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Little Atoms

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

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Episodes

Little Atoms 893 - Niamh Mulvey's The Amendments

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....

Apr 22, 202432 min

Little Atoms 892 - Sinéad Gleeson’s Hagstone

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....

Apr 15, 202426 min

Little Atoms 891 - Peter Pomerantsev's How To Win An Information War

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 I...

Apr 08, 202428 min

Little Atoms 890 - Stuart Turton's The Last Murder At The End Of The World

Stuart Turton's debut novel,  The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle , won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. A  Sunday Times  bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages, and has sold over one million copies in the UK and US combined.  The Devil and the Dark Wate r, his follow up, won the Books Are My Bag ...

Apr 01, 202431 min

Little Atoms 889 - Michael Donkor's Grow Where They Fall

Michael Donkor was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, followed by a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. His first novel,  Hold,  was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas and shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prizes. He is a frequent contributor to outlets including the  Guardian , the  TLS and  the  Independent . Michael talks to Neil Denny his latest novel Grow Where They Fall . Hosted on Acast. See acast....

Mar 26, 202430 min

Little Atoms 888 - Lauren Oyler's No Judgement

Lauren Oyler is the author of the novel  Fake Accounts . Her essays on books and culture appear regularly in the  New Yorker , the  New York Times,  the  London Review of Books ,  Harper's , the  Guardian  and other publications. She lives in Berlin. on today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her new collection of essays No Judgement: On Being Critical . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Mar 19, 202429 min

Little Atoms 885 - Rachel Cockerell's Melting Point

Rachel Cockerell talks to Neil Denny about her first work of non-fiction Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 05, 202428 min

Little Atoms 884 - Hannah Durkin's Survivors

Dr. Hannah Durkin talks to Neil Denny about her new book Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 27, 202426 min

Little Atoms 869 - Beto O'Rourke's We've Got To Try

Former US Congressman and Democratic presidential nomination candidate Beto O'Rourke talks to Neil Denny about his book We've Got To Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 24, 202329 min

Little Atoms 868 - Ed Gillett's Party Lines

Ed Gillett talks to Neil Denny about his new book Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 21, 202345 min

Little Atoms 865 - Sandra Newman's Julia

Sandra Newman talks to Neil Denny about her new novel Julia, which retells 1984 from Julia's perspective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 07, 202331 min

Little Atoms 864 - Cat Jarman's The Bone Chests

Cat Jarman retrurns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her new book The Bone Chests: Unlocking The Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 31, 202329 min
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