Lamorna Ash: A New Generation's Search for Religion
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Lamorna Ash, author of Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion. She describes to me how a magazine piece about some young f...
23 Apr 202540min
Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street – On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
Sam Leith’s guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the lawyer and writer Philippe Sands, whose new book 38 Londres Street describes the legal and diplomatic tussle over the potential extradition of...
16 Apr 202557min
Fara Dabhoiwala: What Is Free Speech?
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Fara Dabhoiwala, whose new book What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea looks not just at the origins of free speech as an idea, but also its ...
9 Apr 202544min
Joe Dunthorne: Children of Radium
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the poet and novelist Joe Dunthorne, who is here to talk about his new non-fiction book Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance. In it, he describes how h...
2 Apr 202539min
Francesa Simon: Salka
My guest in this week’s Book Club is Francesca Simon. Best known for her Horrid Henry series of children’s books, Francesca has just published her first novel for grownups, a haunting reworking of a W...
26 Mar 202531min
Who is Government? edited by Michael Lewis
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the novelist and journalist John Lanchester, one of the contributors to Michael Lewis’s very timely new anthology of reportage on the United States federal...
19 Mar 202539min
Anthony Cheetham: A Publisher's Memoir
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the publisher Anthony Cheetham, one of the biggest figures in British publishing through the second half of the twentieth century and into this one. In his...
12 Mar 202525min
Michael Wolff: How Trump Recaptured America
In this week's Book Club podcast, I'm joined by Donald Trump's outstanding Boswell, the magazine writer Michael Wolff. Michael’s new book, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, takes Donald Tr...
5 Mar 202533min
