Reading Roundup: Books that Bring Us Joy

Dec 16, 2021

Edward, Amy, and Jessica round up the books that have been bringing them joy this year . . . ‘joy’ veering very occasionally into malevolent glee, and Edward and Amy face off in a festive literary quiz. 

The audiobooks (or plays!) bringing Edward joy 

Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas 

Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout

Publisher Cherry Potts & Author Marina Sánchez

Oct 29, 2021

‘I have to say as an editor, I was very pleased when I saw “flensing”. I thought, “Yes exactly! That’s exactly . . . Hurrah! Yes!”

Publisher Cherry Potts from Arachne Press and indigenous Mexican Latinx author Marina Sánchez talk with Jess about the newly published anthology Where We Find Ourselves: Stories...

Actor Helen Barford

Sep 23, 2021

Do you think we'll ever really belong anywhere?

'I suppose not,' said Papa. 'Not the way people belong who have lived in one place all their lives. But we'll belong a little in lots of places, and I think that may be just as good.'

Actor Helen Barford talks with Jessica about Judith Kerr's classic children’s novel...

Poet Fiona Bennett and Actor Michael Schaeffer

Aug 12, 2021

'My reading experience with poetry is that I'm in the presence of some...body and we're in that kind of potentially ... it might be that slightly late night kitchen table moment where you've sort of got through all the news and the stuff and you actually enter into where you really are, and what's going on, and what you...

Author David Gange

Jul 15, 2021

The kayak gives this incredible perspective on the world, where you are really embedded in the worlds of the species, you're surrounded by other animals, they don't respond to you in the way that they respond to humans on foot because obviously they are so much more skilled in and on the water than you are.

Writer and...