Little Atoms

Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels  The Essex Serpent, Melmoth,  and  After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Enlightenment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Francesca De Tores is a novelist, poet and academic. She is the author of four previous novels, published in more than 20 languages. In addition to a collection of poems, her poetry is widely published in journals and anthologies. On this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about Saltblood, an epic literary historical novel set during the Golden Age of Piracy, about the life of the infamous female...

Niamh Mulvey's first book, the short story collection Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth was published by Picador in June 2022. Her short fiction has been published in  The Stinging Fly ,  Banshee  and  Southword  and was shortlisted for the Seán O’Faoláin Prize for Short Fiction 2020. In this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel  The Ame...

Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection  Constellations: Reflections from Life  was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Michel Deon Prize. In today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her debut nove...

Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he studies contemporary propaganda and how to defeat it. His first book,  Nothing is True and Everything is Possible,  won the 2016 RSL Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the  Guardian  First Book Award, Pushkin Prize, Baillie Gifford Prize and Gordon Burn Prize. His second,  This is Not Propaganda,...

Stuart Turton's debut novel,  The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle , won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. A  Sunday Times  bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages, and has sold over one million copies in t...

Michael Donkor was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, followed by a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. His first novel,  Hold,  was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas and shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prizes. He is a frequent contributor to outlets including the  Guardian , the  TLS and  the  Independe...

Lauren Oyler is the author of the novel  Fake Accounts . Her essays on books and culture appear regularly in the  New Yorker , the  New York Times,  the  London Review of Books ,  Harper's , the  Guardian  and other publications. She lives in Berlin. on today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her new collection of essays No Judgement: On Being Critical ....

Helen Oyeyemi talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Parasol Against The Axe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tracy King talks to Neil Denny about her memoir Learning To Think. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rachel Cockerell talks to Neil Denny about her first work of non-fiction Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Hannah Durkin talks to Neil Denny about her new book Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leo Vardiashvili joins Neil Denny to talk about his debut novel Hard By A Great Forest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Molly McGhee talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aniefiok Ekpoudom talks to Neil Denny about his debut book Where We Come From: Rap, Home and Hope in Modern Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kiley Reid talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Come And Get It. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sigrid Nunez talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Vulnerables. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kate Brody talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Rabbit Hole. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ron Rash talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Caretaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

in the first show of 2024, Jonathan Lethem joins Neil Denny to talk about his new book Brooklyn Crime Novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dann McDorman talks to Nei Denny abouty his debut novel West Heart Kill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julianne Pachico returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Jungle House. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Linguist Rob Drummond talks to Neil Denny about his new book You're All Talk: why we are what we speak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anne Michaels talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Held. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jean Kwok joins Neil Denny to talk about her latest novel The Leftover Woman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.