Little Atoms

Apr 10 2025 654 ep. 37 mins 23k

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Little Atoms is a weekly show about books, with authors in conversation. Produced and presented by Neil Denny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Apr 10 2025 26 mins

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 t

Little Atoms 945 - Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle

Apr 03 2025 28 mins

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 C

Little Atoms 944 - Dan Richards' Overnight

Mar 27 2025 31 mins

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

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

Mar 21 2025 28 mins

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 942 - Abdulrazak Gurnah's Theft

Mar 13 2025 25 mins

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

Little Atoms 941 - Sarah Hesketh's 2016

Mar 06 2025 31 mins

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 talk

Little Atoms 940 - Stephen May's Green Ink

Feb 27 2025 30 mins

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 h

Little Atoms 939 - Susan Barker's Old Soul

Feb 20 2025 27 mins

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

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

Feb 13 2025 27 mins

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 Stor

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

Feb 06 2025 28 mins

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