Little Atoms

By Neil Denny

Little Atoms is a weekly show about books, with authors in conversation. Produced and presented by Neil Denny.

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August 22, 2025 Little Atoms 966 - Stuart Nadler's Rooms For Vanishing
Stuart Nadler is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation, and the author of Wise Men, The Inseparables, Rooms for Vanishing and a story collection, The Book of Life. His work has been named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a Barnes & Nobel Discover Great New Writers Selection, and an Amazon Book of the Year. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow and a Teaching-Writing Fellow. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Rooms For Vanishing.

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August 14, 2025 Little Atoms 965 - Laura Lippman's Murder Takes A Vacation
Since Laura Lippman's debut, she has been recognised as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the "essential" crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her "special, even extraordinary," and Gillian Flynn wrote, "She is simply a brilliant novelist." Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. On this episode of Little Atoms, Laura talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Murder Takes a Vacation.

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August 08, 2025 Little Atoms 964 - Oliver Basciano's Outcast
Oliver Basciano is a journalist and critic based in São Paulo and London. On this episode of Little Atoms, he talks to Neil Denny about Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World, his first book for which he was the recipient of the 2023 RSL Giles St Aubyn Award, awarded for debut works of non-fiction.
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August 01, 2025 Little Atoms 963 - Claire Adam's Love Forms
Claire Adam was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She was educated in the US and now lives in London. Her first novel Golden Child won multiple prizes and was named one of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World’. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her Booker Prize long listed new novel Love Forms.
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27min
July 24, 2025 Little Atoms 962 - Mike Jay's Free Radicals
Mike Jay has written extensively on scientific and medical history and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books and the Wall Street Journal. His previous books on the history of drugs include High Society, Mescaline and Psychonauts. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Free Radicals: How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science.

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July 22, 2025 Little Atoms 961 - Brandy Schillace's The Intermediaries
Brandy Schillace is a historian, former professor and museum professional, and former editor of Medical Humanities, a social-justice journal. She writes about gender, medical history, and neurodiversity for outlets including Scientific American, Wired, CrimeReads, and Undark. She has previously appeared on Little Atoms talking about her books Death’s Summer Coat and Mr. Humble & Dr Butcher, and on this episode she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story.

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July 18, 2025 Little Atoms 960 - Wendy Erskine's The Benefactors
Wendy Erskine is the author of two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move. She was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and she received the Butler Literary Award and the Edge Hill Readers' Choice Award. She edited the art anthology well I just kind of like it. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is a frequent broadcaster and interviewer, and works as a secondary school teacher in Belfast. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel The Benefactors.
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July 11, 2025 Little Atoms 959 - David Farrier's Nature's Genius
David Farrier is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Edinburgh. David's first book, Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, looked at the marks we are leaving on the planet and how these might appear in the fossil record in the deep future. It was published in March 2020 with both The Times and The Telegraph naming it a book of the year. Its fans include Robert Macfarlane and Margaret Atwood, and it has been translated into nine other languages. He has had pieces published in The Atlantic, BBC Future, Emergence, Prospect, Daily Telegraph, Orion, and Washington Post. He has spoken at numerous online events, has given an invited lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, and has appeared on radio and podcasts such as BBC Free Thinking and Little Atoms. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet.
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July 04, 2025 Little Atoms 958 - Marie Rutkoski's Ordinary Love
Marie Rutkoski is a New York Times bestselling author of several novels for children and young adults. She grew up in Illinois as the oldest of four children, and has lived in Moscow, Prague, and Paris. She holds degrees from the University of Iowa and Harvard University, and is now a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College, where she teaches Shakespeare, children's literature, and fiction writing. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel for an adult audience, Ordinary Love.
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June 26, 2025 Little Atoms 957 - Gurnaik Johal's Saraswati
Gurnaik Johal is a writer from West London. His 2022 collection We Move won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Tata Literature Live! Prize. Its opening story won the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his debut novel Saraswati.
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