Little Atoms

Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World , and The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste , which was judged one of the best books of 2008 by the Economist, and one of the top ten science books of the same year by the American Library Association, and Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that brings you Ninety...

Sarah Moss is the author of six novels and a memoir of her year living in Iceland, Names for the Sea , shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her novels are Cold Earth , Night Waking (Fiction Uncovered Award), Bodies of Light (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), Signs for Lost Children (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and The Tidal Zone (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize). He...

Jonathan Ames is the author of nine books including  The Extra Man, Wake Up, Sir! , and  You Were Never Really Here , all published by Pushkin Press. He also created the hit HBO comedy  Bored to Death , starring Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis and Jason Schwartzman, and  Blunt Talk , starring Patrick Stewart. He has fought in two amateur boxing matches as "The Herring Wonder". He...

Ivy Pochoda is a novelist and writer, previously a world ranked squash player. Her novel  Visitation Street  was chosen as an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. She has written for a number of outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books and The Huffington Post. S...

Patrick deWitt is the author of  The Sisters Brothers , which won   the Governor General's Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. He also is the author of  Ablutions , which was a  New York Times  Editor's Choice, and  Undermajordomo Minor .  The Sisters Brothers  is being adapted for film by Jacques Audiard ( Rust and...

Michael Redhill is the author of nine novels including  Consolation , longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and  Martin Sloane , a finalist for the Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious book award which he won with Bellevue Square . He's written a novel for young adults, four collections of poetry and two plays, including the internationally celebrated  Goodness . He also writ...

Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. He has written and presented many award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 programme INSIDE SCIENCE and THE CU...

Jean Hannah Edelstein is a writer who lives in Brooklyn. She writes regularly for numerous outlets including  The Guardian and  The Pool , and a weekly TinyLetter, which  Vogue  said ‘pops up in your inbox like lucid dreaming.’ She also writes all of the marketing emails for Spotify, so you’ve probably deleted her work. Jean is the author of the memoir  This Really Isn’t A...

Sophie Mackintosh won the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize and the 2016 Virago/Stylist Short Story competition, and has been published in Granta magazine and TANK magazine among others. her debut novel The Water Cure was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Florence Engel Randall Graduate Fiction Award for her MFA in Fiction at Boston University, and to complete a Ph. D. in Victorian literature at King’s College London. Previously the author of the mem...

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. Her first novel was The Still Point , which was longlisted for the Orange Prize and won the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and her second was Orkney , which won a 2014 Somerset Maugham Award. ...

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, including  Europa ,  Cleaver ,  A Season with Verona  and  Teach Us to Sit Still . He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for...

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 the Governor General's Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (twice), and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Her latest novel is Women Talking . Hosted on Acast....

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 story collection Delicate Edible Birds. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Groff’s fiction ha...

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 collection  Homesick for Another World . Her stories have been published in  The Paris Review ,  The New Yorker , and  Granta , and have earned her a Pushcart...

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 secondary school students. His debut novel is Hold . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 , which was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. She is a nature writer, critic and columnist for  The Times , the  Financial Times  and the  Guardian,&nb...

William Atkins’s first book,  The Moor , was shortlisted for the Thwaites Wainwright Prize. He works as an editor and his journalism has appeared in the  Guardian  and  Granta . In 2016 he was a recipient of the British Library Eccles Prize. His latest book is  The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Madeline Miller has a BA and MA from Brown University in Latin and Ancient Greek, and has been teaching both for over a decade. She has also studied at the Yale School of Drama, specialising in adapting classical tales to a modern audience. Her first novel The Song of Achilles  was the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. Her latest novel is Circe . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

Gavin Francis is a GP, and the author of  True North ,  Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins , which won the Scottish Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and Costa Prize, and  Adventures in Human Being . He also writes for the  Guardian , the  Times ,  London Review of Books  and  Granta . Gavin's latest b...

Laura Lippman has been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. Since the publication of What the Dead Know, each of her hardcovers has hit the New York Times bestseller list. A recent recipient of the first-ever Mayor’s Prize, she lives in Baltimore, New Orleans and New York City with her family. Laura’s latest novel is Sunburn . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Miranda Doyle's family come from the tiny island of Coney in Sligo Bay. She grew up in Edinburgh alongside three brothers and a suspicious number of ill-fated pets. With an MA from Goldsmiths in Creative and Life Writing she has lectured on Autobiography for the Philosophy and European Literature degree at Anglia Ruskin University and continues to teach creative writing. Her debut book, a memoir t...

Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. She is one of the most original voices in contemporary Danish literature. Her short stories have appeared in numerous international periodicals including including The Boston Review and Harpers, and she is the first Danish writer ever to have a story published in the New Yorker. Nors has published four novels so far,...

Fred Pearce   is an award-winning journalist and author, reporting from 87 countries. He is the environment consultant of  New Scientist  magazine, a regular broadcaster and contributor to the  Guardian, Washington Post  and others. He has written fourteen books on environmental and development issues, translated into 24 languages. Fred's latest book is Fallout . Hosted on...

Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of  Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby  and  The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe.  Her literary journalism has appeared widely in newspapers including the  Guar...