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Penny Hancock A Trick of The Mind
Author of the Week: Penny Hancock, A Trick of the Mind What would you do if you came to think you caused someone a disfiguring accident? That is the starting point for Penny Hancock’s latest “domestic noir” novel. She and Donna cover other topics like the menopausal mother and the agoraphobic father figure as architypes….
EAT MY HEART OUT by Zoe Pilger – Author of the Week on Literary Lusts with Donna Freed
Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger Zoe Pilger has been deliciously described as “a foul-mouthed Nancy Mitford for the Gawker generation.” What’s not to love? Her first novel Eat My Heart Out is both hilarious and horrifying in turns as her heroine Ann-Marie tears through London and beyond on a helter skelter ride. Zoe…
Rachel Howzell Hall Land of Shadows
Rachel Howzell Hall Land of Shadows Rachel Howzell Hall has turned to crime fiction and created detective Lou Norton, an indelible female detective working the very LA Jungle where she (and Rachel Howzell Hall) grew up – a perfect mix of LA grit and glam. She also shares with Donna her battle with breast…
Elisabeth Russell Taylor – BELATED Author of the Week on Literary Lusts
One could merely say that Elisabeth Russell Taylor is an author of 6 novels, 3 collections of short stories – the latest being Belated – 4 children’s books, 5 nonfiction works, numerous articles, reviews, radio plays, films scripts, etc. and you would know that she is ceaselessly creative and energetic. But what you wouldn’t know…
Andrea Gillies The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay AUTHOR OF THE WEEK
AUTHOR OF THE WEEK: Andrea Gillies, The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay Andrea Gillies started her publishing career with Keeper, a journal of how she and her family moved to a massive house on a remote Orkney island, to care for her mother-in-law who suffered from dementia and also kept a B and B as well…
Lucinda Riley – Midnight Rose – Author of the Week with Donna Freed
Press white arrow above to play Length 29 mins Want to download or having problems press this LINK Lucinda Riley is back on top with her latest blockbuster novel The Midnight Rose. It is a rich and sprawling story that starts in Colonial India and is played out in London and Dartmoor during the Great War and…
SECRETS of a PET Nanny *The MARY KILLEN Interview* with Eileen Riley
PRESS the White triangle above to hear/ Length 25.08 Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS THIS LINK Eileen Riley offers unconditional love and unconditional forgiveness…as long as you are a dog. Eileen is a highly intelligent double graduate and former diplomat. She is also a wife and mother, but there is…
Gorgeous Gossip/We Need Your Vote/ Meet the Finalists of the Piatkus Entice Competition
PRESS the White triangle above to hear Problems with the LINK ABOVE or WANT A PODCAST ? PRESS THIS LINK Our search for the next Piatkus Entice romance writing star is officially on. And we need YOUR help! The competition closed on 2nd September and we now have a shortlist of three incredible submissions to choose…
GORGEOUS GOSSIP ON LOYALTY/AUTHOR JANE THYNNE’S BOOK about Nazi Wives BLACK ROSES /WIGS & FEMALE HAIR LOSS
Show Length: 1:06 Author of the Week 8.40 Hair Loss 40.13 You dont have to listen to the whole show….above are times to go to your favourite bit. You should be able to hear this on your tablet/mobile/cell any problems go to this link Gorgeous Gossip LOYALTY how far should we go? We…
Author Rachel Johnson/ Gorgeous Gossip Menopause/ Women’s Fiction Short List/ Best Of WOW Festival
We start this weeks sensational show today in Gorgeous Gossip discussing one of the last Taboos The Menopause. Then we go to the London Book Fair where Rachel Johnson invited Josephine to come and meet the judges of The Woman’s Prize for fiction (formerly The Orange Prize). Josephine found out more about the history of the awards with Kate Mosse (Author…
Feminism for the future | Writer Sofka Zinovieff | Spring Horoscopes with Juliette Genik | Angela Carter’s Wise Children
We reflect on issues raised at this year’s Women of the World festival at the Southbank Centre. This week we discuss education, mentoring and the future of feminism in the next generation. Including interviews with the Southbank’s Artistic Director Jude Kelly, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, writer Caroline Bird, Funny Women’s Executive Producer Lynne Parker, artist…
Sofka Zinovieff: The House on Paradise Street | We are all Greeks now… Troubled pasts and the legacies of war.
Writer Sofka Zinovieff talks about her new book The House on Paradise Street; set in Athens it tells the story of a family fractured by ideological differences and the legacies of war. We also discuss her latest non-fiction works; ‘Eurydice Street – A Place in Athens’ which explores her complicated relationship with Greece as a…
Gorgeous Reads: Wise Children | A bawdy comic tale of love, illegitimacy, family melodrama, show business and the seedier side of Shakespeare…
Gorgeous Reads – the monthly book club on Radio Gorgeous! This year marks the 10th anniversary of Angela Carter’s death in 1992 aged just 51, and in honour of that fact, this month we’re discussing her last – and in many critics opinion, her best – novel, Wise Children. It’s a rollicking good yarn, narrated…
Author Elizabeth Buchan | Kira Cochrane: Women of the Revolution | Funny Women Charity Challenge | Craftivism: Craft+Activism!
Bestselling author Elizabeth Buchan joins us to talk about her latest novel Daughters, which explores relationships between parents and their children in the fraught context of the run-up to a family wedding. We discuss research, inspiration and the Mrs Bennet-like urge to see your children settled! Fresh from her inspirational talk at the Women of…
Is it in his kiss? | Amateurs in Eden: A Bohemian Marriage | Fashion: Chic and Seek | The Poisonwood Bible
How did you spend your Valentine’s Day? We debate grand gestures versus thoughtful details, the burden of expectation and the fine art of kissing… While the Durrell family’s time on Corfu has been much documented, one woman had remained in the shadows until now: Joanna Hodgkin’s mother and Lawrence Durrell’s wife, Nancy. Joanna tells us…
The Power of Introverts | Elsa Quarsell Domestic Burlesque | Charlotte Betts The Apothecary’s Daughter | Theatre: Our New Girl
Introverts vs. Extroverts: We respond to claims made in Susan Cain’s new book ‘Quiet: The Power of Introverts In A World That Can’t Stop Talking. Does today’s society place too much emphasis on the pushy go-getters? Do we under value quiet types? www.thepowerofintroverts.com/about-the-book Susan Cain says: 1. There’s a word for “people who are in…