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Little Atoms
Little Atoms is a weekly show about books, with authors in conversation. Produced and presented by Neil Denny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Little Atoms 972 - Thomas McMullan's Groundwater
Thomas McMullan lives and works in London. His debut novel, The Last Good Man, won the 2021 Betty Trask Prize. His short fiction has been published in...
Little Atoms 971 - Sarah Perry's Death of an Ordinary Man
Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Enlightenment, Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood, and the no...
Little Atoms 970 - Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai is the bestselling author of two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss, which won both the Booker Prize and...
Little Atoms 969 - Natalie Haynes' No Friend To This House
Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, The Children of Jocasta, A Thousand Ships, which was shortlisted for...
Little Atoms 968 - Patrick Ryan's Buckeye
Patrick Ryan's short story collection The Dream Life of Astronauts was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the St. Louis Times-Dispatch, LitHub...
Little Atoms 967 - Miriam Toews' A Truce Which Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews is the author of the bestselling novels Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complica...
Little Atoms 966 - Stuart Nadler's Rooms For Vanishing
Stuart Nadler is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation, and the author of Wise Men, The Inseparables, Rooms for Vanish...
Little Atoms 965 - Laura Lippman's Murder Takes A Vacation
Since Laura Lippman's debut, she has been recognised as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the "essential" crime writers of the l...
Little Atoms 964 - Oliver Basciano's Outcast
Oliver Basciano is a journalist and critic based in São Paulo and London. On this episode of Little Atoms, he talks to Neil Denny about Outcast: A His...
Little Atoms 963 - Claire Adam's Love Forms
Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She was educated in the US and now lives in London. Her first novel Golden Child won multiple...
Little Atoms 962 - Mike Jay's Free Radicals
Mike Jay has written extensively on scientific and medical history and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books and the Wall Street Journal...
Little Atoms 961 - Brandy Schillace's The Intermediaries
Brandy Schillace is a historian, former professor and museum professional, and former editor of Medical Humanities, a social-justice journal. She writ...
Little Atoms 960 - Wendy Erskine's The Benefactors
Wendy Erskine is the author of two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move. She was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of...
Little Atoms 959 - David Farrier's Nature's Genius
David Farrier is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Edinburgh. David's first book, Footprints: In Search of Future Fossi...
Little Atoms 958 - Marie Rutkoski's Ordinary Love
Marie Rutkoski is a New York Times bestselling author of several novels for children and young adults. She grew up in Illinois as the oldest of four c...
Little Atoms 957 - Gurnaik Johal's Saraswati
Gurnaik Johal is a writer from West London. His 2022 collection We Move won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Tata Literature Live! Prize. Its openin...
Little Atoms 956 - Nell Stevens's The Original
Nell Stevens writes memoir and fiction. Her debut novel, Briefly, a Delicious Life was longlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Award. She is also the aut...
Little Atoms 955 - Matthew Specktor's The Golden Hour
Matthew Specktor is the author of the novels American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound, and the nonfiction books The Sting and Always Crashing...
Little Atoms 954 - Francesca Wade's Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize a...
Little Atoms 953 - Daria Lavelle's Aftertaste
Daria Lavelle writes fiction, most of which features at least one impossible thing. Her stories have appeared in Dark Matter, The Deadlands and Dread...
Little Atoms 952 - Michael Pedersen's Muckle Flugga
Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning poet and author of Boy Friends, which was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish...
Little Atoms 951 - Cate Baum's Land Of Hope
Cate Baum was born in Cambridge to a magician and a big band singer. She grew up in the East Anglian countryside, spending summers roaming the wilds o...
Little Atoms 950 - Eley Williams' Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good
Eley Williams' collection of short stories Attrib. & Other Stories won the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He...
Little Atoms 949 - Simon Park's Wreckers
Simon Park is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford....
Little Atoms 948 - Danielle Giles' Mere
Danielle Giles is a writer and researcher based in Bristol. She has been published (writing as Danielle Vrublevskis) in Extra Teeth and Dear Damsels,...
Little Atoms 947 - Megan Hunter's Days of Light
Megan Hunter is a prizewinning novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Her first novel, The End We Start From was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at t...
Little Atoms 946 - Ron Currie's The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
Ron Currie is the award-winning author of five novels. He has won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award, the A...
Little Atoms 945 - Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle
Xiaolu Guo was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Indep...
Little Atoms 944 - Dan Richards' Overnight
Dan Richards is the co-author of Holloway (with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood), and the author of The Beechwood Airship Interviews, Climbing D...
Little Atoms 943 - Dani Heywood-Lonsdale's The Portrait Artist
Dani Heywood-Lonsdale has paternal roots on the tiny island of Molokai, Hawaii - referred to as the Sandwich Islands throughout her debut novel The Po...
Little Atoms 942 - Abdulrazak Gurnah's Theft
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Para...
Little Atoms 941 - Sarah Hesketh's 2016
Sarah Hesketh is a writer and editor from Pendle, in East Lancashire. She is the author of the poetry collections Napoleon’s Travelling Bookshelf and ...
Little Atoms 940 - Stephen May's Green Ink
Stephen May is the author of seven novels including Life! Death! Prizes! which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and The Guardian Not The Book...
Little Atoms 939 - Susan Barker's Old Soul
Susan Barker is the author of four books. Her third novel, The Incarnations, was a New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book, a Kirkus Reviews' ...
Little Atoms 938 - Rachel Bower's It Comes From The River
Rachel Bower is an award-winning poet and short story writer from Bradford. She is the author of two poetry collections and a non-fiction book on lite...
Little Atoms 937 - Caryl Phillips' Another Man In The Street
Caryl Phillips was born in St.Kitts and came to Britain at the age of four months. He grew up in Leeds, and studied English Literature at Oxford Unive...
Little Atoms 936 - Catherine Airey's Confessions
Catherine Airey grew up in England in a family of mixed English-Irish descent, and now lives between County Cork and Bristol. On this episode of Littl...
Little Atoms 935 - Keon West's The Science of Racism
Professor Keon West is a social psychologist at the University of London. He earned his doctorate from Oxford University in 2010 as a Rhodes Scholar a...
Little Atoms 934 - Nicola Dinan's Disappoint Me
Nicola Dinan grew up in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur and now lives in London. Bellies, her debut, won the Polari First Book Prize, was shortlisted for t...
Little Atoms 933 - Sumit Paul-Choudhury's The Bright Side
Sumit Paul-Choudhury is an astrophysicist-turned-journalist, former editor-in-chief of New Scientist magazine and has served as a judge for the Bailli...