Chiltern Voice Book Club

Jul 03 2022
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Chiltern Voice Book Club is a weekly radio show in which Antonia Honeywell talks books, writing reading and publishing with a varied range of brilliant writers. Each guest chooses a selection of songs which are played as part of the show. Unfortunately the songs can't be included here, but the words and the wisdom are unmissable. Tune in to chilternvoice.fm on Sundays 2 to 4 pm to hear the show complete with songs.

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Robin Morgan-Bentley (26th of June 2022)

Jul 03 2022 57 mins  
Robin joins Antonia to talk about his dark, compelling second novel The Guest House, written in lockdown with a new baby. Along the way we talk representation, diversity, becoming the person you want to be and being the person you wish your child-self had been able to see - and musical theatre. Of course.I Wanna Dance with Somebody - Whitney HoustonGimme Gimme Gimme - ABBABills Bil

Sarra Manning (29th May 2022

May 29 2022 60 mins  
Sarra joins Antonia to celebrate her latest novel, the warm, immersive and wonderful London, With Love. The Sarra Manning line takes us on a trip through Sarra’s prolific and enduring writing career, with stops at Just Seventeen, London before Crossrail, Noel Streatfeild, music, dogs, selecting great reads for Red Magazine and so many more. A joy.Jennifer She Said - Lloyd Cole an

Julie Owen Moylan (15th May 2022)

May 15 2022 58 mins  
Julie joins Antonia to talk about her beautiful debut novel, That Green Eyed Girl, about New York in the 1950s, about writing dreams and process and heartbreak - and answers openly and honestly the perennial question, What took you so long? A must-listen.I’m Coming Home - Tom JonesBeast of Burden - Rolling StonesYoung Americans - David BowieStreets of Fire - Bruce SpringsteenTrou

Fiona Cummins (1rst May 2022)

May 06 2022 64 mins  
Fiona ’s writing career, from journalism (Fiona was the last journalist in the UK to interview Michael Jackson before he died), to Faber Academy, to her fifth novel, Into The Dark, provides the framework for a far-reaching and wide-ranging conversation encompassing love, loss, fear, survival and joy. Join us xAlways Something There to Remind Me - Sandie ShawI Can See Clearly Now

Maggie Gee (17th April 2022)

Apr 17 2022 55 mins  
Prolific novelist, OBE, the first female chair of the Royal Society of Literature, Professor of Creative Writing and champion of new writers Maggie Gee joins Antonia to talk about her fourteenth novel, The Red Children. This is a conversation about writing, longevity, disappointment, love, war and hope - but above all, it’s a chance to enjoy the company of a writing icon and beau

Joanna Cannon (10th April 2022)

Apr 10 2022 71 mins  
Lewis’ human and superstar novelist Joanna Cannon joins Antonia to talk about her new novel, A Tidy Ending, about the beginning of her writing career, the joys and perils of early success, about resilience and perseverance and moving from writing as joy to writing as career. And, of course, the music. Please join us!These Boots - Nancy SinatraTo Sir With Love - LuluSpace Oddity -

Stephen May (27th of March 2022)

Mar 27 2022 59 mins  
Stephen joins Antonia to talk about his novel Sell Us The Rope, the novel Hilary Mantel wishes she had written. It’s 1907 and Stalin is in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party… Sell Us The Rope is Stephen’s sixth novel - he’s been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize with Life! Death! Prizes! the title of which sums up this Book Club chat - except for

Janice Hallett (20th February 2021)

Feb 20 2022 60 mins  
Bestselling novelist Janice Hallett joins Antonia to talk about her phenomenally successful debut novel The Appeal, about how her life as a journalist and a screenwriter has fed into her work as a novelist, about how she uses music to trick herself into getting the writing done and about What Happens Now (including adapting her own work for the screen). Brand New Key - Melanie Safe

Hannah Persaud (13th Of February 2022)

Feb 13 2022 62 mins  
Hannah joins Antonia to talk about The Codes of Love and its genesis as a short story, unlikeable characters, the importance of music, why we write (and why we don’t) and how we might just persuade ourselves to keep going.Tall Heights - Horse to WaterAngel Olsen - WindowsAne Brun - HaloAlvvays - Archie, Marry MeLaura Marling - GhostsFirst Aid Kit - EmmylouDaughter - CandlesEmily

Laura Pearson (6th February 2022)

Feb 06 2022 59 mins  
Laura Pearson, novelist and founder of The Motherload Book Club, brings a list of her favourite books to Book Club. We talk about titles, whether there’s a right time to write about disasters, the importance of small presses… We also talk about Laura’s own writing and her novels, Missing Pieces and Nobody’s Wife, and the life-changing turn of events in Laura’s own life th