An unknown pathogen ravages Scotland’s capital, turning the unlucky souls into bloodthirsty ambling beasts. You are one of the last uninfected citizens in a city under martial law, cut off from the rest of the UK. Now, with help from real scientists, you have only hours to decide how to save Edinburgh, and perhaps the […]
April 26, 2013
Mary Roach has written for the Guardian, Vogue, GQ, Salon, Wired, National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. She is the author of Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science, and Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space. Her latest book, […]
April 19, 2013
This episode of Little Atoms is a double bill of interviews with a couple of writers and academics who’s work in different ways play on ideas of philosophy and literature. Lars Iyer is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of two books on the philosopher Maurice Blanchot […]
April 5, 2013
Sarah Wise took an MA in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her book The Blackest Streets was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize in 2009. Her debut, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London, was shortlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger […]
April 27, 2013
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