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On the show today, we speak to co-director of Brighton Book Festival Althea Woolf, Sheika Helawy, Taha Kehar, Helen Lederer and Roy McFarlane.
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We're joined by three fantastic Brighton authors: Graham Bartlett, Katy Massey and Tanya Byrne
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This month we speak to Brighton based debut novelists, Ania Card and Sarah Butler, both of whom have books out with indie presses.
Ania talks about writing not in her native tongue, about exploring queer identity and how the writing community has helped her reach success.
Sarah talks about the move from short fiction to a novel and how the Sussex landscape inspires her writing.
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This month’s show is hosted Victoria Robson and Cindy Etherton, co-founders of Real
Writers Circle, a Brighton-based a community of writers who meet monthly to share work, support, and friendship. Victoria and Cindy talk to Circle members Ciar Byrne, Jackie Mendoza and Kate Marsh about their favourite books and their influence on their writing. And they catch up with RWC member Samuel Burr and his editor Charlotte Mursell at Orion Publishing on Sam’s debut novel The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers.
Favourite Books Mentioned in the Show:
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
La Terre by Emil Zola
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr (available in May)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
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The books spoken about on the show:
Fiction
1a: Penance by Eliza Clark
1b: Pretty as a Picture by Elizabeth Little
2a: In Memoriam by Alice Winn
2b: Ghost Girl, Banana by Wiz Wharton
3a: Mrs S by K Patrick
3b: Dryland by Sara Jaffe
4a: Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutanto
4b: Murder & Mamon by Mia P Manansala
5a: The List by Yomi Adegoke
5b: More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez
Non-fiction
1a: The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
1b: Pageboy by Elliot Page
2a: Went to London, Took the Dog by Nina Stibbe
2b: Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson
3a: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
3b: Furious Hours by Casey Cep
4a: The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell
4b: Uprooting by Marchelle Farrell
5a: Stay True by Hua Hsu
5b: This Ragged Grace by Octavia Bright
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On this month’s show, we hear from Lisa Fransson about her new novel THE SHAPE OF GUILT, to Deborah Jenkins about her debut collection of short stories, WINTER LIGHTS and to Emma Jackson’s new book WITCH YOU WEREN’T HERE.
Our next show is our bumper Christmas recommendation special with bookseller, Elizabeth Perry. We’ll go through the top 5 bestsellers in fiction and nonfiction and she’ll offer her best alternative recommendations. We’ll also be joined by Idra Novey, author of next month’s book club book, TAKE WHAT YOU NEED which is out now with Daunt Books.
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Music in today’s show from Mrisi Music.
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On the show, we hear from Lesley Wood, CEO of New Writing South and director of the festival; from David Sheppeard from festival partner, Marlborough Productions; from Alexa Rusakoff, one of the student curators behind Friday’s event; from Okechukwu Nzelu who joins us to talk about his in-conversation event with Max Lobe and the workshop on character he’s running. We also speak to author of this month’s book Nadezhda in the Dark, Yelena Moskovich, who is coming all the way from Paris to appear on the QUEER UKRAINE panel.
It’s a jam-packed lineup and a jam-packed show full of great book recommendations and inspiring conversations about queer literature. You can see the full lineup and get your hands on tickets at coastisqueer.com. -
This month, we speak to Elizabeth Delo, author of BECOMING LIZ TAYLOR, about why she decided to set part of her debut novel in Brighton and how overhearing a conversation in a queue sparked the idea for the book. We also talk to Brighton based Deborah Price about her memoir THE PEANUT FACTORY about living in London squats in the 80s. We talk to Brighton-based Joseph Zigmond about his novel CONSTANCE – a book that came from two very different ideas; one about teenage relationships and the mistakes we make, and another about when climate breakdown starts coming home. We take a deep dive into this month’s book club book, Eliza Clark’s wonderful PENANCE. Discussing all things from falling asleep to true crime podcasts, to seeing your work adapted to the stage and to the horrors of teenage female relationships.
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Our next show is dedicated to the UK’s biggest and brightest LGBTQ+ festival of Literature THE COAST IS QUEER which runs from 12-15 October. Our book club book is Yelena Moskovich’s Nadezhda in the Dark. Yelena will be appearing on a panel on Sunday 15th titled Queer Ukraine which is going to be excellent. -
We're back from our short summer hiatus with a jam-packed episode for you. We speak to Brighton based Chloe Michelle Howard about her debut novel SUNBURN – a beautiful sapphic comic of age story set in rural Ireland in the 1990s, to former Brighton resident Emma Claire Wilson about her debut novel THIS CHILD OF MINE and what it was like to grow up in Brighton’s Old Shop Hotel. We talk to Corinne Pearlman about this year’s First Graphic Novel Competition which is now open to entries, and we catch up with award-winning author and writer of this month’s book club book, Claire Fuller about her latest book THE MEMORY OF ANIMALS.
Our next book club book is Eliza Clark’s PENANCE.
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This month we talk to Lily Lindon about her new queer rom com MY OWN WORST ENEMY, to Talia Hibbert about her new YA rom com HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS AND UNFAIRLY CUTE as well as her appearance at Brighton Book Festival on June 24. We also speak to two Brighton writers, Amy Lavelle and Joe Bedford about their new books, HOME SWEET HOME and A BAD DECADE FOR GOOD PEOPLE. We also speak to the author of this month’s book club book – Amita Murray – about her new novel UNLADYLIKE LESSONS IN LOVE.
Our next book club book is Claire Fuller's THE MEMORY OF ANIMALS.
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On this month’s show, we talk to poet Amy Key about her new book ARRANGEMENTS IN BLUE and her appearance as part of Brighton Festival’s books and debate programme on April 20th; to local writer Kate Bradley about her new novel THE SISTERHOOD – a feminist retelling of Orwell's 1984; to Cathy Haywood and Mark Slater about the Creative Writing Programme, and author of this month’s book club book, WORLDS APART, Jane Crittenden.
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A list of the books spoken about on this month's show!
Windmill Hill - Lucy Atkins - 25th May
Transitional - Munroe Bergdorf - out now
All the Beauty in the World - Patrick Bringley - out now
Fire Rush - Jacqueline Crooks - out now
Scorched Grace - Margot Douaihy - 6th April
Books & Islands in Ojibwe Country - Louise Erdrich - 20th April
Voyager - Nona Fernandez - out now
The Housekeepers - Alex Hay - 6th July
Yellowface - RF Kuang - 25th May
Small Worlds - Caleb Azumah Nelson - 11th May
Mrs S - K Patrick - 8th June
Ordinary Notes - Christina Sharpe - 4th April
Death of a Bookseller - Alice Slater - 27th April
Ghost, Girl Banana - Wiz Wharton - 18th May
In Memoriam - Alice Winn - out now
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This month, we go sea swimming with Brighton based writers Josie Lloyd and Mark Radcliffe, and we speak to the author of this month’s book club book IF THEY KNEW, Sophie Flynn.
We also give you a curated preview of literary events in this year’s Brighton Fringe Festival which runs through May.
Our next book club book is DAZZLING by Sussex-based Chikodili Emelum.
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This month we’re talking all things romance in books. Anna speaks to Joseph Murray about his new novel, FLING, a laugh out loud Irish romantic comedy which follows a couple who both turn to a dating app when they face problems in their relationship. She talks to Julia Boggio about SHOOTERS, her romantic comedy set in the world of wedding photography, to Charlotte Rixon about the lost love that consumes her new novel THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY, and to Sara Jafari about getting a second chance at love in her new novel PEOPLE CHANGE.
Our book club book this month is Jessica George’s MAAME. Jess will join Anna to shine a light on her highly-anticipated book.
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Christmas is over for another year, and on this episode, we’re bringing you three exciting interviews with Brighton writers to help inspire your reading for 2023. I talk to PD Viner about his crime thrillers and his community-based writing routine. I speak to author of Ridley Road, Jo Bloom, about her new book permission which explores non-monogamy in a marriage, and I speak to writer, podcaster and all around Brighton man-about-down, David Bramwell about his exciting projects.
Our book club book this month is Women’s Prize long listed THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL AND NEV by Dawnie Walton. -
We’ve got a jam-packed Christmas special for you this month. We speak to five writers of Christmas books: Hayley Webster, Alexandra Benedict, Andy Leach, Lotte James and Lizzie Huxley-Jones.
I’m joined by Elizabeth Perry who runs through the top 5 fiction and non fiction bestsellers this year and suggest her alternative recommendations that you may not have heard of but need to know about. Subscribe to her newsletter here.
I also speak to Yasmin Floyer about our Book Club Book, Claire Keegan’s short but powerful SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE.
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On this episode of the Brighton Book Club, we speak to Brighton icon and crime writer extraordinaire Peter James about everything from bringing the internet to Sussex, to shadowing the police, to the real life Roy Grace. We discuss the kindle Storyteller Award with Ann Girdharry, and we discuss this month’s book club book TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin with two readers and book lovers, Laura Price and Lucy Hooft.
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We love books and we love Brighton and we love books set in Brighton! Anna is joined by Jamie West, Daren Kay, Sue Teddern and Alison Belsham who talk all about their books set in our fine city. Anna is also joined by Rachelle Atalla to discuss this month's book club book, THE PHARMACIST.
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