Little Atoms

Neil Denny

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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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598 episodes

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

Stuart Turton's debut novel, , 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  bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages, and has sold over one million copies in the UK and US combined. r, his follow up, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction and was selected for the BBC Two Book Club, Between the Covers, and the Radio 2 Jo Whiley Book Club. On today's podcast he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel T * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

31m
Apr 01, 2024
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,  was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas and shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prizes. He is a frequent contributor to outlets including the , the the. Michael talks to Neil Denny his latest novel . * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

29m
Mar 26, 2024
Little Atoms 888 - Lauren Oyler's No Judgement

Lauren Oyler is the author of the novel . Her essays on books and culture appear regularly in the , the  the , , the  and other publications. She lives in Berlin. on today's show she talks to Neil Denny about her new collection of essays . * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

29m
Mar 19, 2024
Little Atoms 887 - Helen Oyeyemi's Parasol Against The Axe

Helen Oyeyemi talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Parasol Against The Axe. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

21m
Mar 15, 2024
Little Atoms 886 - Tracy King's Learning To Think.

Tracy King talks to Neil Denny about her memoir Learning To Think. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

28m
Mar 12, 2024
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 https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

28m
Mar 05, 2024
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 https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

26m
Feb 27, 2024
Little Atoms 883 - Leo Vardiashvili's Hard By A Great Forest

Leo Vardiashvili joins Neil Denny to talk about his debut novel Hard By A Great Forest. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

21m
Feb 20, 2024
Little Atoms 882 - Molly McGhee's Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

Molly McGhee talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

29m
Feb 13, 2024
Little Atoms 881 - Aniefiok Ekpoudom's Where We Come From

Aniefiok Ekpoudom talks to Neil Denny about his debut book Where We Come From: Rap, Home and Hope in Modern Britain. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

30m
Feb 06, 2024
Little Atoms 880 - Kiley Reid's Come And Get It

Kiley Reid talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Come And Get It. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

31m
Jan 30, 2024
Little Atoms 879 - Sigrid Nunez's The Vulnerables

Sigrid Nunez talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Vulnerables. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

28m
Jan 23, 2024
Little Atoms 878 - Kate Brody's Rabbit Hole

Kate Brody talks to Neil Denny about her debut novel Rabbit Hole. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

30m
Jan 16, 2024
Little Atoms 877 - Ron Rash's The Caretaker

Ron Rash talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Caretaker. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

24m
Jan 09, 2024
Little Atoms 876 - Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn Crime Novel

in the first show of 2024, Jonathan Lethem joins Neil Denny to talk about his new book Brooklyn Crime Novel. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

25m
Jan 02, 2024
Little Atoms 875 - Dann McDorman's West Heart Kill

Dann McDorman talks to Nei Denny abouty his debut novel West Heart Kill. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

27m
Dec 19, 2023
Little Atoms 874 - Julianne Pachico's Jungle House

Julianne Pachico returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Jungle House. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

27m
Dec 12, 2023
Little Atoms 873 - Rob Drummond's You're All Talk

Linguist Rob Drummond talks to Neil Denny about his new book You're All Talk: why we are what we speak. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

29m
Dec 08, 2023
Little Atoms 872 - Anne Michaels' Held

Anne Michaels talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Held. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

26m
Dec 05, 2023
Little Atoms 871 - Jean Kwok's The Leftover Woman

Jean Kwok joins Neil Denny to talk about her latest novel The Leftover Woman. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

26m
Dec 01, 2023
Little Atoms 870 - Mike McCormack's This Plague of Souls

Mike McCormack talks to Neil Denny about his "metaphysical noir" novel This Plague of Souls. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

28m
Nov 28, 2023
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 . * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

29m
Nov 24, 2023
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 https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

44m
Nov 21, 2023
Little Atoms 867 - A.K. Blakemore's The Glutton

A.K. Blakemore talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Glutton. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

28m
Nov 14, 2023
Little Atoms 866 - Adam Biles' Beasts of England

Adam Biles talks to Neil Denny about his Animal Farm sequel Beasts of England. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

33m
Nov 10, 2023
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 https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

30m
Nov 07, 2023
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 https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

29m
Oct 31, 2023
Little Atoms 863 - Michael J. Benton's Extinction

Paleontologist Michael J. Benton talks to Neil about his latest book Extinction: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

35m
Oct 26, 2023
Little Atoms 862 - Robert Peckham's Fear

Neil is joined by Robert Peckham to talk about his book Fear: An Alternative History of the World. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

27m
Oct 23, 2023
From the Archive - Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost

Neil is on holiday so here's a repeat of our interview from earlier this year with Isabella Hammad talking about her novel Enter Ghost. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

25m
Oct 19, 2023