Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers

“The book is me trying to have a conversation with my father and reach a middle ground.”

Friða Ísberg is here to talk about THE MARK (Faber and Faber) translated by Larissa Kyzer. The book centres …

“Some people have been, oh these women are so grotesque. I don’t think they are! They’re quite relatable.”

Naomi Wood joins me to discuss THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS (Published by Orion)

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"I think their experience in the bookstore is trying to think literary inheritance and spiritual and intellectual experience."

Sam sax is here to discuss YR DEAD, their debut novel about Ezra, a que…

"I'd done a lot of clay-making...you can spend a lifetime and only get good at one technique!"

Jennifer Lucy Allan joins me to talk about her second book, CLAY: A HUMAN HISTORY (White Rabbit Books).…

"This book is begging to be written...It has this a frontier-ness to it..."

Bruce Omar Yates is here to discuss his upcoming novel published by Dead Ink Books, THE MUSLIM COWBOY . 

In a contemporary…

"The smotheringly neutral voice"

Claire Carroll is here to talk about her new and debut collection of short stories THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER. A truly candid insight into the workings of craft an…

"I wanted to be talking choice in a way that was routed in a social context, and that was true to the particularity and intimacy that I shared with my mum at the end of her life."

Marianne Brooker i…

"Wounds, whilst they open us to the world...they can be points of infection." 

Welcome to 2024 and a new episode of the Rippling Pages. Rachel Mann is a poet, scholar, novelist and Anglican priest. …

"Kathy had a documentary impulse that is teaching us now."

Jo Scott-Coe returns to the Rippling Pages to talk about her latest book, UNHEARD WITNESS: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KATHY LEISSNER WHITMAN (Un…

"It's not confessional...but it's absolutely full of concrete details of things that I've observed or really happened."

Charlotte Eichler joins the Rippling Pages to discuss her new collection, SWIM…

"There was a lot of solitude quiet and silence, and I believe poetry exists in relation to silence."

Baron Wormser, a former National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Fellow, is here to talk ab…

"it took a lot of courage to keep going and channel that sadness and melancholy into pictures of such joy and exuberance "

Leslie Smolan, widow and creative partner of the photographer Rodney Smith …

"I hate judging characters - you have to have respect for people's origins."

James Clarke is here to talk about his new novel, Sanderson's Isle, published by Serpent's Tail (buy here)

Enjoyed this …

'I wanted to write a queer love story, Blackpool is crying out for literary renditions and I'm obsessed by Ulysses.'

Helen Palmer is here to talk about her Ulysses inspired queer love story, Pleasur…

"There is a genuine search for something - much of the time it turns out to be distraction."

Duncan Wiese joins me from Denmark to discuss his new collection of poetry based on Virgil's Eclogues, Ti…

"I was interested in stories with stories and how the family used folklore to approach conflict"

Soraya Palmer joins me from Brooklyn to discuss her debut novel, recently released in the UK, The Hum…