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Best-selling author Elif Shafak is the most widely read female author in Turkey and her work has been translated into a staggering 57 languages. Her 2019 novel ‘10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World' was nominated for the Booker Prize and her novels have been shortlisted in the Costa Award, the British Book Awards and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Shafak returns to Midori House to speak to Georgina Godwin about her new novel, ‘There are Rivers in the Sky', a timeless story that follows three lives spanning centuries, continents and two great rivers connected through a single drop of water.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Award-winning British-Turkish novelist and 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted author Elif Shafak reveals the five books that have shaped her life and career. Elif has published 19 books, 12 of which are novels, including The Island of Missing Trees, shortlisted for the Costa Award, British Book Awards, RSL Ondaatje Prize and 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction.  Elif holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She also holds a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Bard College and is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature and has done two Global TED talks, gaining millions of views. Elif has been chosen as one of the BBC's 100 most inspiring and influential women and in 2016 she was a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is an advocate for women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of expression and her new book There are Rivers in the Sky is out in August.  Elif's book choices are: ** Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ** Orlando by Virginia Woolf ** A Gate At the Stairs by Lorrie Moore ** Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi ** A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women by Siri Hustvedt Vick Hope, multi-award winning TV and BBC Radio 1 presenter, author and journalist, is the host of season seven of the Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast. Every week, Vick will be joined by another inspirational woman to discuss the work of incredible female authors. The Women's Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, and they continue to champion the very best books written by women. Don't want to miss the rest of season six? Listen and subscribe now! This podcast is sponsored by Baileys and produced by Bird Lime Media.

Over Tim Lott's 10 novels, he's won the Whitbread First Novel Award, been shortlisted for The Guardian Kids Book Award and the Costa Award. He's been published in 16 countries, works as a screenwriter, and has taught creative writing for over 10 years. He's got a brilliant Substack page, filled with tips and advice at timlott.substack.com.His new book is a writing guide, 'Yes! No! But Wait! - The One Thing You Need to Know to Write a Novel'. It takes you through much of the process in getting a book from your head towards publication.We talk about why it took him 10 years of coaching to actually write the book. Even with that, you can hear why he thinks much of writing is unteachable. Tim explains why plot is everything, the difference between screenwriters and novelists and why where he works bores him.It's almost your last chance to get 10% off Plottr at go.plottr.com/routineYou can support the show at patreon.com/writersroutine@writerspodwritersroutine.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

W dziesiątym odcinku rozmawiamy o powieści "Hungry Ghosts" napisanej przez Kevina Jareda Hoseina, cenionego autora z Trynidadu i Tobago. Książka nie jest jeszcze dostępna po polsku, ale to się jeszcze zmieni. Tymczasem zapraszamy na rozmowę o książce laureata Commonwealth Short Story Prize i tegorocznego gościa Festiwalu Literatury Karaibskiej Bocas w Port of Spain. Ponadto zapowiedzi wydawnicze i niespodzianka. Usłyszycie: • Czego (i kogo) można spodziewać się niebawem na Festiwalu Calabash na Jamajce? • Jaką uhonorowaną Costa Award powieść trynidadzko-brytyjskiej autorki szykuje pewne polskie wydawnictwo na maj? • Co łączy opowiadania, w tym tekst Jennifer Rahim (Trynidad i Tobago), z nowego zbioru próz z całego świata, który ukaże się w Polsce na wiosnę? • Którym autorkom nominowanym do Międzynarodowego Bookera kibicuje Olga? • Czy zanosi się na odcinek Zamorskiego zza mórz i znad oceanu? • O co chodzi z tytułowymi duchami z powieści Kevina Jareda Hoseina? • Jak przedstawiony jest Trynidad? • Jaka jest specyfika języka "Hungry Ghosts"? • Co o psach sądzi Hosein? • Jak brzmi żart nie-o-Trynidadzie przeczytany w jednym z esejów Keia Millera? • Co robił poeta i muzyk Roger Robinson na Tobago? Jak zawsze będziemy wdzięczni za subskrybowanie i ocenianie Zamorskiego! Wspomniane w podkaście: Festiwal Literacki Calabash (Jamajka): http://calabashfestival.org/ "The Harder They Come" (reż. Perry Henzell, 1972). Pierwszy jamajski film fabularny z pamiętną rolą Jimmy'ego Cliffa. Do obejrzenia w całości (i legalnie) tutaj: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9U1zc8ys-Q Kevin Jared Hosein, "Przejście". Opowiadanie autora "Hungry Ghosts" w przekładzie Bartosza Wójcika: https://przekroj.pl/kultura/przejscie-passage-tlumaczyl-bartosz-wojcik-kevin-jared-hosei "Śmierć pod palmami", serial kryminalny BBC dziejący się na fikcyjnej wyspie na Karaibach: https://www.bbcpolska.com/programy/smierc-pod-palmami Kevin Jared Hosein: ‘The 1940s in Trinidad was like the wild west': https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/04/kevin-jared-hosein-the-1940s-in-trinidad-was-like-the-wild-west Caribbean Book Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/937896063300811 Commonwealth Short Story: https://commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-prize/ Wiersz Rogera Robinsona pt. "Owoce z Tobago" w przekładzie Bartosza Wójcika: https://magazynwizje.pl/wojcik-robinson-piec-wierszy/ ---  Rozmawiają Olga Godlewska i Bartosz Wójcik.  Podkast powstał przy Zamorskim Klubie Czytelniczym. Zapraszamy do naszej grupy dyskusyjnej: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/zamorskiklubczytelniczy Znajdziesz nas na Instagramie: ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.instagram.com/olga_godlewska/⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.instagram.com/bartosz__wojcik/

John Preston, the Costa Award-winning biographer of media tycoon Robert Maxwell, makes his screenwriting debut with a drama about another infamous figure of the 1970s, the MP John Stonehouse. He joins Tom Sutcliffe to discuss the line between fact and fiction in dramatising the story of the MP who faked his own death. Reviewers Amon Warmann and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh give their verdicts on two major films out this week: Till, the story of Emmett Till's mother Mamie's fight for justice after her son was lynched in 1955, featuring a powerful performance by Danielle Deadwyler; and Empire of Light, written and directed by Sam Mendes. Set in a seaside town cinema in the 70s it stars Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward, and is inspired in part by Mendes' mother's experiences. And James Conor Patterson reads his poem “london mixtape” from his debut collection “bandit country”, which has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Poetry Prize. Front Row is featuring each of the 10 poets shortlisted and we'll hear from the winner when they're announced on Tuesday 17th January. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Paul Waters (Till picture credit: Lynsey Weatherspoon / Orion Pictures)

This week we examine the sometimes painful process of drafting and redrafting. We're joined by Denise Mina, who appeared on the Verb in 2019 to share her feelings towards a book she had only just started. What became of it? Listen to find out. Toby Litt's current novel is 'A Writer's Diary'. Initially published in the form of daily emails to subscribers, the lines between fact and fiction appear to blur with every email. How is a work like this drafted? Paul Tran says redrafting of his poems is also a redrafting and a rebuilding of the self in the wake of trauma or extremity. For Singer-songwriter and folk historian Polly Paulusma it is through the process of drafting that ideas and images that first appear buried bubble up to the surface, And our 'Something New' poem this week comes from Costa Award-winning poet Hannah Lowe Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Cecile Wright

Monique Roffey joins us to The Mermaid of Black Conch (Knopf, July 12). Kirkus: “In this Costa Award–winning novel, the discovery of a mermaid makes waves on a fictional Caribbean island….A mournful tour through Caribbean history via one of its most indelible legends.” Then our editors join with their reading recommendations for the week.

Life Sentences (Godine, 2022) tells three interconnected stories about a family in his home country of Ireland. In lyrical, moving prose, with characters that reach across the years, Billy O'Callaghan describes births, deaths, war, and the life of his family. The book begins in the 1920's with Jeremiah, who survived as a soldier in the Great War. He's drunk and jailed on the night before his sister's funeral to prevent him from killing his sister's husband. “Life had its struggles,” he says as he muses about his family and experiences, “but we bore them in the way that our kind always do.” The second part goes back to the 1880's, and Jer's mother, Nancy, recounts being the only member of her family to survive the Great Potato Famine. Starving, she left her tiny island home to find work on the mainland and was wooed by Michael Egan, the man who fathered her two children and haunted her for years. The third section is in the voice of Nellie, Jer's youngest daughter, who is nearing the end of her life. This is a beautifully written novel about family, home, poverty, loss, and the struggle to live in a difficult world. Billy O'Callaghan, from Cork, Ireland, is the author of four short story collections (In Exile, In Too Deep, The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind, and The Boatman) and the novels The Dead House and My Coney Island Baby. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and earned him numerous honours, including four Bursary Awards for Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and, in 2013, a Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award for the Short Story of the Year, as well as shortlistings for the COSTA Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award. His short stories have appeared in such literary journals and magazines around the world as: Agni, the Chattahoochee Review, the Kenyon Review, London Magazine, Los Angeles Review, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, the Saturday Evening Post and Winter Papers. A new novel, The Paper Man, will be published in the UK and Ireland by Jonathan Cape in 2023. When Billy isn't reading or writing, he's a big fan of Liverpool Football Club (called soccer in the U.S.). G. P. Gottleib interviews authors of beautifully written literary fiction and mysteries, and tries to focus on independently published novels, especially by women and others whose voices deserve more attention. If your upcoming or recently published novel might be a candidate for a podcast, please contact me via my website, gpgottlieb dot com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Life Sentences (Godine, 2022) tells three interconnected stories about a family in his home country of Ireland. In lyrical, moving prose, with characters that reach across the years, Billy O'Callaghan describes births, deaths, war, and the life of his family. The book begins in the 1920's with Jeremiah, who survived as a soldier in the Great War. He's drunk and jailed on the night before his sister's funeral to prevent him from killing his sister's husband. “Life had its struggles,” he says as he muses about his family and experiences, “but we bore them in the way that our kind always do.” The second part goes back to the 1880's, and Jer's mother, Nancy, recounts being the only member of her family to survive the Great Potato Famine. Starving, she left her tiny island home to find work on the mainland and was wooed by Michael Egan, the man who fathered her two children and haunted her for years. The third section is in the voice of Nellie, Jer's youngest daughter, who is nearing the end of her life. This is a beautifully written novel about family, home, poverty, loss, and the struggle to live in a difficult world. Billy O'Callaghan, from Cork, Ireland, is the author of four short story collections (In Exile, In Too Deep, The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind, and The Boatman) and the novels The Dead House and My Coney Island Baby. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and earned him numerous honours, including four Bursary Awards for Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and, in 2013, a Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award for the Short Story of the Year, as well as shortlistings for the COSTA Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award. His short stories have appeared in such literary journals and magazines around the world as: Agni, the Chattahoochee Review, the Kenyon Review, London Magazine, Los Angeles Review, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, the Saturday Evening Post and Winter Papers. A new novel, The Paper Man, will be published in the UK and Ireland by Jonathan Cape in 2023. When Billy isn't reading or writing, he's a big fan of Liverpool Football Club (called soccer in the U.S.). G. P. Gottleib interviews authors of beautifully written literary fiction and mysteries, and tries to focus on independently published novels, especially by women and others whose voices deserve more attention. If your upcoming or recently published novel might be a candidate for a podcast, please contact me via my website, gpgottlieb dot com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Life Sentences (Godine, 2022) tells three interconnected stories about a family in his home country of Ireland. In lyrical, moving prose, with characters that reach across the years, Billy O'Callaghan describes births, deaths, war, and the life of his family. The book begins in the 1920's with Jeremiah, who survived as a soldier in the Great War. He's drunk and jailed on the night before his sister's funeral to prevent him from killing his sister's husband. “Life had its struggles,” he says as he muses about his family and experiences, “but we bore them in the way that our kind always do.” The second part goes back to the 1880's, and Jer's mother, Nancy, recounts being the only member of her family to survive the Great Potato Famine. Starving, she left her tiny island home to find work on the mainland and was wooed by Michael Egan, the man who fathered her two children and haunted her for years. The third section is in the voice of Nellie, Jer's youngest daughter, who is nearing the end of her life. This is a beautifully written novel about family, home, poverty, loss, and the struggle to live in a difficult world. Billy O'Callaghan, from Cork, Ireland, is the author of four short story collections (In Exile, In Too Deep, The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind, and The Boatman) and the novels The Dead House and My Coney Island Baby. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and earned him numerous honours, including four Bursary Awards for Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and, in 2013, a Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award for the Short Story of the Year, as well as shortlistings for the COSTA Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award. His short stories have appeared in such literary journals and magazines around the world as: Agni, the Chattahoochee Review, the Kenyon Review, London Magazine, Los Angeles Review, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, the Saturday Evening Post and Winter Papers. A new novel, The Paper Man, will be published in the UK and Ireland by Jonathan Cape in 2023. When Billy isn't reading or writing, he's a big fan of Liverpool Football Club (called soccer in the U.S.). G. P. Gottleib interviews authors of beautifully written literary fiction and mysteries, and tries to focus on independently published novels, especially by women and others whose voices deserve more attention. If your upcoming or recently published novel might be a candidate for a podcast, please contact me via my website, gpgottlieb dot com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gillian Cross may be best known for The Demon Headmaster series but she has written widely for teenagers and children. Among her many achievements and accolades are the Carnegie Medal, which she was awarded in 1990 for Wolf and the Whitbread Award (renamed Costa Award) for The Great Elephant Chase.Gillian's latest book, Ollie Spark and the Accidental Adventure is co-authored with Alan Snow. It's a highly illustrated techno adventure with plenty of laughs and just the right amount of jeopardy. Gillian spoke to Nikki Gamble about the start of this new series.About Ollie Spark and the Accidental AdventureMachines, mysteries and mayhem - this must be a case for OLLIE SPARK! Ollie Spark loves mending machines and solving mysteries. But he gets more than he bargained for when fixing Aunt Caz's van throws him into a real-life spy adventure! Ollie is whisked away to a mysterious city with strange plants, an unknown language and suspicious people around every corner. With the help of Gasket, his new dog best friend, he sets off on a mission to save the city - and Aunt Caz - from disaster.Can Ollie fix things before it's too late?!

By the Costa Award-winning author of Pure, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving. An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a bond with the daughter he barely knows when he receives a summons - to an inquiry into an incident during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It is the return of what Stephen hoped he had outdistanced. Above all, to testify would jeopardise the fragile relationship with his daughter. And if he loses her, he loses everything. Instead, he decides to write her an account of his life: a confession, a defence, a love letter. Also a means of buying time. But time is running out, and the day comes when he must face again what happened in that faraway summer of 1982.

Linda Newbery is a Costa Award-winning author for her novel Set in Stone, a mystery in the Vein of Wilkie Collins The Woman in White. She is highly regarded for her fiction for both junior and teenage readers.Now Linda has written her first non-fiction book, This Book is Cruelty-Free: Animals and Us. Linda's first novel was concerned with animal rights and hunting. She has long been a campaigner for animal welfare organisations, she is a passionate supporter of Compassion in World Farming, the League Against Cruel Sports and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).  She now presents convincing arguments that humans must show greater compassion for animals, both for ethical reasons but also for the benefit of human society.Linda joined Nikki Gamble In The Reading Corner to explain more.

Jenny Pearson's first book The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates was published to great acclaim and quickly became a favourite with primary teachers for its closely observed, hilarious but compassionate portrayal of children.  Jenny is a primary teacher herself and it's clear that she loves both parts of her working life and that they feed each other.A second book The Incredible Record Smashers was published in 2021 and is equally funny, with some genuine laugh out loud moments. I rarely laugh aloud when I am reading alone, but this book triggered my funny bone.To find out why, listen to Jenny talking about The Incredible Record Smashers in this episode.About The Incredible Record SmashersA record-smashing, feel-good adventure packed with heart, humour and Guinness World Records from Costa Award-shortlisted JENNY PEARSON, and Kid Normal illustrator Erica Salcedo Lucy is a fixer of broken things. But there's one thing she can't fix and that's her unhappy mum. Until she comes up with an INCREDIBLE plan.Along with her best friend, Sandesh, Lucy is going to SMASH a world record. Because she's convinced that starry Paul Castellini - Record Smashers TV host and singing legend - is the answer to her mum's problems. But breaking a world RECORD when watermelons, kumquats, two baddies and a 30 cm shatter-resistant school ruler are involved isn't quite as easy as Lucy thought.Can she learn that sometimes happiness doesn't come with a plan?"

In conversation with Nicole Galland, historical novelist and author of Master of the Revels and creator of Shakespeare for the Masses With a ''gift for combining intricate, engrossing plots with full-bodied characterizations'' (Washington Post), Irish–British novelist Maggie O'Farrell is the author of After You'd Gone, The Distance Between Us, The Hand That First Held Mine, and Instructions for a Heatwave, among several others. A former journalist in Hong Kong, deputy literary editor of the Independent on Sunday, and creative writing teacher, she is also a bestselling author. O'Farrell's work has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Award, the Costa Award, and has been translated into more than 30 languages. Hamnet, winner of the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction, tells the Elizabethan-era tale of William Shakespeare's family including his force–of–nature wife, Shakespeare's journey as a rising star, and the shared grief over the loss of their son Hamnet whose name Shakespeare would later use in his play Hamlet. Books available through the Joseph Fox Bookshop (recorded 6/3/2021)

In this episode we have extended Plumb Crumble time and announce our next Patreon evening.Plumb crumblesOver The Wall which puts on camps for children with a range of limiting health conditionsNär livet inte följer manus by Sophie DowMorgan's Wonderland the world's first ultra-accessible theme park. Sadly (for most of us), in Texas...Gulliver's Kingdom a great entry-level theme park in Derbyshire, ideal for under-13s. The Body Shop especially Vitamin E Hydrating toner (Cat W) and Camomile Sumptuous Cleansing Butter and Oils of Life Intensely Revitalising Oil-In-Gel (Cat S)Deeplight by Frances Hardinge  'A magisterial maritime fantasy from the Costa Award-winning Frances Hardinge, Deeplight probes the treacherous undertow of obsession and greed. Wrapped tight in evocative prose and sinuous, slithering atmosphere, this is a marvel of construction and technique'. - WaterstonesSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/theplumblinepodcast?fan_landing=true)

The Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking big questions about the nature of writing itself. What is its purpose? What should we make of its mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland. Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. He is one of Ireland's most acclaimed and prolific writers. He has worked as a journalist, critic, essayist, academic and novelist. He established his journalism credentials in the 1980s as editor of the groundbreaking Magill magazine. He is the author of eight novels, several essay and short story collections, poetry, multiple non-fiction works, and plays. Tóibín published his first novel, The South, in 1990, before following it up with The Heather Blazing (1992), The Story of the Night (1996), and The Blackwater Lightship (1999). His fifth novel, The Master (2004), a fictional account of elements of Henry James, was nominated for a Man Booker Prize and won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He won the Costa Award in 2009 for his novel Brooklyn, which was later adapted into a successful film. His book, The Testament of Mary (2012) was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent novel, House of Names (2017) retells the Greek tragedy of the house of Atreus. Tóibín has been visiting professor at Stanford Unversity, the University of Texas, and Princeton University. He is a member of Aosdána. The Laureate for Irish Fiction is an initiative of the Arts Council in partnership with University College Dublin and New York University.

Film critic Leila Latif joins us to discuss today’s Golden Globe nominations, and gives us an overview of some of the highlights from the first ever online Sundance Festival. The folklore of Taiwan is visited and revisited by subsequent generations of women in Bestiary, the debut novel from K-Ming Chang, as a Daughter falls in love and confronts her family’s secrets in America. Shot through with a litany of mythical beasts, it’s a novel that offers a charged narrative of diaspora and beauty in a hazy magic realist renderings of California, Arkansas & Taiwan. Author and poet K-Ming Chang tells Kirsty Lang how tracing her own heritage led to a story of queer desire, violence, and identity. Writers write while agents tend to their interests and publishers bring their works to the public. There is, though, another lesser known but important worker in the books business - the Literary Scout. Their role is to find the right books, before anyone else, and bring them to publishers, all over the world. Scouts have to know everyone and everything and, as we all know, knowledge is power. Natasha Farrant, famous as a Costa Award winning children's author, has been a literary scout for 20 years. Antony Harwood has been a prominent literary agent even longer. On Front Row they discuss the role and importance of the literary scout, spilling the beans to Kirsty Lang...but probably not all of them. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Harry Parker Studio manager: Giles Aspen Main image: Josh 0'Connor as Prince Charles and Emma Corrin as Lady Diana Spencer in the Netflix TV series The Crown Image credit: Des Willie/Netflix

Vicky Goldie reveals how working for RNIB and her own personal circumstances informed the character of her blind detective.   Paul Mylrea reviews Ngaio Marsh's 'Scales of Justice'.   Tim Finch discusses his novel Peace Talks, which has been short listed for the Costa Award.   And Anna Bell shares a cautionary tale in her new rom com We Just Clicked.

Stu Turton the bestselling and Costa Award winning author of The 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and the new book The Devil and the Dark Water talks through everything from his need to write, his inability to relax, his method writing style and the whole process of creating a book from the actual plotting through to the marketing.Buy Stu's books here You can follow Stu on Twitter You can also follow Richard if the mood takes you.If you like the episode, please rate and review the podcast in iTunes.

In this interview, Costa Award-winning author, Jasbinder Bilan, talks about her children's novel Tamarind and the Star of Ishta, a story set in northern India that is infused with mystery and mythology.

John McCullough discusses his poem Stationery from the Costa Award shortlisted collection Reckless Paper Birds. He talks about the various elements that influenced the poem: From his love life to social media posts. He invites listeners to write a poem using items of stationery as metaphors for life and relationships. www.johnmccullough.co.uk www.poetrynonstop.com

Jasbinder and Sophia both got their publishing break by winning the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition. Jasbinder went on to win the Costa Children’s Book Award with 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'. Sophia talks to her about the experience of writing that book and the slow and tortuous process of getting it good enough to publish. View the show notes here: https://www.prepublished.net/episodes/jasbinder-bilan

Book NotesMichael recommends: The North Water by Ian McGuire, winner of the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award (2017) The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock, winner of the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (2012), the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing (2012), and the Prix Mystère de la critique (2013) Melissa recommends: Days Without End by Sebastian Barry, winner of the Costa Award for the Novel and Book of the Year (2017) Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, winner of the Newbery Medal (2018), National Book Award Nominee for Young People's Literature (2017), Odyssey Award Nominee (2018), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2017), Edgar Award for Best Young Adult (2018) Carrie recommends: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, winner of The Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize (2018) Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson, a New York Times Notable Book (2019) and a LibraryReads favorite (2019) Bite Notes As you follow along with the trials and tribulations of the crew of the Volunteer, enjoy this cod dish from Emeril Lagasse's Essential Emeril: Favorite Recipes and Hard-won Wisdom from My Life in the Kitchen. Travel to Appalachia with this recipe for slow cooked roasted pork shoulder from Ronni Lundy's Victuals: An Appalachian Journey with Recipes. Pair Days Without End with a fine Irish whiskey, like Slane Whiskey, which is made in County Meath and available locally at Total Wine and Kroger. You may not be able to replicate the perfect, lightly salted blackberry that the Winns taste along the South West Coast Path, but you can bake Salted Dark Chocolate Vegan Blackberry Brownies. After reading Red at the Bone, feed your body and soul with the Vegetarian Red Beans and Rice from The Fresh & Healthy Instant Pot Cookbook.

Somewhere high up in the North Pennines, between everywhere and nowhere at all, is Weardale, a remote northern dale. It’s a place of old lead mines, deep worked out limestone quarries, and hill farming; the home of day-dreamers, explorers, incomers, artists, philosophers, sky-watchers, story tellers and travellers. Over a series of ten exclusive interviews with writers and poets Caroline goes in search of what it means to live in England’s last wilderness. In episode three, Caroline looks at the thin divide between religion, folklore and witchcraft, as well as the ‘othering’ of outsiders and incomers, with local resident John Gall and horror writer Andrew Michael Hurley. Andrew Michael Hurley’s Costa Award-winning novel The Loney – set in an another rural northern landscape – wavers in an unsettling place between the supernatural and the merely strange. Narrated and recorded by Caroline Beck Produced by Jay Sykes Ten Words for a Northern Landscape is commissioned Northern Heartlands and produced as part of Durham Book Festival, a Durham County Council event. The recording was made possible by funding and support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England. Look out for Ten Words for a Northern Landscape on the New Writing North podcast and Durham Book Festival website. #10wordspodcast

Katherine Rundell has tiptoed along tightropes, piloted small planes, illegally strutted across the rooftops of Oxford, galloped through herds of zebras in Zimbabwe and hunted for tasty piranhas in the Amazon. The Costa Award-winning author tells Angus Dalton how her daring adventures inspire her children's novels including The Explorer and her new book about a daring heist in 1920s New York, The Good Thieves. Listen on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2NGVDYKListen on Google Podcasts: bit.ly/2MXSxQ8The Explorer: bit.ly/30RlwM9The Good Thieves: bit.ly/2YU9yPO

Katherine Rundell has tiptoed along tightropes, piloted small planes, illegally strutted across the rooftops of Oxford, galloped through herds of zebras in Zimbabwe and hunted for tasty piranhas in the Amazon. The Costa Award-winning author tells Angus Dalton how her daring adventures inspire her children’s novels including The Explorer and her new book about a daring heist in 1920s New York, The Good Thieves. Listen on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2NGVDYK Listen on Google Podcasts: bit.ly/2MXSxQ8 The Explorer: bit.ly/30RlwM9 The Good Thieves: bit.ly/2YU9yPO

In this week's show, Stella Duffy takes us to New Zealand during World War 2, in her continuation of Ngaio Marsh’s unfinished novel ‘Money In The Morgue’. (Starts at 1.05) J O Morgan discusses turning his Costa Award-winning poem ‘Assurances’ into an RNIB Talking Book. (Starts at 23.40) Debut author Beth O’Leary introduces us to ‘The Flatshare’, a love story with a twist. (Starts at 38.50) And a return to Stella Duffy for the books of her life. (Starts at 50.00)

To celebrate International Women's Day we're revisiting one of our favourite interviews - Mary and Bryan Talbot discuss how they wrote the story of Sally Heathcote and turned it in to a graphic novel.Books mentioned:This Is Just My Face, Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe http://po.st/3npVj5My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Emmeline Pankhurst http://po.st/Wk536xMotherhood by Sheila Heti http://po.st/yiA8zEBrit(ish), On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch http://po.st/2TuupLSally Heathcote, Suffragette by Mary Talbot http://po.st/LbuJvnFollow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterMary Talbot, Kate Charlesworth, Bryan Talbot - Sally Heathcote SuffragetteSally Heathcote: Suffragette is a gripping inside story of the campaign for votes for women. A tale of loyalty, love and courage, set against a vividly realised backdrop of Edwardian Britain, it follows the fortunes of a maid-of-all-work swept up in the feminist militancy of the era. Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is another stunning collaboration from Costa Award winners, Mary and Bryan Talbot. Teamed up with acclaimed illustrator Kate Charlesworth, Sally Heathcote's lavish pages bring history to life.Read more at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1095547/sally-heathcote/#YUleeg6y1buGjRhO.99 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

WORD Christchurch in association with New Zealand Festival Writers & Readers Join us for a special evening with Francis Spufford, one of Britain’s most diverse and acclaimed authors, of whom the New Yorker said, ‘intellectually he resembles a many-armed Hindu deity, able to pluck fruit and butterflies from anywhere on earth’s most robust tall trees’. Spufford’s seven books range in subject matter from science and history to theology and politics. The Child That Books Built was a love letter to literature; Unapologetic argued that ‘despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense’; and in 2016 his first foray into fiction, 'Golden Hill', was a triumph, scooping numerous prizes, including the Costa Award for Best First Novel. A rollicking, suspenseful tale set in mid-18th century Manhattan, the novel pays loving tribute to the literature of that era. He appears in robust, wide-ranging conversation with Chris Moore.

Vintage Podcast goes on the road with graphic novelist Joff Winterhart to talk about illustration, storytelling and see the sights of London!Take a look at the book itself: http://po.st/DrivingShortDistancesFollow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: https://www.penguin.co.uk/vintageMore about Driving Short Distances by Joff WinterhartSam is 27 and needs to get a job. Keith, who claims to be a second cousin of his (absent) father, offers him one. On Keith’s card it says he does ‘distribution and delivery’, which seems to consist of ‘a lot of driving around, getting out of the car for a few minutes and then getting back in’, Sam tells his mother. And so the days go by, Keith driving to a trading estate, ducking into a portakabin, all the while telling Sam stories about his first boss, Geoff Crozier, his mentor in distribution and delivery. As the weeks pass, Sam gets to know Keith’s friends, flirty Hazel-Claire from whom they buy two pasties every day at lunchtime, a variety of receptionists, and a few tantalising secrets from Keith’s past…As in Days of the Bagnold Summer, Joff Winterhart is a master at depicting ordinary life in all its utterly poignant and funny mundanity.Driving Short Distances is the new book by Joff Winterhart, whose first graphic novel, Days of the Bagnold Summer, was described by Posy Simmonds as ‘original, funny, touching and beautifully observed’ and was shortlisted for the Costa Award for Best Novel."In Driving Short Distances Joff Winterhart has created an unforgettable central player, Keith Nutt, who deserves to join Keith Talent in the short but potent list of great British literary Keiths. He is an unforgettable character, beautifully drawn and exquisitely written, and he confirms Winterhart as one of the most talented graphic novelists in the UK." (Zadie Smith)"Masterpiece is an overused word in reviews and ordinarily I avoid it… In this case, however, it is the only one that will do. Winterhart has delivered a perfect book, as good as mostly much better than any of the regular novels I’ve read so far this year. Like his first… its characters are superbly drawn. But with its themes of depression and its tender examination of the ways men talk (and fail to talk) to one another, it has a depth that book perhaps lacked. Days of the Bagnold Summer was shortlisted for the 2012 costa Novel award. This time around, Winterhart deserves to win it." (Rachel Cooke Observer)Read more at http://po.st/DrivingShortDistances See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Writer Iain Sinclair meets artist Keggie Carew to talk about her book Dadland. Before turning to writing, Keggie made a career as a conceptual artist, painting, running a studio space and a shop called "theworldthewayiwantit". Her first book, Dadland, won the 2016 Costa Award for Biography. It describes her long and complex investigation into the life of her father Tom, a World War 2 hero who parachuted behind enemy lines into both France and Burma, set against his decline into dementia towards the end of his life. Original Music by Brian Eno Produced by Alex Mansfield.

Maggot Moon By Sally Gardner Read by Robert Madge A starkly original and heartbreaking tale of friendship and rebellion Winner of the Carnegie Medal and a 2012 Costa Award winner. Narrated against the backdrop of a ruthless regime determined to beat its enemies in the race to the moon, MAGGOT MOON is a starkly and heartbreaking tale of friendship and rebellion from award-winning author, Sally Gardner.

We talk to Costa Award winner Sebastian Barry, Joanne Harris talks about her writing and Robert Kirkwood finds out about the printing of the Kilmarnock Edition of Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect by Robert Burns.

Auckland Writers Festival 2015 English historian, poet, naturalist and illustrator Helen Macdonald once bred hawks for Arab sheikhs. She is also the winner of the Costa Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is for Hawk, a chronicle of her attempt to tame Mabel the goshawk as a means of assuaging grief after the death of her father. “Grief,” she writes, “is just love with nowhere to go.” Referencing the similar attempts of T. H. White (of Once and Future King fame) to master falconry, Macdonald’s memoir is described as, pun intended, “a soaring triumph”. Chaired by Noelle McCarthy.

English historian, poet, naturalist and illustrator Helen Macdonald once bred hawks for Arab sheikhs. She is also the winner of the Costa Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is for Hawk, a chronicle of her attempt to tame Mabel the goshawk as a means of assuaging grief after the death of her father.... Read full post ›

With Mark Lawson. Novelist William Boyd has taken two short stories by Chekhov and turned them into his first stage play, called Longing. Starring Tamsin Greig, Iain Glen and John Sessions, Longing contains many Chekhovian themes, including long-buried emotions and a yearning for Moscow. Peter Kemp reviews. Hilary Mantel has added the David Cohen Prize for Literature to her recent success in the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Award. The biennial award celebrates an author's entire career rather than one work. The author of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies considers her success, and gives her unapologetic reaction to the media storm which followed her recent thoughts about the Duchess of Cambridge. Marianne Faithfull, Soweto Kinch, Paul Heaton and conductor André de Ridder reflect on music inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins. Jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch reveals why he became the voice of temptation on his latest album, The Legend Of Mike Smith, and Paul Heaton explains why he added an eighth sin. Producer Nicki Paxman.

Andrew Miller discusses his novel Pure, winner of the 2011 Costa Prize. Set in pre-revolutionary Paris, the book is a gripping, earthy story about the clearing of a huge cemetery in the area now known as Les Halles. When a young engineer Jean-Baptiste Baratte arrives in Paris from Normandy, he is charged with the huge task of destroying the church and cemetery of Les Innocents in 1785. He is surrounded by a fully fledged cast of characters : LeCoeur, his friend and former colleague from the mines near Belgium, his girlfriend, the prostitute Heloise, Armand, the church's organist and a revolutionary, and the fairytale like Jeanne. But just as significant to the novel's success are the ideas of the Enlightenment and Miller's subtle laying out the undercurrents of disquiet and unrest which would eventually lead to bloodshed and revolution. James Naughtie presents and a group of readers ask the questions. April's Bookclub choice : The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak. Produced by Dymphna Flynn.

Front Row Quiz 2012; Costa Award category winners announced; actor Andy Serkis on the impact of technology in films; comedian Jack Whitehall and novelist Stuart Neville.