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Maile Meloy on Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

Find out about new short story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It from author Maile Meloy, and read one of the stories here on Bookhugger.

Christian Wolmar on Blood, Iron and Gold

George Miller talks to Christian Wolmar about his latest book, which documents the drastic transformative effect that the railways had on the world around us.

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Amanda Vickery on house and home in Georgian England

In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. George Miller talked to her about it.

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An interview with Mary Beard

George Miller talks to Cambridge Classics Professor Mary Beard about the book of her blog, It’s a Don’s Life.

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Three questions for… Simon Winder

George Miller asks author and publisher Simon Winder about his new book, Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern. As ever, there are no trick questions, but no forewarning either. Watch the video to find out what Simon thinks are the highs and lows of German cooking.

George Miller talks to Julian Baggini – can you judge a book by its cover?

Julian Baggini talks about his latest book, Should You Judge This Book by Its Cover?: 100 Fresh Takes on Familiar Sayings and Quotations.

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An interview with Emily Mackie

Emily Mackie sits in the Bookhugger hot-seat to talk about her forthcoming debut novel, And This Is True, the book she wishes she had written and her cunning plan to avoid writing postmodern twaddle.

Ian Mortimer on 1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory

George Miller talks to Ian Mortimer about the pivotal year of Henry V’s reign, and finds out what one of our most famous kings was really like.

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An interview with Jean-Francois Parot, by Anna Brown

Anna Brown interviews Gallic Books’ master of historical crime, Jean-Francois Parot, and talks to him about diplomacy, food, and his creation, police commissioner Nicolas le Floch.

An interview with Nicola Upson

George Miller talks to Nicola Upson about her second book, which features the Cornish landscape and its people, the very real ‘golden age’ crime writer Josephine Tey, and the theatre world of 1930s Britain

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Ben Wilson and Andy Beckett discuss liberty in the 1970s

Historian Ben Wilson, author of What Price Liberty? discusses civil liberties in the 1970s with journalist Andy Beckett, author of When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the 70s.

Sam Taylor talks about The Island at the End of the World

George Miller talks to Sam Taylor about his post-apocalyptic vision, The Island at the End of the World, and the three very different narrators that it features.

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Tobias Hill on The Hidden

You’re ours, Ben. Now you are. Now you’re one of us.

Acclaimed author Tobias Hill discusses his extraordinary novel of ancient secrets, modern conflict and what it costs to belong.

Lance Price on Where Power Lies

A witty and informed look at the century-old battle between journalism and politics and what happened to the truth along the way, Lance Price talks about Where Power Lies.

David Peace on Occupied City

George Miller talks to David Peace about the background to and writing of his latest novel, the second in his Tokyo Trilogy, Occupied City, and we have clips of David Peace reading from the novel too.

Andy Beckett on the 1970s

Andy Beckett’s new book When the Lights Went Out takes a fresh look at the 1970s, a much-maligned decade. Was it really so bad? The author, who writes for the Guardian, reveals more in conversation with George Miller.

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Tim Bale on the Conservative Party

Tim Bale has published a major new assessment of the Conservative Party’s wilderness years which followed their removal of Margaret Thatcher from the leadership in 1990. It examines why it took the party so long to learn from its mistakes and also why change – when it did eventually come – happened so quickly.

Tobias Jones on The Salati Case

Tobias Jones introduces his first novel, set in the foggy northern city of Parma in winter time, and his detective Castagnetti, and suggests why Italy is hard to beat as a setting for crime fiction.

Three questions for… Mary Beard

Mary Beard is professor of classics at Cambridge University. Last autumn she published the book of her blog A Don’s Life. In the book she reflects on the lot of a classics don at an elite university, the way in which the ancient world is portrayed in the media, the purpose of education and much else besides.

Neil Cross on new novel Captured

Neil Cross talks about and reads from his electrifying new novel Captured.

Science writer Marcus Chown on extraterrestrial life: “Where is everybody?”

Science writer Marcus Chown responds to the question first posed by Enrico Fermi – the Italian physicist who developed the first nuclear reactor – about the apparent absence of extraterrestrial life: “Where is everybody?”