Little Atoms 988 - Francis Spufford's Nonesuch
Francis Spufford is the author of three novels and five works of non-fiction. His debut work of fiction was the historical novel Golden Hill, which won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Pr...
27 Feb 31min
Little Atoms 987 - James Geary's The World In A Phrase
James Geary, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists...
20 Feb 33min
Little Atoms 986 - Alex Preston's A Stranger in Corfu
Alex Preston is an award-winning author of five novels including This Bleeding City, The Revelations, In Love and War and Winchelsea, as well as a book of non-fiction As Kingfishers Catch Fire. He wri...
13 Feb 28min
Little Atoms 985 - Manish Chauhan's Belgrave Road
Originally from Leicester, Manish Chauhan works as a finance lawyer and currently lives in East London. His short story, "Pieces", was shortlisted for the 2024 BBC National Short Story Award. His work...
6 Feb 28min
Little Atoms 984 - George Saunders' Vigil
George Saunders is the author of thirteen books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize in 2017, and five collections of stories including Tenth of December, which was a ...
30 Jan 27min
Little Atoms 983 - Grace Murray's Blank Canvas
Grace Murray was born in 2003 and grew up in Norwich. She has recently graduated from Edinburgh University, where she read English Literature and found time to write between her studies and two part-t...
23 Jan 28min
Little Atoms 982 - Daniyal Mueenuddin's This Is Where The Serpent Lives
Daniyal Mueenuddin graduated from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. After winning a Fulbright scholarship to study in Norway, he practiced law in New York before returning to Khânpur, Pakistan to...
16 Jan 27min
Little Atoms 981 - Sebastian Faulks' Fires Which Burned Brightly
Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his Frenc...
9 Jan 28min
