Little Atoms 528 - William Atkins' The Immeasurable World
William Atkins’s first book, The Moor, was shortlisted for the Thwaites Wainwright Prize. He works as an editor and his journalism has appeared in the Guardian and Granta. In 2016 he was a recipient o...
13 Aug 201826min
Little Atoms 527 - Madeline Miller's Circe
Madeline Miller has a BA and MA from Brown University in Latin and Ancient Greek, and has been teaching both for over a decade. She has also studied at the Yale School of Drama, specialising in adapti...
6 Aug 201833min
Little Atoms 526 - Gavin Francis' Shapeshifters
Gavin Francis is a GP, and the author of True North, Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins, which won the Scottish Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and Co...
30 Jul 201827min
Little Atoms 525 - Laura Lippman’s Sunburn
Laura Lippman has been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. Since the publication of What the Dead Know, each of her hardcovers has hit the New York Times bestseller list. A recent recipient of...
23 Jul 201828min
Little Atoms 524 - Miranda Doyle's A Book of Untruths
Miranda Doyle's family come from the tiny island of Coney in Sligo Bay. She grew up in Edinburgh alongside three brothers and a suspicious number of ill-fated pets. With an MA from Goldsmiths in Creat...
16 Jul 201828min
Little Atoms 523 - Dorthe Nors' Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. She is one of the most original voices in contemporary Danish literature. Her short stories have appeared in numerous i...
12 Jul 201822min
Little Atoms 522 - Fred Pearce's Fallout
Fred Pearce is an award-winning journalist and author, reporting from 87 countries. He is the environment consultant of New Scientist magazine, a regular broadcaster and contributor to the Guardian, W...
9 Jul 201838min
Little Atoms 521 - Sarah Churchwell's Behold, America
Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Careless People: Mu...
5 Jul 201852min
