Little Atoms

Little Atoms 992 - Sophie Mackintosh's Permanence

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:01:00 GMT

Sophie Mackintosh is the author of four novels, including The Water Cure and Cursed Bread. She has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women's Prize, has won a Betty Trask Award, and has been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She has been published in Granta, The White Review and TANK magazine among others. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel, Permanence.

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Little Atoms 991 - John Grindrod's Tales of the Suburbs

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:01:00 GMT

John Grindrod is the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain, Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt (shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Prize for UK travel and nature writing), and Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain. He hosts the podcast Monstrosities Mon Amour. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains.

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Little Atoms 990 - Robert Plunket's Love Junkie

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:01:00 GMT

Robert Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas, in 1945, but raised in Havana and Mexico City. After college he moved to New York and became a writer, publishing two novels, My Search for Warren Harding (1983) and Love Junkie (1992). He later became Mr Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine. He is retired and lives in a trailer park in Englewood, Florida. On today’s episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his novel Love Junkie which was recently re-released by penguin Modern Classics.

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Little Atoms 989 - Isabel Waidner's As If

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:01:00 GMT

Isabel Waidner is the author of five novels – including Sterling Karat Gold, which won the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and Corey Fah Does Social Mobility which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. They teach in the School of the Arts at Queen Mary University of London. On this episode of Little Atoms they talk to Neil Denny about their latest novel As If.

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Little Atoms 988 - Francis Spufford's Nonesuch

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:01:00 GMT

Francis Spufford is the author of three novels and five works of non-fiction. His debut work of fiction was the historical novel Golden Hill, which won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for four others. His second novel, Light Perpetual, was awarded the Encore Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize. His third novel, the alternative history Cahokia Jazz, was recognised by the Science Fiction community when it was awarded the Sidewise Award in 2023. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Nonesuch.

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Little Atoms 987 - James Geary's The World In A Phrase

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:01:00 GMT

James Geary, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists and I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about the reissue of his New York Times best-selling book The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism.

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Little Atoms 986 - Alex Preston's A Stranger in Corfu

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:01:00 GMT

Alex Preston is an award-winning author of five novels including This Bleeding City, The Revelations, In Love and War and Winchelsea, as well as a book of non-fiction As Kingfishers Catch Fire. He writes regularly for the New York Times, the Economist and Harper's Bazaar. He reviews books for the Observer's New Review, Financial Times and Spectator. Alex is co-founder of the Corfu Literary Festival and Patron of Oxford Literary Festival. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel A Stranger in Corfu.

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Little Atoms 985 - Manish Chauhan's Belgrave Road

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:01:00 GMT

Originally from Leicester, Manish Chauhan works as a finance lawyer and currently lives in East London. His short story, "Pieces", was shortlisted for the 2024 BBC National Short Story Award. His work has been shortlisted for the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize and the Exeter Short Story Competition. Early excerpts of Belgrave Road were longlisted for the Curtis Brown First Novel Award and shortlisted for the Daniel Goldsmith First Novel Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about Belgrave Road, his debut novel.

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Little Atoms 984 - George Saunders' Vigil

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:01:00 GMT

George Saunders is the author of thirteen books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize in 2017, and five collections of stories including Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the recent collection Liberation Day (selected by former President Obama has one of his ten favourite books of 2021). Three of Saunders' books - Pastoralia, Tenth of December, and Lincoln in the Bardo - were chosen for the New York Times' list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Saunders hosts the popular Story Club on Substack, which grew out of his book on the Russian short story, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. In 2013, he was named one of the world's 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Vigil.

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Little Atoms 983 - Grace Murray's Blank Canvas

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:16:47 GMT

Grace Murray was born in 2003 and grew up in Norwich. She has recently graduated from Edinburgh University, where she read English Literature and found time to write between her studies and two part-time jobs. Her short fiction has been published in The London Magazine. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil denny about her debut novel Blank Canvas, which was written over the course of a year as part of WriteNow, Penguin Random House’s flagship mentorship scheme for emerging talent. Grace won one of nine places on the scheme on the exceptional strength of her writing, selected from a pool of over 1,300 applicants.

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Little Atoms 982 - Daniyal Mueenuddin's This Is Where The Serpent Lives

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:01:00 GMT

Daniyal Mueenuddin graduated from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. After winning a Fulbright scholarship to study in Norway, he practiced law in New York before returning to Khânpur, Pakistan to manage the family farm. He divides his time between Oslo and Pakistan. Stories in his collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and Salman Rushdie's Best American Short Story collection. 'Our Lady of Paris' was nominated for a National Magazine Award. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new novel This Is Where The Serpent Lives.

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Little Atoms 981 - Sebastian Faulks' Fires Which Burned Brightly

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:01:00 GMT

Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Fires Which Burned Brightly: A Life in Progress.

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Little Atoms 980 - Jarett Kobek's Invocation Of My Demon Brother

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Jarett Kobek is an internationally bestselling Turkish-American writer living in California. His previous books have been translated into eleven languages and include ATTA, Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against the World, and Motor Spirit. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Invocation Of My Demon Brother, which is published by DieDieBooks and is available here.

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Little Atoms 979 - Miriam Robinson's And Notre Dame is Burning

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Miriam Robinson is an author who has worked in the world of books and bookshops for over 15 years. Previously the host of podcast My Unlived Life, she holds an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London and her short fiction has been shortlisted for a Pushcart Prize, the inaugural Pindrop/RA Short Story Prize and the Pat Kavanagh Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel And Notre Dame is Burning.

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Little Atoms 978 - Harry Sidebottom's Those Who Are About To Die

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Harry Sidebottom teaches classical history at Oxford University, and is the bestselling author of fifteen novels. His debut trade non-fiction book, The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome, was published in 2022 and was a Book of the Year in the Spectator, the Financial Times and BBC History. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind.

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Little Atoms 977 - Ziyad Marar's Noticing

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Ziyad Marar is a publisher and author of The Happiness Paradox , Deception, Intimacy and Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book, Noticing.

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Little Atoms 976 - Graham Robb's The Discovery of Britain

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book The Discovery of Britain.

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Little Atoms 975 - Joanna Pocock's Greyhound

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Joanna Pocock is an Irish-Canadian writer living in London. Her writing has notably appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Nation and Guardian US, and she is a contributing editor at the Dark Mountain project. She won the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Surrender and in 2021 she was awarded the Arts Foundation’s Environmental Writing Fellowship. On this episode of Little Atoms, Joanna talks to Neil Denny about her latest book Greyhound.

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Little Atoms 974 - James Rebanks' The Place of Tides

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:01:00 GMT

James Rebanks is a farmer and writer based in the Lake District. His No. 1 bestselling debut, The Shepherd’s Life, was translated into sixteen languages. His second book, English Pastoral, was also a Top Ten bestseller and was named the Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year. On this episode of Little Atoms, James talks to Neil Denny about his latest book The Place of Tides.

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Little Atoms 973 - Mary Roach's Replaceable You

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Mary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. On this episode of Little Atoms, Mary talks to Neil Denny about her latest book Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy.

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Little Atoms 972 - Thomas McMullan's Groundwater

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Thomas McMullan lives and works in London. His debut novel, The Last Good Man, won the 2021 Betty Trask Prize. His short fiction has been published in Ploughshares, The Dublin Review, Granta, 3:AM Magazine, Lighthouse and Best British Short Stories, and his journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, frieze, ArtReview and BBC News. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Groundwater.

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Little Atoms 971 - Sarah Perry's Death of an Ordinary Man

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Enlightenment, Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award. Enlightenment was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 and her other work has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her first full length work of non-fiction Death of an Ordinary Man.

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Little Atoms 970 - Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Kiran Desai is the bestselling author of two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss, which won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her new Booker Prize Shortlisted novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.

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Little Atoms 969 - Natalie Haynes' No Friend To This House

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, The Children of Jocasta, A Thousand Ships, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020 and Stone Blind. Her non-fiction book about women in Greek Myth, Pandora’s Jar, was a bestseller in both the UK and the US. She has written and performed eleven series of her BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015 she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel No Friend To This House.

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Little Atoms 968 - Patrick Ryan's Buckeye

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:40:00 GMT

Patrick Ryan's short story collection The Dream Life of Astronauts was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the St. Louis Times-Dispatch, LitHub, Refinery 29 and Electric Literature, and was longlisted for The Story Prize. His debut collection of linked short stories, Send Me, was chosen for Barnes & Noble's Discover New Writers program. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, the anthology Tales of Two Cities, and elsewhere. The former associate editor of Granta, he is the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine One Story. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new novel Buckeye.

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Little Atoms 967 - Miriam Toews' A Truce Which Is Not Peace

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Miriam Toews is the author of the bestselling novels Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth, Fight Night and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is the winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest work of non-fiction A Truce That Is not Peace. Note: Contains discussion of suicide.

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Little Atoms 966 - Stuart Nadler's Rooms For Vanishing

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:05:53 GMT

Stuart Nadler is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation, and the author of Wise Men, The Inseparables, Rooms for Vanishing and a story collection, The Book of Life. His work has been named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a Barnes & Nobel Discover Great New Writers Selection, and an Amazon Book of the Year. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow and a Teaching-Writing Fellow. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Rooms For Vanishing.

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Little Atoms 965 - Laura Lippman's Murder Takes A Vacation

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Since Laura Lippman's debut, she has been recognised as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the "essential" crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her "special, even extraordinary," and Gillian Flynn wrote, "She is simply a brilliant novelist." Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. On this episode of Little Atoms, Laura talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Murder Takes a Vacation.

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Little Atoms 964 - Oliver Basciano's Outcast

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:21:25 GMT

Oliver Basciano is a journalist and critic based in São Paulo and London. On this episode of Little Atoms, he talks to Neil Denny about Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World, his first book for which he was the recipient of the 2023 RSL Giles St Aubyn Award, awarded for debut works of non-fiction.

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Little Atoms 963 - Claire Adam's Love Forms

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:22:04 GMT

Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She was educated in the US and now lives in London. Her first novel Golden Child won multiple prizes and was named one of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World’. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her Booker Prize long listed new novel Love Forms.

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Little Atoms 962 - Mike Jay's Free Radicals

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Mike Jay has written extensively on scientific and medical history and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books and the Wall Street Journal. His previous books on the history of drugs include High Society, Mescaline and Psychonauts. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Free Radicals: How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science.

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Little Atoms 961 - Brandy Schillace's The Intermediaries

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:00:12 GMT

Brandy Schillace is a historian, former professor and museum professional, and former editor of Medical Humanities, a social-justice journal. She writes about gender, medical history, and neurodiversity for outlets including Scientific American, Wired, CrimeReads, and Undark. She has previously appeared on Little Atoms talking about her books Death’s Summer Coat and Mr. Humble & Dr Butcher, and on this episode she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story.

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Little Atoms 960 - Wendy Erskine's The Benefactors

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:36:34 GMT

Wendy Erskine is the author of two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move. She was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and she received the Butler Literary Award and the Edge Hill Readers' Choice Award. She edited the art anthology well I just kind of like it. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is a frequent broadcaster and interviewer, and works as a secondary school teacher in Belfast. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel The Benefactors.

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Little Atoms 959 - David Farrier's Nature's Genius

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:05:50 GMT

David Farrier is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Edinburgh. David's first book, Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, looked at the marks we are leaving on the planet and how these might appear in the fossil record in the deep future. It was published in March 2020 with both The Times and The Telegraph naming it a book of the year. Its fans include Robert Macfarlane and Margaret Atwood, and it has been translated into nine other languages. He has had pieces published in The Atlantic, BBC Future, Emergence, Prospect, Daily Telegraph, Orion, and Washington Post. He has spoken at numerous online events, has given an invited lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, and has appeared on radio and podcasts such as BBC Free Thinking and Little Atoms. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet.

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Little Atoms 958 - Marie Rutkoski's Ordinary Love

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:25:23 GMT

Marie Rutkoski is a New York Times bestselling author of several novels for children and young adults. She grew up in Illinois as the oldest of four children, and has lived in Moscow, Prague, and Paris. She holds degrees from the University of Iowa and Harvard University, and is now a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College, where she teaches Shakespeare, children's literature, and fiction writing. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel for an adult audience, Ordinary Love.

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Little Atoms 957 - Gurnaik Johal's Saraswati

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Gurnaik Johal is a writer from West London. His 2022 collection We Move won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Tata Literature Live! Prize. Its opening story won the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his debut novel Saraswati.

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Little Atoms 956 - Nell Stevens's The Original

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Nell Stevens writes memoir and fiction. Her debut novel, Briefly, a Delicious Life was longlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Award. She is also the author of Bleaker House and Mrs Gaskell & Me, which won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018. Her writing is published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, New York Review of Books, Guardian, Granta and elsewhere. Nell is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Original.

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Little Atoms 955 - Matthew Specktor's The Golden Hour

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Matthew Specktor is the author of the novels American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound, and the nonfiction books The Sting and Always Crashing in the Same Car. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, The Believer, Tin House, Vogue, GQ, Black Clock, and Open City. He has been a MacDowell Fellow and is a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He resides in Los Angeles. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood.

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Little Atoms 954 - Francesca Wade's Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. She has received fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Leon Levy Center for Biography and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and her work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Granta and other places. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.

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Little Atoms 953 - Daria Lavelle's Aftertaste

Thu, 29 May 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Daria Lavelle writes fiction, most of which features at least one impossible thing. Her stories have appeared in Dark Matter, The Deadlands and Dread Machine, among others. She holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and enjoys opera, escape rooms, and checking restaurants off her bucket list. She was born in Kyiv before immigrating to the US as a child. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Aftertaste.

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Little Atoms 952 - Michael Pedersen's Muckle Flugga

Fri, 23 May 2025 10:21:34 GMT

Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning poet and author of Boy Friends, which was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish National Book Awards. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and is the current Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh, and Edinburgh's Makar. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his first novel Muckle Flugga.

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Little Atoms 951 - Cate Baum's Land Of Hope

Thu, 15 May 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Cate Baum was born in Cambridge to a magician and a big band singer. She grew up in the East Anglian countryside, spending summers roaming the wilds of the UK. She studied screenwriting at UCLA and gained a master’s with Distinction in Creative Writing from City, University of London. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel Land of Hope.

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Little Atoms 950 - Eley Williams' Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good

Thu, 08 May 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Eley Williams' collection of short stories Attrib. & Other Stories won the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her writing appears in The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, Liberating the Canon, the TLS and the London Review of Books. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the author of the novel The Liar’s Dictionary and on this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest story collection Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good, which is out now in paperback.

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Little Atoms 949 - Simon Park's Wreckers

Thu, 01 May 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Simon Park is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford. He is an expert in the literature and material culture of the early modern world, particularly from Portugal and its vast global empire. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book Wreckers: Disaster in the Age of Discovery.

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Little Atoms 948 - Danielle Giles' Mere

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Danielle Giles is a writer and researcher based in Bristol. She has been published (writing as Danielle Vrublevskis) in Extra Teeth and Dear Damsels, shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize, and longlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. She won the Local Prize in the 2023 Bath Short Story Award. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel Mere.

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Little Atoms 947 - Megan Hunter's Days of Light

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Megan Hunter is a prizewinning novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Her first novel, The End We Start From was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Books Are My Bag Awards, longlisted for the Aspen Words Prize, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Awards finalist and won the Forward Reviews Editor’s Choice Award. It was adapted into a major motion picture by Alice Birch, starring Jodie Comer and directed by Mahalia Belo. Her second novel, The Harpy, was Indie Book of the Month; she is currently adapting it for television with Red Planet Pictures. Her dramatic monologue Salt of the Earth premiered at Venice Film Festival. Megan’s other writing has appeared in the White Review, the TLS, Literary Hub, Vogue, Elle, BOMB, and elsewhere. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her new novel Days of Light.

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Little Atoms 946 - Ron Currie's The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Ron Currie is the award-winning author of five novels. He has won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award, the Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne.

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Little Atoms 945 - Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:01:00 GMT

Xiaolu Guo was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and I Am China. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel A Lover's Discourse was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Call Me Ishmaelle.

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Little Atoms 944 - Dan Richards' Overnight

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Dan Richards is the co-author of Holloway (with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood), and the author of The Beechwood Airship Interviews, Climbing Days, and Outpost. Only After Dark, a BBC Radio 4 series about the nocturnal world, was broadcast to acclaim in 2022.

Dan has written for the Guardian, Economist, Esquire and Monocle. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark.

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Little Atoms 943 - Dani Heywood-Lonsdale's The Portrait Artist

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 07:02:54 GMT

Dani Heywood-Lonsdale has paternal roots on the tiny island of Molokai, Hawaii - referred to as the Sandwich Islands throughout her debut novel The Portrait Artist - and maternal roots in the Philippines. She is a Faber Academy alumna and teaches English Literature in Oxfordshire.

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Little Atoms 942 - Abdulrazak Gurnah's Theft

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Theft.

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Little Atoms 941 - Sarah Hesketh's 2016

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Sarah Hesketh is a writer and editor from Pendle, in East Lancashire. She is the author of the poetry collections Napoleon’s Travelling Bookshelf and The Hard Word Box, and the editor of The Emma Press Anthology of Age. She currently lives in London and works as Managing Editor for Modern Poetry in Translation. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book 2016.

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Little Atoms 940 - Stephen May's Green Ink

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Stephen May is the author of seven novels including Life! Death! Prizes! which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and The Guardian Not The Booker Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year and is a winner of the Media Wales Reader’s Prize. He has also written plays, as well as for television and film. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Green Ink.

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Little Atoms 939 - Susan Barker's Old Soul

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Susan Barker is the author of four books. Her third novel, The Incarnations, was a New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book, a Kirkus Reviews' Top Ten Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Old Soul. An excerpt from Old Soul won a Northern Writers' Award for Fiction in 2020, as well as funding from Arts Council England and The Society of Authors. Susan currently lives in Manchester, where she is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Little Atoms 938 - Rachel Bower's It Comes From The River

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Rachel Bower is an award-winning poet and short story writer from Bradford. She is the author of two poetry collections and a non-fiction book on literary letters. Her poems and stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including The London Magazine, The White Review, Magma and Stand. Bower won The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2019/20 and the W&A Short Story Competition 2020. She has also been listed for the White Review Short Story Prize 2019, the RSL V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize and the BBC Short Story Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel It Comes From The River.

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Little Atoms 937 - Caryl Phillips' Another Man In The Street

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Caryl Phillips was born in St.Kitts and came to Britain at the age of four months. He grew up in Leeds, and studied English Literature at Oxford University. He was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1992 and was on the 1993 Granta list of Best of Young British Writers. His literary awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a British Council Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, and Britain's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for Crossing the River which was also shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize. A Distant Shore was longlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize, and won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize; Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Open Book Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of the Arts. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Another Man In The Street.

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Little Atoms 936 - Catherine Airey's Confessions

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Catherine Airey grew up in England in a family of mixed English-Irish descent, and now lives between County Cork and Bristol. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel Confessions.

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Little Atoms 935 - Keon West's The Science of Racism

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Professor Keon West is a social psychologist at the University of London. He earned his doctorate from Oxford University in 2010 as a Rhodes Scholar and has since published more than seventy quantitative papers on prejudice and discrimination in many of the best peer-reviewed social-psychology journals, including Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Perspectives on Psychological Science. Professor West has written for national and international newspapers and been the host of numerous radio and television shows on the topics of prejudice and discrimination. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book The Science of Racism.

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Little Atoms 934 - Nicola Dinan's Disappoint Me

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Nicola Dinan grew up in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur and now lives in London. Bellies, her debut, won the Polari First Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards and Mo Siewcharran Prize, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize. On this week's episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Disappoint me.

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Little Atoms 933 - Sumit Paul-Choudhury's The Bright Side

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:01:00 GMT

Sumit Paul-Choudhury is an astrophysicist-turned-journalist, former editor-in-chief of New Scientist magazine and has served as a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize (then Samuel Johnson Prize), the Wellcome Prize and the Costa Book Awards. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World.

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Little Atoms 932 - Ken Hollings' The Trash Project

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:01:21 GMT

Ken Hollings is a writer and broadcaster based in London. He is the author of The Bright Labyrinth, Welcome To Mars, The Space Oracle and Destroy All Monsters. His work appears in a wide range of journals and publications, including The Wire, Sight and Sound, Strange Attractor, Frieze, Noon and Satori, and in numerous anthologies and collections, as well as in features and series for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and Resonance 104.4FM. He teaches at The Royal College of Art and Central St Martins College of Art and Design. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms, the first of 2025, he talks to Neil Denny about The Trash Project, a trilogy of books on trash culture structured around Dante’s Divine Comedy.

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Little Atoms 931- Lola Young's Eight Weeks

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:01:08 GMT

Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey became one of the first Black Women members of the House of Lords in 2004. Raised in foster care in North London, she studied at the New College of Speech and Drama, then worked as an actress, before becoming Professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University. Later, she worked in arts administration before receiving an OBE in 2001 and becoming an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords. She is active in campaigns on modern slavery and ethical fashion. In 2017 she was on the Man Booker Prize judging panel, and she is also Chancellor of the University of Nottingham. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms, the last of 2024, she talks to Neil Denny about her new book Eight Weeks: Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds.

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Little Atoms 930 - Miranda Sawyer's Uncommon People

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:01:43 GMT

Miranda Sawyer has written about pop music since 1988, beginning on Smash Hits before moving to Select, The Face and the Observer. Her first book Park and Ride explored the British suburbs, her second Out of Time exploded the midlife crisis. On. This week’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond In 20 Songs.

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Little Atoms 929 - Niall Williams' Time Of The Child

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:01:28 GMT

Niall Williams was born in Dublin. He is the author of nine novels, including History of the Rain, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and Four Letters of Love, which will soon be a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne. His most recent novel, This Is Happiness was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Book of the Year and longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Time Of The Child.

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Little Atoms 928 - Simon Critchley's On Mysticism

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:01:16 GMT

Simon Critchley has published books on a wide expanse of ethical and philosophical subjects, including the bestselling The Book of Dead Philosophers, his cult novel Memory Theatre and his memoir-analysis of David Bowie - On Bowie. He is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. On this week's episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy.

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Little Atoms 927 - Jeff Young's Wild Twin

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:01:09 GMT

Jeff Young is a writer for stage, screen and radio. Until recently a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, he is the author of the acclaimed memoir Ghost Town. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new memoir Wild Twin.

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Little Atoms 926 - Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Sequel

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:01:31 GMT

Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of seven novels, including The Devil and Webster, You Should Have Known (adapted as the 2020 HBO series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland), Admission (adapted as the 2013 film of the same name, starring Tina Fey, Lily Tomlin and Paul Rudd), The White Rose, The Sabbathday River, A Jury of Her Peers, The Latecomer and The Plot. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Sequel.

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Little Atoms 925 - Jonathan Coe's The Proof Of My Innocence

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:01:48 GMT

Jonathan Coe was born a few miles from Bournville in 1961. The author of political satires such as Bournville, What a Carve Up! and Number 11, and family sagas such as The Rotters' Club and The Rain Before It Falls, his novels have won prizes at home and abroad, including Costa Novel of the Year and the Prix du Livre Européen. On this episode of little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Proof Of My Innocence.

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Little Atoms 924 - Francesca Segal's Welcome To Glorious Tuga

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:01:09 GMT

Francesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Innocents (2012) and The Awkward Age (2017), and a memoir of NICU motherhood, Mother Ship (2019). Her writing has won the 2012 Costa First Novel Award, a Betty Trask Award, and been longlisted for the Women's Prize. On today’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Welcome To Glorious Tuga.

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Little Atoms 923 - Dava Sobel's The Elements of Marie Curie

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:01:51 GMT

Dava Sobel is the internationally renowned author of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter. She was an award-winning former science reporter for the ‘New York Times’ and writes frequently about science for several magazines, including the ‘New Yorker’, ‘Audubon’, ‘Discover’, ‘Life’ and ‘Omni’. On today’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.

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Little Atoms 922 - Xan Brooks' The Catchers

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:01:43 GMT

Xan Brooks is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He was one of the founding editorial team at the Big Issue magazine in London and spent 15-years as a writer and associate editor at the Guardian newspaper. His debut novel, The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times, was listed for the Costa First Novel Award, the Author's Club Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. On this episode of Little Atoms, he tells Neil Denny about his latest novel The Catchers.

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Little Atoms 921 - Lynne Peeples' The Inner Clock

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:01:15 GMT

Lynne Peeples is a freelance science journalist, specialising in the environment, public health and medicine. She holds a M.S. in Biostatistics from Harvard and an M.A. in Science Journalism from New York University. Her writing has appeared in Huffington Post, Nature, Scientific American and The Atlantic, amongst others. A 2020-2021 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow and a finalist for the 2018 National Association of Science Writers long-form reporting award, on this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her new book The Inner Clock: Living in Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms.

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Little Atoms 920 - Kate Summerscale's The Peepshow

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:01:50 GMT

Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Kate Summerscale has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place.

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Little Atoms 919 - Ekow Eshun's The Strangers

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:01:14 GMT

Ekow Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer, editor, curator, broadcaster, and author of the memoir Black Gold of the Sun, which was nominated for the Orwell Prize for its exploration of race and identity. He writes for publications including the New York Times, Financial Times and Guardian, and has created documentaries for BBC4 and BBC Radio 4. Eshun was the first Black editor of a major magazine in the UK and the first Black director of a major arts organisation. In this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book The Strangers.

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Little Atoms 918 - Garth Greenwell's Small Rain

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:01:10 GMT

Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness. His novel What Belongs to You won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the James Tait Black Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. His novella Mitko won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Literary Award. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, A Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Small Rain.

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Little Atoms 917 - Rumaan Alam's Entitlement

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 23:01:04 GMT

Rumaan Alam is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Leave the World Behind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and adapted into a major motion picture, as well as two other novels. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker and elsewhere. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Entitlement.

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Little Atoms 916 - Donal Ryan's Heart Be At Peace

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:01:36 GMT

Donal Ryan is an award-winning author from Nenagh, County Tipperary, whose work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fourth novel, From a Low and Quiet Sea, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018, and won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. His novel, Strange Flowers, was voted Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was a number one bestseller, as was his most recent novel The Queen of Dirt Island, which was also shortlisted for Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Donal lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Heart Be At Peace.

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Little Atoms 915 - Irenosen Okojie's Curandera

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:04:11 GMT

Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian and the Huffington Post. She has also judged various literary prizes including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award. She was a judge for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature in 2021. She is the director and founder of Black to the Future festival. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Curandera.

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Little Atoms 914 - Shahnaz Habib's Airplane Mode

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:01:39 GMT

Shahnaz Habib is a writer and translator based in Brooklyn. She translates from her mother tongue, the south Indian language of Malayalam, and has translated two novels, Jasmine Days, winner of the 2018 JCB Prize, and Al Arabian Novel Factory. Airplane Mode, her first book, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence.

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Little Atoms 913 - Harriet Constable's The Instrumentalist

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:01:44 GMT

Harriet Constable is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker living in London. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, the Economist, and the BBC, and she is a grantee of the Pulitzer Center. Raised in a musical family, The Instrumentalist is her first novel. It has been selected as one of the Top 10 Debuts of 2024 by the Guardian.

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Little Atoms 912 - James Shapiro's The Playbook

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:01:31 GMT

James Shapiro, who teaches English at Columbia University in New York, is author of several books, including 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (winner of the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize in 2006 and the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' in 2023), as well as Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War.

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Little Atoms 911 - Clare Beams' The Garden

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:40:40 GMT

Clare Beams is the author of the novel The Illness Lesson, which was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize,and the story collection We Show What We Have Learned, which won the Bard Fiction Prize and was a Kirkus Best Debut of 2016. She was a finalist for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Garden.

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Little Atoms 910 - Ralf Webb's Strange Relations

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:01:27 GMT

Ralf Webb is the author of Rotten Days in Late Summer, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. His poems, essays, and short fiction have appeared in Fantastic Man, Granta, the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He tutors in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny abouth his first nonfiction book Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America.

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Little Atoms 909 - Hanna Pylväinen's The End Of Drum-Time

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 23:01:42 GMT

Hanna Pylväinen is the author of the novel We Sinners, which received a Whiting Award and a Balcones Fiction Prize. To research The End of Drum-Time, her second novel, which she talks to Neil Denny about on this episode of Little Atoms, she spent six months with Sámi reindeer herders in Finland.

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Little Atoms 908 - Adam Higginbotham's Challenger

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 23:01:03 GMT

Adam Higginbotham is a British writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ and Smithsonian. He is the author of Midnight In Chernobyl, and in today's episode of Little Atoms, he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.

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Little Atoms 907 - Rebecca Watson's I Will Crash

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 23:01:23 GMT

Rebecca Watson is an Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times and one of the Observer's ten best debut novelists of 2021. She has been published in the TLS, Granta and the Guardian. In 2018, she was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize, and in 2021, she was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. She is the author of the novel Little Scratch, and on this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel I Will Crash.

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Little Atoms 906 - Alan Murrin's The Coast Road

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 23:01:12 GMT

Alan Murrin is an Irish writer based in Berlin. His short story, "The Wake," won the 2021 Bournemouth Writing Prize and was shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards. His debut novel The Coast Road which he discussed with Neil Denny in this episode of Little Atoms was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction prize. Murrin is also the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award and an Arts Council Literature Bursary. He is a graduate of the prose fiction masters at the University of East Anglia, and writes for the Irish Times and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as Art Review and e-flux.

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Little Atoms 905 - Yael Van Der Wouden's The Safekeep

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:01:16 GMT

Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, "On (Not) Reading Anne Frank", has received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2018. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel The Safekeep.

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Little Atoms 904 - Jon Savage's The Secret Public

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 23:01:08 GMT

Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979).

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Little Atoms 903 - Julia Armfield's Private Rites

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 23:01:38 GMT

Julia Armfield's work has been published in Granta, The White Review and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and won the White Review Short Story Prize 2018 and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the author of salt slow, a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her debut novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022 and won the Polari Prize 2023. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Private Rites.

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Little Atoms 902 - Noreen Masud's A Flat Place

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:01:29 GMT

Noreen Masud is a lecturer in twentieth century literature at the University of Bristol, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her memoir A Flat Place.

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Little Atoms 901 - Clare Pollard's The Modern Fairies

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 23:01:24 GMT

Clare Pollard is an award-winning poet and playwright based in London. She is the author of five poetry collections and the former Editor of the Modern Poetry in Translation magazine. Her first novel, Delphi , was published by Fig Tree in 2022. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her second novel,The Modern Fairies.

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Little Atoms 900 - Kevin Barry's The Heart In Winter

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 23:01:45 GMT

Kevin Barry is the author of four novels and three story collections. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. His novel, Night Boat to Tangier,was an Irish number one bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter. On today's show, the 900th episode of Little Atoms, Kevin talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Heart In Winter.

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Little Atoms 899 - Rachel Khong's Real Americans

Thu, 30 May 2024 23:01:13 GMT

Rachel Khong is the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; and Esquire. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Cut, The Guardian, The Paris Review, andTin House. In 2018, she founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and non-binary writers and artists in San Francisco's Mission District. On today’s show she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Real Americans.

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Little Atoms 898 - Ayana Mathis's The Unsettled

Thu, 23 May 2024 23:01:30 GMT

Ayana Mathis's first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie was a New York Times best seller and has been translated into sixteen languages. Her nonfiction has been published in the The New York Times, The Atlantic, Guernica, and Rolling Stone. Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her long-awaited new novel The Unsettled.

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Little Atoms 897 - Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time

Thu, 16 May 2024 23:01:36 GMT

Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Catapult, Somesuch Stories and The Willowherb Review,among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. in this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel The Ministry of Time.

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Little Atoms 896 - Orlando Whitfield's All That Glitters

Thu, 09 May 2024 23:01:37 GMT

Orlando Whitfield graduated from Goldsmiths University in 2009. He started dealing art while still a student, and worked in and around the art market for fifteen years. His writing has appeared in the Paris Review and the White Review. On today's show he talks to Neil Denny about his first book All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art.

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Little Atoms 895 - Sarah Perry's Enlightenment

Thu, 02 May 2024 23:01:14 GMT

Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The Essex Serpent, Melmoth, and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Enlightenment.

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Little Atoms 894 - Francesca De Tores' Saltblood

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:01:29 GMT

Francesca De Tores is a novelist, poet and academic. She is the author of four previous novels, published in more than 20 languages. In addition to a collection of poems, her poetry is widely published in journals and anthologies. On this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about Saltblood, an epic literary historical novel set during the Golden Age of Piracy, about the life of the infamous female pirate Mary Read.

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Little Atoms 893 - Niamh Mulvey's The Amendments

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 23:01:46 GMT

Niamh Mulvey's first book, the short story collection Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth was published by Picador in June 2022. Her short fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, Banshee and Southword and was shortlisted for the Seán O’Faoláin Prize for Short Fiction 2020. In this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel The Amendments.

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Little Atoms 892 - Sinéad Gleeson’s Hagstone

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 23:01:16 GMT

Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Michel Deon Prize. In today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Hagstone.

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Little Atoms 891 - Peter Pomerantsev's How To Win An Information War

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 23:01:24 GMT

Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he studies contemporary propaganda and how to defeat it. His first book, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 RSL Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, Pushkin Prize, Baillie Gifford Prize and Gordon Burn Prize. His second, This is Not Propaganda, won the 2020 Gordon Burn Prize. His essay on authoritarian propaganda, 'Memory in the Age of Impunity', won the 2022 European Press Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On today's show he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book How To Win An Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler.

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Little Atoms 890 - Stuart Turton's The Last Murder At The End Of The World

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:01:17 GMT

Stuart Turton's debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. A Sunday Times bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages, and has sold over one million copies in the UK and US combined. The Devil and the Dark Water, his follow up, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction and was selected for the BBC Two Book Club, Between the Covers, and the Radio 2 Jo Whiley Book Club. On today's podcast he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Last Murder At The End Of The World.

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Little Atoms 889 - Michael Donkor's Grow Where They Fall

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:01:42 GMT

Michael Donkor was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, followed by a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. His first novel, Hold, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas and shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prizes. He is a frequent contributor to outlets including the Guardian, the TLS and the Independent. Michael talks to Neil Denny his latest novel Grow Where They Fall.

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Little Atoms 888 - Lauren Oyler's No Judgement

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:01:19 GMT

Lauren Oyler is the author of the novel Fake Accounts. Her essays on books and culture appear regularly in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Harper's, the Guardian and other publications. She lives in Berlin. on today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her new collection of essays No Judgement: On Being Critical.

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Little Atoms 887 - Helen Oyeyemi's Parasol Against The Axe

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:01:10 GMT

Helen Oyeyemi talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Parasol Against The Axe.

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Little Atoms 886 - Tracy King's Learning To Think.

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:01:06 GMT

Tracy King talks to Neil Denny about her memoir Learning To Think.

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Little Atoms 885 - Rachel Cockerell's Melting Point

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:01:59 GMT

Rachel Cockerell talks to Neil Denny about her first work of non-fiction Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land.

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Little Atoms 884 - Hannah Durkin's Survivors

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:11:36 GMT

Dr. Hannah Durkin talks to Neil Denny about her new book Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

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Little Atoms 883 - Leo Vardiashvili's Hard By A Great Forest

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:21:45 GMT

Leo Vardiashvili joins Neil Denny to talk about his debut novel Hard By A Great Forest.

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Little Atoms 882 - Molly McGhee's Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:01:49 GMT

Molly McGhee talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind.

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Little Atoms 881 - Aniefiok Ekpoudom's Where We Come From

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:01:20 GMT

Aniefiok Ekpoudom talks to Neil Denny about his debut book Where We Come From: Rap, Home and Hope in Modern Britain.

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Little Atoms 880 - Kiley Reid's Come And Get It

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:01:33 GMT

Kiley Reid talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Come And Get It.

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Little Atoms 879 - Sigrid Nunez's The Vulnerables

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:01:48 GMT

Sigrid Nunez talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Vulnerables.

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Little Atoms 878 - Kate Brody's Rabbit Hole

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:01:21 GMT

Kate Brody talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Rabbit Hole.

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Little Atoms 877 - Ron Rash's The Caretaker

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:01:09 GMT

Ron Rash talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Caretaker.

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Little Atoms 876 - Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn Crime Novel

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:01:50 GMT

in the first show of 2024, Jonathan Lethem joins Neil Denny to talk about his new book Brooklyn Crime Novel.

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Little Atoms 875 - Dann McDorman's West Heart Kill

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:01:51 GMT

Dann McDorman talks to Nei Denny abouty his debut novel West Heart Kill.

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Little Atoms 874 - Julianne Pachico's Jungle House

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:01:42 GMT

Julianne Pachico returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Jungle House.

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Little Atoms 873 - Rob Drummond's You're All Talk

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:01:41 GMT

Linguist Rob Drummond talks to Neil Denny about his new book You're All Talk: why we are what we speak.

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Little Atoms 872 - Anne Michaels' Held

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:01:12 GMT

Anne Michaels talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Held.

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Little Atoms 871 - Jean Kwok's The Leftover Woman

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:01:52 GMT

Jean Kwok joins Neil Denny to talk about her latest novel The Leftover Woman.

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Little Atoms 870 - Mike McCormack's This Plague of Souls

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:01:10 GMT

Mike McCormack talks to Neil Denny about his "metaphysical noir" novel This Plague of Souls.

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Little Atoms 869 - Beto O'Rourke's We've Got To Try

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:01:47 GMT

Former US Congressman and Democratic presidential nomination candidate Beto O'Rourke talks to Neil Denny about his book We've Got To Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible.

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Little Atoms 868 - Ed Gillett's Party Lines

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:01:23 GMT

Ed Gillett talks to Neil Denny about his new book Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain.

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Little Atoms 867 - A.K. Blakemore's The Glutton

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:01:46 GMT

A.K. Blakemore talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Glutton.

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Little Atoms 866 - Adam Biles' Beasts of England

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:01:57 GMT

Adam Biles talks to Neil Denny about his Animal Farm sequel Beasts of England.

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Little Atoms 865 - Sandra Newman's Julia

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:01:58 GMT

Sandra Newman talks to Neil Denny about her new novel Julia, which retells 1984 from Julia's perspective.

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Little Atoms 864 - Cat Jarman's The Bone Chests

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:05:38 GMT

Cat Jarman retrurns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her new book The Bone Chests: Unlocking The Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Little Atoms 863 - Michael J. Benton's Extinction

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:01:28 GMT

Paleontologist Michael J. Benton talks to Neil about his latest book Extinction: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves.

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Little Atoms 862 - Robert Peckham's Fear

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:01:19 GMT

Neil is joined by Robert Peckham to talk about his book Fear: An Alternative History of the World.

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From the Archive - Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:31:34 GMT

Neil is on holiday so here's a repeat of our interview from earlier this year with Isabella Hammad talking about her novel Enter Ghost.

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Little Atoms 861 - Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 23:01:56 GMT

Elizabeth Acevedo talks to Neil Denny about her first novel for adults, Family Lore.

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Little Atoms 860 - Caspar Henderson's A Book of Noises

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 23:01:21 GMT

Caspar Henderson talks to Neil Denny about his new book, A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous.

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Little Atoms 859 - Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:01:31 GMT

Francis Spufford returns to Little Atoms and talks to neil Denny about his latest novel, the alternative history Cahokia Jazz.

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Little Atoms 858 - Gina Chung's Sea Change

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 23:01:59 GMT

Gina Chung talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Sea Change.

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Little Atoms 857 - Natalie Haynes' Divine Might

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 08:01:23 GMT

Natalie Haynes returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil Denny about her latest non-fiction book Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth.

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Little Atoms 856 - Jamel Brinkley's Witness

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:01:06 GMT

Jamel Brinkley talks to Neil Denny about his latest short story collection Witness.

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Little Atoms 855 - Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:56:49 GMT

Neil welcome's back Lauren Groff to Little Atoms to talk about her latest novel The Vaster Wilds.

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Little Atoms 854 - David Stubbs' Different Times

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:01:40 GMT

David Stubbs returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Different Times: A History of British Comedy.

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Little Atoms 853 - Yiyun Li's Wednesday's Child

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 23:01:30 GMT

Yiyun Li returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil Denny about her new collection of stories Wednesday's Child.

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Little Atoms 852 - Nick Hunt's Red Smoking Mirror

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 23:01:11 GMT

Travel writer Nick Hunt talks to Neil Denny about his debut novel Red Smoking Mirror.

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Little Atoms 851 - Khashayar Khabushani's I Will Greet The Sun Again

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 23:01:39 GMT

Khashayar J. Khabushani talks to Neil Denny about his debut novel I Will Greet The Sun Again.

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Little Atoms 850 - Simon Winder & Penguin Crime & Espionage

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 23:01:30 GMT

Penguin Press publishing director Simon Winder talks to Neil Denny about the recent revival of Penguin Modern Classics Crime and Espionage series.

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Little Atoms 849 - Rachel Connolly's Lazy City

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 23:01:25 GMT

Rachel Connolly talks to Neil Denny about her Belfast set debut novel Lazy City.

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Little Atoms 848 - Thomas Morris' Open Up

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:01:00 GMT

Thomas Morris talks to Neil Denny about his new "suite of stories" Open Up.

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Little Atoms 847 - Anna Funder's Wifedom

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 23:01:40 GMT

Anna Funder talks to Neil about the life of George Orwell's wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy in her new book Wifedom.

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Little Atoms 846 - V. V. Ganeshananthan's Brotherless Night

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 23:01:46 GMT

V. V. Ganeshananthan in conversation with Neil Denny about her latest novel Brotherless Night.

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Little Atoms 845 - Laura Lippman's Prom Mom

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 23:01:07 GMT

Laura Lippman returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her latest novel Prom Mom.

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Little Atoms 844 - Kate Mosse's The Ghost Ship

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 23:01:25 GMT

Kate Mosse talks to Neil about her latest novel, the third book in her Joubert Family Chronicles quartet, the Ghost Ship.

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Little Atoms 843 - Paul Murray's The Bee Sting

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 23:01:44 GMT

Paul Murray talks to Neil about his latest novel The Bee Sting, which was recently long-listed for the 2023 Man Booker prize.

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Little Atoms 842 - Charles Frazier's The Trackers

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:01:25 GMT

Charles Frazier talks to Neil about his Great Depression set novel The Trackers.

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Little Atoms 841 - Mikki Brammar's The Collected Regrets of Clover

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 23:01:10 GMT

Mikki Brammar talks to Neil about her debut novel The Collected Regrets of Clover.

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Little Atoms 840 - Patrick deWitt's The Librarianist

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 23:01:14 GMT

Patrick deWitt returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about his latest novel The Librarianist.

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Little Atoms 839 - Mark O'Connell's A Thread of Violence

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:01:36 GMT

Mark O'Connell returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about his latest book A Thread of Violence.

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Little Atoms 838 - Laura Cumming's Thunderclap

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 23:01:40 GMT

Laura Cumming returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her latest book Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death.

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Little Atoms 837 - Una Mannion's Tell Me What I Am

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 23:01:27 GMT

Una Mannion talks to Neil about her latest novel Tell Me What I Am.

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Little Atoms 836 - Richard Ford's Be Mine

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 23:01:04 GMT

Richard Ford talks to Neil about his fifth and final Frank Bascombe novel Be Mine.

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Little Atoms 835 - Stephen Buoro's The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 23:01:14 GMT

Stephen Buoro talks to Neil about his Nigeria set debut novel The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa.

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Little Atoms 834 - K. Patrick's Mrs S.

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:01:41 GMT

K. Patrick talks to Neil about their debut novel Mrs S.

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Little Atoms 833 - Kevin Brazil's Whatever Happened To Queer Happiness?

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 23:01:20 GMT

Kevin Brazil talks to Neil about his essay collection Whatever Happened To Queer Happiness?

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Little Atoms 832 - Octavia Bright's This Ragged Grace

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 23:01:31 GMT

Octavia Bright talks to Neil about her memoir of recovery and renewal This Ragged Grace.

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Little Atoms 831 - Natasha Calder's Whether Violent or Natural

Mon, 29 May 2023 23:01:15 GMT

Neil talks to Natasha Calder about her new novel Whether Violent or Natural.

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Little Atoms 830 - Kristen Ghodsee's Everyday Utopia

Mon, 22 May 2023 23:01:49 GMT

Kristen Ghodsee talks to Neil about her latest book Everyday Utopia: In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home.

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Little Atoms 829 - Claire Dederer's Monsters

Thu, 18 May 2023 23:01:20 GMT

Claire Dederer talks to Neil about her latest book Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma.

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Little Atoms 828 - Blessin Adams' Great And Horrible News

Mon, 15 May 2023 23:01:22 GMT

Blessin Adams talks to Neil Denny about her book Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain.

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Little Atoms 827 - Mat Osman's The Ghost Theatre

Thu, 11 May 2023 23:01:21 GMT

Mat Osman tells Neil about his latest novel The Ghost Theatre.

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Little Atoms 826 - Margot Douaihy's Scorched Grace

Mon, 08 May 2023 23:01:37 GMT

Margot Douaihy talks to Neil about her New Orleans set debut novel Scorched Grace.

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Little Atoms 825 - Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost

Thu, 04 May 2023 23:01:00 GMT

Isabella Hammad talks to Neil about her latest novel Enter Ghost.

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Little Atoms 824 - Michael Magee's Close To Home

Mon, 01 May 2023 23:01:53 GMT

Michael Magee talks to Neil about his Belfast set debut novel Close To Home.

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Little Atoms 823 - Jaime Green's The Possibility Of Life

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:01:27 GMT

Jaime Green talks to Neil about her new book The Possibility Of Life, longlisted for the Women's Prize

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Little Atoms 822 - Sheena Patel's I'm A Fan

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 23:01:42 GMT

Sheena Patel talks to Neil about her debut novel I'm A Fan, which is longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.

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Little Atoms 821 - Claire Fuller's The Memory of Animals

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 23:02:15 GMT

Neil talks to Claire Fuller about her latest novel The Memory of Animals.

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Little Atoms 820 - Cecile Pin's Wandering Souls

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 23:01:31 GMT

Cecile Pin talks to Neil about her debut novel Wandering Souls, which is longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.

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Little Atoms 819 - Dizz Tate's Brutes

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 23:01:54 GMT

Dizz Tate talks to Neil about her debut novel Brutes.

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Little Atoms 818 - Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 23:01:42 GMT

Tara M. Stringfellow talks to Neil about her debut novel Memphis, which has been longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. (Content Warning: reading contains some racial slurs).

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Little Atoms 817 - Max Porter's Shy

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 23:01:57 GMT

Max Porter talks to Neil about his latest novel Shy.

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Little Atoms 816 - Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 23:01:38 GMT

Neil talks to Booker prize wiining novellist Eleanor Catton about her long awaited new novel Birnam Wood.

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Little Atoms 815 - Oliver Milman's The Insect Crisis

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:01:57 GMT

Oliver Milman talks to Neil about his book The Insect Crisis, out now in paperback.

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Little Atoms 814 - Fiona McFarlane's The Sun Walks Down

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:01:44 GMT

Neil talks to Fiona McFarlane about her Australian outback set novel The Sun Walks Down.

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Little Atoms 813 - Alice Winn's In Memoriam

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:01:26 GMT

Alice Winn talks to Neil about her WWI set debut novel In Memoriam.

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Little Atoms 812 - Ann-Helén Laestadius' Stolen

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:01:04 GMT

Ann-Helén Laestadius talks to Neil about her novel Stolen.

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Little Atoms 811 - Kevin Jared Hosein's Hungry Ghosts

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:01:10 GMT

Kevin Jared Hosein talks to Neil about his 1940's Trinidad set novel Hungry Ghosts.

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Little Atoms 810 - Sophie Mackintosh's Cursed Bread

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 01:00:05 GMT

Neil talks to Sophie Mackintosh about her latest novel Cursed Bread.

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Little Atoms 809 - Santanu Bhattacharya's One Small Voice

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:01:55 GMT

Neil talks to Santanu Bhattacharya about his debut novel One Small Voice.

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Little Atoms 808 - Paul Harding's This Other Eden

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:01:46 GMT

Paul Harding talks to Neil about his latest novel This Other Eden.

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Little Atoms 807 - James Hannaham's Didn't Nobody Give A Shit What Happened To Carlotta

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:01:10 GMT

James Hannaham talks to Neil about his Ulysses influenced novel Didn't Nobody Give A Shit What Happened To Carlotta, about a trans woman returning after 23 years in prison to a gentrified Brooklyn.

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Little Atoms 806 - Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:01:54 GMT

Jonathan Escoffery talks to Neil about his debut collection of stories If I Survive You.

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Little Atoms 805 - Jan Grue's I Live A Life Like Yours

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:03:55 GMT

Neil talks to Jan Grue about I Live A Life Like Yours, his memoir about disability, difference, and living as a vulnerable body.

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Little Atoms 804 - Aleksandar Hemon's The World And All That It Holds

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:01:55 GMT

Aleksandar Hemon talks to Neil about his latest novel The World And All That It Holds.

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Little Atoms 803 - Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:01:54 GMT

Laura Purcell talks to Neil about her latest gothic novel The Whispering Muse.

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Little Atoms 802 - Gavin Plumley's A Home For All Seasons

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:01:21 GMT

Gavin Plumley takes us into the Herefordshire countryside in his new book A Home For All Seasons.

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Little Atoms 801 - Victoria MacKenzie's for Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on my Little Pain

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:01:45 GMT

Victoria MacKenzie talks to Neil about Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, in her debut novel for Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on my Little Pain.

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Little Atoms 800 - Bret Easton Ellis' The Shards

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:01:22 GMT

It's the 800th Little Atoms, and Bret Easton Ellis returns to the show to talk to Neil about his first novel in thirteen years, The Shards.

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Little Atoms 799 - Jonathan Ames' The Wheel of Doll

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:01:33 GMT

Jonathan Ames returns to Little Atoms to talk about his latest novel The Wheel of Doll.

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Little Atoms 798 - Matt Lodder's Painted People

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 14:23:17 GMT

On the first show of 2023, Neil talks to Matt Lodder about his new book Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos.

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Little Atoms 797 - Michael Pedersen's Boyfriends

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:01:16 GMT

On the last show of 2022, Michael Pedersen on male friendship in his new book Boyfriends.

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Little Atoms 796 - Jessamine Chan's The School for Good Mothers

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:01:22 GMT

Jessamine Chan talks to Neil about her debut novel The School For Good Mothers.

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Little Atoms 795 - Amy Jeffs' Wild

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:01:46 GMT

Neil hears tales from medieval Britain with Amy Jeffs and her new book Wild.

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Little Atoms 794 - Dorthe Nors' A Line In The World

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:01:20 GMT

Dorthe Nors returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her latest book A Line In The World: A Year On The North Sea Coast.

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Little Atoms 793 - Katherine Rundell's The Golden Mole

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:01:54 GMT

Katherine Rundell talks to Neil about her latest book The Golden Mole.

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Little Atoms 792 - Camper English's The Perfect Tonic

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:01:17 GMT

Camper English talks about the long relationship between medicine and alcohol in his new book The Perfect Tonic.

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Little Atoms 791 - Kathryn Harkup's Superspy Science

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:01:43 GMT

Kathryn Harkup talks to Neil about the science of James Bond in her new book Superspy Science.

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Little Atoms 790 - Simon Morden's The Red Planet

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:01:33 GMT

Simon Morden talks to Neil about his new book The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars.

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Little Atoms 789 - Jarett Kobek's How To Find Zodiac and Motor Spirit

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:01:36 GMT

Jarett Kobek returns to Little Atoms for an extra long episode He talks to Neil about two books, Motor Spirit and How To Find Zodiak.

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Little Atoms 788 - Hannah Bourne-Taylor's Fledgling

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:01:36 GMT

Hannah Bourne-Taylor talks to Neil about her memoir Fledgling.

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Little Atoms 787 - Joyce Carol Oates' Babysitter

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:01:58 GMT

Joyce Carol Oates returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her latest novel Babysitter.

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Little Atoms 786 - Adrian Chiles' The Good Drinker

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:01:21 GMT

Adrian Chiles joins Neil to talk about moderating his alcohol intake, in his new book The Good Drinker.

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Little Atoms 785 - Thomas Williams' Lost Realms

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:01:08 GMT

Thomas Williams talks to Neil about his new book Lost Realms: Histories of Britain From The Romans to The Vikings.

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Little Atoms 784 - Clare Pollard's Delphi

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 23:01:53 GMT

Clare Pollard talks to Neil about her debut novel Delphi.

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Little Atoms 783 - Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:01:04 GMT

Yiyun Li talks to Neil about her latest novel The Book of Goose.

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Little Atoms 782 - Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:01:33 GMT

Ned Beauman talks to Neil about his latest novel Venomous Lumpsucker.

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Little Atoms 781 - George Saunders' Liberation Day

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 23:01:16 GMT

George Saunders returns to Little Atoms, to talk to Neil about his first collection of short stories in a decade, Liberation Day.

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Little Atoms 780 - Brenna Hassett's Growing Up Human

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 23:01:03 GMT

Brenna Hassett talks to Neil about the evolution of childhood, in her new book Growing Up Human.

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Little Atoms 779 - James Crawford's The Edge Of The Plain

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 23:01:00 GMT

Neil talks to James Crawford about Borders and his new book The Edge Of The Plain.

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Little Atoms 778 - A.M. Homes' The Unfolding

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 23:01:41 GMT

A.M. Homes talks to Neil about her first novel in a decade, The Unfolding.

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Little Atoms 777 - Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 23:01:21 GMT

Celeste Ng returns to Little Atoms to talk to Neil about her latest novel Our Missing Hearts.

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Little Atoms 776 - Rebecca Stott's Dark Earth

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 23:01:01 GMT

Neil talks to Rebecca Stott about her post-Roman Londinium set novel Dark Earth.

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Little Atoms 775 - Kamila Shamsie's Best of Friends

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 23:01:46 GMT

Neil talks to Kamila Shamsie about her Karachi and London set new novel Best of Friends.

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Little Atoms 774 - Robert Harris' Act Of Oblivion

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:01:01 GMT

Robert Harris talks to Neil about Act Of Oblivion, his new novel set in colonial America in the aftermath of the English Civil War.

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Little Atoms 773 - Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 23:01:54 GMT

Andrea Wulf talks to Neil about her new book Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self.

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Little Atoms 772 - Natalie Haynes' Stone Blind

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 23:01:03 GMT

Neil talks to Natalie Haynes about her latest novel Stone Blind, which tells the story of Medusa.

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Little Atoms 771 - Will Ashon's The Passengers

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 23:01:57 GMT

On today's show Neil talks to Will Ashon about his new book The Passengers.

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Little Atoms 770 - Miranda Seymour's I Used To Live Here Once

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 23:01:44 GMT

Miranda Seymour talks to Neil about her new biography of Jean Rhys: I Used To Live Here Once.

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Little Atoms 768 - Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:01:46 GMT

Maggie O'Farrell talks to Neil about her long-awaited new novel The Marriage Portrait.

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Little Atoms 767 - Gaia Vince's Nomad Century

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:01:31 GMT

Gaia Vince talks to Neil about her new book Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval.

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Little Atoms 766 - Tom de Freston's Wreck

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:01:04 GMT

This week Neil talks to artist Tom de Freston about his new book Wreck: Géricault’s Raft and the Art of Being Lost at Sea, which explores Tom's obession with Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, and it's influence on his own practice.

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Little Atoms 765 - Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 23:01:05 GMT

Mohsin Hamid returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about his latest novel The Last White Man.

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Little Atoms 764 - Natasha Pulley's The Half Life of Valery K

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:01:57 GMT

Neil talks to Natasha Pulley about her Cold War set novel the Half Life of Valery K.

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Little Atoms 763 - Niamh Mulvey's Hearts and Bones

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 23:01:42 GMT

Niamh Mulvey talks to Neil about her debut short story collection Hearts & Bones: Loves Songs For Late Youth.

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Little Atoms 762 - Tim Birkhead's Birds and Us

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 23:01:22 GMT

Ornithologist Tim Birkhead talks to Neil about his latest book Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation.

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Little Atoms 761 - Sarah Churchwell's The Wrath To Come

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:01:37 GMT

Sarah Churchwell talks to Neil about her new book The Wrath To Come: Gone With The Wind And The Lies America Tells.

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Little Atoms 760 - Lan Samantha Chang's The Family Chao

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 23:01:35 GMT

Neil is joined by the director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop Lan Samantha Chang to talk about her latest novel The Family Chao, a retelling of The Brothers Karamazov set in a Midwestern Chinese restaurant.

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Little Atoms 759 - Nell Stevens' Briefly, A Delicious Life

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 23:01:32 GMT

Nell Stevens returns to Little Atoms to talk to Neil about her debut novel Briefly, A Delicious Life.

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Little Atoms 758 - Sarah Polley's Run Towards The Danger

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 23:01:28 GMT

Sarah Polley talks to Neil about her essay collection Run Towards The Danger: Confrontations With A Body of Memory.

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Little Atoms 757 - James Runcie's The Great Passion

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 23:01:41 GMT

James Runcie tells the story of Bach's creation of the St Matthew Passion in his latest novel The Great Passion.

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Little Atoms 756 - James Vincent's Beyond Measure

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 23:01:49 GMT

James Vincent talks to Neil about the revolutionary roots of the metric system in his new book Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement.

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Little Atoms 755 - Sophie Haydock's The Flames

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 23:01:41 GMT

Sophie Haydock talks to Neil about the women of Egon Schiele in her debut novel The Flames.

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Little Atoms 754 - Louise Kennedy's Trespasses

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 23:01:48 GMT

Louise Kennedy talks to Neil about her debut novel Trespasses, and her short story collection The End of The World is a Cul de Sac, which is just out in paperback.

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Little Atoms 753 - Matthew Green's Shadowlands

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 23:01:12 GMT

Matthew Green talks to Neil about his book Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain.

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Little Atoms 752 - Wolfson Prize 2022 Shortlist Two

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 23:01:51 GMT

The second of two shows with shortlisted writers for the 2022 Wolfson History Prize, With Marc David Baer (The Ottomans), Francesca Stavrakopoulou (God: An Anatomy) and Nicholas Orme (Going To Church in Medieval England).

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Little Atoms 751 - Wolfson Prize 2022 Shortlist One

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 23:01:36 GMT

The first of two shows with shortlisted writers for the 2022 Wolfson History Prize. In this show Neil talks to Malcolm Gaskill (The Ruin of All Witches) and Clare Jackson (Devil-Land).

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Little Atoms 750 - John Waters' Liarmouth

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 23:01:20 GMT

For the 750th Little Atoms, here's a short interview with legendary film-maker John Waters about his debut novel Liarmouth.

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Little Atoms 749 - Karen Joy Fowler's Booth

Mon, 30 May 2022 23:01:43 GMT

Karen Joy Fowler talks to Neil about her latest novel Booth.

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Little Atoms 748 - Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Dance Tree

Mon, 23 May 2022 23:01:04 GMT

Kiran Millwood Hargrave talks to Neil about her latest novel The Dance Tree.

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Little Atoms 747 - John Grindrod's Iconicon

Mon, 16 May 2022 23:01:19 GMT

John Grindrod takes us on a journey around the landmark buildings of contemporary Britain in his new book Iconicon.

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Little Atoms 746 - Alex Preston's Winchelsea

Mon, 09 May 2022 23:01:46 GMT

Neil talks smuggling and rebellion with Alex Preston in his new novel Winchelsea.

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Little Atoms 745 - Miranda Cowley Heller's The Paper Palace

Mon, 02 May 2022 23:01:32 GMT

Neil talks to Miranda Cowley Heller about her debut novel The Paper Palace. (Contains some discussion of writing about sexual abuse).

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Little Atoms 744 - Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 23:01:32 GMT

Neil has been waiting for 20 years to talk to Louise Welsh about her latest novel The Second Cut.

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Little Atoms 743 - Lisa Harding's Bright Burning Things

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 23:01:55 GMT

Neil talks to Lisa Harding about her novel Bright Burning Things, which is just out in paperback.

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From The Archive - Matthew Baker's Why Visit America

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 23:01:27 GMT

Neil will return from holiday eventually, but meanwhile why not listen to another deep cut from the Little Atoms archive, this week Matthew Baker talks about his short shory collection Why Visit America.

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From The Archive - Jarett Kobek's Only Americans Burn In Hell

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 23:01:45 GMT

Neil is still on holiday so here's another hit from the Little Atoms archive, Jarett Kobek on his novel Only Americans Burn In Hell.

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From The Archive - Sarah Churchwell's Behold America

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 23:01:09 GMT

Neil is on holiday so please enjoy from the Little Atoms archive Sarah Churchwell on her book Behold America.

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Little Atoms 742 - Laurie Winkless' Sticky

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:01:32 GMT

Laurie Winkless talks to Neil about all things Sticky (and slippery) in her new book Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces.

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Little Atoms 741 - Will Storr's The Status Game

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:01:44 GMT

Will Storr talks to Neil about his new book The Status Game.

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Little Atoms 740 - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' The Love Songs Of W.E.B Du Bois

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:01:10 GMT

Neil talks to Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' about her epic debut novel The Love Songs Of W.E.B Du Bois.

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Little Atoms 739 - Marlon James' Moon Witch Spider King

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:01:27 GMT

Booker Prize winner Marlon James talks to Neil about the second novel in his fantasy trilogy Moon Witch Spider King.

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Little Atoms 738 - Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go In The Dark

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:01:16 GMT

Sequoia Nagamatsu talks to Neil about his billion-year spanning debut novel How High We Go In The Dark.

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Little Atoms 737 - Julie Bindel's Feminism For Women

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:01:33 GMT

Neil talks to Julie Bindel about how equality is not the same as liberation, in her new book Feminism for Women.

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Little Atoms 736 - John Banville's April in Spain

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:01:20 GMT

Neil talks to John Banville about his latest two crime novels April in Spain and Snow.

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Little Atoms 735 - Georgia Pritchett's My Mess Is A Bit Of A Life

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:01:08 GMT

Neil talks to award-winning comedy writer Georgia Pritchett about her adventures in anxiety, in her memoir My Mess Is A Bit Of A Life.

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Little Atoms 734 - Christine Smallwood's The Life Of The Mind

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:01:05 GMT

Padraig chats to Harper's and n+1 critic Christine Smallwood about "adjunct lit", therapists, the end of the world, and her debut novel The Life Of The Mind

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Little Atoms 733 - Michael Brooks' The Art of More

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:01:03 GMT

Michael Brooks talks to Neil about how maths underpins the rise of civilisation in his new book The Art of More.

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Little Atoms 732 - Helen Oyeyemi's Peaces

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:01:48 GMT

Helen Oyeyemi talks to Neil about her latest novel Peaces.

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Little Atoms 731 - Kelefa Sanneh's Major Labels

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:01:06 GMT

The New Yorker's Music critic Kelefa Sanneh talks to Neil about his new book Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres.

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Little Atoms 730 - Judy Golding on William Golding

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:01:43 GMT

On the last Little Atoms of 2021, Judy Golding talks to Neil about her father William Golding, on the republication by Faber of The Inheritors, Pincher Martin and The Spire.

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Little Atoms 729 - Rebecca Donner's All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:01:45 GMT

Rebecca Donner talks to Neil about her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack and her part in the German Reistance to Hitler, in her new book All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days.

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Little Atoms 728 - Tom Chivers' London Clay

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:01:16 GMT

Tom Chivers joins Neil to talk about walking the historical strata of London and it's hidden rivers, in his new book London Clay.

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Little Atoms 727 - Nickolas Butler's Godspeed

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:01:03 GMT

Neil talks to Nickolas Butler about his latest novel Godspeed.

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Little Atoms 726 - Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form & Emptiness

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:01:22 GMT

Neil talks to Ruth Ozeki about her latest novel The Book of Form & Emptiness.

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Little Atoms 725 - Qian Julie Wang's Beautiful Country

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:01:14 GMT

Qian Julie Wang talks to Neil about growing up hungry and afraid in America as an undocumented migrant, in her new memoir Beautiful Country.

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Little Atoms 724 - Tom Standage's A Brief History Of Motion

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:01:01 GMT

Tom Standage talks to Neil about his new book A Short History Of Motion, from who invented the wheel to self-driving cars.

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Little Atoms 723 - Monisha Rajesh's Around The World In 80 Trains

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:01:44 GMT

Monisha Rajesh, author of Around The World in 80 Trains, talks to Neil about how her obsession with train travel began, puts up a hearty defence of Amtrak, and tells of her travels to North Korea.

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Little Atoms 722 - Mary Roach's Fuzz

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 23:01:11 GMT

Mary Roach talks to Neil about house-breaking bears and monkey muggers in her new book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law.

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Little Atoms 721 - Alexandra Kleeman's Something New Under The Sun

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 23:01:02 GMT

Alexandra Kleeman talks to Neil about her latest novel Something New Under The Sun.

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Little Atoms 720 - Jackie Higgins' Sentient

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 23:01:34 GMT

Jackie Higgins talks to Neil about what the amazing senses of animals from the cheetah to the octopus can tell us about our own senses in her new book Sentient.

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Little Atoms 719 - Sebastian Faulks' Snow Country

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 23:01:37 GMT

Birdsong author Sebastian Faulks talks to Neil about his latest novel Snow Country, set in Austria between the wars, the second novel of an Austrian trilogy.

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Little Atoms 718 - Geoff Dyer's SEE/SAW

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 23:01:01 GMT

Geoff Dyer talks to Neil about SEE/SAW his latest collection of essays on looking at photographs. Yes we talk about lots of photographs on an audio podcast.

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Little Atoms 717 - Travis Elborough's Through The Looking Glasses

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 23:01:15 GMT

Cultural critic Travis Elborough talks to Neil about the history an cultural impact of spectacles in his latest book Through The Looking Glasses.

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Little Atoms 716 - Lauren Groff's Matrix

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 23:01:17 GMT

Lauren Groff returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her latest novel Matrix, a meticulously recreated historical fiction set in a 12th century abbey.

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Little Atoms 715 - Julianne Pachico's The Anthill

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:01:14 GMT

Julianne Pachico talks to Neil about her Colombia set debut novel The Anthill.

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Little Atoms 714 - Joyce Carol Oates' Breathe

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:01:07 GMT

Joyce Carol Oates talks to Neil about her latest novel Breathe, "a memoir that has been reimagined as a work of fiction" about grief.

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Little Atoms 713 - Ece Temelkuran's Together

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:01:45 GMT

Ece Temelkuran returns to Little Atoms to tell Padraig about Together: Ten Choices for a Better Now, the sequel to the global hit How To Lose A Country. Ece discusses how criticism replaced action, the role of the exile, and the radical proposition of trust.

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Little Atoms 712 - Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:01:21 GMT

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into 54 languages. Shafak's last novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize. She talks to Neil about her latest novel The Island of Missing Trees, set in Cyprus during the partition and contemporary London, and featuring a rather unusual narrator.

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Little Atoms 711 - Stephen Walker's Beyond

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 23:01:47 GMT

Stephen Walker talks to Neil about the 60th annversary of Yuri Gagarin's incredible journey into space in his new book Beyond.

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Little Atoms 710 - Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 23:01:20 GMT

Jean Hanff Korelitz talks to Neil about her latest novel The Plot, which centers around the literary world and the contested ownership of the right to tell a story.

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Little Atoms 709 - Julian Sancton's Madhouse at the End of the Earth

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:01:20 GMT

Julian Sancton on his new book Madhouse at the End of the Earth, and incredible survival story of an ill-fated Antarctic expedition.

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Little Atoms 708 - Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:01:18 GMT

Laura Lippman talks to Neil about the gentrification of Baltimore and using elements of the horror genre in her new novel Dream Girl, and of writing about herself in her essay collection My Life as a Villainess.

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Little Atoms 707 - Brandy Schillace's Mr Humble & Dr Butcher

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 23:01:44 GMT

Brandy Schillace tells Neil the incredible story of Dr Robert White and his quest to perform the first head transplant.

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Little Atoms 706 - Michael Spitzer's The Musical Human

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:01:23 GMT

Michael Spitzer talks to Neil about his new history of the world through the evolution of music, The Musical Human.

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Little Atoms 705 - Alice Bell's Our Biggest Experiment

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 23:01:30 GMT

Alice Bell talks to Neil about her history of climate change, Our Biggest Experiment.

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Little Atoms 704 - Karl Deisseroth's Connections

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 23:01:02 GMT

Neil talks to optogenetics pioneer Karl Deisseroff about the work of his Stanford lab, and about his new book Connections: A Story of Human Feeling. Also contains Karl's wind-chimes.

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Little Atoms 703 - Stephanie Scott's What's Left Of Me Is Yours

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:01:02 GMT

Stephanie Scott talks to Neil about her debut novel What's Left Of Me Is Yours.

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Little Atoms 702 - Alex Von Tunzelmann's Fallen Idols

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Alex von Tunzelmann is a bestselling author, screenwriter, broadcaster, and media commentator. Her latest book is Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History. Inspired by the toppling of the Edward Colson statue in Bristol, Alex tackles the bad faith arguments of the culture warriors head on, talking about some historical examples of other statues around the world that have fallen from favour.

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Little Atoms 701 - Scott Weidensaul's A World On The Wing

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Scott Weidensaul is one of the most respected natural history writers in the country. Among the more than 30 books he's written are Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. His latest book is A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds.

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Little Atoms 700 - Jonathan Meades' Pedro and Ricky Come Again

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 23:01:00 GMT

It's the 700th episode of Little Atoms, and writer and filmmaker Jonathan Meades returns for the tenth time to talk to Neil about his new collection of journalism Pedro and Ricky Come Again.

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Little Atoms 699 - Juliet Jacques' Variations

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London, and a fellow contributor to Resonance FM. She is the author of Trans: A Memoir, and now a collection of short stories Variations, which uses "found" documents and real-life events to rewrite and reinvigorate a history of transgender Britain.

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Little Atoms 698 - Cherie Jones and Kate Mosse

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Neil talks to Cherie Jones about her Women's Prize shortlisted debut novel How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, and to Kate Mosse about the Women's Prize Trust Discoveries programme.

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Little Atoms 697 - Natasha Pulley's The Kingdoms

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Natasha Pulley talks to Neil about time travel, slavery and the UK under French occupation in her latest novel The Kingdoms.

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Little Atoms 696 - Jonathan Ames' A Man Named Doll

Mon, 31 May 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Jonathan Ames talks to Neil about A Man Named Doll, the first in a series of detective novels about "A troubled man, aged 50", as coincidentally Neil is this week.

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Little Atoms 695 - Clare Chambers' Small Pleasures

Mon, 24 May 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Clare Chambers talks to Neil about her Women's Prize 2021 longlisted novel Small Pleasures, about repressed love and parthenogenesis in the South East London suburbs.

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Little Atoms 694 - Tabitha Lasley's Sea State

Thu, 20 May 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Tabitha Lasley talks to Neil about her first book Sea State, a study of masculinity in the oil industry, which becomes an accidental memoir when she becomes to close to her story.

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Little Atoms 693 - Philip Hoare's Albert & The Whale

Mon, 17 May 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Philip Hoare returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about his fascination with Albrecht Dürer, and Dürer's fascination with painting a whale in his new book Albert & The Whale.

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Little Atoms 692 - Helen Scales' The Brilliant Abyss

Mon, 10 May 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Helen Scales returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about exploring the deep oceans, how creatures survive the great depths, and how human activity threatens even the deepest places in her new book The Brilliant Abyss.

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Little Atoms 691 - Tom Higham's The World Before Us

Thu, 06 May 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Tom Higham talks to Neil about the hunt for the Denisovans, and our other hominid ancestors.

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Little Atoms 690 - Claire Fuller's Unsettled Ground

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Claire Fuller talks to Neil about her 2021 Women's Prize shortlisted fourth novel Unsettled Ground.

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Little Atoms 689 - Cat Jarman's River Kings

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Dr Cat Jarman talks to Neil about how an Indian Carnelian bead ends up in a Viking grave in Derbyshire, in her new history of the Vikings, River Kings.

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Little Atoms 688 - Una Mannion's A Crooked Tree

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Una Mannion talks to Neil about her debut novel A Crooked Tree.

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Little Atoms 687 - Chris Power's A Lonely Man

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Chris Power talks to Neil about Russian oligarchs, paranoia and the ethics of using real life in fiction, in his debut novel A Lonely Man.

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Little Atoms 686 - Sarah Leipciger's Coming Up For Air

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Born and raised in Canada, Sarah Leipciger lives in London with her three children, and teaches creative writing to prisoners. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Asham Award, the Fish Prize and the Bridport Prize. Her first novel, the critically acclaimed The Mountain Can Wait, was published in 2015. Coming Up For Air is her second novel.

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Little Atoms 685 - Gavin Francis's Intensive Care

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Little Atoms' favourite GP Gavin Francis returns to talk about his new book Intensive Care, which details his experiences of Covid 19.

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Little Atoms 684 - Bob Stanley and Tessa Norton's Excavate!

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley talk to Neil about their new book Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall.

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Little Atoms 683 - Sam Byers' Come Join Our Disease

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Sam Byers is the author of Idiopathy (2013) and Perfidious Albion (2018). He talks to Neil about ideas of freedom, wellness and degradation in his new novel Come Join Our Disease. NB: For some reason Neil's end sounds like he was recorded at the bottom of a well, but Sam sounds fine and that's the main thing.

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Little Atoms 682 - Melanie Challenger's How To Be Animal

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Melanie Challenger talks to Neil about her new book How To Be Animal, which combines popular science, history and moral philosophy in a wide-ranging and radical new take on the human story and what it means for us today.

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Little Atoms 681 - Jess Walter's The Cold Millions

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 23:01:00 GMT

Jess Walter talks to Neil about his new novel The Cold Millions, which features union organising, riots and the suppression of protest. Set in Spokane in 1909, but seemingly ripped out of today's headlines.

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Little Atoms 680 - Courttia Newland's A River Called Time

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:01:00 GMT

Courttia Newland is the author of The Scholar, Snakeskin and The Gospel According to Cane. He co-edited The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, and his short stories have featured in various anthologies. He talks to Neil about working with Steve McQueen on Little Axe, and about taking 20 years to write his multiverse spanning, world decolonising novel A River Called Time.

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Little Atoms 679 - Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:01:00 GMT

The Author of Homegoing Yaa Gyasi talks to Neil about the American opioid epidemic, finding meaning through both faith and science, and growing up in Alabama in her latest novel Transcendent Kingdom, which is long-listed for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction. Featuring an appearance by Yaa's dog.

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Little Atoms 678 - Kat Arney's Rebel Cell

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:01:00 GMT

Dr Kat Arney talks about how cancer breaks the rules, via naked mole rats, nazi scientists and chimney sweep's scrotums in her new book Rebel Cell. See her website for more details: https://www.rebelcellbook.com/

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Little Atoms 677 - Sebastian Barry's A Thousand Moons

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:01:00 GMT

For the week of St Patrick's Day Neil talks to the current Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry on the paperback release of his latest novel A Thousand Moons. Sebastian talks about finding his family through fiction, and how an Arshile Gorky painting, a pet dog, the writings of Peter Matthiessen and watching RuPaul's Drag Race all influenced Days Without End and A Thousand Moons.

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Little Atoms 676 - Robert Jones Jr's The Prophets

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:01:00 GMT

Robert Jones, Jr. is a writer from Brooklyn, N.Y. He earned both his B.F.A. in creative writing and M.F.A. in fiction from Brooklyn College. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Essence and The Paris Review. He is the creator of the social justice social media community, Son of Baldwin. He talks to Neil about his debut novel The Prophets.

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Little Atoms 675 - Rebecca Watson's little scratch

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:01:00 GMT

Rebecca Watson talks to Neil about her debut novel little scratch, which was published recently to critical acclaim. She is one of The Observer’s 10 best debut novelists of 2021. Watson writes for publications including the TLS, Granta and the Guardian, and is part-time Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize.

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Little Atoms 674 - Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:01:00 GMT

Francis Spufford returns to Little Atoms to talk to Neil about his new novel Light Perpetual.

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Little Atoms 673 - Sara Seager's The Smallest Lights in the Universe

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:01:00 GMT

Sara Seager is an astrophysicist and a professor of physics and planetary science at MIT. She talks about her new memoir The Smallest Lights in the Universe, about juggling being a MacArthur award winning astrophysicist with being a widowed single-mother, and brings Neil up to speed with the latest news in the hunt for exo-planets.

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Little Atoms 672 - Max Porter's The Death of Francis Bacon

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:01:00 GMT

Max Porter is the author of Lanny, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. He is the recipient of the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award. He talks to Neil about painting with words in his latest book The Death of Francis Bacon.

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Little Atoms 671 - Torrey Peters' Detransition, Baby

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:01:00 GMT

Torrey Peters lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. She is the author of two novellas, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. She talks to Neil about ideas of motherhood, ethical surgery, the politically fraught concept of detransitioning and what trans women and divorced cis women have in common in her debut novel Detransition, Baby.

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Little Atoms 670 Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:30:00 GMT

Cal Flyn, author of the memoir Thicker Than Water, talks about her latest book Islands of Abandonment: Life In The Post-Human Landscape. She talks to Neil about her travels to post-industrial wastelands, nuclear exclusion zones and sites of natural disasters to see how nature can reclaim even the most polluted landscapes.

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Little Atoms 669 - Jason Diakité's A Drop of Midnight

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:01:00 GMT

Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité is one of Sweden’s most well-known hip-hop artists. Born in Lund to American parents—an African American dad and a white mom—he has released eight solo albums and numerous singles, the majority of which have reached gold or platinum status. He talks to Neil about his new memoir A Drop of Midnight, in which he talks about growing up conflicted in Sweden, and his travels to South Carolina in search of his ancestors.

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Little Atoms 668 - Andrew Harding's These Are Not Gentle People

Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:01:00 GMT

Andrew Harding is the BBC's Africa correspondent. He talks to Neil about his new book These Are Not Gentle People, about a crime that shook South Africa and split a community apart.

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Little Atoms 667 - Stuart Turton's The Devil And The Dark Water

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:01:00 GMT

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Little Atoms 666 - Ivy Pochoda's These Women

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:01:00 GMT

Ivy Pochoda is the author of The Art of Disappearing, Visitation Street - a Guardian and Amazon best book of 2013 - and Wonder Valley, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and a winner of the Strand Critics Circle Award. For many years she was a world-ranked squash player. She teaches creative writing at the Lamp Arts Studio in Skid Row. Ivy grew up in Brooklyn, NY and currently lives in West Adams, Los Angeles. Her latest novel is These Women.

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Little Atoms 665 - George Saunders' A Swim In A Pond In The Rain

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:01:00 GMT

On this week's show, George Saunders, author of the Booker Prize winning novel Lincoln In The Bardo, talks to Neil about the genius of the Russian short story in his latest book A Swim In A Pond In The Rain.

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Little Atoms 664 - John Lanchester's Reality and Other Stories

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Just in time for Christmas! John Lanchester joins Neil for some spooky stories in his first short story collection, Reality and Other Stories.

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Little Atoms 663 - Alex Ross' Wagnerism

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Alex Ross graduated from Harvard in 1990. He wrote for the New York Times from 1992 until 1996 when he became staff writer at the New Yorker. His first book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, won the Guardian First Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of the essay collection Listen to This. His latest book is Wagnerism: Art and politics in the shadow of music.

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Little Atoms 662 - Noreena Hertz's The Lonely Century

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Noreena Hertz is a renowned thought leader, academic, and broadcaster who was named by The Observer “one of the world’s leading thinkers” and by Vogue “one of the world’s most inspiring women.” Her previous bestsellers—The Silent Takeover, I.O.U. and Eyes Wide Open—have been published in more than twenty countries, and her opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Financial Times, El Pais, Die Zeit and South China Morning Post. Hertz holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD from Cambridge University. She is based at University College London, where she holds an Honorary Professorship. Her latest book is The Lonely Century.

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Little Atoms 661 - Gavin Francis' Island Dreams

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and GP. He is the author of four books of non-fiction, including Adventures in Human Being, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Saltire Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, and Empire Antarctica, which won Scottish Book of the Year in the SMIT Awards and was shortlisted for both the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes. He has written for the Guardian, The Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His work is published in eighteen languages. His latest book is Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession.

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Little Atoms 660 - William Boyd's Trio

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:01:00 GMT

William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. His latest novel is Trio.

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Little Atoms 659 - Rebecca Wragg Sykes' Kindred

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Rebecca Wragg Sykes has been fascinated by the vanished worlds of the Pleistocene ice ages since childhood, and followed this interest through a career researching the most enigmatic characters of all, the Neanderthals. Alongside her academic expertise, she has also earned a reputation for exceptional public engagement as a speaker, in print and broadcast. Her writing has featured in the Guardian, Aeon and Scientific American, and she has appeared on history and science programmes for BBC Radio 4. She works as an archaeological and creative consultant, and co-founded the influential TrowelBlazers project, and Rebecca is now the author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.

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Little Atoms 658 - Kate Summerscale's The Haunting of Alma Fielding

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Her latest book, The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story is shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize.

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Little Atoms 657 - Natalie Haynes' Pandora's Jar

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Natalie Haynes is the author of six books, her novels, A Thousand Ships, The Children of Jocasta, and The Amber Fury, and the non-fiction works, Pandora’s Jar, about women in Greek Myth, and The Ancient Guide To Modern Life.

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Little Atoms 656 - Gabriel Bergmoser's The Hunted

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Gabriel Bergmoser is an award-winning Melbourne-based author, who grew up in a small rural town. In 2015 he won the prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award for his pilot Windmills, and his plays include Heroes, which was nominated for the 2017 Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing. His musical, Moonlite, about a gay bushranger, was performed as part of the 2018 Midsumma Festival to critical acclaim, and was later selected for the Homegrown Grassroots development initiative. A film adaptation of his latest novel The Hunted is being developed in a joint production between Stampede Ventures and Vertigo Entertainment in Los Angeles.

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Little Atoms 655 - Matthew Baker's Why Visit America

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Matthew Baker is the author of the story collection Hybrid Creatures. His stories have appeared in the Paris Review, American Short Fiction, New England Review, One Story, Electric Literature and Conjunctions, and in anthologies including Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions. A recipient of grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the MacDowell Colony, among many others, he has an MFA from Vanderbilt University, where he was the founding editor of Nashville Review. His latest story collection is Why Visit America.

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Little Atoms 654 - Jo Marchant's The Human Cosmos

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Dr Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College. She has worked as an editor at New Scientist and Nature, and her articles have appeared in the Guardian, Wired, Observer, New York Times and Washington Post. She is the author of Decoding the Heavens, shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, and Cure, shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. Her latest book is The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of The Stars.

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Little Atoms 653 - Terri White's Coming Undone

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Terri White is Editor-in-Chief of Empire magazine, having previously edited some of the most read titles in the UK and US, including Time Out New York and Shortlist, where she was named Men's Magazine Editor of the Year. She has also written for the Guardian and The Pool. Her first book is the memoir Coming Undone. NB: This interview contains discussion of domestic violence, sexual abuse and self-harm.

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Little Atoms 652 - Michael Bond's Wayfinding

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Michael Bond, who won the British Psychology Society Prize 2015 for The Power of Others, is a freelance journalist and former senior editor and reporter at New Scientist. His latest book is Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way.

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Little Atoms 651 - David Eagleman's Livewired

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:01:00 GMT

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University, an internationally bestselling author, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the writer and presenter of The Brain, an Emmy-nominated PBS/BBC television series that asks what it means to be human from a neuroscientist's point of view. Eagleman’s research encompasses time perception, vision, synesthesia, and the intersection of neuroscience with the legal system. He is the author of many books, including Sum, Incognito, The Brain, and The Runaway Species. Dr. Eagleman appears regularly on National Public Radio and BBC to discuss both science and literature. His latest book is Livewired: The Inside Story of The Ever-Changing Brain.

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Little Atoms 650 - Susanna Moore's Miss Aluminium

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Susanna Moore is the author of the novels The Life of Objects, The Big Girls, One Last Look, In the Cut, Sleeping Beauties, The Whiteness of Bones, and My Old Sweetheart, and two books of nonfiction, Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i and I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i. She lives in New York City. Her latest book is the memoir Miss Aluminium.

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Little Atoms 649 - Sophie Mackintosh's Blue Ticket

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Sophie Mackintosh is the author of The Water Cure, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and won a Betty Trask Award 2019. Sophie talks to Neil about her "a bit speculative, a bit dystopian" new novel Blue Ticket.

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Little Atoms 648 - Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Douglas Stuart talks to Neil about his Man Booker longlisted, Glasgow set debut novel Shuggie Bain.

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Little Atoms 647 - Maria Konnikova's The Biggest Bluff

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Maria Konnikova talks to Neil Denny about her latest book The Biggest Bluff, in which she sets out to study luck and instead becomes a professional poker player.

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From The Archive - Luke Turner's Out Of The Woods

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Luke Turner is a writer and editor based in London. He co-founded the influential music website The Quietus where he runs a regular podcast and radio show. He has contributed to the Guardian, Dazed & Confused, Vice, NME, Q Mojo, Monocle, Nowness and Somesuch Stories, among other publications. Out of the Woods is his first book.

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From The Archive - Chris Power's Mothers

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Chris Power lives and works in London. His 'Brief Survey of the Short Story' has appeared in the Guardian since 2007. His fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review and The White Review. Mothers is his first book. This interview first broadcast in May 2018.

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From The Archive - Amy Sackville's Painter To The King

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 23:01:00 GMT

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. Her latest novel is Painter to the King.

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Little Atoms 646 - Frances Cha's If I Had Your Face

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Frances Cha is a former editor for CNN in Seoul and Hong Kong. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Columbia University MFA writing program, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. If I Had Your Face is her first novel.

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Little Atoms 645 - Jenny Kleeman's Sex Robots and Vegan Meat

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Jenny Kleeman is a journalist and documentary-maker who has travelled the world finding extraordinary characters to turn into film, print and audio. She writes for the Guardian, The Times, the Sunday Times and Tortoise. Sex Robots & Vegan Meat is her first book. In this interview Jenny talks on Neil about... sex robots, plus future technologies around giving birth.

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Little Atoms 644 - Adam Hart's Unfit For Purpose

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Adam Hart is a biologist, broadcaster, academic and author. Professor of Science Communication at the University of Gloucestershire, Adam is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, and a presenter on BBC2. Adam talks about his new book Unfit for Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World, and how our bodies are not built to cope with the modern diet, stress, social media and "fake news".

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Little Atoms 643 - Emily Anthes' The Great Indoors

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Science Writer Emily Anthes on her new book The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behaviour, Health, and Happiness. Emily talks to Neil about designing better hospitals, schools and prisons, "amphibious" homes and building a house on Mars.

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Little Atoms 642 - Simon Stephenson's Set My Heart To Five

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Simon Stephenson is an author and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. His previous book Let Not The Waves Of The Sea won Best First Book at the Scottish Book Awards. Set My Heart To Five is his debut novel.

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Little Atoms 641 - Lars Iyer's Nietzsche And The Burbs

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Lars Iyer is the author of the novels Nietzsche and the Burbs (2020) and Wittgenstein Jr (2014). He has also written a trilogy of novels, Spurious, Dogma and Exodus, which has received rave reviews in nearly all major literary publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian (UK), The Spectator and The Believer.

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Little Atoms 640 - Richard Atkinson's Mr Atkinson's Rum Contract

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Richard Atkinson is a publisher who has been behind some of the most successful cookbooks of recent years. He lives in London but has a deep-rooted affection for the north of England, the land of his ancestors. He is the author of Mr Atkinson's Rum Contract: The Story of a Tangled Inheritance.

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Little Atoms 639 - David Farrier's Footprints

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 23:01:00 GMT

David Farrier teaches English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. In 2017 he was the recipient of the Royal Society of Literature's Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction, and his work had appeared in Eon and The Atlantic. His first book is Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils.

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Little Atoms 638 - Mark O'Connell's Notes From An Apocalypse

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Mark O'Connell is the author of To Be a Machine, which won the Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017. He lives in Dublin with his family. He writes for the Guardian, Slate, the New York Times and The Millions. His latest book is Notes From An Apocalypse: A Personal Journey To The End of The World and Back.

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From The Archive - Fern Riddell's Death In Ten Minutes

Mon, 25 May 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Dr Fern Riddell is a historian specialising in sex, suffrage and culture in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. She appears regularly on TV and radio, and writes for the Guardian, Huffington Post, Telegraph and Times Higher Education among others, and is a columnist for BBC History Magazine. Fern is the author of The Victorian Guide to Sex, and most recently Death in Ten Minutes: Kitty Marion: Activist. Arsonist. Suffragette.

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Little Atoms 637 - Garth Greenwell's Cleanness

Mon, 18 May 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Garth Greenwell is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow. His novella Mitko won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Literary Award. His novel What Belongs to You has been widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. His latest book is Cleanness.

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Little Atoms 636 - Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies

Mon, 11 May 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist. The Mercies is her first novel for adults. Her bestselling works for children include The Girl of Ink & Stars and have won numerous awards including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year. They have also been shortlisted for prizes such as the Costa Children's Book Award, the Blue Peter Best Story Award and the Foyles Book of the Year Award.

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Little Atoms 635 - Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love

Mon, 04 May 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. She read law at the LSE and was a legal academic before taking degrees in fine art at Goldsmiths, University of London and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Prospect and Pree magazines. Her debut novel is Love After Love.

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Little Atoms 634 - Philip Hensher's A Small Revolution in Germany

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Philip Hensher has written eleven novels, including The Mulberry Empire, the Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, King of the Badgers, The Friendly Ones and Scenes from Early Life, which won the Ondaatje Prize in 2012. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Bath Spa, and his latest novel is A Small Revolution in Germany.

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Little Atoms 633 - Eimear McBride's Strange Hotel

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Eimear McBride is the author of the novels The Lesser Bohemians (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (winner of the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, and others). She was the inaugural creative fellow at the Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading, and occasionally writes for The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, and The Irish Times. Her latest novel is Strange Hotel.

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Little Atoms 632 - Rosanna Amaka's The Book of Echoes

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Rosanna Amaka was born to African and Caribbean parents. She began writing her debut novel The Books of Echoes twenty years ago to give voice to the Brixton community in which she grew up. Her community was fast disappearing – as a result of gentrification, emigration back to the Caribbean and Africa, or simply with the passing away of the older generation. Its depiction of unimaginable pain redeemed by love and hope was also inspired by a wish to understand the impact of history on present-day lives. Rosanna Amaka lives in South London.

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From The Archive - Damian Barr's You Will Be Safe Here

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and columnist. Maggie & Me, his memoir about coming of age and coming out in Thatcher's Britain, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year, and won the Paddy Power Political Books 'Satire' Award and Stonewall Writer of the Year Award. Damian writes columns for the Big Issue and High Life and often appears on BBC Radio 4. He is creator and host of his own Literary Salon that premieres work from established and emerging writers. His debut novel You Will Be Safe Here is out now in paperback.

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Little Atoms 631 - Stephen Moss' The Accidental Countryside

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 23:01:00 GMT

Stephen Moss is a naturalist, broadcaster, television producer and author. In a distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit his credits included Springwatch, Birds Britannia and The Nature of Britain. His books include The Robin: A Biography, A Bird in the Bush, The Bumper Book of Nature, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds and Wild Kingdom. He is also Senior Lecturer in Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University. Originally from London, he lives with his family on the Somerset Levels, and is President of the Somerset Wildlife Trust. His latest book is The Accidental Countryside: Hidden Havens for Britain's Wildlife.

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From the Archive - Yara Rodrigues Fowler's Stubborn Archivist

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Yara Rodrigues Fowler is a novelist from South London. She is also a trustee of Latin American Women's Aid, an organisation that runs the only two refuges in Europe for and by Latin American Women. Her debut novel Stubborn Archivist was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and is now out in paperback.

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Little Atoms 630 - Ben Halls' The Quarry

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Ben Halls is a London-based writer and journalist. He worked in pubs, off licences and several minimum wage jobs before deciding to return to school to pursue his passion for writing. In 2014 Ben completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston, MA, and completed his Master of Fine Arts at Kingston University in 2016. The Quarry is his debut novel.

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Little Atoms 629 - Peter Swanson's Rules For Perfect Murders

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Peter Swanson's novels include The Girl With a Clock for a Heart, nominated for an LA Times book award, The Kind Worth Killing, a Richard and Judy pick and the iBooks store's thriller of the year in 2015, and, most recently, Before She Knew Him. His latest novel is Rules For Perfect Murders.

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Little Atoms 628 - Rosamund Lupton's Three Hours

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Rosamund Lupton is the author of Sister, a BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime", a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, winner of the Strand Magazine critics award and the Richard and Judy Bookclub Readers' Choice Award. Her next two books Afterwards and The Quality of Silence (also a Richard and Judy pick) were Sunday Times bestsellers. Her books have been published in over thirty languages. Her latest novel is Three Hours.

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Little Atoms 627 - Gaia Vince's Transcendence

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Gaia Vince is a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist, and her writing has featured in newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, The Times and Scientific American. She also writes and presents science programmes for radio and television. Her research takes her across the world: she has visited more than 60 countries, lived in three and is currently based in London. In 2015, she became the first woman to win the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize solo for her debut, Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made. Her latest book is Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time.

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From the Archive - Melissa Harrison's All Among The Barley

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:01:00 GMT

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, among others. Her latest novel is All Among the Barley.

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From the Archive - Lauren Groff's Florida

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:01:00 GMT

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 has won the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/O. Henry Award, among others, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2017, she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, the Atlantic, One Story and Ploughshares, and in several of the annual The Best New American Stories anthologies. Her latest story collection is Florida.

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Little Atoms 626 - Eoin Colfer's Highfire

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Eoin Colfer is the author of the internationally bestselling Artemis Fowl series, which has been translated into over forty languages. A Disney film adaptation will be released in 2019, directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Dame Judi Dench. Eoin's books have won numerous awards including The British Children's Book of the Year, The Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and The German Children's Book of the Year. Born in Ireland, Eoin was educated at Dublin University and qualified as a primary teacher, before turning his hand to writing in 2001. Highfire is his first adult fantasy novel.

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Little Atoms 625 - An Yu's Braised Pork

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:01:00 GMT

An Yu was born and raised in Beijing, and left at the age of eighteen to study in New York at NYU. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she writes her fiction in English. Braised Pork is her debut novel.

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Little Atoms 624 - Ziya Tong's The Reality Bubble

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Ziya Tong is on the board of WWF International and was formerly the Vice Chair of WWF Canada. She presented Daily Planet, Discovery Channel's flagship science programme, until its final season in 2018. Tong also hosted the CBC's Emmy-nominated series ZeD, PBS' national prime-time series, Wired Science, and worked as a correspondent for NOVA scienceNOW. She is the author of The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World.

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Little Atoms 623 - Susannah Cahalan's The Great Pretender

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain, which was made into a film by Netflix. Her latest book is The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness.

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Little Atoms 622 - Romesh Gunesekera's Suncatcher

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Romesh Gunesekera is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction including Reef, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Sandglass, winner of the inaugural BBC Asia Award, and The Match, the ground-breaking cricket novel. His fiction has been translated into over a dozen languages and he is the recipient of many awards including a Premio Mondello in Italy. He was born in Colombo and lives in London. His latest novel is Suncatcher.

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Little Atoms 621 - James Meek's To Calais, In Ordinary Time

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:01:00 GMT

James Meek is the author of six novels including The People's Act of Love which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than thirty countries. Meek's last novel The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and he has also written two collections of short stories and two books of non-fiction, Private Island, which won the 2015 Orwell Prize and Dreams of Leaving and Remaining. He is a Contributing Editor to the London Review of Books and writes regularly for the Guardian and New York Times. His latest novel is To Calais, In Ordinary Time.

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Little Atoms 620 - Caleb Klaces' Fatherhood

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Padraig Reidy hosts this episode, joined by Caleb Klaces to discuss his debut novel Fatherhood. They talk about the place of being a father today, the value of home and the novel as an adult bildungsroman.

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Little Atoms 619 - Emma Forrest's Royals

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Emma Forrest has published three novels, an essay collection and the memoir Your Voice In My Head. An Anglo-American currently based in London, she recently wrote and directed her feature debut, Untogether. Her latest novel is Royals.

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Little Atoms 618 - Amelia Gentleman's The Windrush Betrayal

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:01:00 GMT

In this episode Neil speaks to Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman. She was named journalist of the year (Press Gazette) and won the 2018 Paul Foot journalism award for her reportage on the Windrush scandal, which led to the downfall of the Home Secretary and the government loosening its ‘hostile environment’ policy for migrants. She tells Neil about her new book The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment.

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Little Atoms 617 - David Keenan's For The Good Times

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:01:00 GMT

David Keenan was born in Glasgow and grew up in Airdrie, in the west of Scotland, in the late-70s and early-1980s. He is the author of two novels, the cult classic This Is Memorial Device, which won the Collyer Bristow/London Magazine Award for Debut Fiction 2018 and was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, and For The Good Times which won the Gordon Burn Prize. He is also the author of England's Hidden Reverse, a history of the UK's post-punk/Industrial underground.

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Little Atoms 616 Téa Obreht's Inland

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Téa Obreht is the author of The Tiger's Wife, winner of the Orange Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, and her latest novel is Inland. She was born in Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at Hunter College.

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Little Atoms - Henry McDonald's Two Souls

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Padraig Reidy hosts this week, speaking to Guardian journalist and author Henry McDonald about his novel Two Souls. They talk punk, football and paramilitary activity in 70s and 80s Belfast, and how a few wrong choices changed the path of young men's lives.

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Little Atoms 614 - Sarah Perry's Melmoth

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:01:00 GMT

This week Neil speaks to Sarah Perry, author of the bestselling The Essex Serpent, which won Waterstones Book of the Year 2016 and Book of the Year 2017 at the British Book Awards. Her latest novel is Melmoth.

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Little Atoms 613 - Elle Nash's Animals Eat Each Other

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Elle Nash is a founding editor of Witch Craft Magazine and a fiction editor at Hobart Pulp. Her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Elle, NAILED, Reality Beach, Hobart, and other places. She was a member of the Denver Press Club and now lives in Arkansas. Occasionally she reads tarot in exchange for money. Her debut novel is Animals Eat Each Other.

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Little Atoms 612 - Casey Cep's Furious Hours

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Casey Cep is a writer from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in English, she earned an M.Phil in theology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and her work has appeared in The New York Times and The New Republic, among other publications. She is the author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee.

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Little Atoms 611 - Mars by 1980

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Author and music journalist David Stubbs joins Neil to talk about his latest book Mars by 1980: The Story of Electronic Music. They chat about the evolution of synthesisers, the women who pioneered electronic music and where the genre is now.

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Little Atoms 610 - Fatima Bhutto's New Kings of the World

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and grew up between Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of five previous books of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, was long listed for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction and the memoir about her father’s life and assassination, Songs of Blood and Sword, was published to acclaim. Her most recent novel is The Runaways, and her latest book is New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop.

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Little Atoms 609 - Lillian Li's Number One Chinese Restaurant

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Lillian Li joins Neil to talk about her debut novel, Number One Chinese Restaurant, which was longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for fiction.

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Little Atoms 608 - Ben Fergusson's An Honest Man

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Novelist Ben Fergusson joins Neil to talk about An Honest Man, the final book of his Berlin Trilogy. They discuss writing against the backdrop of 1989 Berlin, the summer after leaving school, and the novel's parallels between relationships, infidelity and espionage.

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Little Atoms 607 - Madeline Stevens' Devotion

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Madeline Stevens joins Neil to talk about her first novel, Devotion. They discuss the drafts and graft that come before a debut novel, how Madeline's seven years spent working as a nanny in New York influenced her writing, and how what started out as a short story became Devotion.

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Little Atoms 606 - Julian Hoffman's Irreplaceable

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Julian Hoffman joins Neil to talk about his latest book Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places. They discuss the aborted attempt by Boris Johnson to build an airport on the marshland of Kent's Hoo peninsula, what 'protection' really means when it comes to preservation, and why we owe it to future generations to maintain the habitats of threatened species.

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Little Atoms 605 - Niven Govinden's This Brutal House

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Niven Govinden joins Neil to talk about his new novel This Brutal House, about family and protest in the vogue ball community of 1980s New York. Govinden's previous novels include All The Days And Nights, Graffiti My Soul and Black Bread White Beer.

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Little Atoms 604 - Ben Smith's Doggerland

Thu, 12 Sep 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Ben Smith is a lecturer in creative writing at Plymouth University, specializing in environmental literature and focusing particularly on oceans, climate change and the ‘Anthropocene’. He joined Neil to talk about his first novel, Doggerland, writing rooted in place, and the enjoyment of writing a character who is "really just a git".

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Little Atoms 603 - Richard Osmond's Rock, Paper, Scissors

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:23:37 GMT

Poet Richard Osmond joins Neil to talk about his latest collection, Rock, Paper, Scissors, inspired by his experiences during the London Bridge terrorist attack on 3rd June 2017.

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Little Atoms 602 - Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion is her first book. She joined Neil to talk about how we're all forced to perform and monetize ourselves on the internet, the culture and industries around optimization and life-hacking, and the American tradition of self-reinvention.

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Little Atoms 601 - Rachel DeLoache Williams' My Friend Anna

Mon, 26 Aug 2019 23:01:40 GMT

Rachel DeLoache Williams is an ex-Vanity Fair photo editor and author of My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress. She tells Neil about her friendship with Anna Delvey, the 'Russian heiress' who deceived New York's art scene for a year, and how she became her mark.

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Little Atoms 600 - Laura Cumming's On Chapel Sands

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 23:01:00 GMT

It's the 600th Little Atoms! and Neil welcomes Laura Cumming back to the show. Laura Cumming has been chief art critic of the Observer since 1999. Her book, The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez, was Book of the Week on Radio 4, Wall Street Journal Book of the Year and a New York Times bestseller. It won the 2017 James Tait Black Biography Prize and was published to critical acclaim (‘A riveting detective story: readers will be spellbound’ Colm Tóibín). Her first book, A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits, was described by Nick Hornby as ‘Brilliant, fizzing with ideas not just about art but human nature’ and by Julian Barnes as ‘that rare item: an art book where the text is so enthralling that the pictures almost seem like an interruption’. Laura’s latest book is On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons.

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Little Atoms 599 - Claire McGlasson's The Rapture

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Claire McGlasson is a journalist who works for ITV News and enjoys the variety of life on the road with a TV camera. She lives in Cambridgeshire. The Rapture is her debut novel.

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Little Atoms 598 - Lee Jackson's Palaces of Pleasure

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Lee Jackson is a Victorian enthusiast, creator of the popular online resource on the social history of Victorian London, www.victorianlondon.org, and currently working on a PhD entitled 'Dickensland'. His book Dirty Old London was described by The Times as 'a tightly argued, meticulously researched history of sanitation that reads like a novel' and by the Lancet as 'a triumph of popular scholarship'. His latest book Palaces of Pleasure: How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment covers topics as diverse as the origins of modern public house, football, music hall, the Victorian seaside, dance halls and pleasure gardens.

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Little Atoms 597 - Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. Her first published story, 'Muzungu', was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2009 and shortlisted for the 2010 Caine Prize for African writing. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for her story 'The Sack'. The Old Drift is her first novel.

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Little Atoms 596 - Caroline Crampton's The Way To The Sea

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Caroline Crampton is a writer and editor who contributes regularly to the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday and the New Humanist. She has appeared as a broadcaster on Newsnight, Sky News and BBC Radio 4. Her first book is The Way to The Sea: The Forgotten Histories of The Thames Estuary.

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Little Atoms Live at Idler Festival w. Josh Cohen

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Recorded live at the Idler Festival 2019 at Fenton House, Hampstead. Josh Cohen is a psychoanalyst in private practice, and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of numerous books and articles on modern literature, psychoanalysis and cultural theory. His books include How to Read Freud and The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark. He is a regular contributor to Guardian, New Statesman and TLS. His latest book is Not Working: Why We Have To Stop.

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Little Atoms 595 - Carolina Setterwall's Let's Hope For The Best

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Carolina Setterwall was born in 1978 in Sala, Sweden. She studied Media and Communication in Uppsala, Stockholm and London and has worked within the music and publishing industries as an editor and writer. Setterwall lives in Stockholm with her son. Let's Hope for the Best is her first novel.

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Little Atoms 594 - Angela Saini's Superior

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Angela Saini is an award-winning British science journalist and broadcaster. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Observer, New Scientist, Wired, New Humanist among others, and she regularly presents science programmes on BBC radio. She has won awards from the Association of British Science Writers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. And she was named European Science Journalist of the Year. She has a Masters degree in Engineering from Oxford University and was a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Angela is the author of Geek Nation and Inferior, and her latest book is Superior: The Return of Race Science.

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Little Atoms 593 - Keith Kahn-Harris' Strange Hate

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Keith Kahn-Harris is a sociologist and writer. He is a senior lecturer at Leo Baeck College, associate lecturer at Birkbeck College, and associate fellow of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research where he runs the European Jewish Research Archive. His previous books include Uncivil War: The Israel Conflict in the Jewish Community. His latest book is Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity.

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Little Atoms 592 - Anna Sherman's The Bells of Old Tokyo

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Anna Sherman was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied Greek and Latin at Wellesley College and Oxford before moving to Tokyo in 2001. The Bells of Old Tokyo is her first book.

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Little Atoms 591 - Richard King's The Lark Ascending

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Richard King is the author of the acclaimed How Soon Is Now?, which was named Sunday Times Music Book of the Year, and Original Rockers. His writing has appeared in the Observer, Vice, Guardian, Caught by the River and many other publications. He was co-editor of Loops, an occasional journal of music writing published jointly by Faber & Faber and Domino Records. His latest book is The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape.

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Little Atoms 590 - Wayetu Moore's She Would Be King

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Wayétu Moore is the founder of One Moore Book and is a graduate of Howard University, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California. She teaches at the City University of New York's John Jay College and lives in Brooklyn. She Would Be King is her debut novel.

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Little Atoms 589 - Nathaniel Rich's Losing Earth

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Nathaniel Rich is the author of the novels Odds Against Tomorrow and The Mayor’s Tongue. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and VICE, among other publications. He is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Atlantic. Rich lives with his wife and son in New Orleans. His latest book is Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change.

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Little Atoms 588 - Pete Brown's Pie Fidelity

Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Pete Brown is a British author, journalist, blogger and broadcaster specialising in food and drink, especially the fun parts like beer and cider. His broad, fresh approach takes in social history, cultural commentary, travel writing, personal discovery and natural history, and his words are always delivered with the warmth and wit you'd expect from a great night down the pub. He writes for newspapers and magazines around the world and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Food Programme. He was named British Beer Writer of the Year in 2009 and 2012, and Fortnum and Mason Online Drinks Writer of the Year in 2015. He blogs at petebrown.net and his latest book is Pie Fidelity: In Defence of British Food.

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Little Atoms 587 - Joanne Ramos' The Farm

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Joanne Ramos was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin when she was six. She graduated with a BA from Princeton University. After working in investment banking and private-equity investing for several years, she wrote for the Economist as a staff writer. Her debut novel is The Farm.

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Little Atoms 586 - Hamid Ismailov's The Devils' Dance

Mon, 27 May 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Born in 1954 in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan, Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 due to what the state dubbed `unacceptable democratic tendencies'. He came to the United Kingdom, where he took a job with the BBC World Service. His works are banned in Uzbekistan. Several of his Russian-original novels have been published in English translation, including The Railway, The Dead Lake, which was long listed for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and The Underground. The Devils' Dance is the first of his Uzbek language novels to appear in English, and the translation by Donald Rayfield won the 2019 ERBD Literature Prize.

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Little Atoms 585 - Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Thu, 23 May 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Andrea Lawlor lives in Western Massachusetts and teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College. Lawlor is a fiction editor for Fence and the author of a chapbook, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016). Paul Takes The Form of A Mortal Girl is their debut novel.

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Little Atoms 584 - Season Butler's Cygnet

Mon, 20 May 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Season Butler is a writer, artist and dramaturg born in Washington, DC. Through her work, she explores her interest in identity and otherness, the opportunities and traps of hindsight and hope, and what it means to look forward to an increasingly wily future. An early draft of of her debut novel Cygnet was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian Women. She lives and works between London and Berlin.

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Little Atoms 583 - Dan Richards' Outpost

Thu, 16 May 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Dan Richards is the co-author of Holloway (with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood) and the author of The Beechwood Airship Interviews and Climbing Days. He has written for the Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, Caught by the River, Monocle and the Quietus. He is an RLF Fellow at Bristol University. Dan's latest book is Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth.

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Little Atoms 582 - Natalie Haynes' A Thousand Ships

Mon, 13 May 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Children of Jocasta and The Amber Fury, which was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award, and a non-fiction book about Ancient History, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life. She has written and presented two series of the BBC Radio 4 show,Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience. Her latest novel is A Thousand Ships.

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Little Atoms 581 - Iain Reid's Foe

Thu, 09 May 2019 23:01:45 GMT

Iain Reid is the author of two critically acclaimed, award-winning books of nonfiction. His internationally bestselling debut novel, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, has been published in more than twenty countries. Oscar-winner Charlie Kaufman is writing and directing a film based on the novel, which Reid will co-produce. His second novel, Foe, was an instant bestseller and feature film rights have been acquired by Anonymous Content, with Reid set to executive produce.

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Little Atoms 580 - Bret Easton Ellis' White

Mon, 06 May 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of several novels, including Imperial Bedrooms, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park, and a collection of stories, The Informers. Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho and The Informers have all been made into films. His first work of non-fiction, White, was published in 2019. He is the host of the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast available on Patreon. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Little Atoms 579 - Bev Thomas' A Good Enough Mother

Thu, 02 May 2019 23:01:48 GMT

Bev Thomas was a clinical psychologist in the NHS for many years. She currently works as an organisational consultant in mental health and other services. A Good Enough Mother is her debut novel.

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Little Atoms 578 - Jarett Kobek's Only Americans Burn in Hell

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA, a psychedelic biography of the 9/11 bomber Mohamed Atta, was an unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. His first novel, I Hate the Internet, was a bestseller everywhere, doing especially well in Serbia. His second novel, The Future Won't Be Long, wasn't a bestseller anywhere, but was published in the United States by a company that printed propaganda for Nazi Germany. His latest novel is Only Americans Burn in Hell.

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Little Atoms 577 - Isabella Hammad's The Parisian

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 23:01:19 GMT

Isabella Hammad was born in London. She won the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction for her story 'Mr. Can’aan'. Her writing has appeared in Conjunctions and the Paris Review. The Parisian is her first novel.

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Little Atoms 576 - Will Ashon's Chamber Music

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Will Ashon is the author of Strange Labyrinth (Granta, 2017) and two novels. He previously ran BIG DADA records where his artists included Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Kate Tempest and Diplo. Will's latest book is Chamber Music: About the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces).

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Little Atoms 575 - Temi Oh's Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Temi Oh graduated from King’s College London in 2015 with a BSci in Neuroscience. While at KCL, Temi founded and ran a book-club called “Neuroscience-fiction”, where she led discussions about science-fiction books which focus on the brain. In 2016, she received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh.

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Little Atoms 574 - Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:01:02 GMT

Steve Brusatte is a palaeontologist on the faculty of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He grew up in the Midwestern United States and has a BS in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago, MSc in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol (UK), and PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University in New York. At age 31, Steve is widely recognized as one of the leading palaeontologists of his generation. He has written nearly 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers during his decade of research in the field, discovered and named 10 new species of dinosaurs, and led groundbreaking studies on how dinosaurs rose to dominance and went extinct. Steve is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.

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Little Atoms 573 - A K Benjamin's Let Me Not Be Mad

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 23:01:00 GMT

A K Benjamin is a Clinical Neuropsychologist, specialising in diagnostics and acute rehab. Previously he was a screenwriter, spent two years as a contemplative monk and has worked at a number of NGOs, with homeless addicts, with gangs and with children with acquired and congenital neurological conditions. He no longer lives in the UK. A K Benjamin is not his real name.

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Little Atoms 572 - Hanna Jameson's The Last

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Hanna Jameson wrote her first book at the age of seventeen. Paul Rees of Q Magazine described her as writing like 'an angel on speed'. She has worked for the NHS and travelled the USA, Japan and Europe, developing a particular interest in the US, which led to her studying for a BA in American History. The Last is her fourth novel and her first for Penguin.

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Little Atoms 571 - Adam Foulds' Dream Sequence

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 23:01:00 GMT

Adam Foulds most recent books are In the Wolf's Mouth; The Quickening Maze, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature; and The Broken Word, which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His latest book is Dream Sequence.

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Little Atoms 570 - Damian Barr's You Will Be Safe Here

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:01:00 GMT

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Little Atoms 569 Jan Carson's The Fire Starters

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by short story collection, Children's Children, and a flash fiction anthology Postcard Stories. In 2016 she won the Harper's Bazaar short story competition and was shortlisted for the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize. The Fire Starters is her second novel.

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Little Atoms 568 - Luke Turner's Out of the Woods

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:01:00 GMT

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Little Atoms 567 - Lewis Dartnell's Origins

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Lewis Dartnell is a Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster. He has won several awards for his science writing, and contributes to the Guardian, the Times and the New Scientist. He has also written for television and appeared on BBC Horizon, Sky News, Wonders of the Universe, Stargazing Live, and the Sky At Night. His previous books include the bestseller The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch and his latest book is Origins: How The Earth Made Us.

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Little Atoms 566 - Yara Rodrigues Fowler's Stubborn Archivist

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in a Brazilian-English household in London, where she still lives. She has a BA in English from Oxford and an MA in Comparative Literature at UCL. Yara is a trustee of Latin American Women's Aid, the only refuge run for and by Latin American women in the UK and has also given workshops on gender and power to teenage girls with feminist organisation Fearless Futures. Yara's writing has been published in Litro, and the UCL Publishers' Prize, and she received a Special Mention in the 2015 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Competition. Stubborn Archivist is her debut novel.

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Little Atoms 565 - Ken Hollings' The Space Oracle

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Ken Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, cultural theorist and lecturer based in London. He is the author of the books Destroy All Monsters, Welcome To Mars, and The Bright Labyrinth. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies throughout the world, and he has written and presented programs for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, NPS in the Netherlands, ABC Australia, and Resonance 104.4FM. His latest book is The Space Oracle.

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Little Atoms 564 - Fatima Bhutto's The Runaways

Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1982. She grew up in Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of four previous books, most recently the highly acclaimed The Shadow of the Crescent Moon which was longlisted in 2014 for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel is The Runaways.

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Little Atoms 563 - Max Porter's Lanny

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Max Porter is the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, which has been translated into twenty languages worldwide, and been made into a stage play starring Cillian Murphy. His latest book is Lanny, the story of a young boy, an elderly artist, and a mysterious spirit.

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Little Atoms 562 - John Lanchester's The Wall

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:01:00 GMT

John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He has worked as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books, where he is a contributing editor. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He has written four novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips and Fragrant Harbour, and Capital, and two works of non-fiction: Family Romance, a memoir; and Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, about the global financial crisis. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, E.M Forster Award, and the Premi Libreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. His latest novel is The Wall.

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Little Atoms 561 - Ece Temelkuran's How To Lose A Country

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist and commentator. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine, and her novels include Women Who Blow On Knots and The Time of Mute Swans. Her latest novel is How To Lose A Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship.

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Little Atoms 560 - Dr Julia Shaw's Making Evil

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Dr Julia Shaw is a scientist in the Department of Psychology at University College London (UCL). Her academic work, teaching and role as an expert witness have focused on different ways of understanding criminal behaviour. Dr Shaw has consulted as an expert on criminal cases, delivered police-training and military workshops, and has evaluated offender diversion programs. She is also the co-founder of Spot, a start-up that helps employees report workplace harassment and discrimination, and employers take action. Her work has been featured in outlets such as CNN, the BBC, the New Yorker, WIRED, Forbes, the Guardian and Der Spiegel. She is the author of Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side.

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Little Atoms 559 - Deborah Lipstadt's Antisemitism Here And Now

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:09:02 GMT

Deborah Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. Her books include The Eichmann Trial, Denial: holocaust history on trial (a National Jewish Book Award-winner), Denying the Holocaust: the growing assault on truth and memory, and Beyond Belief: the American press and the coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945. She lives in Atlanta. Her latest book is Antisemitism Here and Now.

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Little Atoms 558 - Kristen Ghodsee's Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:01:00 GMT

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Kristen R. Ghodsee was travelling in Europe, and spent the summer of 1990 witnessing first-hand the initial hope and euphoria that followed the sudden and unexpected collapse of state socialism in the former Eastern Bloc. The political and economic chaos that followed inspired Ghodsee to pursue an academic career studying this upheaval, focusing on how ordinary people’s lives – and women’s particularly – changed when state socialism gave way to capitalism. For the last two decades, she has visited the region regularly and lived for over three years in Bulgaria and the Eastern parts of reunified Germany. Now a professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she has won many awards for her work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has written six books on gender, socialism, and postsocialism, examining the everyday experiences of upheaval and displacement that continue to haunt the region to this day. Ghodsee also writes on women's issues for the Chronicle of Higher Education and is the co-author of Professor Mommy: Finding Work/Family Balance in Academia. Her articles and essays have appeared in publications such as Eurozine, Aeon, Dissent, Foreign Affairs and The New York Times. Her latest book is Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism And Other Arguments for Economic Independence.

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Little Atoms 557 - Georgina Harding's Land of the Living

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Georgina Harding is the author of three previous novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. Her first book was a word of non-fiction, In Another Europe, recording a journey she made across Romania in 1988 during the worst times of the Ceausescu regime. It was followed by Tranquebar: A Season in South India, which documented the lives of the people in a small fishing village on the Coromandel coast. Her latest novel is Land of the Living.

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Little Atoms 556 - Simon Garfield's In Miniature

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including Timekeepers, A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. His latest book is In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World.

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Little Atoms 555 - Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic at large at the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Guernica, and Tin House, among others. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. His latest book is the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.

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Little Atoms 554 - Adam Weymouth's Kings of the Yukon

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Adam Weymouth's work has been published by a wide variety of outlets including the Guardian, the Atlantic and the New Internationalist. His interest in the relationship between humans and the world around them has led him to write on issues of climate change and environmentalism, and most recently, to the Yukon river and the stories of the communities living on its banks. He lives on a 100-year-old Dutch barge on the River Lea in London. His first book, Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018.

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Little Atoms 553 - Thea Lim's An Ocean of Minutes

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:01:00 GMT

Thea Lim’s novel An Ocean of Minutes is out now from Quercus/Hachette in the UK, Viking/Penguin Random House in Canada, and Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster in the US. Her writing has been published by the Paris Review, the Guardian, Salon, the National Post, LitHub, Electric Literature, the Millions, the Southampton Review, GRIST and others. She has received multiple awards and fellowships for her work, including artists’ grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Her novella The Same Woman was released by Invisible Publishing in 2007. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston and she previously served as nonfiction editor at Gulf Coast. She grew up in Singapore and lives in Toronto, where she is a professor of creative writing.

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From The Archive - Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:01:00 GMT

To see in the New Year, here's a repeat of our Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh from August. 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 Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation, her second novel, was a New York Times bestseller.

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From the Archive - Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt

Tue, 25 Dec 2018 00:01:00 GMT

For Christmas Day, here's a repeat of our interview from June 2018 with Adam Kay. Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film, including Mitchell & Webb and Very British Problems. He previously worked as a junior doctor, detailing his funny and sad experiences in his first book This Is Going To Hurt.

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Little Atoms 552 - David Frye's Walls

Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:01:00 GMT

David Frye is a professor and historian, whose research has taken him around the world and involved him in numerous archaeological digs since receiving his PhD from Duke University. He has published extensively in international academic journals. He is the author of Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood & Brick.

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Little Atoms 551 - Jeff Jackson's Destroy All Monsters

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:01:00 GMT

Jeff Jackson is the author of Mira Corpora, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Vice, and The Collagist, and five of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award–winning Collapsable Giraffe theater company in New York City. His latest novel is Destroy All Monsters.

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Little Atoms 550 - Paul Ewen's Francis Plug: Writer in Residence

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:01:00 GMT

This week Padraig Reidy talks to Paul Ewen. Paul Ewen is a New Zealand writer based in south London. His work has appeared in the British Council's New Writing anthology, the Guardian, the TES, Tank, and Five Dials. Paul's first novel, Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author, was published by Galley Beggar Press in 2014. It went on to appear on numerous Books Of The Year lists, won a Society of Authors McKitterick Prize, and was described as "inspired" by the Sunday Times, whose reviewer also called it "a brilliant, deranged new comic creation... the funniest book I've read in years." Paul is now the author of Francis Plug: Writer in Residence.

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Little Atoms 549 - R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:01:00 GMT

R. O. Kwon is the author of the novel The Incendiaries. Her writing is published in The Guardian, Vice, BuzzFeed, Time, Noon, Electric Literature, Playboy, and elsewhere. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Omi International, the Steinbeck Center, and the Norman Mailer Writers' Colony. Born in South Korea, she has lived most of her life in the United States.

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Little Atoms 548 - Thomas Page McBee's Amateur

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:01:00 GMT

Thomas Page McBee was ‘masculinity expert’ for Vice and the first trans man ever to box at Madison Square Garden. His essays and reportage have appeared in the New York Times, Playboy, Glamour and Salon. He is the author of Man Alive, and most recently Amateur: A True Story About What Makes A Man.

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Little Atoms 547 - Robert Olen Butler's Paris in the Dark

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:01:00 GMT

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and sixteen other novels including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University. His latest novel is Paris in the Dark.

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Little Atoms 546 - Richard Skinner's Writing a Novel

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:01:00 GMT

Richard Skinner is a novelist, poet and critic. His most recent book, The Mirror, was described as ‘beautifully written . . . immersive . . . captivating’ by the Guardian. As Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy, he created the flagship ‘Writing a Novel’ six-month course in 2009 and since then has helped hundreds of writers find their voice. He is also the author of Writing a Novel.

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Little Atoms 545 - Rose George's Nine Pints

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:01:00 GMT

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 Percent of Everything, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, and won the Mountbatten Literature Award by the British Maritime Foundation. Rose writes frequently for the Guardian, the New Statesman and many others, and her two TED talks, on sanitation and seafaring, have had 3 million views. Her latest book in Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood.

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Little Atoms 544 - Sarah Moss's Ghost Wall

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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). Her latest novel is Ghost Wall.

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Little Atoms 543 - Jonathan Ames' The Extra Man

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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 lives in Los Angeles.

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Little Atoms 542 - Ivy Pochoda's Wonder Valley

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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. She teaches creative writing at the Lamp Arts Studio in Skid Row, and her latest novel is Wonder Valley.

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Little Atoms 541 - Patrick deWitt's French Exit

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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 Bone, A Prophet), to star Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and John C. Reilly, for release in 2018. His latest novel is French Exit.

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Little Atoms 540 - Michael Redhill's Bellevue Square

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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 writes a series of crime novels under the name Inger Ash Wolfe, one of which, The Calling, was made in to a feature film starring Susan Sarandon. Michael lives in Toronto.

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Little Atoms 539 - Adam Rutherford's The Book of Humans

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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 CURIOUS CASES OF RUTHERFORD & FRY with Dr Hannah Fry. He is the author CREATION, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize, A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED, and most recently, THE BOOK OF HUMANS.

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Little Atoms 538 - Jean Hannah Edelstein's This Really Isn't About You

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 23:02:00 GMT

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 About You.

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Little Atoms 537 - Sophie Mackintosh's The Water Cure

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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.

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Little Atoms 536 - Nell Stevens' Mrs Gaskell and Me

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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 memoir Bleaker House, her latest book is Mrs Gaskell and Me.

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Little Atoms 535 - Amy Sackville's Painter to the King

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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. Her latest novel is Painter to the King.

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Little Atoms 534 - Tim Parks' Out of My Head

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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 the Booker Prize. He lectures on literary translation in Milan, and writes for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. His latest book is Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness.

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Little Atoms 533 - Miriam Toews' Women Talking

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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.

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Little Atoms 532 - Lauren Groff's Florida

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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Little Atoms 531 - Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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 Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation, her second novel, was a New York Times bestseller.

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Little Atoms 530 - Michael Donkor's Hold

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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.

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Little Atoms 529 - Melissa Harrison's All Among The Barley

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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Little Atoms 528 - William Atkins' The Immeasurable World

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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.

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Little Atoms 527 - Madeline Miller's Circe

Mon, 06 Aug 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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.

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Little Atoms 526 - Gavin Francis' Shapeshifters

Mon, 30 Jul 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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 book is Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change.

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Little Atoms 525 - Laura Lippman’s Sunburn

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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.

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Little Atoms 524 - Miranda Doyle's A Book of Untruths

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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 titled A Book of Untruths, written with the support of an award from Arts Council England, explores the lies we tell ourselves.

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Little Atoms 523 - Dorthe Nors' Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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, in addition to a collection of stories Karate Chop, and a novella Minna needs rehearsal space, also published by Pushkin Press. Karate Chop won the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize in 2014. She lives in rural Jutland, Denmark. Her latest novel is Mirror, Shoulder, Signal.

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Little Atoms 522 - Fred Pearce's Fallout

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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.

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Little Atoms 521 - Sarah Churchwell's Behold, America

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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 Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement and New York Times Book Review, and she comments regularly on arts, culture, and politics for television and radio, where appearances include Question Time, Newsnight and The Review Show. She has judged many literary prizes, including the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and she was a co-winner of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer's Award. Her latest book is Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream.

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Little Atoms 520 - Tim Winton's The Shepherd's Hut

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 23:01:00 GMT

Tim Winton has published over twenty books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into many different languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. He lives in Western Australia, and his latest novel is The Shepherd's Hut.

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Little Atoms 519 - Sharlene Teo's Ponti

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 23:01:00 GMT

Sharlene Teo was born in Singapore in 1987. She has an LLB in Law from the University of Warwick and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she received the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship and the David TK Wong Creative Writing award. She holds fellowships from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and the University of Iowa International Writing Program. In 2016, she won the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writer’s Award for Ponti, her first novel.

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Little Atoms 518 - Fern Riddell's Death in Ten Minutes

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:01:00 GMT

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Little Atoms 517 - Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:01:00 GMT

Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film, including Mitchell & Webb and Very British Problems. He previously worked as a junior doctor, detailing his funny and sad experiences in his first book This Is Going To Hurt.

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Little Atoms 516 - Inara Verzemnieks & Among the Living and the Dead

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:01:00 GMT

Inara Verzemnieks teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa. She has won a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa. She is the author of Among The Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming.

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Little Atoms 515 - Daniel Trilling's Lights in the Distance

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 23:01:00 GMT

Daniel Trilling is the editor of New Humanist magazine and has reported extensively on refugees in Europe. His work has been published in the London Review of Books, Guardian, New York Times and others, and won a 2017 Migration Media Award. His first book, Bloody Nasty People: the Rise of Britain’s Far Right, was longlisted for the 2013 Orwell Prize. Daniel’s latest book is Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge on the Borders of Europe.

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Little Atoms 514 - Aida Edemariam's The Wife's Tale

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 23:01:00 GMT

Aida Edemariam, whose father is Ethiopian and mother Canadian, grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She studied English literature at Oxford University and the University of Toronto, and has worked as a journalist in New York, Toronto and London, where she is currently a senior feature writer and editor for the Guardian. Her first book is The Wife’s Tale.

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Little Atoms 513 - Ziyad Marar's Judged

Mon, 28 May 2018 23:01:00 GMT

Ziyad Marar is the author of Intimacy (2014), Deception (The Art of Living) (2008) and The Happiness Paradox (2003) and is President of Global Publishing at Sage Publications. His latest book is Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood.

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Little Atoms 512 - Lucy Wood's The Sing of the Shore

Mon, 21 May 2018 23:01:00 GMT

Lucy Wood is the critically acclaimed author of Diving Belles, a collection of short stories based on Cornish folklore, and Weathering, a debut novel about mothers, daughters and ghosts. She has been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize, and was runner-up in the BBC National Short Story Award. She has also received a Betty Trask Award, a Somerset Maugham Award and the Holyer an Gof Award. Weathering was named as one of The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2016. Lucy’s latest collection of short stories is The Sing of the Shore.

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511 - Chris Power's Mothers

Tue, 15 May 2018 08:00:00 GMT

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510 - Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing

Mon, 07 May 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur 'Genius' Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency and the Strauss Living Prize. She is the first female author to win two National Book Awards for Fiction, for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones(2011). She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time, the author of the memoir Men We Reaped and the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.

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509 - Leo Benedictus’ Consent

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 23:01:00 GMT

Leo Benedictus is a freelance feature writer for the Guardian and other publications. His first novel, The Afterparty was published by Jonathan Cape in 2011. His latest novel is Consent.

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508 - Kathryn Mannix's With The End In Mind

Sun, 29 Apr 2018 23:01:00 GMT

In the third of our shows featuring shortlisted writers for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, Neil talks to Dr Kathryn Mannix about her book With The End in Mind.

Kathryn Mannix has spent her medical career working with people who have incurable, advanced illnesses. Starting in cancer care and changing career to become a pioneer of the new discipline of palliative medicine, she has worked in teams in hospices, hospitals and in patients’ own homes to deliver palliative care, optimising quality of life even as death is approaching. Having qualified as a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist in 1993, she started the UK’s (possibly the world’s) first CBT clinic exclusively for palliative care patients. Her book With The End In Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial, is shortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize.

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507 - Wellcome Prize part 2 with Lindsey Fitzharris and Ayobami Adebayo

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 23:01:00 GMT

In the Second of three shows featuring shortlisted writers for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, Neil talks to Lindsey Fitzharris about The Butchering Art, and Ayobami Adebayo about her novel Stay With Me.

Lindsey Fitzharris received her doctorate in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology at the University of Oxford and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Wellcome Institute. She is the creator of the popular website The Chirurgeon's Apprentice, and she writes and presents the YouTube series Under the Knife. She has written for the Guardian, the Lancet, the New Scientist, Penthouse, the Huffington Post and Medium, and appeared on PBS, Channel 4 UK, BBC and National Geographic. Lindsey is the author of The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine.

Ayobami Adebayo’s stories have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. She holds BA and MA degrees in Literature in English from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife and also has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia where she was awarded an international bursary for creative writing. She has been the recipient of a number of fellowships and residencies. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Stay With Me is her debut novel and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize.

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506 - Jillian Scudder's Astroquizzical

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:01:00 GMT

Jillian Scudder is an astrophysicist and assistant professor at Oberlin College, Ohio. She has been writing ‘Astroquizzical’, a blog answering space-related questions from the public, for over five years. Her writing has also been published in Forbes, Quartz, Medium, and The Conversation. Astroquizzical is Jillian’s first book.

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504 - Wellcome Prize Special part 1: Meredith Wadman and Sigrid Rausing

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 23:01:00 GMT

In the first of three shows featuring shortlisted writers for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, Neil talks to Meredith Wadman about The Vaccine Race, and Sigrid Rausing about Mayhem: A Memoir.

Meredith Wadman, MD, has a long profile as a medical reporter and has covered biomedical research politics from Washington, DC, for twenty years. She has written for Nature, Fortune, The New York Times, andThe Wall Street Journal. A graduate of Stanford University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she began medical school at the University of British Columbia and completed medical school as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. She is the author of The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses.

Sigrid Rausing is the editor of Granta magazine and the publisher of Granta Books. She is the author of two previous books: History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia, and Everything is Wonderful, which was short-listed for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. She is an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics and of St Antony's College, Oxford. Sigrid is the author of Mayhem: A Memoir.

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504: David Adams' Genius With

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Dr David Adam is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop and an editor at Nature, the world’s top scientific journal. Before that he was a specialist correspondent on the Guardian for seven years, writing on science, medicine and the environment. During this time he was named feature writer of the year by the Association of British Science Writers, and reported from Antarctica, the Arctic, China and the depths of the Amazon jungle. David’s latest book is The Genius Within: Smart Pills, Brain Hacks and Adventures in Intelligence.

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503 - Aminatta Forna's Happiness

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and the memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. Her books have won multiple prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Book Award, and been shortlisted for many others, among them the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Neustadt Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Dublin International IMPAC Award. In 2014 Forna won the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, an award from Yale University in honour of an author's body of work. Forna has acted as judge for a number of literary awards, including the International Man Booker. She is currently Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. In 2017, she was awarded an OBE. Her latest novel is Happiness.

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Penderyn Book Prize Special - David Hepworth

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 23:00:00 GMT

David Hepworth has been writing, broadcasting and speaking about music and media since the seventies. He was involved in the launch and editing of magazines such as Smash Hits, Q, Mojo and The Word, among many others.

He was one of the presenters of the BBC rock music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test and one of the anchors of the corporation’s coverage of Live Aid in 1985. He has won the Editor of the Year and Writer of the Year awards from the Professional Publishers Association and the Mark Boxer award from the British Society of Magazine Editors. David is the author of Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars, which is shortlisted for the 2018 Penderyn Book Prize.

Little Atoms is the official podcast of the Penderyn Book Prize

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501 - Jim Crace's The Melody

Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:00:00 GMT

Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of eleven previous books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award) and Harvest (shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize). His latest novel is The Melody.

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Little Atoms 500! Philip Hensher’s The Friendly Ones

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 23:01:00 GMT

The 500th Little Atoms! Philip Hensher has written nine novels, including The Mulberry Empire, the Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, King of the Badgers and Scenes from Early Life, which won the Ondaatje Prize in 2012. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Bath Spa. Philip's latest novel is The Friendly Ones.

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499 - Cathi Unsworth’s Old Black Magic

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:01:00 GMT

Cathi Unsworth began a career in journalism at nineteen on the music weekly Sounds, and has since worked for music, arts, film and lifestyle journals. She is the author of five previous novels: Weirdo, The Not Knowing, The Singer, Bad Penny Blues and Without the Moon, and edited the award-winning compendium London Noir. Her latest novel is That Old Black Magic.

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498: Matthew Sweet's Operation Chaos

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:01:00 GMT

Matthew Sweet is a journalist and broadcaster. He presents Night Waves and Freethinking on BBC Radio 3, and is the summer presenter of The Film Programme on Radio Four. He is the author of The West End Front, Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema, which he adapted as a film for BBC Four. He has edited and introduced the work of Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Thackeray, George Eliot and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. His TV programmes include Silent Britain, A Brief History of Fun, The Age of Excess, Truly, Madly, Cheaply and The Rules of Film Noir. Matthew’s latest book isOperation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves.

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Little Atoms 497 - International Women's Day Special with Julia Pierpoint's Feminist Saints

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:03:46 GMT

Neil talks feminist heroes with author Julia Pierpoint

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496 - Liam Drew's I, Mammal

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:01:00 GMT

Liam Drew is a writer, former neurobiologist and mammal. He has a PhD in sensory biology from University College London, and spent twelve years researching the neural and genetic basis of schizophrenia, the biology of pain and the birth of new neurons in the adult mammalian brain at Columbia University, New York and at UCL. His writing has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, Slate and the Guardian. Liam's first book is I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals.

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495 - Tim Baker's City Without Stars

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:01:00 GMT

Born in Sydney, Tim Baker lived in Rome and Madrid before moving to Paris, where he wrote about jazz. He has worked on film projects in India, China, Mexico, Brazil and Australia, and currently lives in the South of France with his wife, their son, and two rescue animals, a dog and a cat. His debut novel, Fever City, was published in 2016 and went on to be shortlisted for the CWA’s John Creasey New Blood Dagger award and nominated for the Private Eye Writers of America’s 2017 Shamus Award. Tim's latest novel is City Without Stars.

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494 - Abi Andrews' The Word for Woman is Wilderness

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:01:00 GMT

Abi Andrews was born in 1991 in the Midlands, and now lives and works in South East London. She studied English and creative writing at Goldsmiths, and her work has been published in The Dark Mountain Project, Tender, Five Dials and The Bohemyth, amongst others. Her debut novel is The Word for Woman is Wilderness.

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493 - Daniel Pink's When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing.

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Daniel H. Pink is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestselling Drive, To Sell is Human and A Whole New Mind. His books have been translated into 35 languages and have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. Dan's latest book is When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing.

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492 - Mohsin Hamid and Jon McGregor

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:01:00 GMT

Mohsin Hamid writes regularly for The New York Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, and is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Discontent and its Civilisations. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he has since lived between Lahore, London and New York. His latest novel Exit West was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and a story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, Betty Trask Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award, and has twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, where he edits The Letters Page, a literary journal in letters. Jon's latest novel Reservoir 13 was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize, and then won the 2017 Costa Prize for Best Novel.

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Little Atoms 491 - Tony White's The Fountain in the Forest

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:01:00 GMT

Tony White is the author of novels including Foxy-T, the non-fiction work Another Fool in the Balkans and editor and co-editor of short story collections including Croatian Nights, with numerous short stories published in journals, exhibition catalogues and collections including All Hail the New Puritans. Tony has been writer in residence at the Science Museum, London and Leverhulme Trust writer in residence at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Tony White collaborated with Blast Theory to write Ivy4evr, an SMS-based, interactive drama for young people broadcast by Channel 4 in October 2010 and nominated for a BIMA award in 2011 by the British Interactive Media Association. Tony White is currently chair of London's award-winning arts radio station Resonance 104.4fm, and his latest novel is The Fountain in the Forest.

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490 - Ausma Zehanat Khan & Valeria Luiselli

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Ausma Zehanat Khan holds a Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law with a specialisation in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She has practised immigration law and taught human rights law at Northwestern University and York University. Formerly, she served as Editor in Chief of Muslim Girl magazine, the first magazine to reflect the lives of young Muslim women. She is a longtime community activist and writer. Born in Britain, Ausma lived in Canada for many years before recently becoming an American citizen. Her debut novel, The Unquiet Dead, won the Barry Award, the Arthur Ellis Award and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Novel. Her second novel The Language of Secrets is published in February 2018.

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983. Her novels and essays have been widely translated and her work has been published in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's. She is the author of the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth, and the Essay Tell Me How it Ends.

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489 - Caspar Henderson's New Map of Wonders

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Caspar Henderson is a writer and journalist. His work has appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Independent, New Scientist, the New York Review of Books, and other publications. From 2002 to 2005 he was a senior editor at OpenDemocracy. He received the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors in 2009 and the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award in 2010. He is the author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, a bestiary for the 21st Century, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. His latest book is A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels.

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From the archive: Orwell in Tribune

Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00:44 GMT

George Orwell wrote some of his most renowned essays for the British left-wing publication Tribune between 1940 and 1947, including Books vs Cigarettes, You And The Atom Bomb and the regular As I Please column. These works were compiled by Paul Anderson in the book Orwell in Tribune.

Paul Anderson is a former editor of Tribune and deputy editor of the New Statesman. He talked to Little Atoms about Orwell's life and legacy.

Interview first broadcast on 18 August 2006.

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From the archive: Professor Brian Cox

Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:32:55 GMT

A classic Little Atoms from 2010 to ease you into the new year: Professor Brian Cox takes on the big questions, including what happens if you put a cat in a Large Hadron Collider

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488 - Celeste Ng and Susie Boyt

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You,won the Hopwood Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the American Library Association's Alex Award. She is a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and her latest novel is Little Fires Everywhere.

Susie Boyt is the author of five other acclaimed novels and the much-loved memoir My Judy Garland Life which was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize, staged at the Nottingham Playhouse and serialised on BBC Radio 4. She has written about art, life and fashion for the Financial Times for the past fourteen years and has recently edited The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James. She is also a director at the Hampstead Theatre. Her latest novel is Love & Fame.

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487 - Julie Bindel and John Crace

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Julie Bindel is a renowned investigative journalist, and has written extensively on religious fundamentalism, violence against women, the international surrogacy trade, mail order brides, trafficking, and unsolved murders. She writes regularly for The Guardian, New Statesman, Truthdig and Standpoint Magazine, and frequently appears on the BBC and Sky News. She was Visiting Journalist at Brunel University, UK (2013 - 2014) and is now on the advisory board for www.byline.com. Julie's latest book is The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth.

John Crace is the Guardian's newspaper's parliamentary sketch writer, and author of their "Digested Read" column. He is the author of a number of books, the latest is I, Maybot: The Rise and Fall.

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486 John Higgs' Watling Street

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT

John Higgs is the author of I HAVE AMERICA SURROUNDED: THE LIFE OF TIMOTHY LEARY; THE KLF: CHAOS, MAGIC AND THE BAND WHO BURNED A MILLION POUNDS; STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE: MAKING SENSE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; and the novels THE BRANDY OF THE DAMNED and THE FIRST CHURCH ON THE MOON. John's latest book is WATLING STREET.

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Converging Cultures - Apocalypse Now

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Contagion has haunted so much of 20th century culture, from Camus’s Plague to Romero’s zombies. In this episode, we examine real and imagined epidemics, and meet the people whose job it is to stop them.

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Little Atom 485 - Judith Matloff's The War Is In The Mountains

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Judith Matloff is a Harvard graduate and teaches conflict reporting at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, the Economist and the Financial Times. Matloff has pioneered safety training for journalists around the world, advising various international organisations including the Dart Center and International News Safety Institute. She has won several fellowships, including a Fulbright and MacArthur, and is the author of Fragments of a Forgotten War and Home Girl. Her latest book is The War is in the Mountains: Violence in the World's High Places.

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Converging Cultures Episode 3: Faces of war

Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Futurists like Marinetti and D’Annunzio revelled in the destructive energy of battle, but in Weimar Germany after world war 1, artists such as Otto Dix and Hans Fallada documented the horror of disfigurement, while scientists and medics tried to rebuild ruined men.

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Little Atoms 484 - Joshua Cohen's Moving Kings

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. He has written novels (Book of Numbers), short fiction (Four New Messages), and nonfiction for the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, London Review of Books, n+1, and others. In 2017 he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. His latest novel is Moving Kings.

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Converging Cultures Episode 2 - All in your head

Sat, 18 Nov 2017 00:00:34 GMT

“Mesmerism” was a part of mainstream medicine in the 19th century, with many believing the unprovable concept of “animal magnetism”. The idea influenced everyone from Robert Louis Stevenson to Sigmund Freud, creating lurid tales of split personalities and mind control, from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to Trilby.

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Angela Saini's Inferior - How Science Got Women Wrong

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:08:33 GMT

Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. She is the author of Geek Science: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World, and her latest book is Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story.

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Little Atoms presents...Electric Enlightenment

Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Episode 1 of Little Atoms' documentary series "Converging Cultures" explores the influence of science on the Romantic and Gothic imagination. Electricity captivated the greatest minds of the “age of wonder”. Gentlemen amateurs amazed audiences with their experiments, and some even believed electricity could conquer death itself. The young Mary Shelley was as enthralled as anyone - leading to the greatest horror creation of all time: Frankenstein.

Presented by Neil Denny

Produced by Thomas Glasser

Little Atoms' series Converging Cultures was created with the support of the Wellcome Trust

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From the archive - Ann Druyan

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Ann Druyan is an author and television and film writer & producer whose work is largely concerned with the effects of science and technology on our civilization. She was co-writer with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter of the Emmy and Peabody Award winning television series COSMOS. This interview was first broadcast in March 2013.

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482: Marcel Theroux's The Secret Books

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:46:43 GMT

Marcel Theroux is the author of five novels: A Blow to the Heart, A Stranger in the Earth, The Paperchase (winner of the 2002 Somerset Maugham Award), Far North (shortlisted for America's prestigious National Book Award), and Strange Bodies. His latest novel is The Secret Books.

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481: Marcus Du Sautoy and Jamie Perera's Sound of Proof

Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:07:13 GMT

Marcus Du Sautoy is Professor of Mathematics and Simonyi Professor for the Public understanding of Science at Oxford University, and Jamie Perera is a composer and sound artist. In this show we talk about and listen to their musical, mathematical collaboration The Sound of Proof. Click here for the experiment that Marcus mentions at the end of the show.

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480 - David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt's Runaway Species

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 23:00:00 GMT

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University. His scientific research is published in journals from Science to Nature, and he is also the author of the internationally bestselling books Sum and Incognito. He is the writer and presenter of the companion BBC television series The Brain.Anthony Brandt is an internationally acclaimed composer and a Professor of Composition and Theory at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. His musical output includes two chamber operas and works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, dance, theatre, film, and television. He is also Artistic Director of the award-winning new music ensemble Musiqa.Anthony and David are the authors of The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes The World.

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479 - Dallas Campbell's Ad Astra

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:00:00 GMT

Dallas Campbell has presented some of the most ambitious landmark series across the BBC, such as City in the Sky with Dr Hannah Fry and Stargazing Live with Dara O'Brian and Brian Cox, which included broadcasting Astronaut Tim Peake's historic live launch to the International Space Station and was nominated for a BAFTA. In 2014, Dallas embarked on a six-part international series for National Geographic and he continues to regularly present for the Horizon Guide series on BBC4. In 2016 he went back in time to re-create 'Television's First Night', for the 80th anniversary of BBC television. Dallas is a regular contributor to the BBC's science magazine Focus, The Times' Eureka magazine and has written for The Observer. He is the author of Ad Astra: An Illustrated Guide to Leaving The Planet.

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478 - Christopher Bollen's The Destroyers

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 23:00:00 GMT

Christopher Bollen is a writer who lives in New York City. He regularly writes about art, literature, and culture. He is the author of Lightning People and Orient and is currently the Editor at Large at Interview Magazine. Christopher's latest novel is The Destroyers.

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477: Sarah Sentilles' Draw Your Weapons

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:00:00 GMT

A former theologian, Sarah Sentilles completed her undergraduate degree at Yale and both a Masters and a Doctorate at Harvard. She was a college professor for over a decade before becoming a full time writer and is now a passionate advocate for life lived by peace and principle. Her previous books are Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton, A Church of her Own: What Happens When A Woman Takes the Pulpit and Breaking Up With God: A Love Story. Her latest book is Draw Your Weapons.

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From the archive - Jonathan Meades

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:00:00 GMT

Jonathan Meades is a writer on architecture, culture and food, a novelist and television presenter, and a longtime friend of Little Atoms. This episode, marking the release of a boxset of Jonathan's TV work, was first broadcast in October 2008.

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476: Nicole Krauss and Kamila Shamsie

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:25:36 GMT

Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as 'one of America's most important novelists'. She is the author of the international bestsellers, Great House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize, and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and was short-listed for the Orange, Médicis, and Femina prizes. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. In 2007, she was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 she was chosen by the New Yorker for their 'Twenty Under Forty' list. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Her latest novel is Forest Dark.Kamila Shamsie is the author of six previous novels: In the City by the Sea; Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and Saffron; Broken Verses; Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and A God in Every Stone, which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Three of her novels have received awards from Pakistan's Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2013 was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist. Her latest novel, Home Fire has been longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

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From the archive: Misha Glenny's Dark Market

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 08:21:14 GMT

Misha Glenny is a distinguished journalist and historian. As the Central Europe Correspondent first for the Guardian and then for the BBC, he chronicled the collapse of communism and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He won the Sony Gold Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting. The author of four books, including the acclaimed McMafia, he has been regularly consulted by the US and European governments on major policy issues and ran an NGO for three years, assisting with the reconstruction of Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo. In this episode, broadcast in October 2011, Misha discussed DarkMarket: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You.

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From the archive: Naomi Alderman's Liars' Gospel

Tue, 29 Aug 2017 08:22:13 GMT

Naomi Alderman grew up in London and attended Oxford University and UEA. Her first novel, Disobedience, was published in ten languages; like her second novel, The Lessons, it was read on BBC radio's Book at Bedtime. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers. In 2007, she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future.Her prize-winning short fiction has appeared in Prospect, on BBC Radio 4 and in a number of anthologies. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Naomi broadcasts regularly, has guest-presented Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and writes regularly for Prospect and the Guardian. Her third novel, The Liars' Gospel, was published by Penguin in August 2012.This episode of Little Atoms was first broadcast in February 2013.

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From the archive: Jon Ronson, October 2005

Tue, 22 Aug 2017 08:50:32 GMT

Writer Jon Ronson has been one of Little Atoms most regular guests. In his very first appearance on the show in 2005, he talked to Neil Denny and Richard Sanderson about the odd and unusual characters he met in his work, including Omar Bakri Muhammad, Jonathan King and the eponymous Men Who Stare At Goats.

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From the archive: Martin Rees - From Here to Infinity

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:15:31 GMT

Martin Rees is Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He was the President of the Royal Society until 2010, and is the Astronomer Royal. A member of the House of Lords, he is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His awards include the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Einstein Award of the World Cultural Council and the Crafoord Prize (Royal Swedish Academy). He was the recipient of the 2011 Templeton Prize. Martin's latest book is From Here to Infinity: Scientific Horizons, which expands on hIs 2010 BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures.THIS PROGRAMME WAS THE 200TH EDITION OF LITTLE ATOMS.First broadcast on 3rd June 2011.

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475: Vanessa Potter & Pía Spry-Marqués

Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:55:04 GMT

Vanessa Potter spent 16 years as an award-winning broadcast producer in London's advertising industry, before one day fate conspired to turn the lights out on her. Suddenly losing then slowly regaining her sight led Vanessa to change direction, turning the camera upon herself to tell her story via immersive art and storytelling. Vanessa's collaborations have led to some exciting partnerships, and she is currently working on developing an interactive EEG science-art project that allows the public to see and understand the effects of mindfulness on their brains. She is also involved in several other scientific research projects. Her speaking engagements include a June 2016 TEDx talk in Ghent, Belgium. Vanessa is the author of Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight.Pía Spry-Marqués gained her PhD in archaeology from the University of Cambridge, where, following post-doctoral research, she now works in communications. Her research took her across Europe and across time, from the late Iron Age back to the Ice Age, identifying, classifying and decoding the meaning of animal remains in human-associated deposits. Originally from Spain, Pía is predisposed to a keen understanding, awareness and love of the pig and the many tasty pork products that are so much a part of Spanish cuisine. Pia is the author of PigPork: Archaeology, Zoology and Edibility.

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474: Ryan Gattis & Zinzi Clemmons

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 10:11:55 GMT

Ryan Gattis is the author of Kung Fu and All Involved, which won the American Library Association’s Alex Award & the Lire Award for Noir of the Year in France. Gattis lives and writes in Los Angeles, where he is a member of the street art crew UGLARworks & a founding board member of 1888, a Southern California literary arts non-profit. Ryan’s latest novel is Safe.Zinzi Clemmons was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. Her writing has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, the Paris Review Daily, Transition and elsewhere. She is a cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Journal and a contributing editor to Literary Hub. Clemmons lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the Colburn Conservatory and Occidental College. Zinzi’s debut novel is What We Lose.

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473: Jeff Sparrow in Search of Paul Robeson

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:38:13 GMT

Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, and broadcaster. He writes a fortnightly column for The Guardian and contributes regularly to many other Australian and international publications. Jeff is a member of the 3RRR Breakfasters team and the immediate past editor of literary journal Overland. He is the author of a number of award-nominated books, including Money Shot and Communism: a love story. Jeff's latest book in No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson.

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472: Elena Lappin's What Language Do I Dream In?

Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Elena Lappin is a writer and editor. Born in Moscow, she grew up in Prague and Hamburg, and has lived in Israel, Canada, the United States and – longer than anywhere else – in London. She is the author of Foreign Brides and The Nose, and has contributed to numerous publications, including Granta, Prospect, the Guardian and the New York Times Book Review. Elena is the author of a memoir, What Language Do I Dream In?

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471: Rachel McCormack's Chasing the Dram

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:06:22 GMT

Rachel McCormack is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4s The Kitchen Cabinet, and has also broadcast on the station's From Our Own Correspondent, the Food Programme and appeared as an expert guest on BBC Radio 2 on both the Simon Mayo show and the Chris Evans show. Rachel is the author of Chasing the Dram: Finding the Spirit of Whisky.

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470: Jean Hanff Korelitz & Kanishk Tharoor

Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of the novels A Jury Of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River, The White Rose and Admission. A film version of Admission starring Tina Fey, Paul Rudd and Lily Tomlin was released in 2013. Jean’s latest novel is The Devil and Webster.Kanishk Tharoor is a writer based in New York City and the author of the short story collection Swimmer Among the Stars. His stories and essays have appeared in publications in India, the US, the UK, and the Middle East. He has been nominated for the National Magazine Award.

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Little Atoms 469: John Grindrod's Outskirts

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:16:46 GMT

John Grindrod grew up on 'the last road in London' on Croydon's New Addington housing estate, surrounded by the Green Belt. He is the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain, described by the Independent on Sunday as 'a new way of looking at modern Britain'. He has written for the Guardian, Financial Times, Big Issue and The Modernist and has worked as a bookseller and publisher for over twenty-five years. He runs the popular website dirtymodernscoundrel.com and his latest book is Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt.

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468: Jason Hickel's the Divide

Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Jason Hickel is an anthropologist at the London School of Economics. Originally from Swaziland, he spent a number of years living with migrant workers in South Africa, studying patterns of exploitation and political resistance in the wake of apartheid. Alongside his ethnographic work, he writes about development, inequality, and global political economy, contributing regularly to the Guardian, Al Jazeera and other online outlets. His work has been funded by Fulbright-Hays Program, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Charlotte Newcombe Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust. Jason Hickel is the author of The Divide.

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467: Beau Lotto's Deviate

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Beau Lotto is Professor of Neuroscience at University of London Goldsmiths, and a visiting scholar at NYU, where he specialises in the biology and psychology of perception. He has conducted research on human perception and behaviour for more than 25 years. In 2001 Beau founded Lab of Misfits, which had a two year residency at the Science Museum, London. Beau is the author of Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

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466: Hari Kunzru's White Tears

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 10:44:54 GMT

Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men, and the story collection Noise. His latest novel is White Tears.

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Little Atoms 465 - Ottessa Moshfegh & Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Tue, 30 May 2017 10:16:08 GMT

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. Her novel Eileen was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her short fiction has earned her the Paris Review Plimpton Prize, a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and an O. Henry Award. Her collection Homesick for Another World was published in January 2017. McGlue was her debut novel, and the winner of the Fence Modern Prize for Prose and the Believer Book Award, and is being published in the U.K. for the first time.Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike, a biography of Gabriele d’Annunzio, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction, the Costa Biography Award, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Paddy Power Political Biography of the Year Award. Her other books are Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions which was published in 1990 to wide acclaim, and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen, published in 2004, which garnered similar praise. Cleopatra won the Fawcett Prize and the Emily Toth Award. Lucy Hughes-Hallett is also a respected critic who has reviewed for all the major British newspapers, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Lucy's first novel is Peculiar Ground.

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From the archive: Adam Curtis's All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Tue, 23 May 2017 10:00:00 GMT

This interview was first broadcast on 21 November 2008.Adam Curtis is a producer, writer and director of documentaries such as Bitter Lake, HyperNormalisation, The Century of the Self, and The Power of Nightmares. In this episode, Adam talks about the concept of hyper-individualism and his series All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.

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Little Atoms 464 - Natalie Haynes and The Children of Jocasta

Tue, 16 May 2017 12:14:47 GMT

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, which was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award, and a non-fiction book about Ancient History, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life. She has written and presented two series of the BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience. Her latest novel is The Children of Jocasta.

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Little Atoms 463: Phillip Lewis and The Barrowfields

Tue, 09 May 2017 09:48:45 GMT

Phillip Lewis was born and raised in a small town called West Jefferson in the mountains of North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later received a law degree from Campbell University. While his law practice is based in downtown Charlotte, much of his work has been in the western part of North Carolina, in the mountains. Phillip's debut novel is The Barrowfields.

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Little Atoms 462: Mark O'Connell's To Be A Machine

Wed, 03 May 2017 10:26:33 GMT

Mark O'Connell is a writer based in Dublin. He is Slate’s books columnist, a staff writer at The Millions, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s “Page-Turner” blog; his work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Observer, and The Independent. Mark’s first book is To Be a Machine.

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461: Neil Wood's Good Cop Bad War

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Neil Woods was an undercover cop whose brief was to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs. Starting out in the early 90s and making the rules up as he went, Neil was at the forefront of police surveillance. He quickly earned a name as the most successful operative of his time and his expertise was called upon by drugs squads around the country to tackle an ever growing problem. But after years on the streets, spending time with the vulnerable users at the bottom of the chain, Neil began to question the seemingly futile war he was risking both his life and sanity for. Good Cop, Bad War is an intense account of the true effects of the War on drugs and a gripping insight into the high pressure world of British undercover policing.

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Little Atoms 460: Wellcome Prize 2017 Special - 2

Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:35:50 GMT

The second of two episodes of Little Atoms with shortlisted writers for the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize. This week, Ed Yong on his book I Contain Multitudes, plus a repeat of our interview with the winner of the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize Suzanne O'Sullivan on her book It's All In Your Head.

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459: Wellcome Book Prize 2017 - Part one

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:00:00 GMT

The first of two episodes of Little Atoms with shortlisted writers for the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize. This week, Sarah Moss on her novel The Tidal Zone, David France of his history of AIDS How To Survive a Plague, and novelist Maylis de Kerangal on Mend the Living.

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From the Little Atoms archive: Sarah Churchwell's Careless People

Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:49:04 GMT

Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, writes regularly for the Guardian and the New Statesman, and often appears on television and radio talking about the arts, culture and all things American. In this podcast, Sarah discusses Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby.First broadcast on 10th September 2013.

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From the archive – Noam Chomsky

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:05:10 GMT

In this episode of Little Atoms from 2009, Noam Chomsky examines the Obama administration and asks what has really changed.Chomsky describes the first term of the Bush administration as “off the spectrum” in both aggression and arrogance. US international prestige sank to the lowest point since measured. It is hardly surprising therefore that the next candidate should have moved towards the centre.Violent interventionism has gone hand in hand with American exceptionalism for centuries, says Chomsky. Obama’s ideology, according to Chomsky has been “less extreme but basically hasn’t changed.”Chomsky explores the history and dangers of humanitarian intervention.“You can’t say it can never be benevolent but there is a heavy burden of proof. It makes sense to talk about the responsibility to protect, but it should not be left in the hands of violent, aggressive powers”.The internet played a prominent role in changing popular activism and proliferating conspiracy theories under the Bush regime. Through the internet, the 9/11 movement diverted people away from activism on serious issues.“It stopped questions on things the administration would rather keep secret.”But Obama has found the internet useful. Chomsky argues has it been “a very effective cult generator” and crucial in the construction of Brand Obama.Obama, like Bush, used the internet to distract activists from protesting state crimes.

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458: George Saunders & Kathryn Hughes

Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:00:00 GMT

458: George Saunders & Kathryn HughesGeorge Saunders is the author of nine books, including Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize (for the best work of fiction in English) and the Story Prize (best short-story collection). He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. His debut novel is Lincoln in the Bardo.Kathryn Hughes is the author of award-winning biographies of Mrs Beeton and George Eliot, both of which were filmed for the BBC. For the past fifteen years she has been a literary critic and columnist for the Guardian. Educated at Oxford University, and with a PhD in Victorian Studies, she is currently Professor of Life Writing at the University of East Anglia and Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society. Her latest book is Victorians Undone: Tales of Flesh in the Age of Decorum.

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Little Atoms 457: Christine Negroni and the Crash Detectives

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:04:17 GMT

A journalist, aviation blogger, documentary producer and crash investigator, Christine Negroni has more than fifteen years' experience observing and participating in the international effort to create safer skies. She currently reports for the New York Times, ABC News and Air & Space. Christine is the author of The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World’s Most Mysterious Air Disasters.

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456: Brenna Hassett's Built on Bones

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 11:00:00 GMT

Brenna Hassett is an archaeologist who specializes in using clues from the human skeleton to understand how people lived and died in the past. She has worked on excavation sites all over the world including Roman-period burials near the Giza pyramids, remote Greek islands, a Buddhist monastery in northern Thailand, and the famous central Anatolian site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. Brenna is one-quarter of the TrowelBlazers project, an outreach, advocacy and academic effort to celebrate women’s contributions to archaeology. Brenna is the author of Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death.

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Little Atoms 455 - Mark Stevenson and Rory Clements

Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:44:10 GMT

Mark Stevenson is a writer, broadcaster, futurologist and founder of The League of PragmaticOptimists. He has written for Radio 4, The Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and New Statesman,and is the author of the critically acclaimed An Optimist’s Tour of the Future. He lives in London and is an adviser to (among others) The Virgin Earth Challenge, Civilised Bank and The Atlas of the Future.Mark’s latest book is We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World.Rory Clements won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award in 2010 for his second novel, Revenger.He is the author of the John Shakespeare series of novels which are currently in development for TVby the team behind Poldark and Endeavour. Since 2007, Rory has been writing full-time in a quietcorner of Norfolk, England, where he lives with his family. Rory’s latest novel is Corpus.

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454: Sheena Kamal & Kate Hamer

Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:00:00 GMT

Sheena Kamal has been a stunt double (for children), a stand-in (most notably Archie Panjabi) and a film/TV extra. She has been a producer’s assistant and most recently, a researcher for a gritty TV crime drama series set in Toronto. Sheena’s debut novel Eyes Like Mine is inspired by one issue that kept cropping up during her research- the plight of the missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. Sheena holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, which she attended on Canada's most prestigious scholarship and was awarded a TD Canada Trust Scholarship for community leadership and activism around the issue of homelessness.Kate Hamer grew up in Pembrokeshire and has recently been awarded a Literature Wales bursary. Her bestselling novel The Girl in the Red Coat was a no 3. Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award, the Bookseller Industry Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, the John Creasey New Blood Dagger and Wales Book of the Year. Her second novel is The Doll Funeral.

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453: Cordelia Fine & Nichi Hodgson

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:00:00 GMT

Cordelia Fine is a Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of much-acclaimed A Mind of Its Own (Icon, 2006) and Delusions of Gender (Icon, 2010), described as ‘a truly startling book’ by the Independent, ‘fun, droll yet deeply serious’ by New Scientist and an ‘important book … as enjoyable as it is timely and interesting’ by the West Australian. Her latest book is Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds. This show also features a short interview with Nichi Hodgson on her book The Curious History of Dating.

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Two Cultures: The power in our genes

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:56:35 GMT

The third and final Little Atoms Two Cultures in Conversation events took place in London on 17 January 2017, when Little Atoms’ Neil Denny was joined by novelist Naomi Alderman and science writer Adam Rutherford. Neil began by asking Naomi about her latest book, The Power.

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452: Olivia Laing & Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 11:00:00 GMT

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze and New York Times. She's a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence at the British Library. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. Her latest book The Lonely City has been shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize.Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, New York, Harper's, the Believer, Artforum, and the Nation, among many other publications. Educated at Yale and Berkeley, he is the co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, and a visiting scholar at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World.

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451: Peter Swanson's Her Every Fear

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:56:12 GMT

Peter Swanson's debut novel, The Girl With a Clock for a Heart (2014), was described by Dennis Lehane as 'a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride' and was nominated for the LA Times book award. His follow up The Kind Worth Killing (2015), a Richard and Judy pick, was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and named the iBook stores Thriller of the Year. His latest novel is Her Every Fear. He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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450: Chibundu Onuzo & Alexandra Kleeman

Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:33:49 GMT

Chibundu Onuzo was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1991. Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Etisalat Prize for Literature. She is completing a PhD on the West African Student's Union at King's College London. Her latest novel is Welcome to Lagos.Alexandra Kleeman is a NYC-based writer of fiction and nonfiction, and a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Conjunctions, Guernica, and Gulf Coast, among others. Nonfiction essays and reportage have appeared in Harpers, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. She is the author of the short story collection Intimations, and a debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine.

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Little Atoms 449 - Laura Cumming's Vanishing Man

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:00:00 GMT

Laura Cumming has been the art critic of the Observer since 1999. Previously, she was Arts Editor for the New Statesman, presenter of Nightwaves on BBC Radio 3, and arts producer at the BBC World Service. Her previous book, A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits received widespread critical acclaim. Laura’s latest book is The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez.

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448: Luke Dormehl's Thinking Machines

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:00:00 GMT

Luke Dormehl is a journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film. He writes and has written for Fast Company, Wired, The Observer, Empire, SFX, The Sunday Times, Politico and Cult of Mac. He is the author of The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems (And Create More) and The Apple Revolution. Luke’s latest book is Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future.

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447: Michael Palin’s A Sackful of Limericks

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:00:00 GMT

Recorded live at Waterstones Piccadilly on 1 December 2016, here's the last Little Atoms of 2016. Neil Denny chats with comedy legend Michael Palin about his book A Sackful of Limericks, followed by an audience Q&A.

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446: Raoul Martinez's Creating Freedom

Tue, 13 Dec 2016 10:49:47 GMT

Raoul Martinez is a writer, artist, and award-winning filmmaker. Creating Freedom is his first book. It is informed by over a decade of research and is accompanied by a documentary series of the same name. Episode One, The Lottery of Birth - produced, written and co-directed by Raoul - premiered in 2012. It was nominated for Best Documentary at London's Raindance Film Festival and went on to win the Artivist Spirit 2012 Award at Hollywood's Artivist Festival. It has been translated into several languages and the second film is currently in production. Raoul lives and works in London, where his paintings have been selected for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery.

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Something as Simple as a star with Simon Barraclough and Lucie Green

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:12:14 GMT

With performance, presentation, music and discussion, Lucie Green and Simon Barraclough look at the different ways of understanding "a thing so simple a thing as a star".Poet Simon Barraclough, whose series Sunspots is the culmination of four years of writing, travelling, researching and obsessing over the Sun, and Lucie Green, author of 15 Million Degrees: journey to the centre of the Sun, and Professor of Physics and Royal Society University Research Fellow based at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL’s Department of Space and Climate Physics.The first of Little Atoms' Two Cultures autumn events series took place at Waterstones flagship store in Piccadilly, London, on 14 September 2016.

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445: Helen Czerski's Storm in a Teacup

Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:00:00 GMT

Helen Czerski is a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at University College London. As a physicist she studies the bubbles underneath breaking waves in the open ocean to understand their effects on weather and climate.Helen regularly presents BBC programmes on physics, the ocean and the atmosphere – recent series include Colour: The Spectrum of Science, Orbit, Operation Iceberg, Super Senses, Dara O’Briain’s Science Club, as well as programmes on bubbles, the sun and our weather. She is also a columnist for Focus magazine, shortlisted for PPA columnist of the year in 2014, and has written numerous articles for national newspapers. Helen's first book is Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life.

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Little Atoms 444: Tim Marshall on the Power and Politics of Flags

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:23:08 GMT

Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 25 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from forty countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics, and his latest book is Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags.

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Little Atoms 443 - Adam Rutherford's Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:49:35 GMT

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, THE CELL for BBC Four, and PLAYING GOD on the rise of synthetic biology for the leading science strand HORIZON, as well as writing for the science pages of the GUARDIAN.His first book, CREATION, on the origin of life and synthetic biology, was published in 2013 to outstanding reviews and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize. Adam’s latest book is A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

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442 – Simon Ings' Stalin and The Scientists

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:00:00 GMT

Simon Ings began his career writing science fiction stories, novels and films, before widening his brief to explore perception (The Eye), 20th-century radical politics (The Weight of Numbers), the shipping system (Dead Water) and augmented reality (Wolves). He co-founded and edited Arc magazine, a digital publication about the future, before joining New Scientist as its arts editor. Out of the office, he lives in possibly the coldest flat in London, writing for the Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Independent and Nature. Simon's latest book is Stalin and The Scientists.

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401 – Hadley Freeman's Life Moves Pretty Fast

Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:00:00 GMT

Recorded live at the first London Podcast Festival at King’s Place, Guardian writer Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s – why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever. Growing up in New York in the 1980’s Hadley learned everything she knows from films like Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Top Gun, The Princess Bride, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Beverley Hills Copand When Harry Met Sally… We’ll be talking about how the changes between movies then and movies today say so much about pop culture’s and society’s changing expectations of women, young people, masculinity, class and art, and explains why Pretty in Pink and Ghostbusters should be put on school syllabuses immediately.

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440 – Naomi Alderman and Petina Gappah

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 11:00:00 GMT

Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers, and in 2007 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, as well as being selected as one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. All of her novels have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. In 2013 she was selected for the prestigious Granta Best of Young British Writers. Naomi's latest novel is The Power.Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009. She is the author of a novel, The Book of Memory, and now a second short story collection Rotten Row.

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239 – Mike Massimino's Spaceman

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Mike Massimino served as an astronaut for NASA between 1996 and 2014, going on two Space Shuttle missions to service the Hubble telescope, spending more than 30 hours on spacewalks. He has appeared as himself on The Big Bang Theory and is now a professor at the University of Columbia. Mike is the author of a new memoir Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe.

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438 – Thomas Frank's Listen, Liberal or, Whatever Happened to The Party of The People

Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Thomas Frank is the author of Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, and What's the Matter with Kansas? A former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harper's and a regular contributor to The Guardian, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler. His latest book is Listen, Liberal or, Whatever Happened to The Party of The People.

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437 – Mark Greif's Against Everything

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Mark Greif studied history and literature at Harvard, and English at Oxford as a British Marshall Scholar. In 2004, he co-founded the literary journal n+1 in New York and has been a principal at the magazine since then. He earned a PhD in American studies from Yale in 2007. Since 2008, he has been on the faculty of the New School in New York, where he is currently an associate professor. His previous book, The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973, was published in 2015. Greif has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and, for 2016–17, is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Mark’s latest book is the essay collection Against Everything.

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Little Atoms 436 - Colonel Alfred “Al” Worden

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:00:00 GMT

After graduating from West Point with a degree in Military Science, and from The University of Michigan with a Masters in Astronautical/Aeronautical Engineering, Colonel Alfred “Al” Worden had a career in the US Air Force as a fighter pilot and a test pilot, before joining NASA and becoming part of the Apollo program. Having served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight and as backup Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 12 flight, Al Worden was chosen as Command Module Pilot for Apollo 15, becoming one of only 24 people to have flown to the moon.

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From the archive: Nick Cohen's What's Left?

Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:31:21 GMT

In this interview from 2007, Neil and Padraig talked to journalist Nick Cohen about his book What's Left?, which examines the ideas of the British far left and their effects on mainstream politics.

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Francis Wheen - Strange Days Indeed

Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:46:32 GMT

First broadcast 11 September 2009, Francis Wheen discusses Strange Days Indeed, his brilliant book on the mad, paranoid world of 70s politics.

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Francis Spufford - Red Plenty

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:29:20 GMT

First broadcast on 14th January 2011Hailed as one of the most original non-fiction books in recent years, Francis Spufford's Red Plenty tells the story of the men and women who strived to deliver technological and economic Utopia for the Soviet Union in the Kruschev era

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Little Atoms 435 - Mary Roach and the science of humans at war

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 08:10:28 GMT

Mary Roach is the New York Times bestselling author of several popular science books, including Stiff, Spook, Bonk, Packing for Mars and Gulp. She has written for the Guardian, Wired, BBC Focus, GQ and Vogue. Her latest book is Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War.

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Little Atoms 434 - Science and the City with Laurie Winkless

Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:52:51 GMT

Laurie Winkless is a physicist and writer, currently based in London. Following a degree at Trinity College Dublin, a placement at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, and a masters in Space Science at UCL, Laurie worked at the National Physical Laboratory, specialising in materials. Laurie has been communicating science to the public for more than a decade, working with schools and universities, the Royal Society, Forbes, and the Naked Scientists, amongst others. She's given TEDx talks, hung out with astronauts, and appeared in The Times magazine as a leading light in STEM. Science and the City is her first book

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Little Atoms 433 - Travis Elborough’s Walk In The Park

Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Travis Elborough is the author of four acclaimed books: The Bus We Loved, a history of the Routemaster bus; The Long Player Goodbye, which lamented the passing of vinyl; Wish You Were Here, a history of the British beside the seaside; and London Bridge in America, which tells the transatlantic story of the sale of the world's largest antique. Travis regularly appears on Radio 4 and writes for the Guardian. His latest book is A Walk in The Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution.

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432 - Alex Cox's Introduction to Film

Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Maverick British filmmaker Alex Cox is responsible for directing a host of acclaimed films including Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker and Highway Patrolman. From 1987 to 1994, he presented the acclaimed BBC TV series ‘Moviedrome’, bringing unknown or forgotten films to new audiences. He’s also the author of X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker, 10,000 Ways to Die, and The President and the Provocateur, and has written on the subject of film for publications including Sight and Sound, The Guardian, The Independent and Film Comment. His latest book is Alex Cox’s Introduction to Film.

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Little Atoms 431 - Dan Richards and Cal Flyn

Wed, 03 Aug 2016 09:50:03 GMT

Cal Flyn is a freelance journalist from the Highlands of Scotland. She has been a reporter for the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph, and a contributing editor at The Week magazine. She has been published in the New Statesman, The Observer, The Independent, Telegraph Magazine and FT Weekend, and won the 2013 Brandt/Independent on Sunday travel writing prize. Her first book is Thicker Than Water. Dan Richards studied at UEA and Norwich Arts School. He is co-author of Holloway with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood, and The Beechwood Airship Interviews, a book about the creative process and the importance of art for art’s sake, which we talked about last year on Little Atoms. His latest book is Climbing Days.

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Little Atoms 430 - Alex Marshall’s Republic or Death

Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Alex Marshall is a journalist who writes about music and politics. He has written previously for the BBC, Guardian and New York Times. Alex is the author of Republic or Death! Travels in Search of National Anthems.

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Little Atoms 429 - Miranda Sawyer's Out Of Time

Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:55:02 GMT

Miranda Sawyer is a journalist and broadcaster. Formerly of Smash Hits and Select, she currently writes features and radio criticism for the Observer, and her writing has also appeared in GQ, Vogue and the Guardian. She is a regular arts critic in print, on television and on radio. The author of Park and Ride, a book about suburbia, her latest is Out of Time: Midlife, If You Still Think You’re Young.

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Little Atoms 428 - Marcus Du Sautoy's What We Cannot Know

Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Marcus Du Sautoy is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. In 2008 he was appointed to Oxford University’s prestigious professorship as the Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science, a post previously held by Richard Dawkins. In 2009 the Royal Society awarded him the Faraday Prize for excellence in communicating science to the public, and in 2010 he received an OBE from the Queen for his services to science. He’s also recently been made a fellow of the Royal Society. Marcus is the author of The Music of The Primes, Finding Moonshine and The Number Mysteries; He’s presented numerous programs on TV and radio including the internationally acclaimed BBC series The Story of Maths and in 2006 gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. His latest book is What We Cannot Know.

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Little Atoms 427 - Louise Dougty's Black Water

Wed, 06 Jul 2016 08:58:57 GMT

Louise Doughty is the author of seven novels, most recently the top 5 bestseller Apple Tree Yard, which was chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club, shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, longlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize, and translated into over twenty languages. Her other novels include Whatever You Love, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She is a critic and cultural commentator for UK and international newspapers and broadcasts regularly for the BBC. Her latest novel is Black Water.

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Little Atoms 426 - Francis Spufford's Golden Hill

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:00:38 GMT

Francis Spufford was born in 1964. He is the author of five highly-praised books of non-fiction, most frequently described by reviewers as either 'bizarre' or 'brilliant', and usually as both. Unapologetic, has been translated into three languages; the one before, Red Plenty, into nine. He has been longlisted or shortlisted for prizes in science writing, historical writing, political writing, theological writing, and writing 'evoking the spirit of place'. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and lives near Cambridge. His latest book is his first novel, Golden Hill.

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Little Atoms 425 - Kate Moore's Radium Girls

Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:50:18 GMT

Kate Moore is a Sunday Times bestselling writer with more than a decade's experience in writing across varying genres, including memoir and biography and history. She is the author of The Radium Girls, and previously she was the director of the critically acclaimed play about The Radium Girls called 'These Shining Lives'.

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Little Atoms 424 - John Wray's Lost Time Accidents

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 23:00:00 GMT

John Wray is the author of The Right Hand of Sleep, which won a Whiting Writers' Award, Canaan's Tongue and the critically-acclaimed Lowboy. He was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. His latest novel is The Lost Time Accidents.

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Little Atoms 423 - Eagles of podcasting!

Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:02:36 GMT

Recorded live at the Stoke Newington Literary festival, we gathered together the crème of UK literary podcasting and put them on the same stage, and inevitably they talked about books; With Andy Miller (Backlisted), Carrie Plitt & Octavia Bright (Literary Friction), our own Neil Denny, and occasional remote interjections from Robin Ince (Book Shambles).

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Little Atoms 422 - Lucy Jones and Foxes Unearthed

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Lucy Jones is a nature writer and journalist based in London. She was Deputy Editor at NME.com and previously worked at the Daily Telegraph. Her writing on culture, science and nature has been published in BBC Earth, BBC Wildlife, the Guardian, TIME and the New Statesman, and she has contributed to programmes on BBC Radio 4, 6 Music and Radio 1, the BBC World Service, VICE, Channel 5 and Channel 4. She runs the Wildlife Daily blog, featuring wildlife, nature and environment news from around the world, and is the recipient of the Society of Authors’ Roger Deakin Award for Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain, which is her first book.

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Little Atoms 421 - Sean Carroll and the Big Picture

Wed, 25 May 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech in Pasadena, California, where he researches the foundations of quantum mechanics, the arrow of time, and the emergence of complexity. He received his PhD in 1983 from Harvard University, and has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Sloan Foundation and the Royal Society. He is the author of From Eternity to Here, and The Particle at the End of the Universe among other books, his latest being The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself.

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Little Atoms 420 - Katie Roiphe's Violet Hour

Wed, 18 May 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Katie Roiphe is the author of several books, including The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism, Uncommon Arrangements, and In Praise of Messy Lives. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Harper’s, Vogue, Esquire, Slate, and Tin House, among many other places. She has a Ph.D. in literature from Princeton University, and is currently the director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University. Her latest book is The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End.

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Little Atoms 419 - Duncan Campbell's We’ll All Be Murdered in Our Beds!

Wed, 11 May 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Duncan Campbell is a former crime correspondent of the Guardian, former chairman of the Crime Reporters’ Association and winner of the Bar Council’s newspaper journalist of the year. He has also written for the Observer, New Statesman, London Review of Books, Oldie, Esquire, Los Angeles Weekly and British Journalism Review. He was the original presenter of Crime Desk on BBC Radio 5 Live, presented the Radio 4 documentary Bandits of the Blitz, has appeared on the Today programme, LBC radio and numerous television documentaries, and has lectured and spoken widely on crime reporting. He is the author of six books including the bestselling The Underworld and an acclaimed crime novel, If it Bleeds. His latest book is We’ll All Be Murdered in Our Beds! The Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain.

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Little Atoms 418 - Rowan Moore's Slow Burn City

Wed, 04 May 2016 10:16:08 GMT

Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 was the Director of the Architecture Foundation. His award winning book Why We Build was published by Picador in 2012. In 2014 he was named Critic of the Year by the UK Press Awards. His latest book is Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century.

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London election special #3 - housing

Tue, 03 May 2016 12:08:05 GMT

Josh Neicho speaks to Ben Judah, Heather Kennedy and Martin Skinner about housing, the hottest issue of the London mayoral campaign.Ben Judah is a journalist and author of This Is London, about the migrant experience of LondonHeather Kennedy is an organiser of Digs, a private renters' campaign group in Hackney which is part of the Radical Housing NetworkMartin Skinner is a micro-apartment developer who is CEO of Inspired Asset Management and Inspired Homes

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London election special #2 - Youth, diversity and equality

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:48:35 GMT

In our second London mayoral election special, Josh Niecho and his panel discuss the issues affecting London's young and diverse community.Featuring:Kenny Imafidon is author of the award-winning Kenny Reports and Partnerships & Programmes Co-ordinator of Bite The Ballot. He lives in south London - kennyimafidon.com, @KennyImafidonShelly Asquith is Vice President (Welfare) of the National Union of Students, and former SU President of the University of the Arts - @ShellyAsquithAmina Gichinga is Take Back The City London Assembly candidate for City & East. She runs a community choir near the Royal Docks - @aminaminkyDia Chakravarty is political director of the Taxpayers' Alliance and a singer. She was born and educated until sixth-form in Bangladesh, and moved to London aged 24 - @DiaChakravarty

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Little Atoms 417 - Stephen Trombley's Wise Words

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:51:13 GMT

Stephen Trombley's most recent books are Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World (2012) and A Short History of Western Thought (2011). For 15 years he co-edited The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought with Alan Bullock. His latest book is Wise Words: The Philosophy of Everyday Life. This show also features a catch up with Johann Hari on the paperback release of his book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of The War on Drugs.

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London election special part 1 - transport infrastructure and environment

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:47:11 GMT

Alexander Jan leads the City Economics team at engineering and consultancy firm Arup and is a columnist for City AMAlex Ingram is a cycling campaigner with groups in Lewisham and Islington and with national campaigns. He blogs at Alex in the Cities(alexinthecities.co.uk)Kate Arnell is a TV presenter who currently presents BBC America's Anglophenia. She has a blog oneco-living at EcoBoost (eco-boost.co)Jonn Elledge is a journalist and edits New Statesman's urbanism magazine site (citymetric.com). He presents CityMetric's Skylines podcast (citymetric.com/content/skylines-podcast)

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Little Atoms 416 - Steve Silberman and Sarah Moss

Fri, 22 Apr 2016 12:00:00 GMT

The last of our three shows for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize, with shortlisted authors Steve Silberman & Sarah Moss. The Wellcome Book Prize 2016 winner will be announced on Monday 25th April. Thanks again to Chris, Alice and Fiona at FMcM Associates for arranging these interviews.Steve Silberman is an award-winning investigative reporter and has covered science and cultural affairs for Wired and other national magazines for more than twenty years. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, TIME, Nature and Salon. Steve is the author of the New York Times bestseller Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently, which won the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and is shortlisted for the 2106 Wellcome Book Prize.Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of three novels: Cold Earth, Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, and Bodies of Light which was shortlisted for the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta 2012), which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013. Sarah’s latest novel is Signs for Lost Children, which is shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize.

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Little Atoms 415 - Suzanne O'Sullivan and Amy Liptrot

Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:59:45 GMT

Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, first working at The Royal London Hospital and now as a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and for a specialist unit based at the Epilepsy Society. In that role she has developed an expertise in working with patients with psychogenic disorders alongside her work with those suffering with physical diseases such as epilepsy. Suzanne’s first book It's All in Your Head, is shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize in 2016.Amy Liptrot has published her work with various magazines, journals and blogs and she has written a regular column for Caught by the River out of which her first book The Outrun emerged. As well as writing for local newspaper, Orkney Today, and editing the Edinburgh Student newspaper, Amy has worked as an artist's model, a trampolinist and in a shellfish factory. The Outrun is shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize.

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Little Atoms 414 - Cathy Rentzenbrink & Alex Pheby

Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:14:45 GMT

The first of three shows for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize, with shortlisted authors Cathy Rentzenbrink & Alex Pheby.Cathy Rentzenbrink was born in Cornwall, Grew up in Yorkshire and now lives in London. A former bookseller at Waterstones, she was until recently Project Director of the charity Quick Reads, and is currently books editor at the Bookseller magazine. Her first book, The Last Act of Love, has been shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize.Alex Pheby is a writer and academic. He is the co-founder and co-director of the annual Greenwich Book Festival, and is the programme leader of the University of Greenwich's creative writing programmes. His first novel, Grace, was published in 2009, and his latest novel Playthings is shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize.

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Little Atoms 413 - Molly Crabapple and Paul Mason

Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:55:34 GMT

A recording of the first Little Atoms live event at Waterstones Piccadilly in which we host the launch of Mollly Crabapple’s book Drawing Blood. An acclaimed artist and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The Paris Review, and in her regular column in Vice (among many other venues), Molly Crabapple has swiftly become one of the most provocative – and most-watched – voices at work today.Now, in her memoir, DRAWING BLOOD, Crabapple weaves together her fresh voice and acutely observed perspective with dazzling, irreverent, full colour illustrations. This singular artist traces how the power of art, which gripped her from childhood, has given her a vehicle for understanding – perhaps even for changing – the world. Hear Molly in conversation with acclaimed broadcaster Paul Mason, author of PostCapitalism.

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Little Atoms 412 - The Penderyn Music Book Prize special

Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:07:54 GMT

The Penderyn Music Book Prize is organised by Richard Thomas, founder of the Laugharne Weekend Festival, and is the only UK-based book prize specifically for music titles including history, theory, biography and autobiography. The winner will be announced at the Laugharne Weekend Festival on 3rd April 2016. In this special edition of Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks with shortlisted authors Stuart Cosgrove and Peter Doggett, and prize judge Jude Rogers.

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Littlle Atoms 411 - Ioan Grillo and Gangster Warlords

Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:24:52 GMT

Ioan Grillo has reported on Latin America since 2001 for international media including Time magazine, Reuters, CNN, the Associated Press, the Houston Chronicle, the BBC World Service and the Sunday Telegraph.His first book, El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, was translated into five languages and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Orwell Prize.A native of Britain, Grillo lives in Mexico City. His latest book is Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America.

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Little Atoms 410 - DJ Taylor and The Prose Factory

Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:06:13 GMT

DJ Taylor is the author of two acclaimed biographies, Thackerary (1999), and Orwell: The Life, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize in 2003. He has written eleven novels, the most recent being The Windsor Faction. He’s also well known as a critic and reviewer, and his other books include A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s and After the War: the Novel and England since 1945. His journalism appears in the Independent and the Independent on Sunday, the Guardian, The Tablet, the Spectator, the Wall Street Journal and, anonymously, in Private Eye. His latest book is The Prose Factory: Literary Life in Britain Since 1918.

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Little Atoms special: Andrew Solomon and Marion Coutts

Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:38:46 GMT

For the last two years Little Atoms has partnered with the Wellcome Book Prize, broadcasting interviews with the shortlisted authors. We’ll be doing the same this year, and to mark the announcement of the 2016 shortlist on Monday 14th March, here’s a bonus episode. This is a recording of a conversation between previous winners Andrew Solomon and Marion Coutts, which took place at Libreria bookshop on 2nd March. Libreria director Sally Davies is the host.

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Little Atoms 409 Harry Parker Andrew Hankinson

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:00:45 GMT

Harry Parker grew up in Wiltshire. He was educated at Falmouth College of Art and University College London. He joined the British Army when he was 23 and served in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009 as a Captain. He is now a writer and artist and lives in London. Harry’s first novel is Anatomy of a Soldier. Andrew Hankinson is a journalist who was born, raised, and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. He started his career as a staff writer at Arena magazine and in 2012 won a Northern Writers Award. He is now a freelance feature writer who has contributed to many publications, including Observer Magazine, The Guardian, and Huffington Post. His first book is You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat].

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Little Atoms 408 - Jo Marchant and the science of mind over body

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 10:58:59 GMT

Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist based in London. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London, and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London. She has worked as an editor at New Scientist and at Nature and her articles have appeared in publications including The Guardian, Wired, and The Observer Review. She’s the author of Decoding the Heavens, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, and The Shadow King. Her latest book is Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body.

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Little Atoms 407: Maria Konnikova and The Confidence Game

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:28:29 GMT

Maria Konnikova was born in Moscow, Russia and came to the United States when she was four years old. She is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, where she writes a regular column with a focus on psychology and culture, and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Observer, and Scientific American, among numerous other publications. She is the author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes and her latest book is The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con, and Why we Fall For it Every Time.

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Little Atoms 406 - Kathryn Harkup and A is for Arsenic

Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:00:09 GMT

Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. Kathryn completed a PhD then a postdoc at the University of York before realising that talking, writing and demonstrating science appealed far more than spending hours slaving over a hot fume-hood. She went on to run outreach in engineering, computing, physics and maths at the University of Surrey, and is now a freelance science communicator delivering talks and workshops on the quirky side of science. Kathryn is the author of A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie.

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Little Atoms 405 - Helen Fitzgerald's Viral

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:56:32 GMT

Helen FitzGerald is the bestselling author of Dead Lovely (2007) and nine other adult and young adult thrillers, including My Last Confession (2009), The Donor (2011) and most recently The Cry (2013), which was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Helen has worked as a criminal justice social worker for over ten years. Now based in Scotland, she grew up in Victoria, Australia as one of thirteen children. Her latest novel is Viral. This show also features a repeat of our recent interview with Francesca Kay on her novel The Long Room.

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Little Atoms 310 – Matthew Kneale & Suzanne Moore

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 10:32:15 GMT

Matthew Kneale studied Modern History at Oxford University. He is the author of several novels, including English Passengers which won the Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His latest book is An Atheist’s History of Belief: Understanding Our Most Extraordinary Invention. Also this week, columnist Suzanne Moore on A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich.

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Little Atoms 311 – Philip Hoare & Deborah Orr

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 12:37:22 GMT

Philip Hoare is the author of seven works of non-fiction, including an acclaimed biography of Noel Coward, and Leviathan or, The Whale, which won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. An experienced broadcaster, Hoare wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and directed three films for BBC’s Whale Night. He is Visiting Fellow at Southampton University, and Leverhulme Artist-in-residence at The Marine Institute, Plymouth University, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2011. He is also co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read. His latest book, The Sea Inside, was published by Fourth Estate in June 2013. Also this week, columnist Deborah Orr talks about Kate Bush’s debut album The Kick Inside.

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Little Atoms 316 – Rana Dasgupta & Sarah Ditum

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 12:28:41 GMT

Rana Dasgupta won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book for his debut novel Solo. He is also the author of a collection of urban folktales, Tokyo Cancelled, which was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi is his first work of non-fiction. Born in Canterbury in 1971, he has lived in Delhi for 13 years. Also this week, writer Sarah Ditum talks about Andrea Dworkin’s Intercourse.

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Little Atoms 404 - The Ministry of Nostalgia and Landscapes of Communism

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:00:00 GMT

Owen Hatherley writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal, Architectural Review,Icon, The Guardian, The London Review of Books and New Humanist, and is the author of several books, including Militant Modernism, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain and A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain. His latest books are Landscapes of Communism, and The Ministry of Nostalgia.

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Little Atoms 312 – Is Music Journalism in a Critical Condition?

Tue, 02 Feb 2016 10:53:41 GMT

A special edition of Little Atoms for Resonance FM’s fundraising week. Recorded live at The Slaughtered Lamb on 10th February 2014.Is Music Journalism in a Critical Condition?The UK music scene once supported four weekly music papers, which wielded the power to form the musical agenda in a way that’s unimaginable today. Of these, only the NME staggers on in managed decline, along with an ever dwindling number of monthly magazines. The changing ways we consume music and the rise of the internet have radically changed the musical landscape, and perhaps this is a good thing. Those weeklies were notoriously bad at covering certain genres, and the internet has enabled a much wider range of writers to share the music they love. On the other hand it has yet to find a reliable way to pay them to do so. Are the days of making a living from music journalism over?Joining Neil Denny of the Little Atoms Radio Show to explore this question, and to share tales of private jets and rainy nights at the Northampton Roadmender, are the journalists Andrew Mueller, Charles Shaar Murray, Jude Rogers and David Stubbs.Andrew Mueller is a rock critic, travel writer, foreign correspondent, columnist, pundit and author. He is a Contributing Editor at Monocle, and also writes for The Guardian, The Telegraph, Uncut, and The New Humanist among others. His latest book is the memoir It’s Too Late to Die Young Now. When not writing, Andrew Mueller is the singer and songwriter with alt-country band The Blazing Zoos. Defunct music papers he’s written words for include Melody Maker, Vox and The Word.Charles Shaar Murray is an author, broadcaster and former NME journalist. He is the author of several books, most recently Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-war Pop. A founding contributor to Q and Mojo magazines, he made his print debut in 1970 in the notorious “Schoolkids Issue” OZ. Currently he’s a regular contributor to Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge on Resonance FM.Jude Rogers is a columnist and music writer for The Guardian, Observer, The Quietus and the New Statesman. She’s the co-founder of quarterly magazine Smoke: A London Peculiar. She’s been on the Mercury Music Prize judging panel since 2007. Her radio documentary Mad About the Boy was on Radio 4 at the beginning of February.David Stubbs joined the music magazine Melody Maker in 1986, where he worked for 12 years. His most famous creation, Mr Agreeablehas recently reawakened over at The Quietus. He has also written for The Guardian, NME, The Wire, When Saturday Comes and Uncut, and was a presenter of the Resonance FM football show Café Calcio. David is the author of numerous books, including the upcoming Future Days, a history of Krautrock which is published in August by Faber.

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Little Atoms 304 – Aleks Krotoski & Matthew Sweet

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:20:30 GMT

Aleks Krotoski is an academic and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity. She is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Media and Communications Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. Aleks writes for the Guardian and Observer newspapers, and hosts Tech Weekly, their technology podcast. She presented the Emmy and Bafta-winning BBC 2 series Virtual Revolution, and more recently the BBC Radio 4 series Digital Human. Her first book is Untangling the Web: What the Internet is Doing to You. Also this week, critic Matthew Sweet on the Ealing WW2 propaganda film Went The Day Well?

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Little Atoms 319 – FutureEverything 2014 – James Bridle & Eleanor Saitta

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 14:11:21 GMT

James Bridle is a writer, artist, publisher and technologist usually based in London, UK. His work covers the intersection of literature, culture and the network. He has written for WIRED, ICON, Domus, Cabinet, the Atlantic and many other publications, and writes a regular column for the Observer newspaper on publishing and technology. In 2011, he coined the term “New Aesthetic”, and his ongoing research around this subject has been featured and discussed worldwide. His work, such as the Iraq War Historiography, an encyclopaedia of Wikipedia Changelogs, has been exhibited at galleries in the Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia, and has been commissioned by organisations such as Artangel, Mu Eindhoven, and the Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC.Eleanor Saitta is a hacker, designer, artist and writer. She makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex systems operate and redesigning them to work, or at least fail, better. Her work is transdisciplinary, using everything from electronics, software, and paint to social rules and words as media with which to explore and shape our interactions with the world. Her focuses include the seamless integration of technology into the lived experience, the humanity of objects and the built environment, and systemic resilience and conviviality. Eleanor is Principal Security Engineer at the Open Internet Tools Project (OpenITP), directing the OpenITP Peer Review Board for open source software and working on adversary modeling. She is also Technical Director at the International Modern Media Institute (IMMI), a member of the advisory boards at Geeks Without Bounds (GWoB) and the Calyx Institute, and works on occasion as a Senior Security Associate with Stach & Liu. She is a founder of the Constitutional Analysis Support Team (CAST), previously co-founded the Seattle-based Public N3rd Area hacker space, and works on the Trike and Briar projects.

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Little Atoms 322 – Irving Finkel & Lucianne Walkowicz

Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:28:32 GMT

Irving Finkel is an archaeologist and Assyriologist, currently Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Script, Languages and Cultures in the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. He’s also an expert on the history of board games, and the founder of the Great Diary Project. Irving is the author of numerous books, most recently The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood. Also on this week’s show, astrophysicist Lucianne Walkowicz on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur.

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Little Atoms 323 – FutureEverything – 65daysofstatic & The Space Lady

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:27:14 GMT

Paul Wolinski and Joe Shrewsbury are one half of 65daysofstatic, an instrumental band from Sheffield, as comfortable crashing samplers to mine glitches as they are putting guitars through too much distortion. Influenced by a technologically dystopian present and an apocalyptically likely future, they tend to be found filling venues, galleries or headphones with different kinds of noise in their ongoing efforts to find the limits of what ‘being a band’ can mean.The Space Lady is a street-performing singer based in Colorado, USA. Originally beginning on the streets of Boston in the late 70s, she has recently begun playing again. Often seen performing in 1980’s Boston, and then a decade later in San Francisco’s Castro community – where she would play and sing for hours on end for the gay scene, and got her apt moniker – The Space Lady’s winged helmet and setup of a Casio battery-powered keyboard, vocal mic and echo & phaser controls became a small but striking phenomenon. Her sound is a blend of synth-laden pop and proto-techno that evokes the iconic soundtrack artists and early electronic composers such as Suzanne Ciani. The Space Lady has been recognised alongside Daniel Johnston and Jandek on Irwin Chusid’s seminal Outsider compilation Songs in the Key of Z, and her lo-fi synth minimalist interpretation of Peter Schilling’s Major Tom featured on Erol Alkan’s Bugged Out mix last year, as well as John Maus’ 2011 Rough Trade set.

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Little Atoms 403 - Tim Baker's Fever City

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:10:00 GMT

Born into a showbiz milieu in Sydney, Tim Baker left Australia to travel in his early 20s and lived in Rome and Madrid before moving to Paris, where he wrote about music and worked in film. He later ran consular operations in France and North Africa for the Australian embassy, liaising with international authorities on cases involving murder, kidnap, terrorism and disappearances. His fiction includes the collection of short stories, Out From the Past, and his film work includes writing the feature film Samsara. His debut novel is Fever City.

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Little Atoms 325 – FutureEverything 2014 – Alex Fleetwood & Anab Jain

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:13:42 GMT

Alex Fleetwood is the founder and director of Hide&Seek, a game design studio dedicated to inventing new kinds of play. Hide&Seek started life in 2007 as a festival of social games and playful experiences on London’s South Bank, and built into a studio occupied a unique position in the UK, creating innovative games, installations and events with organisations including Film4, the Cultural Olympiad, Tate Modern, Warner Bros, Gâité Lyrique, Nike, Sony, the Royal Opera House and Kensington Palace.Anab Jain was born and educated in India (NID), with an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art, and founded Superflux in 2009, leading the Consultancy’s client partnerships whilst balancing the Lab’s self-initiated conceptual projects. She has lead multidisciplinary design, strategy and foresight projects for businesses, think-tanks and research organisations such as Sony, BBC, Nokia, NHS, Design Council, Forum for the Future, Qatar Foundation and Govt. of UAE. Honoured as a TED Fellow, she is the recipient of several awards, including the Award of Excellence ICSID and Apply Computers, Innovation Award, Chicago International Film Festival and the UNESCO Digital Arts Award. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA New York, Apple, Mattel Toys, Tate Modern, Science Gallery Dublin, National Museum of China and the London Design Festival. She is on the Board of MzTek and Broadway Cinema and Media Centre, and is a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art, VCUQatar, Architectural Association, Goldsmiths, Dundee Innovative Product Design and CIID.

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Little Atoms 336 – Olivia Laing & The Trip to Echo Spring

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:23:24 GMT

Olivia Laing‘s first book, To the River, was a book of the year in the Evening Standard, Independent and Financial Times and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Olivia is the former Deputy Books Editor of the Observer and writes for a variety of publications, including the Observer, New Statesman, Guardian and Times Literary Supplement. She’s a 2011 MacDowell Fellow, and has received awards from the Arts Council and the Authors’ Foundation. Olivia ‘s latest book is The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking.

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Little Atoms 340 – Andy Miller & The Year of Reading Dangerously

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:29:20 GMT

Andy Miller is a reader, author and editor of books. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, Esquire and Mojo. He’s the author of Tilting at Windmills: How I Tried to Stop Worrying and Love Sport, among others. His latest book is The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life.

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Little Atoms 341 – Cara Hoffman & Be Safe I Love You

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:22:10 GMT

Cara Hoffman is the author of the critically acclaimed 2011 novel So Much Pretty. She grew up in northern Appalachia, where she dropped out of high school to work full time. Hoffman spent three years travelling and working as an agricultural labourer in Europe and the Middle East. She returned to the US, had a baby and found a job delivering newspapers which eventually led to work as a reporter covering environmental politics and crime. She has been a visiting writer at St. John’s, Columbia and Oxford, where she lectured on Violence and Masculinity for the Rhodes Global Scholars Symposium. Hoffman lives in Manhattan and teaches writing and literature at Bronx Community College. Cara ‘s latest novel is Be Safe I Love You.

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Little Atoms 402: Lisa Randall and Francesca Kay

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:59:01 GMT

On this week’s Little Atoms podcast, Neil Denny talks to Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall about her new book Dark Matter and The Dinosaurs, and then Francesca Kay on her latest novel The Long Room.Lisa Randall is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists and the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. She has received numerous awards and honours and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics. She is the author of numerous books including Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions, and Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe. Her latest book is Dark Matter and The Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe.Francesca Kay's first novel, An Equal Stillness, won the Orange Award for New Writers and was nominated for the Authors' Club First Novel Award and for Best First Book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Europe and South Asia Region). Her second novel, The Translation of the Bones, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel is The Long Room.

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Little Atoms 343 – Lee Rourke & Vulgar Things

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:57:29 GMT

Lee Rourke is the author of the short story collection Everyday, and the novel The Canal, which won the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize in 2010. He is writer in residence at Kingston University, where he is an MFA lecturer in creative writing and critical theory. He also lectures in creative writing at the University of East London. His latest novel is Vulgar Things.

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Little Atoms 401 - Kat Arney Herding Hemingway's Cats

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:00:00 GMT

Following a doctorate and subsequent research career in genetics, Kat Arney is now Science Communications Manager for Cancer Research UK, where she translates science into plain English to help people understand more about the disease. Kat is also a science writer and broadcaster, whose writing has appeared in the Guardian, Science, New Scientist, BBC Online and Al-Jazeera Online.She has presented several BBC Radio 4 science documentaries and programmes in the Costing the Earth series, is a regular presenter with the Naked Scientists, and presents and produces the Naked Genetics monthly podcast. Kat’s first book is Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work.

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From the archive - Christopher Hitchens

Wed, 06 Jan 2016 09:36:28 GMT

In this interview, recorded in Oxford ahead of the release of "God Is Not Great", Christopher Hitchens spoke to Neil Denny and Padraig Reidy about Richard Dawkins, Karl Marx, religion, blasphemy and nuclear apocalypse

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Little Atoms 400 - Juliet Jacques

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:26:28 GMT

Juliet Jacques is a freelance writer, best known for the Guardian’s “Transgender Journey”—the first time the gender reassignment process had been serialised for a major British publication. Her column was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011. She was included in the Independent’s Pink List for the last four years, and is a regular contributor to the New Statesman. She has also written for Granta, TimeOut, Filmwaves, 3am, the London Review of Books, the New Humanist, the New Inquiry, and many other publications. She is the author of Trans: A Memoir. This is the 400th edition of Little Atoms, and Neil is joined by former host Becky Hogge in conversation with Juliet.

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Little Atoms 399 - Lucy Inglis and Georgian London

Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:59:33 GMT

Lucy Inglis is a historian, novelist, and occasional television presenter. In 2009 she created the Georgian London blog, which became the largest free body of work on the eighteenth century city online, which became a book, Georgian London: Into the Streets. She’s currently working on a book about Opium.

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Little Atoms 398. Peter Pomerantsev - Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 11:00:00 GMT

Peter Pomerantsev is an award-winning TV producer and a contributor to the London Review of Books. His writing has been published in the Financial Times,New Yorker,Wall Street Journal,Foreign Policy,Daily Beast, Newsweek,Le Monde Diplomatique, among others. He has also worked as a consultant for the EU and World Bank. He is the author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia.

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Little Atoms 397 - Jon Savage - 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:00:00 GMT

Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875 - 1945. He is the writer of the award winning film documentaries The Brian Epstein Story (1998) and Joy Division (2007) as well as the feature film of Teenage (2014). His latest book is 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded.

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Litle Atoms 396 Max Porter: Grief Is The Thing With Feathers

Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:00:00 GMT

Max Porter is a senior editor at Granta. His first book Grief is the Thing With Feathers has been shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2015 and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2015.

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Little Atoms 395 – Hanya Yanagihara & Antony Loewenstein

Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:36:30 GMT

On this week’s Little Atoms podcast, Man Booker shortlisted novelist Hanya Yanagihara on A Little Life and journalist Antony Loewenstein on Disaster Capitalism.Hanya Yanagihara is the author of The People in the Trees, which was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her latest novel A Little Life was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. She was until recently the Deputy Editor at the New York Times’ T Magazine, and she lives in New York City.Antony Loewenstein is an independent Australian journalist, documentary maker and blogger who has written for the BBC, the Nation and the Washington Post. He’s a weekly Guardian columnist and the author of three best-selling books, My Israel Question,The Blogging Revolution and Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World. His latest book is Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe, and he’s currently working on a documentary about disaster capitalism.

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Little Atoms 394 – Zoe Lambert & Emma Jane Unsworth Little Atoms Live

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 10:00:17 GMT

This week, a Live Little Atoms event. Authors Emma Jane Unsworth and Zoe Lambert in conversation with Neil Denny at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester on Friday 25th September. Zoe Lambert is a Manchester based writer. She lectures in creative writing at Lancaster University, and has published numerous short stories in anthologies. Her debut […]

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Little Atoms 393 – Timothy Snyder & Black Earth

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:00:20 GMT

Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University, and has written and edited a number of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history: Bloodlands won the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in the Humanities and the literature award of the American […]

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Little Atoms 392 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 Three

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:00:26 GMT

The last of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, ahead of the award ceremony on Thursday 24th September. This week Neil Denny talks with Matthew Cobb, and there’s a repeat of our interview with Alex Bellos from May 2014. The show also includes a short […]

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Little Atoms 391 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 Two

Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:00:55 GMT

The second of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. This week Neil Denny talks with David Adam, and there’s a repeat of our interview with Gaia Vince from August 2014. This show also marks the 10th anniversary of Little Atoms. We first broadcast on […]

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Little Atoms 390 – Royal Society Winton Prize 2015 One

Wed, 09 Sep 2015 10:00:01 GMT

The first of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. This week Neil Denny talks with shortlisted authors Jim Al-Khalili & Johnjoe Mcfadden, and Jon Butterworth. Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE is an academic, author and broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical physicist based at the […]

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Little Atoms 389 – Petina Gappah & The Book of Memory

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:00:18 GMT

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009. Her debut novel is The Book of Memory.

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Little Atoms 388 – John Higgs & Stranger Than We Can Imagine

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:00:31 GMT

John Higgs is the author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary, The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds, and the novel The Brandy of the Damned. His latest book is Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century.

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Little Atoms 387 – Michela Wrong & Borderlines

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:00:50 GMT

Michela Wrong is a distinguished international journalist, and has worked as a foreign correspondent covering events across the African continent for Reuters, the BBC and the Financial Times. She writes regularly for Foreign Policy magazine and the Spectator. Based on her experiences in Africa, In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, her first book, won the […]

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Little Atoms 386 – Stephen Grey & Dan Richards

Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:00:08 GMT

Stephen Grey is a journalist based in London, who writes mainly about national security issues. He is best known for breaking the international exclusive story of the CIA’s secret rendition program. A former editor on the Sunday Times’ investigations unit, the Insight team, he continues to contribute to that newspaper, as well to the New […]

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Little Atoms 385 – Alok Jha & The Water Book

Wed, 05 Aug 2015 10:00:57 GMT

Alok Jha is a journalist and broadcaster based in London. He is science correspondent for ITN and, before that, was science correspondent at the Guardian. He has presented science programmes for BBC2 and BBC Radio 4. Alok received a science-writing award from the American Institute of Physics in 2014, was named European Science Writer of […]

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Little Atoms 384 – Helen Scales & Spirals in Time

Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:30:02 GMT

Helen Scales is a marine biologist, a freelance researcher and broadcaster; she appears regularly on BBC Radio 4, Sky News and the BBC World Service, and has presented documentaries on topics such as whether people will ever live underwater, the science of making and surfing waves and the intricacies of sharks’ minds. Her doctorate involved […]

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Little Atoms 383 – Iain Sinclair – London Overground & Black Apples of Gower

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:30:13 GMT

Iain Sinclair a poet, film-maker, essayist and the author of many acclaimed books, including Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), Lights Out for the Territory, London Orbital, Edge of Orison, Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire, Dining on Stones, Ghost Milk and American Smoke and London Overground, his account of a one-day walk around […]

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Little Atoms 382 – Antony Beevor & Ardennes 1944

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:30:38 GMT

Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, where he studied under John Keegan. A regular officer with the 11th Hussars, he left the Army to write. He has published four novels, and numerous works of non-fiction. His books include The Spanish Civil War; Crete — The Battle and the Resistance, which was awarded a […]

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Little Atoms 381 – Dylan Evans & Andrew Mueller

Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:00:45 GMT

On this week’s Little Atoms, Dylan Evans on The Utopia Experiment, and Andrew Mueller on his memoir It’s Too Late to Die Young Now. Dylan Evans is an academic, philosopher and journalist. He has written several popular science books, was named by the Independent as one of the 20 best young writers in Britain, and […]

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Little Atoms 380 – Nell Zink & The Wallcreeper and Mislaid

Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:30:25 GMT

Nell Zink was born in 1964 in southern California and grew up in rural Virginia. She attended Stuart Hall School and the College of William and Mary, where she majored in philosophy. Rather late in life she got a doctorate in Media Studies from the University of Tübingen, Germany. She works as a translator for […]

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Little Atoms 379 – Emma Jane Unsworth & Alex Hourston

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:15:50 GMT

Emma Jane Unsworth is a journalist and won the Betty Trask Award for her novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Portico Prize. Her short story ‘I Arrive First’ was included in The Best British Short Stories 2012. Emma’s latest novel Animals has won a 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. After […]

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Little Atoms 378 – Nick Lane & The Vital Question

Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:30:03 GMT

Nick Lane is a biochemist in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London and leads the UCL Origins of Life Programme. His first book, Oxygen, was one of the Sunday Times Books of the Year in 2002. Power, Sex, Suicide was named as a book of the year in The Economist in 2005 and was short-listed for The Aventis […]

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Little Atoms 377 – Joanna Biggs & Stevan Alcock

Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:30:13 GMT

On this week's Little Atoms Podcast, Joanna Biggs on her book All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work, and Stevan Alcock on his novel Blood Relatives.

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Little Atoms 376 – Gavin Francis & Adventures in Human Being

Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:30:14 GMT

On this week's Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to Dr Gavin Francis about his latest book is Adventures in Human Being.

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Little Atoms 375 – Lynsey Addario & It’s What I Do

Wed, 20 May 2015 10:30:54 GMT

On this week's Little Atoms, Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on her Memoir It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War.

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Little Atoms 374 – Brandy Schillace & Caitlin Doughty

Wed, 13 May 2015 10:30:23 GMT

On this week’s Little Atoms podcast, two books about Death. Brandy Schillace on Death’s Summer Coat, and Caitlin Doughty on Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Dr Brandy Schillace writes about culture, the history of medicine, and the intersections of medicine and literature. She is Research Associate and guest curator for the Dittrick Medical History Center […]

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Little Atoms 373 – Zoe Williams & Get it Together

Wed, 06 May 2015 10:30:14 GMT

The day before the most uninspiring General Election in Decades, we talk to Zoe Williams about her new book Get it Together: Why We Deserve Better Politics.

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Little Atoms 372 – Wellcome Book Prize 2105 Part Two

Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:30:01 GMT

Neil Denny talks to two more shortlisted writers, Henry Marsh and Marion Coutts.

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Little Atoms 371 – Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Part One

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:00:37 GMT

On Wednesday 29th April the winner of the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize will be announced. In the first of two special editions of Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to three of the shortlisted writers. This week: Miriam Toews, Scott Stossell and Sarah Moss. Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of […]

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Little Atoms 370 – Christopher Bollen & Orient

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:00:32 GMT

On this week's Little Atoms, Neil Denny talks to New York writer Christopher Bollen about his new novel Orient.

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Little Atoms 369 – Susan Pinker & Gary Wilson

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:00:01 GMT

On this week’s Little Atoms, Susan Pinker on her book The Village Effect, and Gary Wilson on his book Your Brain on Porn. Susan Pinker is a developmental psychologist and award-winning newspaper columnist who writes about psychology and social science in the Globe and Mail. She has worked as a clinical psychologist for twenty-five years […]

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Little Atoms 368 – Andrew Scull & Madness in Civilization

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:00:27 GMT

Andrew Scull is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego. He has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Princeton. His many publications include Museums of Madness; Social Order/Mental Disorder; The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700–1900; Masters of Bedlam; Madhouse: A Tragic Tale […]

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Little Atoms 367 – Mind’s Eye Interviews Five – Dennis Reuter

Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:30:25 GMT

Dr. Dennis Reuter is a New Horizons co-investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and the instrument scientist for Ralph, the New Horizons color imager and infrared spectrometer. New Horizons launched on 19th January 2006 and is scheduled to fly-by Pluto and its moons in July 2015. This is another interview recorded by Little Atoms […]

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Little Atoms 366 – Hannah Fry & Jon Ronson

Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:30:44 GMT

On this week’s Little Atoms podcast, Hannah Fry on The Mathematics of Love and Jon Ronson on his latest book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. Dr. Hannah Fry is a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Fry also regularly presents the Number Hub strand of BBC Worldwide’s YouTube […]

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Little Atoms 365 – Salena Godden & Kate Hamer

Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:30:42 GMT

On this week’s Little Atoms, two interviews. Neil Denny talks to Salena Godden about her memoir Springfield Road, and to Kate Hamer about her debut novel The Girl in the Red Coat. Salena Godden writes and performs poetry, fiction, memoir, radio drama and lyrics. Her latest book of poems, Fishing in the Aftermath, was published in […]

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Little Atoms 364 – FutureEverything 20 Special

Wed, 04 Mar 2015 09:30:15 GMT

This week’s Little Atoms is a special edition recorded at FutureEverything 20 in Manchester on 26th and 27th February 2015. The show features a long interview recorded live in front of an audience with writer, researcher and activist Alice Bell, and shorter interviews with FutureEverything CEO and founder Drew Hemment, Sonic Pi creator Sam Aaron, Hack […]

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Little Atoms 363 – Arthur I. Miller & Colliding Worlds

Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:30:36 GMT

Arthur I. Miller is emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at University College London. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including Einstein, Picasso, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Empire of the Stars, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Aventis Prize for Science Books, and 137, which we’re discussed on […]

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Little Atoms 362 – Mind’s Eye Interviews Four

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:30:16 GMT

Late last year, Little Atoms took part in an audio installation, Mind’s Eye, which consisted of a number of interviews with scientists involved in current space missions. Mind’s Eye is now on tour, and can been heard from 16th to 22nd February as part of Smashfest UK at the Albany Theatre in Deptford. Here are […]

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Little Atoms 361 – Greg Jenner & A Million Years in a Day

Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:50:08 GMT

Greg Jenner is the Historical Consultant to CBBC’s multi-award winning Horrible Histories, Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry, and the various HH spin-offs. As well as contributing sketches and co-writing Stephen Fry’s links, over the past four years he has been solely responsible for the factual accuracy of nearly one thousand comedy sketches with subject matter […]

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Little Atoms 360 – David Stubbs & Future Days

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 11:00:44 GMT

David Stubbs joined the music magazine Melody Maker in 1986, where he worked for 12 years. His most famous creation, Mr Agreeable periodically reawakens over at The Quietus. He has also written for The Guardian, NME, The Wire, When Saturday Comes and Uncut, and was a presenter of the Resonance FM football show Café Calcio. […]

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Little Atoms 359 – Edward Slingerland & Trying Not to Try

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:00:54 GMT

Edward Slingerland is an internationally recognized expert in both early Chinese thought and the links between cognitive science and the humanities. He is Professor of Asian Studies, Associate Member in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition at the University of British Columbia. He […]

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Little Atoms 358 – Johann Hari & Chasing the Scream

Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:00:45 GMT

Johann Hari is a journalist who has written for the New York Times, the LA Times, the Guardian,Le Monde, Slate, the New Republic and The Nation among others. He was a columnist on the Independent for nine years and was twice named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International UK. He has also been named […]

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Little Atoms 357 – Ken Hollings & The Bright Labyrinth

Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:00:13 GMT

Ken Hollings is a writer based in London. His work appears in a wide range of journals and publications, including The Wire, Sight and Sound, Strange Attractor, Frieze, Blast and Nude, and in the anthologies The Last Sex, Digital Delirium, Undercurrents, London Noir and Krautrock. His novel Destroy All Monsters was hailed by The Scotsman […]

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Little Atoms 356 – A QI Christmas Show

Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:00:12 GMT

The last Little Atoms of 2014, recorded at QI headquarters in somewhere in Covent Garden, with QI Head of Research James Harkin and the QI Elves – Anne Miller, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Alex Bell. We’re mostly talking about the latest QI book, 1,411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways, but are often […]

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Little Atoms 355 – Celeste Ng & Ben Okri

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:00:39 GMT

In this episode of Little Atoms, two prize-winning novelists. Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. Her fiction and essays have appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere, and she is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize. Her debut novel, which has been […]

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Little Atoms 354 – Ben Goldacre & Eric Schlosser

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:30:35 GMT

Ben Goldacre is a doctor, academic, broadcaster and science writer who has made his name unpicking the evidence behind dodgy claims from journalists, politicians, quacks and drug companies. His Bad Science column ran in the Guardian from 2003 to 2011. His first book, Bad Science, was a number one bestseller, selling over half a million […]

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Little Atoms 353 – Rebecca Newberger Goldstein & Kenan Malik

Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:00:18 GMT

In this episode of Little Atoms, two philosophical interviews: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University. Her award-winning books include the novels The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light, and 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction and nonfiction studies of Kurt Gödel and Baruch Spinoza. She has […]

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Little Atoms 352 – David Flusfeder & Jeff Jackson

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:11:49 GMT

In this episode of Little Atoms, two novels that blur the boundaries between truth and Fiction. David Flusfeder was born in New Jersey but grew up in London. He’s the author of numerous novels, including, A Film by Spencer Ludwig, The Pagan House, The Gift and Like Plastic, which won the Encore Award 1997. He […]

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Little Atoms 351 – Michael Brooks & At The Edge of Uncertainty

Wed, 05 Nov 2014 10:00:41 GMT

Michael Brooks is the author of the bestselling non-fiction titles 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense and Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science. He holds a PhD in quantum physics, is a consultant at New Scientist and writes a weekly column for the New Statesman. His latest book is At the Edge of Uncertainty: […]

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Little Atoms 350 – Marina Keegan & The Opposite of Loneliness

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:00:03 GMT

Marina Keegan (1989 – 2012) was an author, journalist, playwright, poet, actress and activist, and for two years a research assistant to Harold Bloom, all before she graduated from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her […]

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Little Atoms 349 – Travis Elborough & London Bridge + How We Used to Live

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:00:25 GMT

Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author and cultural commentator for more than a decade now. His books include The Bus We Loved, a history of the Routemaster bus; The Long Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records; and Wish You Were Here, a survey of the British beside the seaside. His latest book […]

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Little Atoms 348 – Rachel Cooke & Her Brilliant Career

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:00:48 GMT

Rachel Cooke is a journalist, writing for The Observer, where her features and interviews have won several awards. She is also the television critic of the New Statesman. Her first book is Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties.

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Little Atoms 347 – James Ward & Adventures in Stationery

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:00:56 GMT

James Ward‘s blog, I Like Boring Things, has featured in the Independent, Observer and on the BBC website. He is co-founder of Stationery Club and London’s annual Boring Conference, a one-day celebration of the ordinary and the overlooked, as featured everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to Radio 4. His first book is Adventures in Stationery: […]

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Little Atoms 346 – Mind’s Eye Interviews Three

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 17:38:56 GMT

The last of three special editions of Little Atoms from Mind’s Eye, an audio installation at Brighton Digital Festival, featuring a number of interviews with space people. The third show features interviews with former Space Shuttle astronaut Gerhard Thiele, Dr Helen Mason of the University of Cambridge on the Sun, and Professor Carl Murray of […]

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Little Atoms 345 – Mind’s Eye Interviews Two

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:00:17 GMT

The second of three special editions of Little Atoms from Mind’s Eye, an audio installation at Brighton Digital Festival, featuring a number of interviews with space people. The second show features interviews with Sandra Cauffman, Deputy Project Manager of MAVEN, Hakan Svedhem, Project Scientist on Venus Express, and Dr Katherine Joy of the University of […]

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