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BBC Archive Voices: Noel Coward and Bette Davis
Posted On: October 12, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
BBC Archive Voices is a fascinating collection of archive interviews with icons past and present. Kicking off a series of interview extracts across our network, we have snippets from two legends of screen and stage.
Read More...My Father’s Fortune
Posted On: October 7, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Faber
‘It took him quite a long time to accept that I had some other qualities, abilities, to write and so forth, which in his eyes never really made up for lack of sporting ability, but eventually we found some sort of common ground.’
Read More...Discussing Edward Thomas and Gothic Fiction
Posted On: September 9, 2011Posted In: Audio, Video
Publisher: Faber
George Miller discusses gothic fiction with Richard T. Kelly, author of the spine-chilling The Possessions of Doctor Forrest, and talks to Matthew Hollis about his new book, Now All Roads Lead to France, about the final years in the life of war poet Edward Thomas.
Read More...A Different Climate
Posted On: September 5, 2011Posted In: Articles, Audio
Publisher: Faber
Marek Kohn, author of Turned Out Nice: How the British Isles will Change as the World Heats Up, asks if we should be bothered about our descendants in the future, do we even care about the future, and if we do, how do we save nature, and us?
Read More...Listen to the Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: September 1, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
A L Kennedy, John Burnside, Richard Beard and a Booker Prize debate…
Read More...Listen to the eleventh Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: August 16, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
Featuring Julie Myerson, Tessa Hadley, Adam O’Riordan, Moni Mohsin, Anna Del Conte and the family of Mervyn Peake.
Read More...Listen to the tenth Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: August 4, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
Featuring Alex Clark in conversation with Julie Myerson, Katherine Frank and Sian Rees, Alice Albinia, Evie Wyld, the Vintage Classics day and a Mr B’s Emporium special.
Read More...Listen to the ninth Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: July 11, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
Featuring: Anne Enright, Stella Tillyard, Zarghuna Kargar, Kevin Barry, Shehan Karunatilaka and Oliver Harris…
Read More...Chasing the Sun
Posted On: June 13, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Author Richard Cohen discusses Chasing the Sun – a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life.
Read More...Andrew Martin on The Somme Stations
Posted On: May 23, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Faber
Andrew Martin is the author of the Jim Stringer series, detective novels set during Edwardian times that began with The Necropolis Railway in 2002. The seventh and latest instalment is The Somme Stations…
Read More...Listen to The Soundtrack of a Northern Life podcast
Posted On: May 9, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
In his eagerly awaited new book, Reelin’ in the Years DJ Mark Radcliffe takes a record from each year of his life, using the song as a starting point from which to reach out and pull together a wonderfully entertaining catalogue of memories and asides about British culture.
Read More...Listen to the eighth Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: April 18, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
Featuring Martin Amis, David Lodge, Evie Wyld, Jane Shilling, Rebecca Asher, William Goldsmith and Annalena McAfee…
Read More...Listen to the seventh Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: March 22, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
Featuring Jo Nesbo, Michael Longley, Maxine Hong Kingston, Evie Wyld, Kevin Barry, Leo Benedictus and Annalena McAfee…
Read More...Get to know Ed Hogan
Posted On: March 21, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Author of Blackmoor and The Hunger Trace, published this month, Ed Hogan, discusses how he began writing and the inspirations behind his two highly atmospheric novels.
Read More...A Motorcycle for a Horse, by Willy Vlautin
Posted On: March 17, 2011Posted In: Audio, Extracts
Publisher: Faber
Listen to a spoken word short story by Willy Vlautin, frontman of the band Richmond Fontaine, and author of the novels Lean on Pete, Northline and The Motel Life. The story features characters from Lean on Pete, and music by Richmond Fontaine.
Read More...Listen to the sixth Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: March 10, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Vintage Books
Vintage Podcast 6 features Edmund de Waal, Colin Thubron, Evie Wyld, Adam O’Riordan, Andrea Eames and Cornelius Medvei…
Read More...Listen to the fifth Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: March 1, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
In Vintage’s first Podcast of the year the spotlight is on the editors who give us a sneak preview of the books we can look forward to in 2011. Featuring Julian Barnes, Anthony Quinn, Susan Hill and Brighton Rock director Rowan Joffe…
Read More...Jo Shapcott wins Costa Book of the Year
Posted On: January 27, 2011Posted In: Audio, Extracts
Publisher: Faber
To celebrate her success, Bookhugger republishes Jo discussing her winning collection Of Mutability, and reads ‘I Go Inside the Tree’, one of a sequence of poems inspired by trees.
Read More...Jonathan Watts interviewed
Posted On: January 5, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Faber
The Guardian’s Asia environment correspondent discusses his dynamic travelogue When a Billion Chinese Jump.
Read More...Norman Lebrecht on Mahler
Posted On: January 4, 2011Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Faber
Norman Lebrecht is one of the most widely read commentators on music and cultural affairs. He has written twelve books about music, the latest, Why Mahler? explores the Mahler Effect, a phenomenon that reaches deep into unsuspecting lives, altering the self-perceptions of world leaders, finance chiefs and working musicians.
Read More...Listen to the fourth Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: December 17, 2010Posted In: Audio
Publisher: Vintage Books
Featuring Nigella Lawson, Richard Briers, Fatima Bhutto, Blake Morrison, Alison Weir, Danny Kelly and Milton Crawford…
Read More...Listen to the third Vintage Books Podcast
Posted On: December 2, 2010Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Vintage Books
Featuring Jonathan Powell, Antony Gormley, Michael Holroyd, Shena Mackay, Jeremy Lewis and Tim Butcher…
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