Robert Kirkwood chats to Nicholas Jubber about Monsterland, a journey around the world's dark imagination and he also talks to an author with t…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
David Szalay - Flesh - Booker Winner 2025
Episode 450
On today's Read On a long chat with the winner of the Booker Prize 2025, David Szalay. Robert Kirkwood chats to David about the life of his character…
9 months ago
Booker Winner 2025 - David Szalay for Flesh (Extract)
Full interview on Friday - but for now huge congratulations to David Szalay for his Booker win for Flesh - available in audio and Braille from RNIB L…
9 months ago
Booker Shortlist 2025 - Susan Choi, Kiran Desai, Katie Kitamura, Ben Markovits, Andrew Miller, and David Szalay
Episode 449
Today a supercut of interviews with all six Booker shortlisted authors for 2025 with Susan Choi on Flashlight, Kiran Desai on The Loneliness of Sonia…
9 months, 1 week ago
Grant Harrold, Robert Twigger and Vivian French - Wigtown Book Festival
Episode 448
In today's episode from Scotland's Book Town we chat to friend of the show, and author of over 300 books, Vivian French. We chat end of the world sur…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Dan Richards and Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan - Wigtown Book Festival
Episode 447
Today on Read On from the Wigtown Book Festival, we have some journeys, conversations and stories after dark in Dan Richards' book, Overnight and cha…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Louise Minchin and Lucy Hughes-Hallett - Wigtown Book Festival
Episode 446
In an episode recorded on location at the Wigtown Book Festival, Robert Kirkwood talks to Louise Minchin about 'Isolation Island', a novel inspired b…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Winners of the Booker Prize
Episode 445
With the Booker shortlist released recently we look at who is up for the prize this year, and listen to some past winners including Shehan Karunatila…
10 months ago