Little Atoms 533 - Miriam Toews' Women Talking
Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published four novels and a memoir of her father, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards including t...
6 Sep 201832min
Little Atoms 532 - Lauren Groff's Florida
Lauren Groff is the author of three New York Times bestselling novels – Fates and Furies (named by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015), The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia – as well as the s...
3 Sep 201833min
Little Atoms 531 - Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story col...
30 Aug 201829min
Little Atoms 530 - Michael Donkor's Hold
Michael Donkor was born in London, to Ghanaian parents. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, undertook a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and now teaches English Literature to se...
27 Aug 201829min
Little Atoms 529 - Melissa Harrison's All Among The Barley
Melissa Harrison is the author of the novels Clay and At Hawthorn Time, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize, and one work of non-fiction, Rain...
20 Aug 201826min
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 Juli 201827min
