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Author Tom Brady introduces his witty and charmingly nostalgic memoir of growing up during the decade in which television changed forever: the 1980s.

An interview with Peter Carey

To celebrate the inclusion of Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America on the 2010 Booker Prize long-list, Bookhugger is proud to present an interview with the author.

Hello Dubai

Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats, built by Indians, owned by Arabs, Dubai has risen from next to nothing to an awful lot in little more than thirty years.

Jo Shapcott on her new collection Of Mutability

The award-winning author of Electroplating the Baby, Phrase Book and My Life Asleep, which were gathered together in a selected poems, Her Book, discusses her new collection.

Ferdinand Mount on Full Circle

Author Ferdinand Mount talks about his new book Full Circle, which explores the idea that the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we call the classical world – its institutions, its priorities, its entertainment, its physics, its sexual morality, its food, its politics, even its religion.

Monique Roffey talks about The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

Monique Roffey talks about the genesis of her novel, what it’s like to be shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and about her writing routine and her influences as a writer.

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Graham Robb on Parisians

No-one knows a city like the people who live there – so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Parisians introduces us to some of those inhabitants: we meet spies, soldiers, scientists and alchemists; police commissioners, photographers and philosophers; adulterers, murderers, prisoners and prostitutes.

Helen Rappaport: Lenin in Exile

Conspirator is the compelling story of Lenin’s exile: the years in which he and his political collaborators plotted a revolution that would change 20th century history. Historian and Russianist Helen Rappaport talks to George Miller

Hit the road with Joe Moran

We use roads every day, yet we have no idea of why our journeys are the way they are – of how roads are built, signposted, mapped or numbered. In unravelling this history, cultural historian Joe Moran throws a whole new light onto our history and our daily lives. Here he talks to George Miller.

Alberto Manguel: A Reader on Reading

George Miller talks to Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called ‘the Casanova of reading’. In his In a major new collection of his essays, argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species.

Ian Davidson on Voltaire

We think of Voltaire as the epitome of the Enlightenment; in his own time he was also the most famous and controversial figure in Europe. Ian Davidson’s new biography celebrates his extraordinary life through the thousands of his letters to have survived. Here, he discusses it with George Miller.

Zoya Phan on Little Daughter – A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West

Zoya Phan is a 28-year-old ethnic Karen refugee from Burma. As a teenager she was forced to flee her country after her village was attacked by the Burmese Army. She now lives in London and works for the human rights organization Burma Campaign UK. Listen to her talk about her life in this podcast.

Paul Collier on The Plundered Planet

Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion had a profound impact on our thinking about global poverty. Now, with The Plundered Planet, he has set himself an even more ambitious goal: to reconcile the immediate needs of the world’s burgeoning population with a sustainable environmental future.

Maria McCann talks about The Wildling

In her second novel Maria McCann returns to 17th-century England, where life is struggling to return to normal after the horrific tumult of the Civil War. Here, she talks to George Miller about the book.

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Listen to James Shapiro talk about Contested Will

In his new book Contested Will James Shapiro investigates one of literature’s great mysteries – did Shakespeare actually write what we think he wrote? George Miller talked to him about this controversial topic.

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Jenny Uglow talks to George Miller about A Gambling Man

Acclaimed biographer Jenny Uglow’s previous subjects have included Thomas Bewick and Elizabeth Gaskell. In A Gambling Man she takes on risk-taking Charles II and the regime changing Restoration – inspired, as she explains, by recent events.

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Jarvis Cocker reads a story from David Eagleman’s Sum

In this startling book, David Eagleman shows us forty possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These short stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination – hear Jarvis Cocker read Descent of Species.

Jonathan Jones on The Lost Battles

Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. Author Jonathan Jones discusses his new book The Lost Battles.

Lewis Wolpert on how we live and why we die

How do we move, think and remember? Why do we get ill, age and die? Distinguished biologist Lewis Wolpert explains how cells provide the answers to the fundamental questions about our lives, in conversation with George Miller.

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An interview with John Osborne, author of Radio Head

Radio Head is a funny, disarming ride through aspects of Britain that are uplifting, informative and sometimes plain bizarre. Listen to an interview with the author.

Exclusive interview with Marina Lewycka

Enjoy this Bookhugger exclusive interview with international bestselling author Marina Lewycka, the writer of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Two Caravans and current bestseller We Are All Made of Glue.

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George Miller talks to Mark Kermode

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