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The Mother of the Brontes – When Maria met Patrick by Sharon Wright AUTHOR OF THE WEEK with Josephine Pembroke

06 Nov 2019

The Mother of the Brontes – When Maria met Patrick by Sharon Wright AUTHOR OF THE WEEK with Josephine Pembroke   Who was the Bronte’s mother? How much influence did she have on them? Was she a writer herself? These are the questions I  asked author, journalist and native of Bradford, Sharon Wright. Sharon talks to Josephine…

Ghost Louise Welsh 100 curated Ghost Stories

29 Oct 2015

GHOST  Louise Welsh Acclaimed, Glasgow-based writer Louise Welsh has curated a collection of 100 Ghost Stories To Read With The Lights On. We are understandably as obsessed with our dead and death as we are with life and while we may yearn for the return of our loved ones, we are terrified what form that return might…

Agoraphobia – is it madness? Whispers Through A Megaphone by Rachel Elliot

06 Oct 2015

Agoraphobia – is it madness? Whispers Through A Megaphone by Rachel Elliot   How do you deal with everyday madness, is everyone as mad as you feel? Rachel Elliott explores our coping and curbing techniques through the stories of her two protagonists, Miriam, who hasn’t left her house in 3 years and Ralph, a psychotherapist who is…

Villa America by Liza Klaussmann

10 Jun 2015

After her explosive Tigers in Red Weather, Liza Klaussmann takes on another iconic American theme: the Murphys, Sara and Gerald, who, along with the Hemmingways and the Fitzgeralds, Cole Porter and Pablo Picasso created a gilded world on the French Riviera in their Villa America. www.picador.com/authors/liza-klaussmann SIGN UP to our mail out for all the…

Housefrau – Jill Alexander Essbaum

20 May 2015

Housefrau – Jill Alexander Essbaum: Poet turned novelist Jill Alexander Essbaum likens writing poetry to swimming in a paddling pond but writing a novel moves you to the ocean. She talks about her novel Hausfrau and some of the similarities between herself and her heroine Anna living in a small town in Switzerland who embarks on…

That Girl From Nowhere Dorothy Koomson

06 May 2015

Best-selling, prolific author Dorothy Koomson likes delving deep into emotional territory; she explores both adoption and assisted suicide in her latest (tenth!) book: That Girl From Nowhere. When she started researching the book, she realised that while we often hear the stories of those that gave up a child or adopted a child, we don’t…

VALERIE GROVE The Lives & Loves of LAURIE LEE

17 Feb 2015

Journalist and author Valerie Grove delved into the correspondence and diaries of beloved author Laurie Lee. Lee created many myths about himself and Grove reveals, the sometimes more fascinating truths beneath the legend. Want more Author of the week? Join our mailout www.radiogorgeous.com  

Everything I Never Told You by CELESTE NG

27 Jan 2015

Everything I Never Told You by CELESTE NG  Celeste Ng – Celeste Ng’s debut novel, Everything I Never Told You starts with the death of the favorite child of a Chinese American family. The story moves back in time and generations to see the hopes and expectations that led to this tragic point. A New…