Little Atoms 636 - Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies
Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist. The Mercies is her first novel for adults. Her bestselling works for children include The Girl of Ink & Stars and have won n...
11 Touko 202028min
Little Atoms 635 - Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love
Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. She read law at the LSE and was a legal academic before taking degrees in fine ar...
4 Touko 202027min
Little Atoms 634 - Philip Hensher's A Small Revolution in Germany
Philip Hensher has written eleven novels, including The Mulberry Empire, the Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, King of the Badgers, The Friendly Ones and Scenes from Early Life, which won the ...
27 Huhti 202026min
Little Atoms 633 - Eimear McBride's Strange Hotel
Eimear McBride is the author of the novels The Lesser Bohemians (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (winner of the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, the...
20 Huhti 202019min
Little Atoms 632 - Rosanna Amaka's The Book of Echoes
Rosanna Amaka was born to African and Caribbean parents. She began writing her debut novel The Books of Echoes twenty years ago to give voice to the Brixton community in which she grew up. Her communi...
13 Huhti 202022min
From The Archive - Damian Barr's You Will Be Safe Here
Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and columnist. Maggie & Me, his memoir about coming of age and coming out in Thatcher's Britain, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Memoir of th...
6 Huhti 202031min
Little Atoms 631 - Stephen Moss' The Accidental Countryside
Stephen Moss is a naturalist, broadcaster, television producer and author. In a distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit his credits included Springwatch, Birds Britannia and The Nature of...
30 Maalis 202029min
From the Archive - Yara Rodrigues Fowler's Stubborn Archivist
Yara Rodrigues Fowler is a novelist from South London. She is also a trustee of Latin American Women's Aid, an organisation that runs the only two refuges in Europe for and by Latin American Women. He...
24 Maalis 202028min
