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A Literary Talk - Ellen Alpsten and guests celebrate literature, writing and authors in their infinite variety. We talk latest book, ways into writing and top tips for novelists in the making!
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Listen to bestselling historical novelist Gill Paul speak about her new novel 'The Manhattan Girls' It's dubbed 'Sex and the City in the 1920' - only with much, much better lines. Gill also remembers being misplaced at Med-school, her creative writing class, Paris as a moveable feast, wild swimming whatever the season, her passion for curry - and Manhattan!
Attention, lovers of historical fiction, you are in for a treat. Meet Endurance Proudfoot, aka 'That Bonesetter Woman'. It's Frances Quinn's second novel and she also talks brazenly copying Beatrix Potter when in Kindergarten, finding inspiration for her unusual heroes, having her bum firmly on the seat, getting her money's worth from a Curtis Brown masterclass, embarking on the Titanic, and all things Northern Lights.
Bestselling historical fiction author Anika Scott joins EAW to talk her latest twisty and suspense-filled novel, 'The Soviet Sisters', the problem with perfection, squeezing a day's work into a short morning, fascination with life in totalitarian regimes, easily finding a literary agent (!), the West-Side story and - what's not to like - Italian food!
Award-winning crime & noir writer Heleen Kist talks peer pressure at new year's eve, the joy and sorrow of quirky, cross-genre plots, space and planning on rolls of wall-paper, traditional vs independent publishing, Scottish settings, forensic observation and Croatian sunshine!
Listen to Criminal Law Barrister and award-winning, bestselling author Victoria Dowd speak about her latest novel in the Smart Women Mystery Series, 'A Book for Murder', Safari Supper-Clubs, Fair-Play Crime vs Agatha Christie, the delight of creatively dispatching victims, the importance of taking a break and a cool band called 'Topaz'.
Listen to Patrick Gale speak about the freedom of the fountain pen, smuggling his way onto the slush pile and into writing, researching the UK's only 'working class' poet Charles Causley, more diversity in UK publishing and beekeeping.
Bestselling Historical Novelist Elodie Harper speaks a childhood passion for the British Museum, winning over Stephen King, the mystery of the slush pile, the current mood for feminist retellings of the Greek myths and a good plate of Pompeian pasta!
Listen to debut novelist Annie Garthwaite speaking about promises made and kept, gaining her seat at the table in a male-dominated world & the lessons learnt, feeding animals first, utter silence clashing with disco-ball dancing, cracking on getting words on paper and last but not least, discovering and falling for Cecily, the heroine of her intense and beautiful debut novel!
Listen in to Elizabeth Buchan speaking about her latest novel 'Two Women in Rome', le 'Mal d'Afrique' to walking Clapham Common, biding her time to breaking the mould, a million words taking her to mastership, a first plate of pasta leading to a life-long love affair with Rome, a booze-free lunch and being staunchly European (that's the spirit!).
Listen to Claire Fuller, author of the Women's Prize longlisted novel 'Unsettled Ground', talk about lockdown, which lockdown? , being called a 'latter day Daphne du Maurier', having strong, yet vulnerable heroines, who operate on the fringes of regularity, and her top tip for nascent novelists: keep on going!
Listen to bestselling Psychological Suspense Author Emma Curtis speak about her London background & family giving her ideas for her novels, her way into publishing, fastidiously planning twists n' turns, relaxing in between drafts & books, how meringue replaced steaks and how California might be home from home.
This week we are plunging right back in to Historical Fiction - come travellin' together with bestselling novelist Deborah Carr, who talks about her fabulous trilogy about Mrs Boots & the making of the 'Boots' Empire, crossing the Atlantic on Queen Mary 2, living lockdown on Jersey, getting into publishing and keeping on going as well as both traditionally & self-published author & last, but not least, saying goodbye to the beautiful MyVLF festival. Tune in!
Lovers of Russia, biographies & page-turning novels alike, listen in to multi-talented Alex Christofi, publisher, essayist and author, speak about his beautiful oeuvre 'Dostoevsky in Love' published by Bloomsbury Books - we talk a flawed genius, bridging genre gaps, a city in the cloud, perfect 5 act lives, invariables of the Russian nation, talent meeting 10 000 hours of practice, the task of a literary agent as well as better being in love with your subject!
Join 'Everything All Write' and listen to a very special guest, as spring is coming & love is in the air - multi-million-bestselling-author, lauded playwright & award winning director Adriana Trigiani all the way from NYC. We talk lucky breaks in life, dreaming big, sistahood, pushin' on, the Roseto effect (you will want to know what THAT is!), Liz Hurley, confidence commonly known as chutzpah, and the question: 'What would Dolly do?' - which all boils down to one thing only: LOVE!
Ellen Alpsten speaks to fellow author Frances Quinn about her debut 'The Smallest Man' published by Simon & Schuster. Frances chats about the inspiration for her extraordinary hero, her love for writing, her way into publishing as well as her top tip for any novelist in the making!
This week, Gillian Harvey speaks her new novel 'A Year at the French Farmhouse', shopping on Ebay, a husband's commitment issues, a successful blind date in the W&A yearbook, getting writing done in the morning, and adding things up to a novel next to having five children...
Psychological Suspense Author Susie Lynes speaks her latest novel #TheEx, post-natal anxiety, Thai-Fusion when at the GP, teaching what she should know, a licence to dark humour, noodling about, never writing 'later', a psychological portrait of clowns and her love for pasta and Spain...
Listen to Anne Sebba, one of Britain's foremost biographers, talk about a toy typewriter, female journalists in the 70s, researching history's hidden heroines, Greek salad, reading as much as writing - and her latest book about Ethel Rosenberg and the US' biggest miscarriage of justice.
Bestselling author Jenifer Saint talks new-year's resolutions, scented candles, hitting the agent-auction jackpot, quitting the day-job straight after her debut, her current novel 'Elektra', Moussaka, The Poisonwood Bible, and, err, female rage.
Are you planning & plotting a Psychological Suspense novel? Listen in to bestselling author Joanna Briscoe about her Bronte-like childhood on the moor, living in a Devon long house, her long apprentice-ship to being a masterful writer, sudden wonderful surprises in the shape of TV adaptations, the everyday Schizophrenia of being an author and NOT believing in writer's block.
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