Penguin Press publishing director Simon Winder talks to Neil Denny about the recent revival of Penguin Modern Classics Crime and Espionage series.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 850 - Simon Winder & Penguin Crime & Espionage

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Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The Essex Serpent, Melmoth, and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. On today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Enlightenment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 895 - Sarah Perry's Enlightenment

Francesca De Tores is a novelist, poet and academic. She is the author of four previous novels, published in more than 20 languages. In addition to a collection of poems, her poetry is widely published in journals and anthologies. On this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about Saltblood, an epic literary historical novel set during the Golden Age of Piracy, about the life of the infamous female pirate Mary Read. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 894 - Francesca De Tores' Saltblood

Niamh Mulvey's first book, the short story collection Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth was published by Picador in June 2022. Her short fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, Banshee and Southword and was shortlisted for the Seán O’Faoláin Prize for Short Fiction 2020. In this week's show she talks to Neil Denny about her first novel The Amendments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 893 - Niamh Mulvey's The Amendments

Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Michel Deon Prize. In today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Hagstone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 892 - Sinéad Gleeson’s Hagstone

Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he studies contemporary propaganda and how to defeat it. His first book, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 RSL Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, Pushkin Prize, Baillie Gifford Prize and Gordon Burn Prize. His second, This is Not Propaganda, won the 2020 Gordon Burn Prize. His essay on authoritarian propaganda, 'Memory in the Age of Impunity', won the 2022 European Press Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On today's show he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book How To Win An Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 850 - Simon Winder & Penguin Crime & Espionage

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