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  The Dark Side of Human Nature – Lucie Whitehouse KEEP YOU CLOSE Despite being blessed with a lovely family and a sunny disposition, as a writer Lucie Whitehouse likes going to the dark side of human nature. She sets her suspenseful pyschodrama in Oxford, among a family of artists and academics, in the town where…

  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…

New Play, Fabric, by playwright Abi Zakarian with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous  Playing all throughout August at Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Abi Zakarian’s new play exposes the unravelling  of a young woman’s life after she is raped. She was commissioned to write the one-woman show for actor Nancy Sullivan and director Tom…

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…

  Romance in the Court – A Celebration of Romantic Fiction – Meet the Authors on Radio Gorgeous with Josephine Pembroke HEAR all the fun interviews below all about 5 minutes long!  Go to: https://audioboom.com/channel/radiogorgeous Josephine was invited the RNA annual summer party hosted by Goldsboro Books in Cecil Court, London W1. The volume of the…

A Beautiful Diamond Ring that inspires lust & killing: MURDER RING by Leigh Russell writer with Donna Freed Leigh Russell noticed a gap in her life when her children grew up and out of the house and she retired from teaching. She has become a prolific best-selling author in the meantime who only started writing…

  Peter Swanson The Kind Worth Killing You Should Never Talk To Strangers MAN WEEK on Radio Gorgeous Podcast Length: 18 Minutes 58 Seconds Sunday Times “Thriller of the Month” Crime writer, poet and Alfred Hitchcock enthusiast Peter Swanson talks about his second thriller, The Kind Worth Killing. What makes a person capable of killing?…

  Rules For Thursday Lovers by YANA STAJNO  What does a bored, ignored, middle-aged wife and mother do? Take a lover? Too much trouble on one’s own, wouldn’t it be better to share one with a friend? What could possibly go wrong with that? Josephine explores the possibilities of Rules For Thursday’s Lover with Yana. Yana…

Gill Hornby takes the community choir as the backdrop of her second novel. Gill brings together the disparate elements of a small town in crisis with a failing high street and closing businesses, empty nests and new divorces. Can the community choir bring them together and transform their lives, maybe even the town? Singing in…

Emma Woolf Letting Go – How to Heal Your Hurt, Love Your Body and Transform Your Life. Emma Woolf writer and presenter of Supersize V Superskinny talks to Josephine about Letting Go which is one of the hardest things she has ever done. Letting Go How to Heal Your Hurt, Love Your Body and Transform Your…

Girls Will Be Girls – Emer O Toole Emer O Toole discovered early on that the veneer of gender can be very thin; somewhat like the dress we saw white/gold or black/blue, our eye fills in what we expect to see. In her book Girls Will Be Girls, she encourages us to be brave (braver…

Award winning, Dutch playwright and author Esther Gerritsen, talks about her latest novel, Craving. You’d think it would be natural for a daughter to come to care for her terminally ill mother. However, if your daughter is Coco, her arrival at your death bed is more than a little complicated. ‏@WorldEdBooks www.worldeditions.org Here at Radio…

HELEN LEDERER – LOSING IT Funny lady, Helen Lederer has turned her talented hand to writing with the hilarious result: Losing It. Broke, fat and a washed-up has been, Millie clutches at the chance to be the front woman for a new diet pill. Incredibly, this doesn’t solve all her problems! Helen on the BOOK…

EMILY WACHTEL and Sex Tips on Gorgeous Gossip Relate has just come out with depressing sex statistics that Donna and Josephine can relate to. But don’t worry, we give you some sex life saving tips from our considerable arsenal.   Guest: Sensing a like-minded woman, Donna accosted the screenwriter/producer Emily Wachtel as they both boarded…

DAISY WAUGH – HONEYVILLE  with Josephine Pembroke Daisy Waugh returns to America for her latest novel, Honeyville. She tells Josephine that she really wanted to call it “Snatchville” the miners nick name for Trinidad,Colorado. It was the only town in the West where prostitution was legal and it is the background for her darkly atmospheric…

Wannabee a Writer? JANE WENHAM JONES Author tells us how We love books and each week we bring you an Author of the Week. We have now racked up an impressive, if we say so ourselves, 100 Authors of the Week. In celebration, we cram this week’s show with five more of them.   Our…

Author and broadcaster Bidisha’s latest book, Asylum & Exile came out of her outreach work with asylum seekers and refugees in London. Through her teaching, she illicited beautiful, illuminating writing but more importantly she allows us to hear these unheard voices. Bidisha is one of those rare people with clear sight, about herself and those around her. @bidisha_online…

Little Book of Chocolat by Joanne Harris & Fran Warde  To celebrate Joanne Harris’ sensually descriptive trilogy Chocolat, she and Fran Ward collaborated on a delicious book of chocolat lore and recipes from around the world. A chocoholic’s perfect fix! www.joanne-harris.co.uk/books/the-little-book-of-chocolat/ www.amazon.co.uk/Fran-Warde/e/B001HD0SJW @franwarde 

  AOTW: Alix Christie Gutenberg’s Apprentice Alix Christie, printer, journalist and writer, talks to Donna at the Buck’s Club, which was inspiration for the Drones Club whose preeminent member was PG Wodehouse who created Bertie Wooster. The Gutenberg printing press is the first tech start-up with all the attendant tension that we have become used…

    Kristin Hannah – Author of the Week on Literary Lusts Donna has tea at the Corinthia Hotel in London with best selling American author Kristin Hannah.They swap stories about writing with their mothers and their own maternal fears as well as dealing with Dad’s dating.   kristinhannah.com Kristin has 105,249 likes on FACEBOOK!…