The Boundless Podcast

Author of The Sufi Storyteller Faiqa joined Boundless Junior Editor Sadia Nowshin to discuss the beauty of Sufi stories, how classic Western literature might have been inspired by the tradition, and …

Erica Wagner talks to Patrick Galbraith about her book Chief Engineer, which was published by Bloomsbury in 2017.

They discuss Washington Roebling, the man who built the bridge, and his extraordinari…

Alison Bechdel joins Erica Wagner to chat about her new comic novel Spent, writing a new kind of autobiography, and learning new things.

Spent by Alison Bechdel was published by Jonathan Cape on 22nd …

Patrick Galbraith talks to Richard Negus about hedgelaying, nature writing, and the disconnect between the urban and rural sphere.

Richard’s debut book, Words From the Hedge: A hedge layer’s view of t…

Erica Wagner talks to Elizabeth Garner about folklore, and Erica and Patrick Galbraith discuss Elizabeth’s piece for Boundless on a well that sits in the garden at her childhood home.

Erica and Patric…

Patrick Galbraith talks to Lamorna Ash, the author of Don't Forget We're Here Forever which will be published shortly by Bloomsbury, about the rise of interest in religion among young people in Brita…

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Like many now-20-something women who grew up in the UK, Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging was an iconic staple of Sadia Nowshin's early teenhood — the awkwardness of girlhood thrown into sharp r…

In recent history, apocalyptic science fiction was fun. It was hard for most of us to imagine, while reading things like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, that the bleak deadzone the novel is set in could …

When Sarah Dunant was writing her most recent historical novel, she had a character who was tough to crack. Isabella D’Este, a 16th century Italian noblewoman, had no obvious softness or humanity, an…

It’s all just storytelling, right? Whether you’re a dramatist, a writer for telly, or a novelist. Well, no. It turns out that writing for the screen and writing for the bookshelf are markedly differe…

Why is it that young Irish writers are everywhere, while the Welsh dragon of literary fiction is sitting quietly in a corner? Francesca Reece thinks that the Scottish and Irish simply have better PR …

Last summer, outside a pub in Soho, Patrick Galbraith met Hannah Hayden, a librettist who also writes erotic novels about men who fall into fantasy worlds and end up having a wild time with dinosaurs…

In 1974, the artist Philippe Petit embarked on an illegal high-wire walk across the Twin Towers, which resulted in a great degree of notoriety that has followed him ever since.

Philippe talks to Erica…

While researching her bestselling novel The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley became obsessed with the life of Robert McClure. She has spent the past few years trying to piece together the details of…

In 2019, having almost no experience of journalism whatsoever, Charlie Baker decided to launch a print magazine. In a world where print readership is in dire decline, people thought he was completely…

When she was in her 20s, Katrina Porteous moved to a cottage on the Northumberland Coast. It was immensely beautiful but it was a place that was changing fast – every year the number of fishing boats…