Little Atoms

Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which  A Week in December  and  The Fatal Englishman  were number one in the  Sunday Times  bestseller lists. He is best known for  Birdsong , part of his French trilogy, and  Human Traces , the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national...

Jarett Kobek is an internationally bestselling Turkish-American writer living in California. His previous books have been translated into eleven languages and include  ATTA ,  Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against the World , and  Motor Spirit.  On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Invocation Of My Demon Brother, which is publi...

Miriam Robinson is an author who has worked in the world of books and bookshops for over 15 years. Previously the host of podcast  My Unlived Life , she holds an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London and her short fiction has been shortlisted for a Pushcart Prize, the inaugural Pindrop/RA Short Story Prize and the Pat Kavanagh Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms...

Harry Sidebottom teaches classical history at Oxford University, and is the bestselling author of fifteen novels. His debut trade non-fiction book,  The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome , was published in 2022 and was a Book of the Year in the  Spectator , the  Financial Times  and BBC History. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about...

Ziyad Marar   is a publisher and author of  The Happiness Paradox  ,  Deception ,  Intimacy  and  Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood . On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book, Noticing . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His book  The Discovery of France  won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For  Parisians  the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish...

Joanna Pocock is an Irish-Canadian writer living in London. Her writing has notably appeared in the  Los Angeles Times , the  Nation  and  Guardian US , and she is a contributing editor at the Dark Mountain project. She won the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for  Surrender  and in 2021 she was awarded the Arts Foundation’s Environmental Writing Fellowship. On...

James Rebanks is a farmer and writer based in the Lake District. His No. 1 bestselling debut,  The Shepherd’s Life , was translated into sixteen languages. His second book,  English Pastoral , was also a Top Ten bestseller and was named the  Sunday Times  Nature Book of the Year. On this episode of Little Atoms, James talks to Neil Denny about his latest book The Place of...

Mary Roach   is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including  Grunt ,  Stiff , and, most recently,  Fuzz . Her writing has appeared in  National Geographic  and the  New York Times Magazine , among other publications. On this episode of Little Atoms, Mary talks to Neil Denny about her latest book Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy . H...

Thomas McMullan lives and works in London. His debut novel,  The Last Good Man , won the 2021 Betty Trask Prize. His short fiction has been published in  Ploughshares, The Dublin Review, Granta, 3:AM Magazine, Lighthouse  and Best British Short Stories, and his journalism has appeared in  The Guardian ,  The Times Literary Supplement ,  frieze ,  ArtReview  ...

Sarah Perry   is the internationally bestselling author of the novels  Enlightenment ,  Melmoth ,  The Essex Serpent  and  After Me Comes the Flood , and the non-fiction  Essex Girls . She is a winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award.  Enlightenment  was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 and her other w...

Kiran Desai   is the bestselling author of two novels,  Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard  and  The Inheritance of Loss , which won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her new Booker Prize Shortlisted novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of  The Amber Fury ,  The Children of Jocasta ,  A Thousand Ships , which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020 and  Stone Blind . Her non-fiction book about women in Greek Myth,  Pandora’s Jar , was a bestseller in both the UK and the US. She has written and performed eleven series of her BB...

Patrick Ryan's short story collection  The Dream Life of Astronauts  was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the  St. Louis Times-Dispatch, LitHub, Refinery 29  and  Electric Literature , and was longlisted for The Story Prize. His debut collection of linked short stories,  Send Me , was chosen for Barnes & Noble's Discover New Writers program. His work has...

Miriam Toews is the author of the bestselling novels  Women Talking ,  All My Puny Sorrows ,  Summer of My Amazing Luck ,  A Boy of Good Breeding ,  A Complicated Kindness ,  The Flying Troutmans ,  Irma Voth ,  Fight Night  and one work of non-fiction,  Swing Low: A Life . She is the winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris A...

Stuart Nadler is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation, and the author of  Wise Men ,  The Inseparables ,  Rooms for Vanishing  and a story collection,  The Book of Life . His work has been named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a Barnes & Nobel Discover Great New Writers Selection, and an Amazon Book of the Year. He is a graduate of the...

Since Laura Lippman's debut, she has been recognised as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the "essential" crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her "special, even extraordinary," and Gillian Flynn wrote, "She is simply a brilliant novelist." Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five lan...

Oliver Basciano is a journalist and critic based in São Paulo and London. On this episode of Little Atoms, he talks to Neil Denny about Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World, his first book for which he was the recipient of the 2023 RSL Giles St Aubyn Award, awarded for debut works of non-fiction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She was educated in the US and now lives in London. Her first novel  Golden Child  won multiple prizes and was named one of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World’. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her Booker Prize long listed new novel Love Forms . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

Mike Jay has written extensively on scientific and medical history and contributes regularly to the  London Review of Books  and the  Wall Street Journal.  His previous books  o n the history of drugs include  High Society, Mescaline  and  Psychonauts. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Free Radicals: How a Group of...

Brandy Schillace is a historian, former professor and museum professional, and former editor of  Medical Humanities , a social-justice journal. She writes about gender, medical history, and neurodiversity for outlets including  Scientific American ,  Wired ,  CrimeReads , and  Undark . She has previously appeared on Little Atoms talking about her books Death’s Summer...

Wendy Erskine is the author of two short story collections,  Sweet Home  and  Dance Move . She was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and  Sunday Times  Audible Short Story Award, and she received the Butler Literary Award and the Edge Hill Readers' Choice Award. She edited the art anthology&nbs...

David Farrier is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Edinburgh. David's first book,  Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils , looked at the marks we are leaving on the planet and how these might appear in the fossil record in the deep future. It was published in March 2020 with both  The Times  and  The Telegraph  naming it a book of the...

Marie Rutkoski is a  New York Times  bestselling author of several novels for children and young adults. She grew up in Illinois as the oldest of four children, and has lived in Moscow, Prague, and Paris. She holds degrees from the University of Iowa and Harvard University, and is now a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College, where she teaches Shakespeare, children's literat...

Gurnaik Johal is a writer from West London. His 2022 collection  We Move  won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Tata Literature Live! Prize. Its opening story won the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his debut novel Saraswati. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.