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August skys may have turned to rain but this month's podcast takes you back to a glorious summer weekend and the Vintage Live event at the Wilderness Festival. Alex Clark hosts authors Nicci Cloke, Anna Whitwham, Samantha Harvey, Evie Wyld, Samantha Ellis, Kirsty Logan, Andrew McMillan and Deborah Moggach to discuss getting published, what fiction is for and adapting work for the big screen. Sit back, relax, and imagine yourself in the comforting warmth of our marquee in Oxfordshire.

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You can find out more about the author's books below.

Anna Whitwham: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/009958445x/anna-whitwham/boxer-handsome/ Nicci Cloke: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099593653/nicci-cloke/lay-me-down/ Samantha Harvey: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099597667/samantha-harvey/dear-thief/ Evie Wyld: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/022409971x/evie-wyld-and-joe-sumner/everything-is-teeth/ Samantha Ellis: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099575566/samantha-ellis/how-to-be-a-heroine-or-what-i-ve-learned-from-reading-too-much/ Kirsty Logan: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1846559162/kirsty-logan/the-gracekeepers/ Andrew McMillan: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0224102133/andrew-mcmillan/physical/ Deborah Moggach: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1784740470/deborah-moggach/something-to-hide/

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In a special podcast we visit the Sipsmith distillery with Richard Godwin, author of The Spirits, to discover first of all how gin is made, before heading back to the studio and mixing it with a few simple ingredients to create classic cocktails. Can we get through the whole programme without slurring our words? http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0224101188/richard-godwin/the-spirits/

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Richard Godwin - The Spirits

Of all the skills you might acquire in life, the ability to make a good cocktail will never be a waste of time. No lover will complain when you present them with a well-iced Negroni as they walk through your door; no house-guest will complain about a round of Gin Sours.

‘To cocktail’ was coined as a verb by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1928. This guide embodies that Golden Age spirit while giving it a thoroughly modern makeover. Expressly structured for the amateur, it will remind you just how much pleasure there is in cokctailing at home.

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This month in 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, featuring John Tenniel's classic illustrations, was published for the very first time (the edition was quickly withdrawn when Tenniel complained about the printing of his illustrations and an improved edition was published in November). To celebrate, Alex Clark talks with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst about The Story of Alice and with Creative Director Suzanne Dean about design, fashion and the icon that is Alice.

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This month we have stars in our eyes as Alex Clark talks to Deborah Moggach and Sadie Jones about seeing their work adapted for the screen and to Harriet Horobin-Worley about working together with Studio Canal on a new enhanced ebook of Graham Greene's The Third Man. Find out more about Deborah Moggach here: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/authors/3404/deborah-moggach/ Find out more about Sadie Jones here:http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/authors/7644/sadie-jones/ Find out more about The Third Man here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/the-third-man/id997687519?mt=11

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Graham Greene - The Third Man

Experience the thrilling search for the Third Man as you follow Harry Lime through the gloomy and treacherous streets of Vienna, a city divided by war and corruption. This undisputed spy classic is now available for the first time with video and photography from the film that inspired the novel.

In this innovative new format, readers can see the development of Greene’s masterful writing in the original script of the movie, with extra content showcasing the film’s distinctive soundtrack and Oscar-winning cinematography. See clips and photos of Orson Welles embodying one of his most iconic characters alongside the text at key points. The unparalleled film and archive materials add new layers to the characters and the mystery at the heart of the story.

This is a special digital edition to celebrate Studio Canal's restored edition of the film. It includes:

- An array of film clips and stills embedded in the text of the novel

- A large selection of behind-the-scenes photos from the archive, including candid photos of Orson Welles and the cast on set

- Scans of the original post-production script

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May was a bumper month for fiction so this month's podcast focuses on three brilliant novels. Alex Clark talks to Kirsty Logan about her magical debut novel The Gracekeepers, to Vesna Goldsworthy about her Gatsby-inspired novel Gorsky and to Irish Laureate Anne Enright about her latest novel, The Green Road. You can also hear an amazing speech from Anne Enright by following this link: https://soundcloud.com/vintagebookspodcast/anne-enright-on-ireland-writing-and-reading Find out more about ... The Gracekeepers: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1846559162/kirsty-logan/the-gracekeepers/ Gorsky: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1784740098/vesna-goldsworthy/gorsky/ The Green Road: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0224089056/anne-enright/the-green-road/

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Kirsty Logan - The Gracekeepers

A flooded world. 

A floating circus. 

Two women in search of a home.

North lives on a circus boat with her beloved bear, keeping a secret that could capsize her life.

Callanish lives alone in her house in the middle of the ocean, tending the graves of those who die at sea. As penance for a terrible mistake, she has become a gracekeeper.

A chance meeting between the two draws them magnetically to one another - and to the promise of a new life.

But the waters are treacherous, and the tide is against them.

Anne Enright - The Green Road

Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home.

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The latest podcast from Vintage is an Irvine Welsh special. Alex Clark interviews the man himself about his latest novel, A Decent Ride, which sees the return of hustler cabbie 'Juice' Terry Lawson. It's as wild and raucous a ride as you'd expect from Irvine and you can also hear an extract from the audio book read by Tam Dean Burn. Apologies for the quality of the audio this month. A 'technical hitch' will not recur next month!

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Irvine Welsh - A Decent Ride

A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane ‘Bawbag’?

Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison?

Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker?

And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without… A DECENT RIDE?

A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey.

In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler – a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent –and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy…

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In this love themed podcast, Alex Clark explores why lying might be the key to a successful love life; we’ll be telling love stories in reverse; and we’ll probably get a little bit soppy – we just can’t help ourselves. With Vintage authors: Philippa Rice, Clancy Martin and Nicci Cloke.

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Want to start writing in 2015? Alex Clark speaks to the winners and judges of some of Vintage's writing competitions including the Bodley Head and Financial Times Essay Prize, Harvill Secker Young Translator’s Prize, and the Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic Novel Short Story Prize to inspire you to pick up your pen this year.

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Alex Clark celebrates a vintage year for literary prizes, interviewing the winning authors of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Guardian First Book Award, Forward Prize for Poetry and William Hill Sports Book of the Year.

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