Everything All Write: Recent Episodes
Ellen A Alpsten
A Literary Podcast - Ellen Alpsten speaks to budding authors and big names in the publishing industry alike about their latest book, their way into writing and their top tip for novelists 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 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!
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.
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!
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.
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!