Little Atoms 536 - Nell Stevens' Mrs Gaskell and Me
Nell Stevens has a First in English and Creative Writing from Warwick, after which she went on to study Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard, to receive a Marcia Trimble Fellowship and the Flo...
17 Sep 201827min
Little Atoms 535 - Amy Sackville's Painter to the King
Amy Sackville was born in 1981. She studied English and Theatre Studies at Leeds, and went on to do an MPhil in English at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths. H...
13 Sep 201829min
Little Atoms 534 - Tim Parks' Out of My Head
Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since. He is the author of novels, non-fiction and essays, inclu...
10 Sep 201828min
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
