Constance Debré & Alice Blackhurst: Playboy

In On Difficulty (Faber), her latest book of non-poetry, poet and essayist Lavinia Greenlaw explores the fascination, terror and opportunity of wrestling with the opaque, the obscure, the complex and the indeterminate. Is poetry really difficult, and do we like it more when it is ...  عرض المزيد

Triage (Allen Lane), Claudia Rankine’s new book, is an unclassifiable piece of writing, blending narrative, criticism and lyricism to create something capable of facing ‘the collective devastation of the present’ (in Saidiya Hartman’s words). Two friends meet in an art gallery af ...  عرض المزيد

A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance. This episode contains adult material. Selected books by Brenda Jackson: Tonight and Forever (formerly Always Tomorrow) Cupid’s Bow Strictly Business Fire and Desire Slow Burn This Is Love is a p ...  عرض المزيد

Book Review reporter Alexandra Alter discusses two of her recent pieces. The first is about Georgette Heyer, the "queen of Regency romance," and recent attempts to posthumously revise one of her most famous works in order to remove stereotypical language. The second looks at R ...

It's been a Dawn O'Porter themed week! I hosted Q&A event with Dawn at Foyles which was so fun, we then recorded the podcast, and then her launch party!Dawn is the author of 6 books including the award-winning YA books Paper Aeroplanes and Goose, her first adult novel The Cows wa ...  عرض المزيد