Little Atoms

Dan Richards is the co-author of  Holloway  (with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood) and the author of  The Beechwood Airship Interviews  and  Climbing Days . He has written for the  Guardian ,  Harper’s Bazaar ,  Caught by the River ,  Monocle  and the  Quietus . He is an RLF Fellow at Bristol University. Dan's latest book is  O...

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of  The Children of Jocasta  and  The Amber Fury , which was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award, and a non-fiction book about Ancient History,  The Ancient Guide to Modern Life . She has written and presented two series of the BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics . In 201...

Iain Reid is the author of two critically acclaimed, award-winning books of nonfiction. His internationally bestselling debut novel,  I’m Thinking of Ending Things , has been published in more than twenty countries. Oscar-winner Charlie Kaufman is writing and directing a film based on the novel, which Reid will co-produce. His second novel,  Foe , was an instant bests...

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of several novels, including  Imperial Bedrooms, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama  and  Lunar Park , and a collection of stories,  The Informers .  Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho  and  The Informers  have all been made into films. His first work of non-fiction, ...

Bev Thomas was a clinical psychologist in the NHS for many years. She currently works as an organisational consultant in mental health and other services.  A Good Enough Mother is her debut novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella  ATTA , a psychedelic biography of the 9/11 bomber Mohamed Atta, was an unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. His first novel,  I Hate the Internet , was a bestseller everywhere, doing especially well in Serbia. His second novel,  The Future Won't Be Long , wasn't a bestseller anywhere, but was pub...

Isabella Hammad was born in London. She won the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her story 'Mr. Can’aan'. Her writing has appeared in Conjunctions and the Paris Review. The Parisian is her first novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will Ashon   is the author of  Strange Labyrinth  (Granta, 2017) and two novels. He previously ran BIG DADA records where his artists included Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Kate Tempest and Diplo. Will's latest book is Chamber Music: About the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Temi Oh graduated from King’s College London in 2015 with a BSci in Neuroscience. While at KCL, Temi founded and ran a book-club called “Neuroscience-fiction”, where she led discussions about science-fiction books which focus on the brain. In 2016, she received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Brusatte is a palaeontologist on the faculty of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He grew up in the Midwestern United States and has a BS in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago, MSc in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol (UK), and PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University in New York. At age 31, Steve is wide...

A K Benjamin is a Clinical Neuropsychologist, specialising in diagnostics and acute rehab. Previously he was a screenwriter, spent two years as a contemplative monk and has worked at a number of NGOs, with homeless addicts, with gangs and with children with acquired and congenital neurological conditions. He no longer lives in the UK. A K Benjamin is not his real name. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

Hanna Jameson wrote her first book at the age of seventeen. Paul Rees of Q Magazine described her as writing like 'an angel on speed'. She has worked for the NHS and travelled the USA, Japan and Europe, developing a particular interest in the US, which led to her studying for a BA in American History. The Last is her fourth novel and her first for Penguin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

Adam Foulds most recent books are In the Wolf's Mouth ; The Quickening Maze , which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature; and The Broken Word , which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His latest book is Dream Sequence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and columnist.  Maggie & Me , his memoir about coming of age and coming out in Thatcher's Britain, was a BBC Radio 4  Book of the Week  and  Sunday Times  Memoir of the Year, and won the Paddy Power Political Books 'Satire' Award and Stonewall Writer of the Year Award. Damian writes columns for the  Big Issue  and ...

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears , was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by short story collection, Children's Children , and a flash fiction anthology Postcard Stories . In 2016 she won the Harper's Bazaar short story competition and was shortlisted for the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize. The Fire St...

Luke Turner is a writer and editor based in London. He co-founded the influential music website The Quietus where he runs a regular podcast and radio show. He has contributed to the Guardian, Dazed & Confused, Vice, NME, Q Mojo, Monocle, Nowness and Somesuch Stories , among other publications. Out of the Woods is his first book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lewis Dartnell is a Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster. He has won several awards for his science writing, and contributes to the Guardian, the Times and the New Scientist. He has also written for television and appeared on BBC Horizon, Sky News, Wonders of the Universe, Stargazing Live, and the Sky At Night. His previous books include the bestseller The Knowledge:...

Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in a Brazilian-English household in London, where she still lives. She has a BA in English from Oxford and an MA in Comparative Literature at UCL. Yara is a trustee of Latin American Women's Aid, the only refuge run for and by Latin American women in the UK and has also given workshops on gender and power to teenage girls with feminist organisation Fearless Futures. Y...

Ken Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, cultural theorist and lecturer based in London. He is the author of the books Destroy All Monsters , Welcome To Mars , and The Bright Labyrinth. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies throughout the world, and he has written and presented programs for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, NPS in the Netherlands, ABC Australia, and Resonance 104.4...

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1982. She grew up in Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of four previous books, most recently the highly acclaimed The Shadow of the Crescent Moon which was longlisted in 2014 for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel is The Runaways . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Max Porter is the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers , which has been translated into twenty languages worldwide, and been made into a stage play starring Cillian Murphy. His latest book is Lanny , the story of a young boy, an elderly artist, and a mysterious spirit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He has worked as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the  London Review of Books , where he is a contributing editor. He is a regular contributor to the  New Yorker . He has written four novels,  The Debt to Pleasure ,  Mr Phillips  and  Fragrant Harbour , and  Cap...

Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist and commentator. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times , The Guardian , Der Spiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine , and her novels include Women Who Blow On Knots and The Time of Mute Swans. Her latest novel is How To Lose A Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Julia Shaw is a scientist in the Department of Psychology at University College London (UCL). Her academic work, teaching and role as an expert witness have focused on different ways of understanding criminal behaviour. Dr Shaw has consulted as an expert on criminal cases, delivered police-training and military workshops, and has evaluated offender diversion programs. She is also the co-founder...

Deborah Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. Her books include The Eichmann Trial, Denial: holocaust history on trial (a National Jewish Book Award-winner), Denying the Holocaust: the growing assault on truth and memory, and Beyond Belief: the American press and the coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945. She lives in Atlan...