John Grindrod grew up in Croydon in the 1970s and has worked as a bookseller and publisher for twenty-five years. He has been published in the Twentieth Century Society magazine, has co-written and edited a book about TV, Shouting at the Telly, and contributed to a book on music, Hang the DJ. He runs the website dirtymodernscoundrel.blogspot.co.uk John is the author of Concretopia: […]
February 22, 2014
Simon Ings is the author of six previous novels including Dead Water and The Weight of Numbers, and two non-fiction titles including The Eye: A Natural History. His latest novel is Wolves. Simon is an editor at New Scientist and is the editor of ARC magazine. Also this week, journalist Jude Rogers on two favourite children’s stories, Marianne Dreams and Charlotte Sometimes.
February 15, 2014
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 […]
February 8, 2014
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 […]
February 1, 2014
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.
January 25, 2014
Brett Martin is a correspondent for GQ and a 2012 James Beard Journalism Award winner. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Food & Wine, and multiple anthologies. He is a frequent contributor to This American Life, and is the author of Difficult Men, which we talk about in this […]
January 18, 2014
J. Courtney Sullivan is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Commencement, Maine and The Engagements. Maine was named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine, and a Washington Post Notable Book for 2011. The Engagements was one of People Magazine’s Top Ten Books of 2013 and an Irish Times Best Book of the Year. It is soon to be […]
January 11, 2014
Andrew McConnell Stott is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His book The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, a history of theatre and comedy told through the story of Britain’s greatest pantomime clown, was published by Canongate in 2009 and won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, the Sheridan Morley Award for […]
December 21, 2013
Jennifer Potter is a horticultural historian who writes about the history and culture of plants, plantsmen and gardens. The author of four novels and five works of non-fiction, including Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants, and The Rose: A True History, and a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, she is currently a Royal […]
December 14, 2013
Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist and film-maker. His books include three works of fiction - Filthy English,  Pompey and The Fowler Family Business – and several anthologies including the recently published Museum Without Walls. He is currently working on a book entitled An Encyclopedia of Myself, which will be published in 2014. He has written and performed in more […]
March 1, 2014
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