Page One - The Writer's Podcast

Graeme Macrae Burnet is the author of the Booker shortlisted His Bloody Project , Booker longlisted Case Study , The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau and The Accident on the A35 . He is currently working on his next novel, which will complete the Gorski trilogy, featuring his French detective, Georges Gorski. We had a really fascinating and fun chat with Graeme, hearing about how it took until he was...

Veronica Henry started her writing career in radio television, writing for shows such as The Archers , Heartbeat and Holby City , before she decided to try her hand at writing novels. It worked out pretty well - she is now a bestselling author who has written over twenty novels. Her latest novel, Thirty Days in Paris , is out now. We had a fun chat with Veronica, hearing how she made her start in...

Heidi Swain is a Sunday Times Bestselling Author who writes commercial fiction for Simon and Schuster. She has three series set in fictitious Wynbridge, Nightingale Square and Wynmouth and writes two titles a year – a summer and a Christmas book. She also writes short stories and non-fiction for magazines and is represented by Amanda Preston. We had great fun talking with Heidi and hearing how she...

Jack Jordan is the global bestselling author of  Anything for Her, My Girl, A Woman Scorned, Before Her Eyes,  and  Night by Night  and an Amazon No.1 bestseller in the UK, Canada, and Australia. After selling at auction in the UK and numerous foreign territories,  Do No Harm  was a bestseller in 2022. His latest book, Conviction , is out now. We had a great chat with...

(Originally released on our sister podcast feed, Page One Extra, on 16 June 2023) We talk with Transworld PR Director Alison Barrow (recent winner of Publicity Campaign of the Year at The Bookseller awards) and author Premee Mohamed about the difference a book's publicity campaign can make its success. Links: Buy Lessons in Chemistry Buy Premee Mohamed's books For all episodes of Page One Extra be...

(Originally released on our sister podcast feed, Page One Extra, on 8 May 2023) In this special episode ( available in full video on our YouTube channel ) dedicated to the recently announced Writers Guild of America strike, we take a look at why it's happening, what writers want, and what is likely to happen from here. C Robert Cargill (screenwriter of Dr Strange , Sinister , The Black Phone and m...

Cole Haddon is an Australian-American novelist, screenwriter, and journalist.  Dracula , his first television commission, was produced by NBC and Sky Living starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and he has gone on to develop dozens of feature films and TV series around the globe – most recently  Genocidal Organ  for director Park Chan-wook ( Old Boy ) and the rock musical  Zombie Broa...

Nick Harkaway is the bestselling author of hugely imaginative speculative thrillers such as The Gone Away World , Tigerman and Gnomon . He has also released two thrillers under the name Aiden Truhen. His latest book is a hugely enjoyable futuristic detective thriller, Titanium Noir . We really enjoyed speaking with Nick about his career, hearing about his foray into scriptwriting, and how he event...

Juliet E. McKenna is the author of 15 epic fantasy novels set in the world of Einarinn, as well as several novellas and countless short stories ranging from SF to steampunk and alternate history. Her contemporary fantasy  Green Man  novels, published by indie Wizard’s Tower Press, have sold over 28,000 copies since 2018. She has been a judge for the World Fantasy Awards, the Arthur...

Louise Swanson (aka Louise Beech) has always wanted to be a writer, even if the road to being published was a long one. An award-winning short story writer, her debut novel, How to be Brave, was released in 2015. Since then, she has since written a range of books from romance to crime to her latest book, End of Story, which is a dystopian speculative thriller. We had a really interesting chat with...

Abigail Burdess has written for TV and film, as well as appearing as an actor in a number of TV shows. A woman of many talents, she has also just released her first novel, Mother's Day , which is a dark thriller - with some very dark humour in it! We had great fun chatting with Abbie about her writing journey, and hearing about the differences in writing for the screen and the page. We hear about...

Elliot Sweeney works as a community psychiatric nurse but has recently released his debut crime novel, The Next To Die , a hard-boiled crime thriller narrated by misanthropic ex-copper turned PI, Dylan Kasper. We had a really interesting chat with Elliot. learning about how he moved from writing shorts to having his full-time debut published, and how the Curtis Brown helped with that. We also talk...

Jen Williams lives in London with her partner and their small ridiculous cat. A fan of pirates and dark folklore from an early age, these days she writes horror-tinged crime thrillers with strong female leads as well as character-driven fantasy novels with plenty of banter and magic. In 2015 she was nominated for Best Newcomer in the British Fantasy Awards, and two of her books in her Winnowing Fl...

In this debut episode (available to watch as a full video episode on YouTube ), we bring you all the latest writing news as we see encouraging reports about physical book sales, hear why self-published authors are often doing better than their trad published counterparts and look across to America, where a Hollywood writers' strike is looming. Plus, we look at some of the big book deals from the L...

This episode is also available as a full video interview on our YouTube channel Nicholas Binge is an author of speculative thrillers, literary science-fiction, and horror. His novels include Ascension and Professor Everywhere. Binge has lived in Singapore, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, and is based in Edinburgh, UK, where he teaches literature and works on new books. His most recent novel, Ascension...

Stig Abell is an English journalist, newspaper editor and radio presenter. He currently co-presents the Monday to Thursday breakfast show on Times Radio with Aasmah Mir. He has also written a number of non-fiction books and has just had his first fiction novel, Death Under a Little Sky , published with Harper Collins. We had a really fun and interesting chat with Stig, hearing how his literary age...

Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of six Hugo-nominated novels and winner of the 2005, 2010, and 2014 Hugo awards for best novella, he has won numerous other awards and been translated into at least 12 other languages. His award-winning series include the long-running Merchant Princes series and The Laundry Files. His latest book,...

Sunday Times Bestselling author Anne O’Brien was born in West Yorkshire. After gaining a BA Honours degree in History at Manchester University and a Master’s in Education at Hull, she lived in East Yorkshire for many years as a teacher of history. Today she has sold over a million copies of her books in the UK and internationally. She lives with her husband in an eighteenth-century timber-framed c...

Ayisha Malik is a British writer, whose debut novel Sofia Khan is Not Obliged was released in 2015. She went on to write a sequel - The Other Half of Happiness - in 2017. Both books tackle the topic of dating as a young Muslim woman and were very well received. As well as writing, Ayisha has a wealth of experience on the opposite side of the typewriter, working as a publicist for Penguin Rand...

Sarah Lee has been a journalist and editor for the past twenty-five years, working across news and features and writing for regional and national newspapers, as well as commissioning for women’s true-life magazines. More recently she has focused her attention on the world of travel, creating luxury blog  LiveShareTravel , and working with destinations and brands worldwide on storytelling mark...

Ian Green is a fantasy writer born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of The Rotstorm epic fantasy series published by the Ad Astra imprint of Head Of Zeus beginning 2021 with The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath . Its sequel, The Gauntlet and the Burning Blade , came out in 2022, and the final part of the trilogy will be released in August 2023. Ian has a PhD in clinical epigenetics, and h...

Ryan Cahill is the hugely successful self-published author of the Bound and the Broken series, starting with Of Blood and Fire and most recently releasing Of War and Ruin, which was so popular that The Broken Binding website was broken because so many people were trying to buy it! We had a really fun and fascinating chat with Ryan about all things self-publishing, including why he chose that route...

Sunday Times  bestselling author ​Louise Candlish is the author of 16 novels, including her brand-new thriller  The Only Suspect , set in 1995 and described by the Daily Mail as 'a perfect mix of nostalgia and menace'. It is published in hardback, ebook and audio in February 2023. Louise's #1 bestseller  Our House  won the British Book Awards 2019 Crime & Thriller Book...

Jane Harper is the author of bestsellers The Dry , Force of Nature , The Lost Man , The Survivors and now, Exiles . Her books are published in 40 territories worldwide, with more than 3.5 million copies sold to date. Jane has won numerous awards for writing, including the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year, the Australian Book In...

Elle Connel is the pseudonym of Lucy Ribchester, whose previous novels,  The Hourglass Factory  and  The Amber Shadows , were historical thrillers. Her previous work has won her a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, and short-listings for the Costa Short Story Award and Manchester Fiction Prize. Down by the Water  was her first book as El...