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HIS BLOODY PROJECT Graeme Macrae Burnet MAN WEEK AUTHOR INTERVIEW with Donna Freed If you’ve been living under a rock, perhaps you missed the hoopla surrounding this year’s Man Booker Prize short list. It featured a “crime novel” published by tiny Scottish imprint Contraband and Graeme has since been all over the news like a…

BYRON’S WOMEN Alexander Larman Man Week on Radio Gorgeous with Josephine Pembroke Hear literary man Alexander Larman tell Josephine about Byron’s women. Part of Man Week on Radio Gorgeous.  http://alexanderlarman.com/ Follow Alex: @alexlarman Buy the book: http://headofzeus.com/books/byrons-women Radio Gorgeous for curious women sign up www.radiogorgeous.com     

iO Tillet Wright DARLING DAYS a memoir Gorgeous Reads on RADIO GORGEOUS  Named after one of Jupiter’s moons iO Tillet Wright is an author, activist and photographer. In this honest memoir iO explains how it was being brought up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 80’s and 90’s where being eccentric or weird…

Jemma Wayne CHAINS OF SAND with DONNA FREED on Radio Gorgeous Jemma Wayne uses Israel’s latest conflict with Hamas to explore the grey areas beyond the black and white of headlines and what we think we know. She tells the story of two men, one Israeli and one English and a forbidden love affair in…

Victoria Blisse EROTIC Fiction featuring CURVIER WOMEN – Literary Lusts on RADIO GORGEOUS Victoria set out to write erotic fiction 15 years ago before women really caught on to erotica. Victoria’s books feature curvy women with bellies, busts and bottoms – she explains that she gives larger women a chance to feel confident about their…

Carys Bray THE MUSEUM of YOU – Author of the Week on Radio Gorgeous on RADIO GORGEOUS with Donna Freed “There’s a pair of knickers here, I’ve had them on my hands for a fortnight.”Carys Bray on malapropisms   Carys Bray mother of four chats to Donna about Darren has carefully constructed an insulated and proscribed…

    Jodi Ellen Malpas THE PROTECTOR Gorgeous Reads on Radio Gorgeous with Nicki Bannerman Jodi Ellen Malpas fantasises about and creates dominating alpha males – think Ray Winstone – and pairs them off with strong-minded, independent women and lets the sexual sparks ensue. Nicki Bannerman talks to her about how her writing has effected…

  Michelle Paver Thin Air A Ghost Story GORGEOUS READS with Donna Freed “I scared myself when I was writing it!” Michelle Paver’s classic Gothic ghost story is set on Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas in 1935, the twilight of the Empire but the golden age of mountaineering. It has all the elements of the perfect…

The GIRL FROM LACE ISLAND The Girls from Lace Island JO REES an Addictive Epic Saga Donna & Josephine catch up in Brighton with novelist & Radio Gorgeous contributor, Jo Rees. Up for discussion: her latest far-reaching romantic romp, The Girl From Lace Island, the loss of her own mother while writing it and her latest…

Eimear McBride The Lesser Bohemians AUTHOR with Donna Freed on RADIO GORGEOUS  The story of a young woman exuberantly, if messily, propelling herself into a new life in London and the collision of a love affair. Eimear and Donna discuss the redemptive and, to a point, curative qualities of love and literature beyond the long…

VICTORIA HISLOP Hellenophile, CARTES POSTALES from Greece Author on RADIO GORGEOUS Best selling Author Victoria Hislop talks Greece, the evil eye, revenge, tattoos and acrobats.  Follow @VicHislop LOVE this? sign up & never miss another interview on radiogorgeous.com

THE PRIVILEGED Emily Hourican – a smart read & a great crack with Josephine Pembroke on Radio Gorgeous Three friends meet an an all girls school from different backgrounds, two of them are mesmerised by Amanda, tall, beautiful, vague and charismatic. Everyone Amanda meets falls for her and her looks propel her into a life…

In A Land of Paper Gods Rebecca Mackenzie, Author of the Week on Radio Gorgeous with Donna Freed A coming of age story set in the Chinese hilltop school for the children of British missionaries in the 1930’s ad 40’s. Rebecca Mackenzie does not retell her own missionary upbringing but explores that world through another…

  LARA The Untold Love Story behind Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak with Josephine Pembroke on Radio Gorgeous  Today I interviewed Anna Pasternak who is a writer and journalist and is a member of the Pasternek family her great uncle was BORIS PASTERNAK the nobel prize winning novelist and one of the best known Poets…

Shari Lapena The Couple Next Door Sainsbury’s Magazine AUTHOR with Donna Freed    From bankruptcy lawyer, to English teacher to literary novelist, Shari Lapena has written her first thriller. If ever there was an embodiment of the poem: Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive! Shari burrows into the…

  Barbara Lorna Hudson TIMED OUT dating in your 60s AUTHOR of the Week with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous  If dating, let alone internet dating gives you the willies (yes, groan, pun intended) imagine internet dating in your 60’s. Barbara Lorna Hudson did just that: she both did the dating but also imagined further…

Louise Doughty BLACK WATER, Author of the Week with Donna Freed Donna Freed interviews Louise Doughty on Radio Gorgeous talking about her book BLACK WATER.  https://twitter.com/doughtylouise?lang=en-gb @DoughtyLouise  http://louisedoughty.com/black-water/ In depth interviews/never miss a podcast www.radiogorgeous.com 

  Hungry for LOVE Lucy Beresford Author with Donna Freed on RADIO GORGEOUS As part of our Summer Reads week, Donna Freed interview gorgeous author Lucy Beresford who talks about her latest novel Hungry for Love. Lucy also believes in gratitude and has started the Kindness Club.    Donate books to the Women’s Refuge for the…

Pretty Is by Maggie Mitchell A dark & disturbing THRILLER with Jo REES on RADIO GORGEOUS Louis and Carly-May are just twelve years old when they are abducted from their homes and driven across the country to a remote hunting lodge and kept by their kidnapper for two months. Decades later, the two women have…

Portland Place SARAH SHAW – SECRET DIARY of a BBC Secretary on Radio Gorgeous “Savile was a creep, just horrid.” Sarah Shaw’s 1971 diary  Sarah Shaw started off writing a blog about her life as a secretary at the BBC in the early 70’s. Then a publisher snaffled her and here is the book for us…