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"Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions... * An Allodyne Touch - Speculative Fiction by Simon Cairnes * No More Dragons - Fantasy by Cameron Glenn * Lifepaper - Contemporary Fiction by Deborah Cooper * Life's too Short to Tiptoe - Romance With An Erotic Element by Anna Hursley * The Peregrine Letters - Speculative Fiction by Susannah Dent
Peter Cox's Special Guests Today Are Lee Murray and Andy Dickenson!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/Vf_qgvIdYb4
Lee Murray's book recommendation is Revelation: Poppet Cycle Book 1 by Donna JW Munro.
Andy Dickenson's book recommendation is Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
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"Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions... * Book of Shai I - Young Adult - Sci-Fi by Homer Shingles III * How To Dig Your Own Grave - Satirical Serial Killer Thriller by Michele Houlihan * Pantheon - Historical Fantasy Fiction by William Bayliss-Brown * Pemberton Manor - Commercial Women'S Fiction/Mystery by Georgina Key * A Car Called She - Young Adult - Sci-Fi by Gerard Byrne
Peter Cox's Special Guests Today Are Tex Thompson and Dean Baxter!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/0Kf-d7iWUyU
Tex Thompson's book recommendation is True Grit by Charles Portis.
Dean Baxter's book recommendation is Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
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"Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions... * OVER THE HILL and INTO THE CIA - Comedy/Political Thriller by Sidney Cris * Booga The Wonderhound - Childrens Chapter Book by Samantha Kennett * Last Journey to Prague - Part Literary Thriller, High Concept, Incomplete Love, And Something In Between All These by Steven Burch * Athena - Science Fiction by Robin Batty * Family Liar - Comedy/Political Thriller by Chris Rathburn
Peter Cox's Special Guests Today Are Kesia Lupo and Jamie Mollart!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/pFDxm5fZtCs
Kesia Lupo's book recommendation is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
Jamie Mollart's book recommendation is The Bricks That Built The Houses by Kate Tempest
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Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions... * i_hate_america - Uplifting, Accessible Literary Fiction by Sorrel Frith * The Vapors - Black Noir by Joe Tello * In The Wide Open - Historical Thriller by Derald Breneman * Faerie Glass - Paranormal Romance by Lauren Rose * Not His Story - Uplifting, Accessible Literary Fiction by Shannon Byrne
Peter Cox's Special Guests Today Are Roz Morris and Jon Duffy!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/ZHgmeEYZJAU
Roz Morris's book recommendation is The Forgiven by Lawrence Osborne.
Jon Duffy's book recommendation is The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
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Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions...
- Braindead or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Puberty - Literary Memoir by Jack Robinson
- Unveil Me - Romantic Suspense by LHS Miloni
- What The Wind Can't Carry - Fantasy by Sophie Sparham
- Battery Life - Mixed, Short Stories, Drama. by Kieren Hughes & Nick White
- The Pandaemonium Chronicles - Literary Memoir by Brandon Hatten
Peter Cox's Special Guests Today Are Nicolas Cheetham and Jamila Gleason!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/tZ9oDk_LeHg
Nicolas Cheetham's book recommendation is The Trouble With Peace by Joe Abercrombie.
Jamila Gleason's book recommendation is The Travelers by Regina Porter
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Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions...
- I Hear You - sci-fi/young adult/lgbt/romance from Magnus K.;
- Debris - science fiction from Mark von Haartman;
- Spike Spikely - children's mid-grade fantasy from John Rester Zodrow;
- Another End of the World - science fiction from Henry Grevemberg;
- The Adventures of Tom Sharpe: Discovery - young adult from Pete Drinkwater.
Peter Cox's special guests today are Emma Robinson and Sara Grant!
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Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions...
- Operation Stormwatcher - crime/espionage fiction from Gerard Poulin
- The Resonance Gems - high fantasy from Matthew Goldstein
- Birth of Jai - science fiction from Rick Leinecker
- Joe Hodgson Chief Engineer - memoir from Joe Hodgson
- Birth of The Flame - historical fiction from Susan Coupland
Peter Cox's special guests today are Geoff Sullivan and Meredith Tate!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/SOVr3z21P4A
Geoff Sullivan's book recommendation is The Joke by Milan Kundera. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/32refFf
Meredith Tate's book recommendation is "Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch" by Julie Abe. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/3eEMXjw
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Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions...
- Escaping Berlin - historical action from Brent Monahan
- Going Back - fan fiction from Mark Punter
- The Short Story of Andrew and Garry - novel from Konrad Mink
- Staring at the Sun - thriller, near-science fiction, adult from Vivienne Glance
- Chris & Moose's Waggy Walk - humorous travel from Chris McQuillan
Peter Cox's special guests today are Kaylie Finn and Kevin Brooke!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/QUnwl8evNNM
Kaylie Finn's book recommendation is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Library-Novel-Matt-Haig-ebook/dp/B085BVSXS9
Kevin Brooke's book recommendation is "Tender Morsels" by Margo Lanagan. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Tender-Morsels-Margo-Lanagan/dp/0375843051
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Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions...
- Still Soft With Sleep - literary fiction from Nick Barney
- The Escapist - historical espionage from Steve
- The Next Bad Turn - suspense from Derald Breneman
- The Sixth Man - general/literary fiction from Chris Morey
- Hungers - literary fiction from David Krancher Barnes
Peter Cox's special guests today are Dean Baxter and Bella Pearson!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/o4AQuGvVtAk
Dean Baxter's book recommendation is The Goldfinch by Donna Tart. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/36vShnp
Bella Pearson's book recommendation is "Circe" by Madeline Miller. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/3d0QQyy
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Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions...
- Something Unnatural - thriller/suspense from Jenna Podjasek
- Jailbait - commercial fiction from Catherine Evans
- The Morning Before Darkness - fantasy/horror from Nei Borgert
- The Celts to JRR Tolkien's Rescue - documentary from Monique Golay
- The Sidewinder - classic literature from Max Morpheus
Peter Cox's special guests today are Emma Darwin and RC Bridgestock!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/4JkkXFXgmQk
Emma Darwin's book recommendation is Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2G3mEqm
RC Bridgestock's book recommendation is "Tara Road" by Maeve Binchy. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/340UbcB
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Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions...
- Boy Reborn - speculative fiction from Graham Old
- The Castilians - historical fiction -ya from Victoria Wilson
- CHOMP! Charlie Carter and the Monster Pike - mg action-adventure from David Rogers
- One Star for Each Soul - commercial fiction from Chris Maden
- Village in Flames - literary fiction from Majewsky Anderson
Peter Cox's special guests today are Jamila Gleason and Tex Thompson!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/WOF5D1nVgC8
Jamila Gleason's book recommendation is Homecoming by Yaa Gyasi. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2ZsM1IC
Tex Thompson's book recommendation is "The Barrington Job" by William Humble. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/3k9VeO0
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Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions...
- Doomsday Resolved - legal thriller from Kent Bishop
- One Who Protects - action adventure from Matt Prewitt Wagener
- Off The Rails - crime from Kymberley McEnhill
- London Learners - travel/memoir from Roy Schreiber
- Oneiropolis - psychological from Ryan Davies
Peter Cox's special guests today are Louisa Reid and Mo O'Hara!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/AIuaoal5bEk
Louisa Reid's book recommendation is Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars by Joyce Carol Oates. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/3bv8R78
Mo O'Hara's book recommendation is "This Rock, That Rock" by Dom Conlan & Viviane Schwarz. Buy it here: This Rock, That Rock
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Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions...
- The Adventures of Lola - middle grade 9-12 fiction from Josiah Matheson
- Subject A - science fiction from Nathan Bowen
- Virus, Witch and Wand - children's fantasy from Peter Burrows
- A Wing And A Prayer - womens fiction from Anne Connolly
- Planet B(illionaire) - adult/romance/sci-fi from Jada Murray
Peter Cox's special guests today are Andy Dickenson and Lee Murray!
Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/SQpCb3KswNE
Andy Dickenson's book recommendation is The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/3jqrOe4
Lee Murray's book recommendation is "Ghastly Tales Of Gaiety And Greed" by EF Schraeder. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/31IzFxH
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
Writing a book? Let literary agent Peter Cox and his friends from the publishing industry - and from Litopia Writers’ Colony - review your submission live! Make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/
Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "Solus" - commercial fiction from Helen Greenwood;
- "Vicious Virtues" - adult/post-apocalyptic from Sam Alexander;
- "6 Bullets, 1 Home" - post-apocalyptic thriller from Darren Burgess;
- "Noor: A Girl in Akbar's Army" - historical chick lit from Nupur Maskara;
- "Feral Snow" - literary thriller from Mark Lowes.
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
Writing a book? Let literary agent Peter Cox and his friends from the publishing industry - and from Litopia Writers’ Colony - review your submission live! Make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/
Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "The Dark Cry of Aristid" - epic fantasy from William Brian Johnson;
- "Disintegrating Angels" - thriller from Hunter Liguore;
- "Matida and the fall of Ophir" - fiction from Martha Tawapei;
- "Son of Anger" - historical fiction from Donovan Cook;
- "Fat Boy" - dark comedy from Joseph Cobb.
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
Writing a book? Let literary agent Peter Cox and his friends from the publishing industry - and from Litopia Writers’ Colony - review your submission live! Make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/
Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "A Postman's Guide to Monster Hunting" - science fiction from Will G. White;
- "An Uplifting Murder" - sci-fi/crime from Andrew Harrowell;
- "Surfing in the Dark" - thriller from Debbie Hewson;
- "Eleven Twenty-Two" - romance from Jordan Clayden-Lewis;
- "Secret Skin" - mystery from Rayonna Lash.
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
Writing a book? Let literary agent Peter Cox and his friends from the publishing industry - and from Litopia Writers’ Colony - review your submission live! Make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/
Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "Why in Paris?" - queer historical fiction from Nick Henderson-Mayo;
- "Frum God: The Mostly Tue Adventures of a Modern Day Messiah" - lit fic from David Litvin;
- "Deciduous" - suspense from Michael Devendorf;
- "The Fountain" - sci-fi from jake;
- "Che Guevara Zombie Killer" - action/horror/comedy from Luis A. Davidovich.
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
Writing a book? Let literary agent Peter Cox and his friends from the publishing industry - and from Litopia Writers’ Colony - review your submission live! Make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/
Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "She's on Pointe" - young adult sport romance from Lucy Carey;
- "Magnus MacLeod and the Devil's Coin" - paranormal detective mystery from James Ashton;
- "A Night's Beckoning" - supernatural thriller/urban fantasy from Brent Turner;
- "Unsung" - ya fantasy/sci-fi from Kathryn Rossati;
- "Hylopath" - psychological suspense from Michaël Wertenberg.
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
Writing a book? Let literary agent Peter Cox and his friends from the publishing industry - and from Litopia Writers’ Colony - review your submission live! Make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/
Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "Dead Parents" - literary fiction from Gabriel Smith;
- "The Elf Disc" - mythology and fantasy from Sam Meyer;
- "Both Sides Now" - women’s commercial fiction from TL Gough;
- "The Grymcat Conspiracy" - ya fiction from Dan Brockington;
- "Divorce Inc." - thriller from Anthony White.
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
Writing a book? Let literary agent Peter Cox and his friends from the publishing industry - and from Litopia Writers’ Colony - review your submission live! Make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/
Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "Category 13" - speculative fiction from Leo-Paul Bailly-Kermene;
- "Umbra" - adult fantasy/weird tale from Yulia Perch;
- "The Vacant Skies" - near-future science fiction from Leif Rennes;
- "STAZR The World Of Z: The Dawn Of Athir" - epic fantasy from Anay Ayarovu;
- "Invisible" - legal thriller from Jonny Dixon-Smith.
Georgina Key's book recommendation is "Late Migrations" by Margaret Renkl
Michael Jecks's book recommendation is "Long Way Home" by Dan Jarvis.
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "Fat Boy" - dark comedy from Joseph Cobb;
- "Prince of Loch Ness" - mystery-thriller from AmandaMarie Hickman;
- "68430" - ya sci-fi from Lexi Nolletti;
- "The Bad Man" - crime/thriller from Jason Leech;
- "The Mudbow Sisters" - fantasy from Eric Juneau.
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "Matilda & Sebastian" - young adult from G.S. Banks;
- "Bookeemessiah" - science fiction from Michael Sawan;
- "Skjultvik" - mystery / horror from Stephen Durham;
- "Soil and Stars" - ya space opera from James Beedle;
- "Temples of Glass " - high fantasy from Matthew Atkinson.
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "Annie & Dov" - ya contemporary from Julie Schwartz;
- "A Very Rich Poor Man" - upmarket fiction from Grace Mattioli;
- "Penny for a Cotton Zebra" - young adult from Joel Wynn / Pamela Morton;
- "The Twelve" - mystery from Joe Tello;
- "When Shall We See The Mermaids?" - novel from Geoffrey Heptonstall.
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "The Advent of Love" - women's fiction from Laura Wilkinson;
- "Homo Ex Machina" - science fiction from Kevin Yarr;
- "Twenty Sixty (2060)" - thriller from Darren Burgess;
- "Locked in the Wrong House" - upmarket thriller from Brian Willems;
- "Chasing Rainbows" - sci-fi/coming-of-age/horror from Colin Rice.
Sara Grant's book recommendation is "Where The World Turns Wild" by Nicola Penfold.
Andy Dickenson's book recommendation is "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud.
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
Writing a book? Let literary agent Peter Cox and his friends from the publishing industry - and from Litopia Writers’ Colony - review your submission live! Make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/
Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "Suzuri" - historical fiction from Francisco J. Villarreal;
- "Dimitra" - historical fiction from Dana Dimitri Richardson;
- "The Chair Man" - thriller from Alex Pearl;
- "[Working Title]" - historical romance from Isla Aitken;
- "I Am Gold" - young adult from Sarah Leonard.
Geoff Sullivan's book recommendation is "Dubliners" by James Joyce. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2QQDOcL
Kevin Brooke's book recommendation is "The Toymaker" by Jeremy de Quidt. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2JnEqCK
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
Writing a book? Let literary agent Peter Cox and his friends from the publishing industry - and from Litopia Writers’ Colony - review your submission live! Make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/
Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "My October" - middle grade adventure fantasy from Jennifer Claessen;
- "Hashtags: A Novel" - literary / commercial fiction from Polly Becker;
- "The Gray Nothing Scar" - thriller from Rebekah Alexander;
- "Let Yourself In" - revenge thriller from Darren Burgess;
- "Family of the Stars" - epic fantasy from D. A. Smith.
Georgina Key's book recommendation is "Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither" by Sara Baume. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2QBwtxM
Melissa Eveleigh's book recommendation is "How To Stop Time" by Matt Haig. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/33BdLLS
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Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.
Writing a book? Let literary agent Peter Cox and his friends from the publishing industry - and from Litopia Writers’ Colony - review your submission live! Make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/
Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "Popcorn Fox in the Sands to the City" - ya climatic fiction from Oliver Prescott;
- "Outbox" - comedy from Tom Duggins;
- "Enemy on the Other Side" - speculative fiction from Caroline A Scott;
- "The Last House in London" - post-apocalyptic distopia from Theodor Bernard Kung;
- "Contractor" - memoir/espionage/adventure from Billy Mays.
Kaylie Finn's book recommendation is "In Search of Silence" by Poorna Bell.
Roz Morris's book recommendation is "Night Work: A Novel" by Thomas Glavinic.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions…
- "Two Scoops, Not Three" - women's commercial fiction from Terri Ann Boas;
- "Cistern: A Very Violent Vampiric Love Story" - paranormal romance/urban fantasy from Preston Skinner;
- "The Copper Gate" - YA magical realism from Debbie Exton; "The Devil's Prize" - historical fiction from Kathryn Koon;
- "Welcome to the Glue Factory" - fiction (dark comedy) from Cian McLysaght.
Michael Jecks's book recommendation is "Witchfinders" by Malcolm Gaskill.
Jeremy Barron's book recommendation is "Factotoum" by Charles Bukowski.
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Today's special guest is writer, screenwriter and journalist Caroline Ryder - follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolineryderwriter/
Featured on today's Pop-Ups...
"Liberty" - literary thriller from Nick Cox;
"Shoe Man" - humorous picture book from Julie Barnett;
"Shadow" - supernatural thriller from Efe Dogu;
"Tia and the Cosmic Serpent" - tween/ya - environmental adventure series from Andrea Allardyce;
"Rattle & Roll" - literary fiction from Joanne Bell.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- ""Exili Saves the Flintelf" - fantasy from Victoria Bastedo;
- "Sifting Sand" - commercial women's fiction from Caroline Meech;
- "Heaven's Nightmares" - adult romantic fiction from lynn hughes;
- "Bright & Others" - historical fiction from Victoria;
- "Godonism" - dystopian from Theo Von Cezar.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "To Be Enlightened" - speculative fiction from Alan Steinberg;
- "The Lake at Standing Rock" - speculative (dystopian) from Rachel O'Sullivan ;
- "Ichabod" - literary fiction from Michael Manning;
- "Pecunia Blues" - a thriller from Des Kirby;
- "The Final Eliminator" - fiction from Kit Galer.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "Alice the Wise" - ya sci-fi from Bob Albo;
- "One in a Trillion" - suspense/thriller from Darren Burgess;
- "Toubab Tales" - travel / biography from Rob Baker;
- "Our Wandering" - upmarket from Lorna Brown;
- "The Eye Collector" - urban fantasy/thriller from Simon Kewin.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "The Beating Heart" - by Liz Brown;
- "Dara and The Red Branch Knights" - children's novel from Maire McGuire;
- "War of Redemption: Awakening Warriors" - fantasy from Abigail Hall;
- "The Hunter's Walk" - fiction from Nabeel Ismeer;
- "The Key" - crime-thriller from Zoran Stojanovic.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "Facetime" - humour from Ian Creese;
- "Cosmic Park" - crime/thriller from Norton Sims;
- "Flock" - literary fiction from Aaron Kent;
- "The Numbers on Their Backs" - comic fiction from Martin Ross;
- "The Truth Circle" - survival-thriller from Cameron.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "I Want Out" - political thriller from Steven McCracken;
- "The Man Who Lived Twice" - romance from Kenneth McCormick;
- "Treasureland Book 1: How To Beat the Baddie and Be Back In Time For Lunch" - children's funny fantasy adventure from Kate E. Salisbury;
- "Dead Man Walking" - ya from Micah Carlsen;
- "The Devil's Apprentice " - historical fiction from Fiona Fraser-Thomson.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "Blue Shift" - science fiction from Dan Payne;
- "The Executioner" - historical-fiction from Adam Alexander;
- "War of Redemption: Awakening Warriors" - fantasy from Abigail Hall;
- "The South Tower" - alternative history thriller from Alistair McKechnie;
- "The Society of Old Souls" - thriller from Raven Taylor.
Emily Rainsford's book recommendation is "The Skylarks War" by Hilary McKay.
Daisy Waugh's book recommendation is "Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold" by Stephen Fry.
Daisy's new book is In the Crypt with a Candlestick, a country house murder mystery in the tradition of two great but very different British writers, Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "Water" - ya sci-fi from Andy Dickenson;
- "Like and Subscribe" - literary fiction from Oliver Logue;
- "love and care" - personal narrative/memoir from shaun deeney;
- "Pay the Premium" - historical fiction from Joanna Beresford;
- "The Life and Death of Harry Peace" - crime / thriller from David McKeown.
Ali Gardiner's book recommendation is "Dreyer’s English" by Benjamin Dreyer.
Sara Grant's book recommendation is "My Sister, the Serial Killer" by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "The Peacemakers" - urban fantasy from Jeff Fulmer;
- "Dogs of Doom" - adventure chapter book from Sarah Wynne;
- "Røyken" - horror from Marc McGowan;
- "A Ghetto Estate of Mind" - autobiography/urban drama from George Ofurum;
- "Wizards & Whiskey - Order of the Lager" - urban fantasy satire from Rob Stoakes.
Katie-Ellen Hazeldine's book recommendation is "Life: The First Four Billion Years" by Martin Jenkins & Grahame Baker-Smith. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/33ztCtL
Icy Sedgwick's book recommendation is "The Corset" by Laura Purcell. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2CwY7Vj
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "Broken Soldier" - non fiction from Robert Brown;
- "The Puzzling Tale of Jigsaw the Giraffe" - middle-grade fiction from Sally McKenna;
- "The Cheesemongers of Moisy-le-Grand" - middle-grade fiction from Chris Yugay;
- "Free Me" - mystery/crime from Megan A. Dell;
- "The Only Road" - historical fiction from Mike Durell.
Katie-Ellen's book recommendation is "Odo's Hanging" by Peter Benson. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2NhGMEQ
Michael Jecks's book recommendation is "The Golden Age of Murder" by Martin Edwards. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2WgLpTC
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "The Origami Butterflies" - women's commercial fiction from Gigi Karagoz;
- "The Guardians" - diverse NA high fantasy from Frances Koziar;
- "Ad Matai" - literary fiction from Rafi Bocarsly;
- "Dichotomy of good and evil: The sword of sacrifice" - fantasy fiction from Abhishek Das;
- "Cynetic Wolf" - young adult sci-fi from Matt Ward.
Geoff's book recommendation is "Imagist Poetry" by Peter Jones. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/35Q2CHX
Rev Peter Laws's book recommendation is "Disney War: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom" by James B Stewart. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/35ZlDb4
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "Secret of Heathcote Manor" - upper middle grade time travel adventure from David Weller; "The NooSphere" - general fiction: (speculative, contemporary, commercial) from Dave Meyer; "The Skill" - literary from Louis Coulomb; "Adam Brodie and the Monster from the Dark Planet" - children's middle range fantasy from Paul Glynn; "Weasel" - literary thriller from Adrian Keefe.
Carol Rose's book recommendation is "The Secret Rescue" by Cate Lineberry. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2M8YRFA
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "Night Flight To Shoebury" - crime fiction from David Taplin;
- "Defeating The Wolves of War " - fantasy fiction, adventure fiction from I J Noble;
- "The Dream Journey - An exploration of Consciousness" - spirituality from Ronny Ferrier;
- "The Secret Memoirs of the Last Haggis Hunter" - gothic horror from Keith Hughes;
- "Undying To Meet You" - paranormal romance from Jenny Mason.
Emily's book recommendation is "The Hidden Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2Iqk63A
Lee Murray's book recommendation is "The Earth Cries Out" by Bonnie Etherington. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2MdTiVq
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "Bad Stats" - womens/upmarket commercial fiction from Danielle Imara;
- "Avengard" - high fantasy from Don Light;
- "My Happiness Comes First!" - fiction from S. Gh. STAN;
- "About Me To Hate" - literary fiction from Craig;
- "Clear as a Glass Eye" - thriller from Cage Dunn.
Brian Clegg's book recommendation is "The Hidden Half" by Michael Blastland.
Ali Gardner's book recommendation is "The Funniest Thing You Never Said" by Rosemarie Jarski.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
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"Besotted Boy!" - commercial fiction from Ernest Pick;
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"Danny's Choice" - ya/fantasy/adventure from Jim Erith;
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"Little Faustus" - young adult/horror from Bertie Nuttall;
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"A Fool's Diary" - roman-à-clef; fiction from Brian Hurley;
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"Darkness & Light" - sci-fi from Kyle Hoy.
Geoff's book recommendation is "Bonjour Tristesse" by Francoise Sagan
R.C. Bridgestock's book recommendation is "Folklore of Yorkshire" by Kai Roberts.
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Featured on this edition of Pop-Up Submissions...
- "A Continuum of Love" - romance from Martin Hallgarth;
- "Me and my Murderers" - thriller from Darren Burgess;
- "Where Wild Flowers Grow" - supernatural, thriller from Karen Smith;
- "The Hairy Hominid - The Throne of Hall’e-Loamba" - teenage/young adult fiction from Steff McAndrews;
- "Home Again" - general fiction from Michael Zimmerman.
Katie-Ellen's book recommendation is "The Keeper of Lost Things" by Ruth Hogan.
Daisy Waugh's book recommendation is "Everything You Ever Wanted" by Luize Sauma.
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Featured on today's Pop-Ups...
- "Dead Last" - adult fiction from Mike Fiorilli;
- "Into the Blight" - fantasy from Stephen Dunks;
- "The Megafauna" - ya scifi from Chris Hollis-Thompson;
- "Stoneberry" - paranormal horror / magic realist from Connor Glaze;
- "The Brilliant Pebbles" - prophetic from David Beveridge.
Emily's book recommendation is "The Art of Possibility" by R. S. & Benjamin Zander.
Icy Sedgwick's book recommendation is "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams" by Stephen King.
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Featured on today's Pop-Ups...
- “Lone Briton” – historical fiction from Sanjay Agnihotri;
- “Jelly Kelly and the Little Visitor” – childrens from Samuel Giles;
- “The Idol of the Decadents” – literary fiction from Matthew MacLachlan;
- “The Mirror” – new age / adult fantasy murder mystery from Ellen A. Hunt;
- “Transilience” – science fiction, hard-boiled detective from Kevin Bragg.
Carol Rose’s book recommendation is “Gold Dust Woman” by Stephen Davis.
Emma Robinson‘s book recommendation is “The Women” by S.E. Lynes. Emma’s latest book, “Where I Found You“, has just been published.
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Featured on today's Pop-Ups...
- “Sunflowers & Sins” – crime/romance from Phil Webberley;
- “Hunger” – literary fiction from Samuel Wright;
- “Chloe & Tom and The Preserver of Moseley Old Hall” – children’s fiction from Sean Ivory;
- “Entitled” – politics from Bruce Rayner;
- “The King of Wolves” – ya fantasy from Renske de Wolf.
With special guest author, journalist & film critic Peter Laws…who aside from being a successful crime/horror novelist, is also an ordained Reverend in the UK Baptist denomination with a fascination for the macabre!
Katie-Ellen’s book recommendation is “The Lost Words” by Jackie Morris.
Peter Laws’s book recommendation is “Live Long And…” by William Shatner.
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Featured on today's Pop-Ups...
- "J49 - A Bear On The Run" - an environmental thriller from Jiannina Camillo;
- "Shiny Bits In Between" - literary fiction/contemporary women's fiction from Georgina Key;
- "The Rulers Above: Eternity's Glow" - epic fantasy from Del Winterbottom;
- "Race Ya!" - non-fiction/fitness/running from Paul Birch;
- "Obsidian Gate" - fantasy from Matthew Silvester.
Amber's book recommendation is "The Haters: A Band. A Road Trip. A Gig That Maybe Doesn't Suck" by Jesse Andrews.
Eva's book recommendation is "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert.
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Our Special Guest is acclaimed children's writer Allan Boroughs.
Featured on today's Pop-Ups...
- "Such Dreadful Lies" - literary fiction from Tim Lewes Gibbon;
- "Eternally Ruthless" - action-thriller from Esther Krogdahl;
- "The Ivydale Test" - women's commercial fiction from Hilary;
- "Spades of Determination" - memoir from Rachel Capps;
- "The Door to Andromeda" - science fiction from Paul Colby.
Allan's book recommendation is "The Writer's Journey" by Christopher Vogler.
Ali's book recommendation is "How Not to Write a Novel" by Sandra Newman & Howard Mittelmark.
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With Special Guest Ahmed Masoud.
Featured on today's Pop-Ups...
- "Another Age" - commercial womens fiction from Hayley Gullen;
- "World Without Hope?" - science fiction from C.H.Woodson;
- "Space Lawyer For Hire" - adult sf legal thriller from Matt Reardon;
- "Cities of Silence" - science fantasy from Colby Weir;
- "The House of Ghosts" - historical fiction from Christopher Jory.
Geoff's book recommendation is "The Death of Sweet Mister" by Daniel Woodrell.
Ahmed's book recommendation is "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak.
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Featured on today's Pop-Ups...
- "From The Shadows" - crime / thriller from Ross Davies;
- "Black Friday" - african literary fiction from Gbenga Kajopaye;
- "Lamplight" - fantasy from Adam J Walker;
- "The Talking Statues" - scholarly thriller from Andrew Lino Giarelli;
- "Lola" - crime fiction from Gemma Dobson.
Katie-Ellen's book recommendation is "Bewildered Gilbert" by Eric Gurney. Buy it here
Lee Murray's book recommendation is "Brothers of the Knife" by Dan Rabarts. Buy it here
More from Lee at her website.
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Featured on today's Pop-Ups...
"The God Platform" - contemporary fantasy from Eric Rosenfield;
"Boomerang" - thriller from Shamseddin Giwa;
"FINK! - The Mafia's Nightmare" - fantasy - ghost from Thejendra ?;
"Sea Fever" - romantic/drama from Richard Guimond;
"And Love Shall Have No Dominion" - high concept dramedy from Nick Shirley.
Emily's book recommendation is "Tin Man" by Sarah Winman. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2JkyyLr
Carole Rose's book recommendation is "Echoes" by Maeve Binchy. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2JiHQaz
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Featured on today's Pop-Ups...
"The Morning I Was Murdered" - crime from JJ Hallam;
"Winds of the Immortals" - science fiction/fantasy from Parker J. Duncan;
"The Harvester" - young adult - sci-fi, adventure from Zara Alexander;
"The Devil's Daisy" - fantasy from Samuel Fern;
"Kobomoko" - thriller/horror from Richard Guimond.
Katie-Ellen's book recommendation is "Lion and Blue" by Robert Vavra. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2XruJM3
Daisy Waugh's book recommendation is "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" by Anita Loos. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2ZCUAyf
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Featured on today's Pop-Ups...
"Sentiments & Melodrama" - psychological drama from Jem Redah;
"The Broken Promise" - historical/literary fiction from Imran Omer;
"The Stone in My Pocket" - young adult/coming-of-age from Matthew Keeley;
"The Atrocious City" - satire from Henry Oliver;
"The Militia Law" - historical fiction from Ian Sumter.
Amber's book recommendation is "Tales from the Den" by Jessica Raney & Jae Mazer. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2IJqQsL
Rachel's book recommendation is "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2IfcwsE
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On today's Pop-Ups we have...
Churchill by Andrew Russell; The Naked Ninja by Jennifer Cooper; No Rehab for Hounds by Cian McLysaght; Enviroboy by Bryn Croft; China, China by Sherry Wong.
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On today's Pop-Ups we have...
"The Confined Secret" by Michael Poulter; "The Mask Maker" by Matt Prewitt Wagener; "The 12 Labors of Herald Clees" by David Shain; "Ares House" by Wiliam Piovano; and "The Calling" by Grace Walker.
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On today's Pop-Ups we have special guest Daisy Waugh! Plus…
The Forest in the Pond by Richard James; Merlin and the Musketeers by Andrew Kirby; Revenge Sweet Revenge by Ken Cook; The Coldest Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson IV; Fallen Leaves by C Anthony Boot.
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On today's Pop-Ups… "Gothengau – Fourth Reich Rising" by William Logan; "Bean" by Louis Garratt; "Second Chance" by Gary Parkins; "La Contessa and the Stallion" by Andrew Bryant; "Virtual Dreams" by Robert Derry. For maximum writing goodness, join us LIVE at 5pm UK every Sunday!
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On today's Pop-Ups… "Doris" by Brian Striefel; "Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight" by Jeffrey M. Johnstone; "The Previous Occupants" by Annette Colgan; "The Other Side Of Madness" by Justin Suckley; "Tooth and Claw" by Sam Grindstaff. For maximum writing goodness, join us LIVE at 5pm UK every Sunday!
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On today's Pop-Ups… "Cows Can't Jump" by Philip; "Before Thatcher" by David John Ashfield; "Flat Earthers Around the Globe" by James Egan; "Truth in Tragedy" by Kelvin J Troy; "Wayfinder" by C.W. Evans. For maximum writing goodness, join us LIVE at 5pm UK every Sunday!
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On today's Pop-Ups… "A Moment in Time" by David; "Stiletto Heels And Ankle Socks" by Eva Ulian; "The Keeper Of The Past" by Marianna Raye; "Food, Recipe for Superstition" by Kim Kaur; "Psycho-Mortem" by James Baker. For maximum writing goodness, join us LIVE at 5pm UK every Sunday!
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On today's show... "Evera After" by Jessica Freeland; "The Book of Revelations" by Tony Franklin; "Spin Cycle" by Mark Parry; "Folked Up" by Charlotte Byrne; "The Trail" by James Ellson. For maximum writing goodness, join us LIVE at 5pm UK every Sunday!
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On today's show... "Journey to the Heart of the Sun" by Jeremy Kuper; "The Bluehorn Experiment" by MacNeal Kent; "The Caliph of Qasbat Al Noor" by Elena Scialtiel; "Trouble in Paradise" by Racine Hiet; "Raw Sexuality, or A Year of Indiscretion" by Michael Fleischer.
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On today's Pop-Ups there's "Russian Spring" by Ben Dymott; "The Moon Field" by Diane Doona; "Bad People" by Max Morpheus; "Perpetuus Island" by Matt Kenny; "Raven" by Tim Pearsall.
Plus... special guest crime novelist RC Bridgestock!
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On today's Pop-Ups there's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Kevin Klatman; "Woke" by Oliver Cowmeadow; "Why Was I Thinking That?! " by Dana Lichtstrahal; "Another Man's Shoes" by John Lawrance; "The Rising of the Son" by Giles Dawnay; "Home Is Wherever I Am With You" by Karan Joshi. Join us at 5pm UK every Sunday!
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On today's Pop-Ups there's "Isobel" by Paul Vasper, "50 Things We Could All Be More Grateful For" by Luke Harding, "Soul Hosts" by Joseph Isaacs, "The Tree in the Sky" by Aron Kirk, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by Edward Matthews. Join us at 5pm UK every Sunday!
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On today's Pop-Ups: Hazard by Cadeem Lalor; Let Freedom Ring by Adeel Javaid; CSCO: First Station by Dave Pendleton; Shadow of the Eclipse by L. A. Kelley & Mirrors by Sharon Sheridan. Join us at 5pm UK!
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A special show with acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg!
On today's Pop-Ups: The Writings of Hexes by Jack James; The Recession Creatures by Jayson Scott Adams; Jason and The Argonauts by Thomas Moulson; I Was a Scout by Chris Wilkes & Hecate's Tree by H. Quin. And a new start time, 5pm UK!
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On today's Pop-Ups there's... "Grant Me Serenity" by Danny Falcone, "Music of Revolution" by Tony Holland, "The Hack Pack – Captive" by Jane Dyer, "The World Is Rigged" by Dustin Rigg, "The Girl From Our Moon" by Rebecca Anne Bishop and "The Purple Apple" by Robert Margetts.
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On today’s Pop-Ups there's “Warm Waters” by George Hopewell, “Now the Tyrants” by John L Smith, “If Your AI Loses It's Mind, Can It Take Meds?” by Peter McAllister, “Become An Email Ninja: Seven steps to getting more done faster in email” by Ralph T. Soule, “The Fairy Codex” by Flora-Beth Edwards and Trinity's Legacy by Paul Vasey. For the winner of the show, please visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/ And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here https://litopia.com/subs.
On today’s Pop-Ups there’s “Fat Old Model” by Georgie Bleza, “Subcontracted Heroes” by Sam Ross, “Grief: The Inside Story” by Pat Bertram, “The Scariest Story Ever Told” by Seamus Smyth, “No Fourth River” by Christine Clayfield and “Mace Dory” by Sandra Robb. For the winner of the show, please visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/ And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here https://litopia.com/subs.
On today’s Pop-Ups there’s modern gothic from Gillian, literary thriller from Brendon, murder suspense from Martin, historical adventure from Steve, futurist from J.M. and a thriller from Michelle. For the winner of the show, please visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/ And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here https://litopia.com/subs.
On today's Pop-Ups there's women's fiction/romance from Corinna, literary fiction from David, science fiction from Mike, a chapter book from Zoltan, mainstream general fiction from Ann and a political thriller from Sam. For the winner of the show, please visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/ And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here https://litopia.com/subs.
On today's Pop-Ups there's YA fantasy from Andrew; Humorous Women's Fiction from Rachel; YA Alternate History Adventure from Andrew; Superhero fiction from ST; Horror/thriller from Matt and fantasy from Pete. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/ We're off for our winter break now, but we're back on Sunday 13th January!
Our usual eclectic round-up of news and back-fence talk from the gossipy worlds of publishing and the law, hosted by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.
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A reinterpretation of Genesis 22, Abraham nearly sacrificing his son Isaac, that blew my mind. * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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Traditionally the manuscript submission process has been cloaked in mystery. “No writer really understands how their submissions are evaluated,” explains literary agent Peter Cox. “It often takes many weeks for writers to get a response. And a rejection slip explains nothing.” Last year, Litopia made history when it opened up the submissions process to public scrutiny. Every Sunday, Peter reviewed his submission pile on Facebook Live; while the authors themselves watched and even commented in the chat room.
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Traditionally the manuscript submission process has been cloaked in mystery. “No writer really understands how their submissions are evaluated,” explains literary agent Peter Cox. “It often takes many weeks for writers to get a response. And a rejection slip explains nothing.” Last year, Litopia made history when it opened up the submissions process to public scrutiny. Every Sunday, Peter reviewed his submission pile on Facebook Live; while the authors themselves watched and even commented in the chat room.
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Traditionally the manuscript submission process has been cloaked in mystery.
“No writer really understands how their submissions are evaluated,” explains literary agent Peter Cox. “It often takes many weeks for writers to get a response. And a rejection slip explains nothing.”
Last year, Litopia made history when it opened up the submissions process to public scrutiny. Every Sunday, Peter reviewed his submission pile on Facebook Live; while the authors themselves watched and even commented in the chat room.
https://www.facebook.com/RealLitopia
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Our usual eclectic round-up of news and back-fence talk from the gossipy worlds of publishing and the law, hosted by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. This is the audio-only version of Litopia's show that's broadcast live, in living colo[u]r on our Facebook page. Listen to the audio here, or watch the video there:
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Start a story that never began and won’t end, spreading like chill to everything made of words, the kind of release that comes from depriving your most often used senses and engaging the ones you neglected. * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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Our usual eclectic round-up of news and back-fence talk from the gossipy worlds of publishing and the law, hosted by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. This is the audio-only version of Litopia's show that's broadcast live, in living colo[u]r on our Facebook page. Listen to the audio here, or watch the video there:
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A soldier reflects on a just-finished mission to systematically round up and expel those left behind in the small village of Khirbet Khizeh. * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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From King David (aka Kid Bethlehem) to Meyer Lansky via Bugsy Siegel, and the many pulled in their wake, a novel that charges from Las Vegas to Jerusalem, capitals of imaginary kingdoms. * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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Interview with Todd Hasak-Lowy – author and translator of novels from Hebrew to English, including Dror Burstein’s Netanya – with digressions into Orly Castel-Bloom, Yaakov Shabtai, different kinds of literary culture and the novels they produce. * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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Is it a novel? Memoirs? A book of geology? Anthropology? Marine Biology? Yes yes yes. * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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Permanent winter in a desert climate, a dentist with no face, a woman finding material wealth in the midst of poverty, a governmental minister whose full time job is to attend funerals – all this and much, much, much more. Download the mp3 file
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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The man who keeps surviving terrorist attacks and the person who is determined to finish him off once and for all square off in this chapter by chapter account of what goes wrong when you add the human element to a simple ideological cataclysm. Download the mp3 file * Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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A heavyweight tale in featherweight prose. A beautiful story about a boy who slips away into adulthood. A ghost story about a person who’s still alive. Burning Books is back with a brand new season! Download the mp3 file
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.
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The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.
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The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.
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Part One of the Doyle’s The Last Roundup charts the raising, rising and falling of Henry Smart, scamp of Dublin, caught up in the machine of so-called national so-called liberation.
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.
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The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.
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The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.
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A sliver of a book unfolds as a triptych, brilliant and beautiful, the subtlest of writing making the greatest of waves. Featuring Walter Benjamin..
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Somebody please hand me a glossary of terrible non-puns from the 1910s, although no post-rationalisation is going to save this dip into the addled mind of a bureaucratic toff. By the author of some very good novels as well as this one. Dot and carry one, WHATEVER THAT MEANS.
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The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.
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The latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.
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Without a doubt, it was our worst-ever show. We never had a guest walk out on us before; the shitstorm that followed saw us branded all over the Internet as racially-insensitive bigots. The author’s publicist swore never to work within us again, and insinuated that he’d try to pull us off the air.
All this happened because the Canadian novelist Joseph Boyden walked out of the studio when invited by host Ian Winn to discuss his First Nation origins. We thought at the time – and still do – that it was a direct but fair question, given Boyden’s close association with First Nation matters.
All this happened three years ago, and but the topic has suddenly been given new prominence by an Aboriginal Peoples Television Network investigation by award-winning reporter Jorge Barrera.
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Part one of Pat Barker’s justly renowned trilogy about WWI (re)introduces us to Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Dr William Rivers and Billy Prior – all men who have been changed beyond recognition by a new, modern mode of civilisation destruction – wash, rinse, repeat. With additional cameos by Erich Maria Remarque and Modris Eksteins. * Download the mp3 file
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Elena is friends with Lila, whom hurts Elena in all kinds of ways that Elena finds fascinating, and painful. Slums, slums, slums, creepy older men, and not a single moment of levity. Prepare yourself. * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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Jan and Dirk were inseparable as teenagers, right up till the moment they separated. That didn’t end the friendship, though, which lives on even as the two grow estranged from one another. * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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Part Two of Ghosh’s ‘Ibis’ Trilogy looks at the run-up to the Opium Wars. From Bombay to Canton, Mauritius to Malacca – set sail for adventure, knowledge, and a number of excellent descriptions of the twists and turns of the early 18th century, globalised drug trade. * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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New Jersey stands in for Algeria, not that Frank Bascombe would have noticed, living the good life and everything’s okay and nothing bears too much looking into – like the giant chasm of nothingness opening up beneath his feet. With guest appearances from Steinbeck, Faulkner and AC himself. * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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Important news from Eric! * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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How To Make A Movie: 1. Have a great idea. 2. Write a screenplay. 3. Offer it to Hollywood (this step may take sixteen years waiting tables) 4. Sell your soul (i.e. tarnish your great idea with two nudes, an astronaut, graphic sex, two vampires and three fart jokes) 5. Watch the whole thing get mothballed and die in pre-production.
(Despite promises to the contrary, Johnny Depp will not be involved) But there is another way...
Tonight we welcome into the studio three authors, three film buffs, two directors and a memory of jam-- all contained by three great guests! Shamim Sarif not only had a great idea, wrote a novel, had it published, adapted it for film, wrote the screenplay and directed it herself-- her partner Hanan was the producer. And they've won awards. Dozens-- plural! And this isn't some low-budget zombie high school rom com set on an exploding train (copyright LAD). Her Cold War Russian love thriller, Despite the Falling Snow, has big-name stars and is coming soon to a theater near you. How did Shamim do it?
Well, for one thing she bought a copy of the Guerrilla Film Makers Handbook, co-authored by tonight's second guest-- accomplished filmmaker, screenwriter and certified cinematic sniper Chris Jones. Chris is currently running the AI Singularity edition of Create50, a collaborative film project which "began life with a simple question-- how can we get fifty screenwriters' work produced?" Chris is also the genius behind London Screenwriters' Festival, 2nd to 4th September.
As if that weren't enough, our final guest is up-and-coming novelist and Sofilm contributer David Sanger. His hauntingly compelling post American civil war novel All Our Minds In Tandem revolves around The Maker, a man whose supernatural animation can erase, enhance or alter people's memories. We'd tell you more about it except-- OMG it seems our cranial hard-drives has been compromised!
Tonight's show encompasses memory, love, sexuality, voyeurism, moral compromise, the smoke-and-mirrors that is Hollywood and film, film, film! Oh and jam. Mustn't forget the jam.
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It’s not just Microsoft’s teen chatbot that’s got a potty mouth... no less an august publication than the Oxford English Dictionary has gone all street, too. Plus... To boldly go where no copyright suit has gone before... The Last Unicorn author locks legal horns with his manager... Fox sued over ‘Empire’... and Trump sued author "to make his life miserable". The latest news, gossip and comment from the sharp end of the publishing world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London.
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All the latest news and gossip from the legal end of the publishing world, brought to you by Donna and Peter.
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Shortly after the NME announced that punk was dead, The Ruts came along and proved that it wasn’t. Their driving, reggae-infused punk embodied the whole late 70s Rock Against Racism ideal. And their amazing anthems, such as Babylon’s Burning, Staring At the Rude Boys and Something That I Said carried them into the charts and into the hearts of a generation…before tragedy struck.
The Ruts story is told at length in Love In Vain - a massive tome written by Roland Link with a foreword by Henry Rollins of Black Flag and Sons Of Anarchy fame. I’ve dubbed the band “inspired, brilliant, tragic and thrilling in equal measure” so I’m genuinely delighted to welcome the surviving Ruts – Segsy and Dave Ruffy on to the show tonight!
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The Garry Bushell Hour: A Talk Show The Way It Should Be Done: Raw, Honest And Very, Very Funny!
What the hell is going on with publishing? Lots of empty opinion, hype, doom saying and general noise. Cutting through to the signal is difficult – but heck, that’s what LAD does best!
So tonight, we bring you an author, a leading industry expert and a publishing rain-maker (oh yes) to cut through the cacophony and tell us exactly what’s going on. Hint: it’s not all bad news.
While a quarter of all Americans didn’t read a single book last year (you know who you are) over in Iceland, a million books get checked out of the Reykjavík city library every year... and that’s in a city of only 200,000 residents! What's more, those frozen Icelandic nutters have a tradition where people buy each other books for Christmas and sit down to read them on Christmas eve often while drinking hot chocolate or alcohol-free christmas ale! It's called Jolabokaflod. Our rain-making guest Christopher Norris is bigging it up although frankly, it's unAmerican.
Speaking of unAmerican, and books (seamless segues: it's what we do) another of tonight's guests— the whip-sharp, and ethically-focused former barrister Leila Segal-- has just published Breathe, her steamy short story collection set in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Read it and you'll know she's been there-- heck, she reads a slice to us on air!
But even if Leila takes your breath away (and she will) with hundreds of new titles being publsihed every week, how can she sell the book without selling her authenticity? And even if her metric is more profound than sales, how can her work affect more people?
We’re delighted that one of the publishing industry’s most senior experts can join us for this show. Neill Denny, editor of the publishing trade's daily news magazine BookBrunch, has had a ring-side seat to the publishing world's lumbering move to digital for more than a decade. Neill graciously allows us to pick his industrial-sized brain on trends, famous authors, the role of your local bookshop and more. He even offers us some hope: turns out the rise of coloring books for adults is actually propping up some first-rate literary fiction-- who knew?
So look out readers, authors, agents and publishers, tonight, we're bringing sexy back. Only in paperback!
Release the Jolabokaflod! Follow Christopher @chris24n!
Buy Leila's book! Follow @leilasegal!
Subscribe to Bookbrunch! Follow @BookBrunch!
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In the quiet Jura region of France, a physician goes completely haywire in a series of crimes that are hard for his friends and acquaintances to grasp. But then their grasp loosens further. And disappears altogether. Because the man at the centre, the man they thought they knew, turns out to be a dangerous and violent stranger. And now I know what it feels like to write a Dateline teaser. Non-fiction. * Download the mp3 file* Subscribe in iTunes
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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Tender Asher Lev has a gift – he can draw exceptionally well – and a drive to be an artist. Everyone around him has a drive to make him into a leader in the Ladover Hasidic community, spreading the word of Ladover Hasidism to the far corners of the world. Something has to give. It gives. A story that starts very well.
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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As the winter solstice passes, Litopia After Dark becomes Litopia After Darker.
it's time for festive cheer, certainly. But it's also the moment when the fabric (sorry) between our nightmares and our waking world is at its thinnest. A time for cosy hibernation, yes-- but also fear, depression and real-life demons. Especially in the days of glowing rectangles when the lights never completely go out.
Jessica’s extraordinary handiwork is on display at most Royal weddings To help navigate this darkest part of the Northern year, we're joined by ladies Light and Wilde-- Jessica Light, one of the last remaining trimming weavers in the UK, and former Cenobite, Barbie Wilde. But which one really loves a rainbow and which one is afraid of the dark?
(Hint: one of them's a real cut-up and the other will have you in stitches...)
One is a horror writer who played a mutilating demon in Clive Barker's Hellraiser II. The other is a passementriere (pass-a-mon-tree-air) who helped fringe the Sultan of Brunei's throne room... and brocaded the balcony for the royal wedding! One brings zombie rapists to life in her latest book Voices of the Damned. The other makes macrame dip-bleached Taiwan tie-back tassels that retail for £95. AND WE'VE GOT THEM ON THE SAME SHOW!
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This year Colorado is expected to generate $125 million in tax revenue from legal marijuana sales. In the first full year of legalization Colorado homicide rates have dropped by 24%.
Medically, the (preliminary) research is in: while cannabis has been shown to have deleterious effects on developing minds, it has also been proven to treat a whole host of medical conditions.
Dr. Adam Winstock Still, many people remain staunchly opposed to legalization. In the United States, where pot is still illegal federally, the main organizations lobbying to keep pot a Schedule 1 narcotic-- alongside heroin, crystal meth and cocaine-- are private prisons, the prison guard unions, law enforcement, the tobacco lobby and the pharmaceutical industry. (The alcohol industry has since backed off following an uptick in sales post-legalization in Colorado.)
Following the election of Justin Trudeau, Canada, a G7 nation, is poised to legalize recreational marijuana across the board-- as is California, the world's sixth largest economy.
Meanwhile, the UK shows little interest, either on the streets or at Number 10. Why? Is marijuana really safe? What kind of message does legalizing weed send to kids? What are the medical dangers? And what about Butane Hash Oil-- an increasingly popular preparation with five times the amount of THC as the strongest strain of pot? Unlike the plant itself, the answers are not cut and dried!
Click to take the Global Drug Survey Tonight we talk to psychiatrist and addiction specialist Dr. Adam Winstock who runs the Global Drugs Survey, the world's most comprehensive survey of drug use, including alcohol and tobacco. (Teetotaler or total stoner, please do fill out this year's survey). From emergency rooms to psychiatric wards to advising government and law enforcement, Dr. Winstock is perfectly poised to speak to addiction, the drug war, and even -- gasp!-- how some responsible people even use drugs for pleasure. So before you smoke your next spliff-- or even directly after-- check out what Dr. Winstock has to say. His answers may surprise you.
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Monk on the run in 14th Century England has more to worry about than building himself a time machine to get out of 14th Century England. Obviously kidding about the sci-fi bit because this is Barry Unsworth. The book is the time machine. The moral of the story is less story, more moral. Photo Douglas R Witt
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Hartmann and Fibitch arrived in England as refugees on the Kindertransport and then they had had wives and children and those children had families and – what was the point of this story again? Served (saved?) with a side of Sebald (how can you not) plus the flavour of Rushforth, which is the name of an author.
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The BBC – the world’s oldest and biggest public service broadcaster – appears to have a serious ethics problem. That’s the devastating conclusion from this edition of The DEBRIEFER. How else could you explain the plight of bestselling author and screenwriter M.R. Hall, whose THE CORONER series of books bears a striking similarity to the BBC’s a new television series entitled – somewhat unimaginatively – THE CORONER.
Listeners to THE DEBRIEFER will be familiar with horrific accounts of rapacious Hollywood studios “borrowing” ideas from defenceless authors. The twist, this time, is that the allegations concern a public service broadcaster… not a commercial entity, but an organisation that is supposed to serve the public good. Service, not profit, is the motivator… or is supposed to be.
Troublingly, this case is not unique. One of our guests on Litopia After Dark, former British ambassador Craig Murray, believes his autobiography Murder in Samarkand was plagiarized for the BBC comedy The Ambassador. “The production company had actually invited me to their offices”, says Craig, “for a meeting to ask me to sell them the rights to Murder in Samarkand. I attended the meeting but I refused to sell them the rights. They went ahead and made the series anyway.”
This isn’t fair, it’s not cricket, and it isn’t in the spirit of public service broadcasting. Come on, BBC – show some leadership and get your house in order – while you still have a chance.
We're happy to plug The Coroner... even if the BBC doesn't!
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To mark National Poetry Day, Garry’s guest tonight is one of the brightest and most brilliant of British poets – Salena Godden.
Funny, poignant, outrageous and guileless, Salena is every inch a successful 21st century poet. Includes selections from her anthology Fishing In The Aftermath featuring the immortal My Tits Are More Feminist Than Your Tits ( the world premiere exclusive to GBH!), A Letter To An Air Stewardess Found In The Back Of Seat 67 as well as Salena reading from her autobiography, Springfield Road.
Salena is a regular renaissance woman – savour!
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Strong female artists have been a part of pop and rock since the beginning: incredible singers from Etta James and Janice Joplin to Adele and Paramore’s Hayley Williams have wowed the world with their talent. But for many it’s been an uphill battle, fighting exploitation and ingrained attitudes.
Joining Garry tonight to discuss this fraught subject are three very different performers – Dominique Olliver, Danie Cox and Kristina Oberzan.
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Mancunian Steve Diggle is the guitarist and singer songwriter with the Buzzcocks… the seminal punk band who infiltrated the charts with brilliant, infectious songs such as ‘Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t)’, ‘Promises’ and ‘Harmony In My Head’ – back at a time when punk really did want to subvert mainstream music.
Tonight’s show is a tour-de-force of punks on tour. The Buzzcocks opened for the Sex Pistols at Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall, performed at the 100 Club punk festival in 1976 and toured with more recent household names Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
Now clean, former Mod Steve speaks with devastating honesty about his experiences with hard drugs.
As the Buzzcocks approach their 40th year, this complex and creative musician continues to perform both with them and as a solo artist. Why? It’s still a buzz, cock.
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The real life murder mystery of a CBS reporter is foreground and backdrop for a modern day high school student trying to figure out why the wrong man was put down. Also a love story. Salonic.
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"When more than 90% of ever-married women in Egypt -- including my mother and all but one of her six sisters -- have had their genitals cut in the name of modesty, then surely we must all blaspheme... to hell with political correctness."
So wrote tonight's guest, Egyptian journalist and women's right's activist Mona Eltahawy in her explosive Foreign Policy magazine article Why Do They Hate Us?-- "us" being women and "they" being Arab men. Her rage was fueled by personal experience: in November 2011, just blocks from Tahrir Square, Mona was sexually assaulted, had both arms broken and came within a tweet of being gang-raped by Egyptian Armed Forces-- then headed by current Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el Sisi. Having written for the New York Times, the Guardian, the Observer as well as being featured on the BBC, CNN, Newsweek, PEN, Al Jazeera, NPR, the Atlantic, MSNBC-- Mona was saved by her profile. But how many others weren't so lucky?
The article went viral. She fleshed it into a bestselling book: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. Since then she's been condemned by Islamists, celebrated by feminists, hijacked by neo-cons and the source of much hand-wringing by liberal multiculturalists. Oh, and dickered with over semantics by Berkeley and Oxford professors (WTF, BBC?)
You don't speak for us, said some Arab women while many others-- while most others-- didn't speak at all.
Tonight Mona talks candidly about her teenage years in Saudi Arabia, how Westerners can help Arab women, getting tattooed, losing her headscarf and her hymen-- and even being a bit of a cougar!
In Egypt 99% of women and girls have been subject to sexual harassment. In Jordan, rapists have escaped punishment by marrying their victims. So what can be done? Listen to the show and find out.
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Pinneberg is the Little Man; What Now is what everyone is asking at the outset of the Depression, when this novel is set. Fallada’s novel is about the piece by piece destruction of a young man by forces that are both incomprehensibly great and pathetically familiar, from the collapse of the world economy to the failure of basic decency. I’m overwhelmed just writing this ditty. But that’s what you get when you read Hans Fallada.
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Garry’s guest tonight Patti Boulaye shot to fame on ITV’s talent show New Faces. But hers is not a normal showbiz story. Nigerian-born Patti lived through one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, growing up during the horrific Biafran civil war where one million people died either in fighting or from famine.
Patti emigrated to London at 16, where she became an actress by accident… and a star through her pure talent.
On tonight’s GBH, you’ll have an intimate encounter with a huge star… whose an heart is even bigger.
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Lawks a-mercy! Whatever would we do without Florida?
- Florida principal tries to quietly ban book to appease Christians -- sets off sh*tstorm instead
- The ‘Real’ Cookie Lyons Sues ‘Empire’ For $300 Million, Claiming Fox Series Is Based on Her Life
- Why do introverted writers have to schmooze?
- Alleged serial killer threatens to sue TV judge over book
Follow ups:
- Millions for murder? Charlie Hebdo has an interesting problem
- Yahoo employee admits leak to author, settles suit
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Medical intern sent by boss to spy on a painter named of Strauch. What the intern finds is the gaping wound of Lower Austria, which may or may not stand in for the entire world.
Extremely bleak. Extremely funny. Basically, extreme in all senses.
Photo: Florin Draghici
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Some new research, anecdotal but telling, suggests that female writers have a much tougher time getting their book proposals into agents’ hands than male authors do. What’s the truth behind this? Plus all the latest news from the crazy/weird nexus where publishing meets the law…
- Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name
- Hamilton Ends Deal with SMP Claiming Lack of Support
- Florida Parents Try to Ban Books With Characters That Pray to Non-Christian God
- Freelancers of the World, Unite!
- A Publishing Contract Should Not Be Forever - The Authors Guild
- Georgia sues Carl Malamud group, calls publishing state's annotated code of laws online unlawful
- Online shopping startup ready to rival Amazon
Follow ups:
- Judge Finds Hill's Book Infringed on TD Bank Copyright
- $60M Settlement Between NCAA and College Athletes
- Happy Birthday Copyright Bombshell: New Evidence Previously Hid Shows Song Is Public Domain
Photo: Ianqui Doodle
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How are you going to vote in the forthcoming Euro-referendum? Conventional wisdom says that if you’re on the political right wing, you’ll probably vote against staying in the EU, and if you’re to the left, you’ll probably vote in favour of staying.
Well, Garry’s guest tonight, Brian Denny of the RMT Union, has got some mind-opening surprises in store for you.
“The EU means fascism at home”, says Brian, “and war abroad.”
So he’s in Nigel Farage’s camp, then?
By no means. UKIP comes across as psychotic, he says – and in reality, UKIP agrees with many of the EU’s positions on nationalisation and labour.
Seems like there’s a lot of smoke and mirrors involved in this whole EU debate.
As always, Litopia concentrates on bringing you the raw, unvarnished voices of those who don’t normally get a fair crack of the whip from mainstream media.
Tonight’s show will make you think long and hard about such things as corporatism and fascism; the Enlightenment and post-rationalism; and what may happen to the concept of democracy if the ideology of globalisation triumphs...
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LITOPIA AFTER DARK is back! And in typical style, our first guest for the new season spent four nights in a freezing cave in Tora Bora interviewing none other than Osama bin Laden. How’s that for openers?
But that’s far from Abdel Bari Atwan’s only claim to fame.
Born in Gaza, he is one of the world’s leading authorities on al-Qa’ida. Indeed, he wrote the definite book on the subject – The Secret History of al-Qa’ida.
At a moment when the West seems poised for yet more intervention in a deeply unstable Middle East, this is just the right time to hear from an author, editor and journalist who knows the region, and its peoples, intimately.
Bari is a regular guest on the BBC, Dateline, CNN and Al Jazeera. He has 740,000 twitter followers. His Rai Al Youn digital newspaper-- often called the Huffington Post of the Arab World-- boasts a circulation of almost half a million.
He also spent four nights in a freezing cave in Tora Bora interviewing Osama bin Laden.
And yet, no one seems to like Bari . He's outspoken on Israel being the enemy of the Arab world-- yet he advocates for a one state solution to the Palestinian crisis. He's blacklisted in Egypt and other Arab nations for cozying up to the infidel West, yet the state of Israel prevented him from returning to his native Palestine to visit his dying mother-- or go to her funeral. He can't even get a visa to visit the good ol' USA.
Tonight he joins us to solve the Middle East crisis in 140 characters or less. He also shares his impassioned opinions on everything from drone strikes to the Alabama legal system to women's rights in the Arab World.
Bari's new book is entitled Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate.
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If you can remember the nineteen eighties... you probably weren’t there. Barry Cain was – and he’s got 27 incredible issues of Flexipop magazine to prove it!
It was a publishing phenomenon. Launched in 1980 by Barry and Tim Lott, every issue came with a flexible music disc. Flexipop was an overnight success rapidly reaching sales of more than 100,000... but it only lasted for 27 issues before it folded in 1983. Why?
Get out your flares and big hair extensions... tonight, we’re gonna party like it’s 1980!
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Spare parts make up the engine of this rickety ride from here to there. One solipsistic young man from England leads friends and acquaintances to Crimea, and for some reason they follow him. With allusions to Nicholson Baker and Peter Carey, this episode also features a drop from Masterchef Australia, which is what I’m into these days. The plating was not successful.
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There is only one Steven Berkoff. Perhaps there’s only room for one. What happens when an enfant terrible of the British theatre grows up? They become Steven Berkoff, that’s what.
Prepare yourself for an encounter like no other. Bad boy Berkoff is every bit as bad as you’ve heard, and then some. But in this searingly honest encounter with Garry, he bares the soul of a great actor.
“Great actors are stupid” he spits out, contemptuously. Typical Berkoff. Uncensored, unrestrained, unleashed. The sort of radio you only get right here, on Litopia. Pass it on.
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Links to stories mentioned in this show...
- A Gronking To Remember Suit Gets Strange While Amazon Argues Liability Would Chill Speech And Art
- Mom’s Story Of Raising ‘Princess Boy’ Facing Library Censorship - Gay Star News
- Florida Man, Accused Of Terrorism Based On Book Collection, Set Free - The Intercept
- Brussels Tries To Ban Selfies At Tourist Landmarks; Need Permission To Photograph Eiffel Tower?
- Europe Is Not Banning Tourist Photos Of The London Eye, Says Eu Blog
Follow-ups:
- Appeals Court Upholds Verdict Against Apple
- Best-Selling Maine Author Tess Gerritsen Drops Lawsuit Over 'Gravity' - The Portland Press Herald
- Court Revives Ann Rule’s Suit Against Rick Swart
- 9th Circuit: Actress’s Work May Have Been Hijacked, But It Wasn’t Infringed
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Links mentioned in the show:
- After 800 years, Britain finally asks: Do we need a written constitution?
- Amazon is going to start paying authors according to how many pages people read
- Authors Guild Announces 'Fair Contract' Initiative
- Simply Read Books Faces Complaints of Late Payments, Breached Contracts
- SCOTUS rules in favor of man convicted of posting threatening messages on Facebook
Follow ups:
- Sirius Beats Fla. Case Over Pre-1972 Songs
- Brian Williams to Stay at NBC, but Not as News Anchor
- 'Gravity' Author Tess Gerritsen Says Latest Court Ruling 'Could Be Devastating to All Writers'
- Northwestern to settle suit involving book on Leopold and Loeb murder trial
- Apple Loses Bid to Oust Monitor
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A history of one aspect of the Nazi genocide is brought to present day Parisian suburbs via a massacre in an Algerian village. Extremism, integration, ghettos, religion – all the elements are refashioned to their new context. A memorably good book by an excellent writer and thinker. Fresh.
Photo - John Perivolaris
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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From The Two Ronnies to Blackadder…from Benny Hill to Marty Feldman… the golden years of British television comedy produced some of the funniest shows and larger-than-life characters the world has ever seen.
Garry’s guest tonight COLIN EDMONDS has dominated British television comedy writing for four decades – and he knew them all… the stars, the monsters, the legends and the lunatics!
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If names such as Les Dawson, Lilly Savage, Paul Daniels, Julian Clary, Barbara Windsor and – of course – Bob Monkhouse – evoke fond memories… then you’re going to love tonight’s show!
Of course, the tradition of bawdy British comedy goes right back to the world of the music hall… from which Colin draws his inspiration for his new novel, Steam, Smoke & Mirrors: with insights and extracts from the secret journals of Professor Artemus More PhD (Cantab) FRS. Set in a Steampunk vision of Victorian Britain Steam, Smoke & Mirrors is “Victorian science fiction”, says Colin: “It’s so sexy! Men in top hats and women in thigh-length boots! Steampunk is on a roll!”
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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Can’t seem to shake the memoirs thing . . . This time it’s James Joyce writing about himself as the character Stephen Dedalus, a precocious, self-regarding artiste who one day is destined to become James Joyce. Not necessary.
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
https://litopia.com/shows/burn/
- Random House told it should pay to quote Joseph Goebbels in biography
- Hugo award nominees withdraw amid 'Puppygate' storm
- Charlie Hebdo Honor Sparks Controversy
- Amazon sued over Gronking book cover photo
- Screenwriter SLAPPs Down Libel-in-Fiction Claim
- 'Huge inequality' in writer earnings
- Journalists face increasing dangers
- Courtney Love Is Sued by Co-Writer of Her Memoir
Follow ups:
- Disney Beats 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Copyright Lawsuit
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Garry is joined in the studio by the award-winning stand-up comedian John Moloney (twice won Best Live Performer at the London Comedy Festival) whose four-part Radio 4 series The John Moloney Show kicks off on Tuesday 12th May.
Influenced by Les Dawson, Dave Allen, The Jam and West Ham United, John’s stand-up comedy is a finely crafted blend of wordplay, one-liners and cat molesting.
His radio producer says that observing him at work is “like watching a masterclass unfold. He’s like a conductor and the audience is his orchestra.”
Born in on the fringes of East London in Ilford, a part of Essex where he says “a man feels over-dressed if he has two ears”, ex-teacher Moloney is now the driving force behind the acclaimed Balham Comedy Festival which returns in July.
He has strong and perhaps unexpected views on class, comedy and stadium comedians, and a background in traditional Irish music.
The Balham Comedy Festival runs from the 10th to the 18th of July this year... click here for full programme and booking!
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Garry’s guest tonight is Terry Alderton, one of Britain’s most exciting comedians and a man Frank Skinner dubbed “a flipping genius”… only he didn’t say flipping.
Famous for his roles in TV hits such as EastEnders and London’s Burning, Terry’s first love was Southend United Football Club – he played in goal for their youth team – but the stage was where he really scored.
Terry’s gift for mimicry made him a rising star in what we used to call old school mainstream comedy. But his originality and risk-taking appealed to young club audiences too and in 1999 he was nominated for a Perrier Award.
Prime time Saturday night entertainment shows like Red Alert and The Joy of Text beckoned…he was only weeks away from Masonry and a round of golf with Lynchy and Tarby. But that wasn’t where Alderton wanted his career to go.
In 2005 he experienced an epiphany that made his act far from mainstream – he started having conversations on stage with the voices in his head. The new act proved a hit with audiences the world over.
Here Terry opens up about comedy, soap opera, his highs and the horrible low that was the worst gig of his life…
Info on Terry's latest gigs here
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Author David Lodge stars as his thinly disguised protagonist, Old Man Bates, who is entering retirement, uselessness, and, worst of all, permanent deafness, in this tragi-comi-tragic tale of David Lodge, starring as his protagonist. Largely good.
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In the early 80s, Britain’s pubs and clubs were full of angry, funny, working class poets inspired by punk, reggae and protest.
This brave new wave of radical wordsmiths made folk heroes of Seething Wells, Garry Johnson, Ginger John, Attila The Stockbroker, Porky the Poet and one of Garry’s guests today Tim Wells – all of whom will be celebrated next month at the British Library’s Taking Liberties event, ‘Ranting poets, 'zines & Angry Kids of the ’80s’. Tim is also the founding editor of poetry zine Rising and a mean Ska DJ.
Who were these funny, chippy backstreet upstarts, what did they want then - and what do poets want today?
Joining Garry and Tim in the studio is young, spiky Swindon poet Emily Harrison - Bang Said The Gun’s Poet in Residence and one of eight poets to have their work on the theme of London showcased at Boxpark, Shoreditch. She is currently working on her next collection, confronting a search for love against the stark, yet humanising backdrop of the psychiatric institution.
And completing the line-up is Salford’s own JB Barrington, an Amnesty International Poetry Slam winner whose critically rated blue collar protests have won him awards and support slots with Sleaford Mods.
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It's Easter, everybody! Time for daffodils... daylight savings... and life-sized chocolate statues of Benedict Cumberbatch.
So how about we put aside Ebola, Somalian jihad, narcotraficantes, the heart-wrenching demise of a literary titan-- not to mention the greatest extinction event in the history of planet earth. Let's leave those topics for past and future shows, shall we? (We've got a rip-roarin' summer planned for Litopia After Dark!)
Instead let's chat with dyed-in-the-mohair mod Ian Moore, one of the UK's leading stand-up comics. Ian is living the ex-pat dream in France. Raising a family amid barnyard animals, wearing bespoke suits, gigging across the world-- and even (keep down your jealous bile) hosting the Meat and Poultry Processing Awards of 2014.
Ian's latest book, C'est Modnifique!: Adventures of an English Grump in Rural France proves more of the hilarious same. Tonight he joins us to talk escaped livestock, gigs gone wrong... and chutney as a punishment for fruit.
Because we could all use a laugh.
Happy Easter everybody.
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Buy his books!
Eat his Chutney (not a joke)!
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- New Class Action Suit Filed Against Penguin Random House
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- In Florida, officials ban term 'climate change'
- Marvin Gaye's heirs win $7.4 million for 'Blurred Lines' plagiarism
- “Blurred Lines”: Society’s Mixed Signals on Copying and Intellectual Property Rights
- 'Blurred Lines' verdict could alter music industry
- Oprah Winfrey Wins Tough Trademark Fight Over “Own Your Power”
- New App Will Filter Obscenities Out Of Your Books -- And It's A Big Freaking Deal
- Purdue involved in lawsuit over textbook deal with Amazon
- Ala. agency closes abuse complaint regarding Harper Lee
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One of the world’s great authors goes back in time and space – from the Jerusalem of the 1940s to the Eastern Europe of the 19th Century, from a boy's heart to a mother’s face to a father’s brain – and brings back everything, but not enough. Cuts close and hurts so good. Wizardly? Masterful.
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They're the latest Manchester sensations - swaggering rockers with more than a hint of Oasis about them. No wonder Alias Kid were snapped up by music maven Alan McGee, the svengali who gave Oasis to the world!
As band manager and the boss of Creation Records, McGee has been associated with some of the biggest names in British independent rock, including Oasis, the Libertines, Primal Scream and The Jesus & Mary Chain.
Now he joins Garry with his latest protégées who play live in our studio.
As ever the lively chat is interspersed with the best new sounds around proved by the Ming City Rockers, the Amphetameanies, Shotgun House, The Crunch, 1Eye, Iron Chin, Last Seen Laughing, The Cundeez, Bambu Sauce, Knock Off, 3 Stone Monkey, the Kombi Killers, Phoenix 23, The Black Bullets, and the not so contemporary music of Jimmy Parramore. Full show notes - and links - on the show page!
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Meet Susan Blackmore, the world’s foremost expert on memes. The intro to her seminal work The Meme Machine was written by none other than genius biologist and fundamentalist atheist blowhard Richard Dawkins. Her lectures on TED receives millions of views— even despite TED's dishwater-dull format when compared to Litopia After Dark (rowr!)
“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world,” said Marshal McLuhan. Never has this been more true.
(Full quote: Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms.)
But do memes actually exist? Or are they simply metaphors to observe our shifting culture? And who is Susan Blackmore anyway?
After an out of body experience she studied the paranormal for 24 years, only to arrive at the conclusion it was bollocks— all of it. So who’s to say she won’t soon say the same about memes?
But wait, there’s more! Now she’d like for us to consider what she calls temes— technology assisted memes. Replicators so powerful they may yet turn our computers against us— and sooner than you think. Just ask Stephen Hawking.
Because your Macbook Pro is spreading words, tunes, images and ideas much faster than your feeble human mind can imagine.
Check everything you think you know about memes at the door. Because this show is no lecture. This show is virus inside of your mind.
Spread the word.
(PS - Blackmore's explosive article on fellow Litopia After Dark guest Susan Greenfield can be found here!)
Check out her website!
Buy her book!
Do it now!
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You might think that landing a coveted job presenting BBC TV’s Top Gear would be the peak of most people’s careers. Not for tonight’s guest, Beki Adam. For her, presenting the most widely-watched factual television programme in the world was just the start of a long, and very strange journey... that may yet take her to a seat in the British Parliament.
Predecessor of the infamous, bigoted and fisticuffy Jeremy Clarkson, Beki is the opposite of a petrolhead: she runs an organic farm. She has an environmental conscience. She spent seventeen years as a Buddhist nun. And now she's running for Parliament. Against none other than the Right Honorable Sir Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames-- Conservative Party stalwart and grandson of Winston Churchill.
Beki’s election opponent, The Right Honorable Nicholas Jabba Soames But is she cut out to be a politician? Her history will surely be called into question: when confronted by catastrophic flooding in Bangladesh, her reaction was to open a cannabis cafe-- and yes, unbelievably, those are related. Unlike Clarkson, she holds little appeal for the average UKIP voter, appears to be a humanitarian and has decided to run independently (currently 5 out of 650 seats are held by independents).
Her district, Mid Sussex, is also girding to become one of the country's main outlets for hydraulic fracturing, a dangerous gamble that could provide the UK as little as a two-month's supply of petroleum-- yet poison the groundwater for generations. And who do you think is vociferously anti-fracking?
Never mind the organic farm-- is she ready to get her hands really dirty?
The odds on Nicholas Soames are 100/1. His pockets are deep, his lineage impressive. But Soames is pro-fracking, an Eton graduate and also chairman of the notorious "private military" firm Aegis-- think the UK's version of Blackwater.
Aegis has "Explosive Protection Dogs Teams."
She is no doubt fighting an uphill battle-- but is it unwinnable?
Nonsense! says Beki. That’s the doctrine of Implied Inevitability (listen to the show). If we want things to change for the better, they can – but only if we take action.
Links mentioned...
- Gasland documentary on Youtube
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- Help her campaign/question her here
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The name Michael Arlen will mean nothing to most readers but Arlen was once the cream of the jazz age novelists, the envy of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Maugham, the owner of speedboats and a villa on the Mediterranean. Then he fell completely into obscurity. By the time his son was born, the golden days were past tense, with the father coasting on his stardust. This is the story of that. Sage butter.
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Daisy Waugh is literary royalty. Following in the footsteps of her legendary grandfather Evelyn and her journalist/author father Auberon, Daisy is a popular columnist and novelist in her own right.
According to her regular column in the Sunday Times she promoted her last book, “a feminist diatribe modern motherhood” by “lying on a giant, polystyrene cut-out of my own name. In a tight red satin skirt which didn’t belong to me, and some magnificent shoes covered in velvet and jewels, on loan from Manolo Blahnik.”
To promote her latest novel— she sits down with us!
But before we get to Honeyville— the pet name of the only town in Colorado where prostitution was legal in 1913— she gripes about trying to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter. She also opens up about being a Waugh, an atheist who loves the Tarot and the personal repercussions of her successful and divisive I don’t know why she bothers: Guilt-free Motherhood for Thoroughly Modern Women.
By the time we reach whether it was better to be a whore than a wife in the Wild West— as proclaimed by Honeyville’s protagonist— the gloves are well and truly off.
This Daisy is no shrinking wallflower!
Follow her on twitter @didwaugh
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Seventy thousand dead. Twenty thousand disappeared. Severed heads with threatening messages dumped by the side of the highway. A terrorist insurgency on the verge of toppling governments. Iraq? Syria? The Congo? Ukraine?
No. This is Northern Mexico— one of the most violent places on earth. Why? Because Western culture likes to take drugs. Tons of them. Drugs we brand illegal and on which we’re waging war.
To walk us through the kill zone— from the peasants picking coca in the hills behind Bogota to the contract killers of Ciudad Juarez— tonight we’re joined by the amazingly-still-alive Ioan Grillo, acclaimed journalist and author of El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency.
Intimately familiar with the deadly cartels, Ioan breaks down Mexico’s bloody “trampolines”, the reality of Breaking Bad— in the form of Mexican crystal meth “super-labs”— the splashy death of Pablo Escobar, and the largest cash seizure in modern history.
We also discuss confirmed CIA complicity in importing cocaine into America and the character assassination and suspicious death of reporter Gary Webb— whose star-studded biopic Kill the Messenger was recently released in theaters.
This is a show not to be missed.
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They won our coveted track of the year award on our last show, and now the Bar Stool Preachers are playing live in the Hungry & Hunted studio.
The hot young Brighton band are as bracing as a 6am plunge in the English Channel.
Influenced by 2-Tone and streetpunk, the Preachers are in the vanguard of the new south coast sound that is as passionate as it is authentic and melodic. A proper alternative to mainstream pop pap.
Other great bands this edition include Alan McGee’s new signing Alias Kid who are latest of Manchester’s swaggering terrace pop likely lads. Will they follow Oasis into the charts? McGee certainly thinks so.
- On Trial, Reading punks with brain and punch
- Christine ‘Sugary’ Staple, with her ‘Original Rude Girl Sound’
- New Hampshire’s granite-hard Iron Chin, where streetpunk meets arena rock
- Punk veterans Sonny Vincent & Spite, including members of the Damned, the Sex Pistols and the Stooges
- Glasgow’s boisterous Amphetameanies who marry 2-Tone with 1977 energy and backstreet attitudes.
- New Mod heroes The Spitfires from Watford
- X-Ray Junction from mid-Wales with their addictive brand of melodic punk
- Adelaide’s ballsy indie-punks Young Offenders
- Vasteraz from Sweden, who have been described as Cock Sparrer meet Perkele
- UK punk veterans The Boys currently enjoying a creative second wind
- The Crunch with their blend of sinewy power pop and top drawer musicianship
- Hard-hitting Texan streetpunks Sniper 66
- And the extraordinary Pimpmane with his fresh and endearingly bonkers ‘Swag’ sound.
This is are the sound of the streets, the poison in the pop machine. Can you take it?
For full track listing, see the show notes.
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At the end of his days, sitting in his villa outside Rome, the Emperor Hadrian writes a long letter to his adopted son, and next great leader of Rome, Marcus Aurelius. In Hadrian’s world, thoughts duel with power, ideas with reality, books with life. Aurelius often gets praise as the first philosopher king, but in this telling it’s Hadrian who is as much thinker as conqueror. Marguerite Yourcenar’s towering intellect and faultless prose bring Second Century Rome to life.
Yeah, it’s good.
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At Last – The Litopia After Dark Xmas Family Murder Show is here! Yeah – it’s a tad late, folks (or early, for next Xmas). But hardcore Yule like this is worth waiting for.
This is the show that puts Fifty Shades in the shade. That makes your office Xmas party look sophisticated. That cracks your Xmas nuts and then asks damn fool questions about Ants.
There is no mercy; for Agent Cox is the quizmaster. And you are his prey.
Don’t miss this unique chance to relive precious childhood Xmas trauma! Thrill as our panelists succumb to Stockholm syndrome – live, on-air and during the show!
In true Saturnalian style – and for this show only – Ian Winn’s customary role of ringmaster is playfully usurped… throb to his gibbers!
And since its the Roman winter solstice orgy we’re celebrating, our very special guests tonight are very specially-imported from the land of Chianti, bottom-pinching and speaking with your hands… we’re proud to present none other than Daniela De Gregorio and Michael G. Jacob!
Daniela and Mike write together under the pseudonym Michael Gregorio. Their latest and greatest book has just been published – CRY WOLF is a hard-boiled, break-neck thriller, set in the stunning Sybilline Mountains National Park in central Italy. The first of a brand-new crime series, CRY WOLF introduces Sebastiano Cangio… who only wants to live amongst the wild mountain wolves he loves so much… but who quickly finds himself up against the most organised, the most violent crime it is possible to conceive. It’s a great holiday read… and…
We have three copies to give away!
To win, simply answer Ian’s question correctly, and mail us using the button on this page.
The first three correct answers will win CRY WOLF as an ebook, distributed through NetGalley. Contestants will need to provide a valid email address – preferably the address connected to your eReader.
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Another terrific Debriefer, full of insider poop from the pub biz and informed speculation about everything else!
- Harper Lee to Publish Sophomore Novel
- Taylor Swift Owns 1989
- 'American Idol' Winner Files Bold Legal Claim to Escape 'Oppressive' Contracts
- South Florida Man Seeks Trademark on Slogan 'Je Suis Charlie'
- Sold-out Charlie Hebdo issue coming to Barnes and Noble
- My GRAVITY lawsuit and how it affects every writer who sells to Hollywood - Tess Gerritsen
- Warner Bros. Knocks Down Best-Selling Author Tess Gerritsen's $10 Million Lawsuit Over 'Gravity'
- Hotfile Agrees to Settle Piracy Lawsuit With Major Book Publishers
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When US and UK forces invaded Iraq in 2003, millions of people took to the streets to protes – to little effect. The bombs of Shock and Awe kept falling. By some estimates the civilian death toll stands at over 150,000.
Like many people, tonight’s guest David Gross had a crisis of conscience. And yet unlike many people, he’s done something about it. He’s stopped paying taxes. Not by tax avoidance, but by lowering his income below the tax threshold - and by using as many loopholes as he can find within the law. You know, just like all our much-loved multi-national corporations do!
Tonight’s guest tax resistor David Gross But would his solutions work for you? His recent book - 99 Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns - combs through history for examples of tax resistance movements that actually changed government policy (like the Suffragettes. Such tactics don't come without risk: despite Mr. Gross' best efforts, the IRS is after him for thirty grand and if his profile gets much higher he risks incarceration.
Is he an elitist? A traitor? Or - sin of all sins in the USA - does he not support the troops? Tonight, our host and self-confessed “taxpaying mug” producer play good cop/bad cop with one brave individual who refuses to fund the system error they call the war on terror.
- Catch Mr. Gross' recent feature in the Atlantic: Can Quitting A Job Help End War?
- Or track his nefarious schemes and suggestions on his blog The Picket Line
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- Egmont USA to Close After Sale Attempt Falls Through
- Christian publisher pulls heaven book after boy retracts story
- Human rights lawyer in Tajikistan jailed for nine years
- Racial Discrimination Act would outlaw Charlie Hebdo cartoons, say critics
- City of Paris to sue Fox News over on-air comments
- West Virginia Delegates consider adding journalists to list of protected workers
- David Petraeus: From military rock star to possible prosecution regarding biography
- Follow ups:
- Court Filing Ends AG v. HathiTrust Copyright Litigation
- Legal Fight Ends for James Risen of the New York Times
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What does it mean to be a conservative in 2015? Garry’s guest tonight is Professor Roger Scruton, one of England’s leading philosophers and the author of How To Be A Conservative, along with many other provocative and intelligent books which question the dominant left-liberalism of modern Western thought.
The son of a working class Mancunian Labour Party supporter, Roger’s contrary views were shaped by the 1968 Paris uprising when he realised that he was on the other side: the side that wanted to preserve rather than destroy.
Scruton went on to champion dissidents in Eastern Europe before the fall of Communism, and was banned from Czechoslovakia for his pains.
One of the many subjects that concerns the professor more recently is the fate of England.
He criticised English voters being excluded from the debate about Scottish independence last year, and has said that given the opportunity he would vote for English independence.
His book England an Elegy was a stout defence of English values and virtues.
In a free-flowing chat, Garry asks him about intolerance of dissent on university campuses, free speech, the Labour Party, the culture of spin, modern art and the Church of England.
And he asks why Scruton has written that the belief in human progress is unreal. Literacy is widespread, we have beaten many diseases, our people are relatively prosperous. Isn’t that progress? Is Roger Scruton really just as pessimist?
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Gauss and Humboldt set off to the same destination in opposite directions and unfortunately this novel was written about it. Tedious.
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Without doubt, Jimmy Jones is the biggest British comedy star never to have had his own television series. For five decades, Jimmy has been Britain’s most successful live comedian – performing around 275 sell-out live shows every year.
Jimmy’s life in comedy is the subject of Garry’s show tonight – and what a life it has been. Summoned by Michael Jackson to his suite at the Dorchester... swapping gags with Prince Philip... pouring brandy for Princess Margaret out of a teapot... performing for some of Britain's most notorious gangsters... Jimmy is very much in the vulgar but popular tradition of Max Miller... which isn’t surprising, since it was a youthful encounter with Max that inspired him to go into show business!
The Beatles. Dudley Moore. Tom Selleck. The Rolling Stones. Iron Maiden. Pink Floyd, Benny Hill. They’re all fans, most have been friends, and Jimmy has hilarious tales to tell. An unforgettable, uncensored show about a true comedy legend – and a little piece of British social history.
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Rhoda Dakar is one of the UK Ska scene’s feistiest characters, making her mark originally with the Bodysnatchers and then with Jerry Dammers in the Special AKA.
Rhoda’s talent, intelligence, and heartfelt socialist ideals made her stand out from the pack. Like Dammers, she wanted 2-Tone to mean more than a good time…cue songs like The Boiler and Free Nelson Mandela that added real politics to the movement's in-built message of racial tolerance.
Rhoda was a teenage glam rocker caught up in the rush of punk. She was working in a South London unemployment exchange when bassist Nicky Summers saw her skanking to The Selecter and asked her to join her band on the spot.
The Bodysnatchers, 2-Tone's first all-woman combo, were signed up quickly and burnt out fast, notching up just one Top 30 hit, Let's Do Rocksteady.
Their split was not amicable and a reunion will never be on the cards, but Rhoda recently released an album of Bodysnatchers songs funded by her fans via Pledge Music.
Here Garry (who was the first to write about the band in Sounds 35 years ago) talks about old times... good times... Rhoda's future plans and her vision of how to improve Britain's Labour Party.
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So here it is... our special, annual Song Of The Year Show... in which Garry and guests review the very best tracks submitted to us in the past year and - without fear or favour - pick the most excellent example of indie music in the history of the universe. Or something like that.
Garry special guest panel comprises rock writer and musician Johnny Wah-Wah and London Mod icon Shona “Wattsie” Watts.
And Mik Whitnall drops by to deliver a live set while the judges are out in the jury room. Altogether, a show of superlatives! All we can hope is that 2015 produces songs of equal excellence.
Plus there are great numbers from The Droogettes, Tankus The Henge, Daveit Ferris, the City Saints, Ross Harper, Model Society, the Brassknuckle Boys and much more.
For full track listing, see the show notes.
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World leaders march arm-in-arm in Paris in support of free speech. Meanwhile, back at home, our freedoms are eroded almost daily.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” predicted Ben Franklin, who knew a thing or two about the political mind’s unquenchable thirst for power and control.
In Britain, the government is introducing a law compelling nursery staff and childminders to report toddlers they suspect of being terrorists. No, your eyes didn’t decide you – and no, we didn’t just make that up.
Toddlers.
Terrorists.
Is there no end to this madness?
On the first Debriefer of the new year, we look at the state of the Enlightenment, circa 2015.
- Authors, Literary Orgs Respond to 'Hebdo' Attack in Paris
- Planned, cold-blooded killings mark French newspaper attack
- Paris shooting: Cartoonists, economist among the dead in terror attack
- Crowds in London Stand with Charlie Hebdo After Horrific Attack
- U.S. determines North Korea behind Sony attack as studio pulls movie
- New York premiere of 'The Interview' cancelled
- Steve Carell’s North Korea Movie Dropped: New Regency Ditches Project
- George R. R. Martin on The Interview - Game of Thrones Author Offers to Screen at his Cinema
- 'The Interview' streams to YouTube, Google Play, Xbox, Sony site
- Sony’s ‘The Interview’ Will Come to Some Theaters After All
- Possible copyright suit could create a smaller headache for The Interview
- Atlanta’s fire chief fired following controversy over his religious book
- Authors Guild Announces Support for Copyright and Marriage Equality Bill
- Court Filing Ends AG v. HathiTrust Copyright Litigation
- Ventura sues HarperCollins over 'American Sniper'
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Fall forward into one of the stranger stories you’ll encounter this year – or any other. Maxi, a young man from the middle classes of Buenos Aires, collects used cardboard, lifts weights, busts a drug ring, but can’t seem to surprise a sleeping street kid. Makes sense, right? No? Who cares – no plot outline is going to tell you what’s actually in the book. Different.
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She's the love child of Marilyn Monroe and Ziggy Stardust, and Kiria Le Pink is simply one of the most exciting artists on the UK's newly-revitalized rockabilly scene.
Working with Camden's legendary producer Phil 'Doyley' Doyle the North London singer-songwriter is intent on making one of the earliest forms of rock'n'roll vital and sexy again.
Kiria and two of her Missy Le Pink crew join Garry in the studio for a lively Xmas/New Year show. And as usual the playlist mixes and mashes new songs from old veterans like The Boys with the fresh sounds of Manchester's next big thing The Backhanders.
Plus there are great numbers from The Droogettes, Tankus The Henge, Daveit Ferris, the City Saints, Ross Harper, Model Society, the Brassknuckle Boys and much more.
As usual, the show also includes new music from the hottest new bands around - for full track listing, see the show notes.
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From Axl Rose to Sharon Osbourne, legendary rock journalist Mick Wall knows them all. A world-class raconteur, Mick joins Garry tonight for an evening of absolute rock nirvana.
Mick’s story is a real-life Almost Famous with balls on. And goats. And many, many other substances. What a long, strange journey it’s been! Stopping-off points include The Police, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Dire Straits, Lou Reed, and many more.
Currently, Mick has just concluded an investigation into the death of Jim Morrison, lead vocalist of the Doors. Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre: A Biography of The Doors carefully blows apart all the myths that have accumulated around one of the most popular and influential singer-songwriters in rock history. You will be riveted. Mick’s Kindle-only biography of Pink Floyd, The Endless Journey: 50 Years Of Pink Floyd has also just been published - timed to coincide with The Endless River, the first all-new Pink Floyd album for 20 years.
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A novel that includes displaced persons, new countries, war, Cyprus, the OED, Venice, Blood Libel and Othello – this should be sweet. So why does it all taste so healthy? Caryl Phillips sucks all the sugar out of what should be a thrilling experience. Why? Granola.
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He’s a threat to democracy, as dangerous as ISIS, and keeps bees. He’s a freaky dancer, a maestro of the maracas and a brewer of fine old, traditional ale.
Oh yes - and the icon that is Bez from the legendary Mancunian band Happy Mondays also wants to be your MP.
Garry’s guest tonight is Mark Berry, known universally as Bez. By the late 1980s, the Happy Mondays were a central part of the Manchester music scene and personified rave culture. Musically, the band fused indie pop with house music, funk and northern soul. In terms of style and dress, they crossed hippy fashion and ideals with 1970s glamour. Sartorially and musically, the band helped to encourage the psychedelic revival associated with acid house.
Fast forward to now. Bez has won Celebrity Big Brother, twice been declared bankrupt, and is more interested in reality than in the drug-fuelled excesses of previous decades.
Today, the parties he attends are more likely to be political than rave.
What’s on Bez’s agenda? Fracking, for one thing. The Infrastructure Bill for another.
Want to vote for Bez? Here’s the link.
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Ian’s guests tonight are Daisy Eris Campbell and Jon Higgs who are bringing Robert Anton Wilson’s cult classic The Cosmic Trigger, The Final Secret of the Illuminati to the stage.
Impossible? Well, when you consider that this nonfiction and partly autobiographical work covers, amongst many other topics... Freemasons, Discordianism, Sufism, the Illuminati, Futurology, Zen Buddhism, Dennis and Terence McKenna, Jack Parsons, the occult practices of Aleister Crowley and G.I. Gurdjieff, Yoga, and many other esoteric or counterculture philosophies... yes, you might well conclude that it’s un-stageable.
Where other producers see problems, Daisy sees... a four-hour epic. Listen to her long, strange but oh-so-necessary journey leading to The Cosmic Trigger.
And buy tickets for the London show – on now – here.
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One man goes against the system he helped create and the results are not encouraging. Koestler fictionalises the Moscow Show Trials of the 1930s, where parts are fused onto the whole and the whole is broken into parts. A masterful novel.
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Mal Peet is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest British writers alive. His books have won many awards, and reviews range from the merely enthusiastic to the ecstatic.
A deeply creative writer, Mal joins us tonight to chat about the writing process, tar-grouted macadam, nano-drones and Tolkienism.
Oh, and also his newly publishing book, THE MURDSTONE TRILOGY… which isn’t a trilogy at all.
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Is there a formula for writing the next George “Rolls Royce” Martin swords-and-sorcery, high-fantasy epic troll opera? Mal says yes… and what’s more, he generously shares it with us.
From the Greme Caves of Devon to the unspeakable trolls lurking near Sydney’s Opera House, by way of Norfolk (not pronounced the way it looks) – you’re in for a rollicking, high-octane evening!
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On this day in 1918 – the eleventh day of the eleventh month, at the 11th hour – the hostilities of the First World war formally ended.
This is Remembrance Day, aka Poppy Day. But why poppies? Well, contrary to popular belief, poppies have been associated with war since at least Napoleonic times, when a writer first noted how poppies grew over the graves of soldiers. It is theorized that the damage done to the landscape in Flanders during WW1 greatly increased the lime content in the soil, leaving the poppy as one of the few plants able to survive.
At the war’s conclusion, it was an American professor who first suggested that wearing a red poppy year-round would fittingly honour the war’s fallen. Soon, the red silk poppy had been adopted as an official symbol of remembrance by the American Legion.
And then the idea spread to Britain, where Field Marshal Douglas Haig – the "Butcher of the Somme” – used the motif to promote The Royal British Legion, which he co-founded.
And yet, the poppy symbol remains an enigma.
What we are actually celebrating, or remembering, when we buy one?
Is it the glory of war? Or its poignancy? Are we remembering selfless heroism? Or the futility of human conflict?
Our guest tonight, Ben Griffin, has clear views on this.
Ben is no ordinary foot soldier.
As a member of Britain’s elite special forces, the SAS, Ben has served his country in Northern Ireland, Macedonia, Afghanistan and Baghdad.
Ben is eloquent, lucid and deeply moving. If you want to know what it is actually like to fight a war in the 21st century, listen to this show.
Ben’s organisation, Veterans for Peace, can be contacted here.
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She does her job with typically understated bravery. To meet her, you might think (for a moment) that this headscarved and very English lady is, perhaps, a headmistress, a rose grower or possibly something a bit nebulous in the arts.
But this is Lindsey Hilsum. The woman for whom the expression sang-froid might have been invented. Specialising in remaining imperturbable under fire, and always meeting her deadline.
As International Editor for Britain’s Channel 4 News, she reported from Belgrade in 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia, from Baghdad during the 2003 US invasion, and covered the Fallujah assault in November 2004. Her reports from Africa, the Middle East and Russia have earned her many awards. In 1994, she was the only English-speaking journalist in Rwanda when the genocide started.
It’s an obvious question, but we still want to know – what’s it like being a woman in the front line? How do you cope when your friend and colleague, Marie Colvin, dies covering the siege of Homs in Syria? And – when you come back from the world’s most perilous places, having seen things that no normal person should ever see – how do you sleep at night?
Tonight, fresh from Damascus, Lindsey joins us in London to help us make sense of Crimea, Syria – and the genesis of Isis.
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Making a welcome return tonight is journalist-turned-investigative-historian, Tim Butcher. Tim specialises in covering awkward places at difficult moments: Kurdistan under attack in 1991 by Saddam Hussein, Sarajevo during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, the Allied attack on Iraq in 2003, Israel's 2006 clash with Hizbollah in southern Lebanon among other crises. All good preparation, then for tonight’s skirmish with Ian...
But it’s not all fol-de-rol and bon mots ce soir. Tim’s new, widely-praised book is a quest to find history's most famous terrorist before Osama bin Laden... Gavrilo Princip, the teenage assassin who triggered the catastrophic series of events that led to the First World War.
You may think that everything that could possibly be told about this particular Bosnian Serb has already been written. Not so. Listen to tonight’s show – and read Tim’s excellent book, The Trigger – and you will appreciate why reviewers have been showering it, and him, with praise. We’re indeed proud to host him tonight.
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Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amazing Amy, is missing... no, sorry – that’s the wrong storyline. Or is it? Maybe the zeitgeist is right for the rise of the female sociopath? Listen and decide!
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“The... case is thick with irony” says the NYT of today’s featured legal folly– “one company is accusing another of stealing its platform for ethical behavior.”
Also - should children be protected from their parents’ childhood trauma? The British courts say – yes. Philip Larkin, in his memorable poem This Be The Verse, would presumably have demurred. Incidentally, Peter got it wrong when he said that Larkin was sometime British poet laureate – he never was.
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Why is it wrong to kill a dead person in your fiction? Why should British judges decide if your writing is funny – or not? Why should the police approve your tweets before you post them? Donna and Peter explore these and even more reality-bending topics in this edition of The Debriefer.
Links to other stories featured in this episode...
- “Extremists” to have Facebook and Twitter vetted by police
- Author claims Disney’s "Frozen" copied her life story
- 'Mash-ups' now protected under copyright law - but only if funny
- What Bill Simmons’ suspension says about the changing world of journalism
- Ellora’s Cave Files Libel Suit Against Dear Author Blog
- Changing Hands Book Store, others sue over Arizona 'revenge porn' law
- Hilary Mantel 'should be investigated by police' over Thatcher assassination story, says Lord
- Jay Z fights lawsuit over use of oh in 'Run This Town'
- Playwickian adviser, student editor suspended for defying administrative orders with Redskins ban
- Occupy Wall Street Activists File Suit Over Control of Twitter Account
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Mik Whitnall is best-known as the lead guitarist with Pete Doherty’s Babyshambles, but before that he cut his teeth in the rated Ska band 100 Men. Here Mik talks about his new Ska project 1969 OK who will be on the road next year.
Also joining Garry in a packed show are Chris Pope of Pope, one of the best songwriters to come out of the 1979 Mod Renewal, Damon Coles, who performs live in the studio, and via Skype 2-Tone legend Rhoda Dakar.
As usual, the show also includes new music from the hottest new bands around - for full track listing, see the show notes.
Remember – we’re keen to discover, play and support new bands and new talent – send us a music submission via the link on the website!
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Football hooligans! The words are enough to strike terror into the hearts of the upstanding middle classes and have entire towns boarded up and quaking with fear.
Garry’s guest has more than a casual acquaintance with the subject. Dougie Brimson, a former hooligan himself turned bestselling writer, is an expert. Join us tonight as we explore this controversial topic in depth.
With over half a million books sold worldwide, Dougie’s first title was Everywhere We Go - first published in 1996, it remains a cult classic. His first novel, The Crew, held the #1 slot on the soccer charts of both Amazon and iTunes for over two years and was the most downloaded football related title of 2012 and 2013!
In 2003 Dougie made the move into screenwriting with It's a Casual Life, a 15-minute film looking at the world of football violence from a Casuals perspective.
His first full length feature, the Hollywood funded Green Street starring Elijah Wood, was released in September 2005 and has won numerous awards.
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Morbidly obese misery of a writer – and Nobel Laureate (topical) – more than meets his match in the slender and deadly Nina, who conducts the last interview of the writer’s life. Secrets are dredged up and, in a twist, it is pretty. Keep your daggers handy. This is going to get nasty.
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He gets $425,000 for a gig – that’s a whole lot of cheese – and Joel Thomas Zimmerman, better known as Deadmau5, is about to have the adventure of his life. The Walt Disney Company have finally woken up to the fact that Mr. Zimmerman’s rodentiatic trade mark bears some resemblance to their very own crown jewels… and they’re not happy. Cue m’learned friends. Someone’s getting pwn3d.
Links to stories mentioned:
- EU Court: No Parody For You!
- European court rules that libraries can digitize books
- Deadmau5 fights Disney in mouse ear logo legal dispute
- Fan Arrested As Terrorist For Posting Lyrics Speaks Out
- Author Says Christian Novel Plagiarized, Sex Added
- World Fantasy awards pressed to drop HP Lovecraft trophy in racism row
- Barnes and Noble Suspends the Ability to Download Nook eBooks
- James Cameron Wins Another ‘Avatar’ Lawsuit
- Authors United Preparing New Amazon Initiative
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Rancid are one of the world's biggest ever punk bands. Formed in California in 1991, they have sold more than four million albums worldwide.
Vocalist and guitarist Lars Frederiksen has been with them since 1993, and he also fronts his own streetpunk band The Old Firm Casuals. Son of a Danish mother and an Italian-American father, Lars has devoted his life to his vision of punk and the old ideals of uniting different youth tribes against the system.
Tonight, he speaks frankly to Garry about his childhood experiences growing up with gang violence, and how UK rock weekly Sounds helped him survive the US equivalent of borstal.
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Baroness Susan Greenfield is one of the most interesting scientists alive on the planet. Reviled by some, admired by many, never short of a piercing insight and a provocative soundbite... Susan Greenfield is everywhere.
But who is the real Susan Greenfield – and what is she really saying to us?
On tonight’s show, we go head-to-head. And not just with our guest: but with her critics, too!
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From particle physics to market predictions, we thought scientists, right or wrong, traded in the world of facts. What we did not expect is that all the while they were deeply concerned about their looks.
Beauty is at the heart of scientific endeavour, and has always been. As the stakes get higher, however, can we afford to have outdated notions of aesthetics guide the way we engage with the world? We look at this specific question, as well as the many baby questions to which it gives birth, alongside author David Orrell.
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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“Like the Libertines playing Chas & Dave!” squeals the Guardian excitedly of Garry’s guests tonight, BUSTER SHUFFLE. But then, the Guardian just has to work Pete Doherty into everything, doesn’t it?
In fact, Buster Shuffle are far more interesting than that. They’re a breath of fresh air, a rock ‘n’ roll Ska band with echoes of Madness, Blur and yes… Chas & Dave, too.
In a sane world, these London herberts would be dominating the charts with massive mainstream airplay… but this isn’t a sane world – which is why we need The Hungry & The Hunted to shout from the rooftops about all the great independent bands you don’t see on TV.
Remember – we’re keen to discover, play and support new bands and new talent – send us a music submission via the link on the website!
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Donna and Peter are joined in the studio by special guest Ian Winn, who can (ab)normally be found hosting our sister show here on Litopia, Litopia After Dark.
Links to stories mentioned:
- How Amazon got a patent on white-background photography
- Why Photographers Shouldn't Be Too Upset Over Amazon's White-Background Patent (Peter disagrees with this!)
- Victoria's Secret Loses PINK Brand Battle
- B&N Testing Espresso Book Machines
- Bert The Farting Hippo!
- FBI Agent Files Defamation Suit Against Ebony
- Philly Newspaper Editor Fired For Asian Slurs
- Why Female Writers Get Trolled The Most
- Florida Judge Rules That Facebook Likes Aren't Owned By Page Creators
- Judge Tosses Copyright Suit Filed By Makers Of ‘Deep Throat’ Against ‘Lovelace’ Biopic
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Her role as Louise Raymond in BBC's EastEnders brought her stardom and notoriety, but Carol Harrison's true life story has been as gripping as the plot of any television soap opera.
Born in London’s East End to a single mum, Carol grew up in abject poverty. It has been said that there are four main routes out of the East End - crime, sport, acting and rock'n'roll. Carol’s life connects three of those (she was once married to the son of one of Britain's best-known gangsters).
Garry’s guest tonight opens her heart about her screen love affair with Ross Kemp's character Grant Mitchell... her crazy fans... and the dubious lure of celebrity TV. Yes, it’s a treat for EastEnders aficionados... but there’s a lot more besides...
Carol’s life-long love of Mod culture, and especially Steve Marriott the singer with The Small Faces, has prompted her to become a theatrical producer. The stage musical All Or Nothing (which Carol wrote) opens in Worthing on 13th September, and tells the story of this iconic singer who inspired the Brit Pop phenomenon.
You can buy tickets to a special star-studded showcase performance of All Or Nothing The MOD Musical, plus live music from Kenney Jones, Chris Farlowe, Mollie Marriot and The Small Fakers on this link.
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Everything’s more or less normal in the little town of N until Piotr Stepanovich and his equally psychopathic sidekick, Nikolai Stavrogin, come back from abroad. One thing leads to another leads to another and another and some more after that in Dostoevsky’s extraordinarily rambling (as rambling as this sentence) novel, which does not end well for anyone involved, reader included. The devil inside, the devil inside, every single hour of reading this book – the devil inside.
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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Iron Maiden are one of the world’s most successful heavy metal bands with more than 85 million albums sales to their name. Dennis Stratton was their guitarist right back in 1979. He played on and co-produced their self-titled debut album and their first three hit singles.
Here he chats exclusively with Garry (who wrote Maiden’s authorized biography Running Free) about life on the road in those early days – the laughs and the tension, and his enduring friendship with the band which, like him, was forged in the East End of London.
Den is honest about his fall-out with manager Rod Smallwood that lead to his sacking, and the perils of working with their fiery first vocalist Paul ‘The Beast’ Di’Anno.
He also talks about his early days on the London rock circuit of the pre-punk seventies, his work with hugely respected rock and blues bands, including Remus Down Boulevard and Praying Mantis, and his unfortunate encounter with Jonathan King.
Still a working musician, Dennis is one of the most genuine and talented guitarists in rock today.
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From litigious street-artists to litigious Angolan generals... Donna and Peter proudly present your suits du jour! Now with added dystopian designer stubble.
Links to stories:
- Amazon Sanctions Customers To Get Back At Hachette
- Amazon Takes on Disney’s Superheroes
- Blood Diamonds author faces $1.2m lawsuit
- Guild battling bosses over byline quota at Pioneer Press
- Editors For ‘Survivor’ Return From Strike Over Right To Form Union
- Terry Gilliam’s ‘Zero Theorem’ Slammed With Copyright Suit
- Premier League warns fans not to tweet goal videos
- Judge Orders Mediation in Latest E-book Price-Fixing Suit
- 1st Circ. Asked For Sanctions In Facebook Author Suit
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So you’re minding your own business in the jungle one day, when suddenly - this monkey lurches out and grabs your camera. And shoots some selfies. So the question is – who owns the copyright?
No, this isn’t the silly season (although it may sound like it). Join us to explore a fascinating legal issue.
Links to other stories featured in this show:
- Wikipedia In Weird Monkey Selfie Battle
- Northestern Uni files suit against author for copyright infringement
- Senator Quits Montana Race After Charge Of Plagiarism
- Tennis Writer Suspended for Plagiarism Allegation
- Mob Kills Woman And 2 Girls Over 'Blasphemous' Facebook Post
- John Green books come under parental fire again
- Jesse Ventura wins $1.8 million in "American Sniper" defamation case
- Amazon Makes Plea to Authors to Quiet Down
- How Would Hachette Frame An Antitrust Suit Against Amazon?
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Like a precocious fireballer at top of the prospect rankings … a kid who has shown so much promise and from whom so much is expected … who has three plus pitches and is working on a fourth … whose intangibles are as off the charts as his athleticism … who is putting it all together at AAA and knocking at the door … who will make men look like boys … and who ends up THE OPPOSITE OF ALL THOSE THINGS – that’s this book.
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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.
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The Specials were one of the most important, vital and influential bands to come out of the post-punk explosion, the band who created the 2-Tone movement.
The Coventry-based Ska combo had eight Top Ten hits including ‘A Message To You Rudy’, and the chart-toppers ‘Ghost Town’ and ‘Too Much Too Young.’
And right at the heart of them was Garry’s guest tonight Neville Staple, the roadie who became a star and then went on to have seven more hits with his next band The Fun Boy Three.
Although badly hurt in a car crash a couple of years ago, the irrepressible Nev continues to work with his own Neville Staple Band. Tonight, he talks about his 2009 autobiography, Original Rude Boy, the Specials' reunion, the early days of 2-Tone and his dream of taking his brand of English Ska out to Jamaica...
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Is the world getting weirder, or is it just us? Listen and decide. Links to stories mentioned in this show:
- Harper Lee says Marja Mills-penned bio was unauthorized
- Judge Says Selling Religious Books Doesn’t Affect The Job
- Jose Antonio Vargas detained in Texas
- Do you have a fair use right to publish World Cup goals?
- Scarlett Johansson Wins Defamation Suit Against French Author
- Allan Ahlberg turns down Amazon-sponsored award
- Author Wins Seinfeld Defamation Suit Brought by Real Life Kramer
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You may think you know about World War Two… but you don’t. Tonight you’ll find out why. Featuring blistering contributions from our special guests Peter Grose, author of The Greatest Escape, and journalist & WWII maven, Neill Denny. Scintillating conversation and scorching debate… from Boy Scouts to Gaza, from Obamacare to Style Nazis (what?). Provocative, informative, addictive. See you next week, Litopians!
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In a Rebellion-themed special edition, Garry is joined by punk ukulele-pluckers the Pukes, who have risen from London pub strummers to festival stalwarts.
There are brand new songs from the Old Firm Casuals and The Boys, the new single from Louise Distras and quality tracks from Operation Two Fold, Infa-Riot, Madball, Section 60, Speakeasy and the Skoisters. Of course no show would be complete without some 2-Tone nostalgia, this time from The Selecter.
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St Matthew is going to poke out your eyes. Or some such. After what seemed like a millennium of exile from the Motherland, we go back to the heart (and other parts) of Russian literature with a Tolstoy short story. Brilliant.
Feel like making glove?? That's not a typo. This week we discuss perhaps the best passage in any of Philip Roth's novels, the 'glovemaking scene' (again, not a typo) in American Pastoral. And we do this with American lit scholar and Gloversville, NY native, Menachem Feuer. Also, we discuss the definition of a schlemiel, a person who could never make a glove. And Franz Kafka makes an appearance at the end – another person we can safely assume was not versed in the art of glovemaking, IN ANY SENSE OF THE WORD. Get that hand out of your pocket and put your headphones on. heat.
A novel that says it’s based on Wuthering Heights is taking a risk – because Wuthering Heights is a crazy effective soporific. But the further it strays from the original, the better A True Novel becomes. Don’t underestimate your originality, Minae Mizumura! You’ve produced an eminently entertaining read. In a nice turn, this very long book is actually quite short. Picture by Toshihiro Gamo
The Messiah is coming! His arrival is imminent! That’s the bad news... The good news is his arrival and social schedule are narrated with a combination of enthralled immediacy and distrustful distance by a Nobel Laureate, Isaac Bashevis Singer. And yet, is it ‘all that’? Some readers will be super-pumped, others might not catch messiah fever. All the colours of the rainbow.
Did we like this novel? What does it mean to like? What is our past, really, if we continue to relive it? And relieve it? And relive it? And – you get the point, but I'll say it again. And again. And – you have just sampled the experience of reading Javier Marías' massively successful novel. Eat this book! It's good for you! Now, wasn't that satisfying?
'They believe what they say in the moment they say it.' And then the moment is gone, and someone's stuck with a desiccated horse's head or a painting of Jesus framed in piss. In this episode we learn about the high prices and low motives of the contemporary art world while schmoozing in Basel, getting lost in Venice, and, once or twice, encountering genius along the way. Going once, going twice, going three times . . . sold!
Edinburgh resident JK Rowling gives a million quid to campaign against Scottish independence from Britain. And is promptly labeled a specky bastard, a ginga and a squeaky wee bitch. Way to go, ScotsNats!
In this episode, we cover some of the issues behind the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence (not currently on the news agenda Stateside – you heard it here first). Also discussing these stories:
- Latter-day Saints claims IP rights to “Mormon” name
- “Amazon of Middle East” is launching “banned books” section to confound censors, good luck with that
- Author claims Chobani yogurt stole his ideas for ad campaign – How?!?
- Fifty Shades of Grey’s Australian publisher accused of scamming business partners
Follow ups:
- $18 Million Settlement of Freelance Suit Against Electronic Databases Granted Final Approval
- Narrow Fair Use Ruling Permits Limited Library Uses, Shoots Down Replacement
- NCAA To Pay $20M To Exit Student-Athlete Publicity Suit
- Judge Ends Lawsuit by ‘Mockingbird’ Author Lee
Our next Debriefer will be recorded on July 18th, we’re on a summer schedule now!
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Enter the eminently other world of Malte Laurids Brigge – and don't plan on coming back in one piece. The big window shatters and the little pieces giggle. What? You didn't hear that? We talk about Rainer Maria Rilke's one and only novel with literary critic Scott Esposito.
Tonight's guest on the Garry Bushell Talk Show is the legendary reggae star Roy Ellis, also known as Mr Symarip. Roy is one of the genuine icons of sixties reggae in the UK and his band Symarip were famously the first to target the emerging skinhead youth cult with their best-loved song, 1969’s Skinhead Moonstomp.
The young skins were feared by the press and the establishment; but the Jamaican-born star found love and acceptance amongst all those cropped heads, braces and bovver boots.
Roy grew up in Balham, south west London, where he boxed at welterweight before breaking into the music business. In this very special show, Roy frankly talks about his life in music, the giants of reggae, his home in Switzerland and the controversial working class cult who made him their very own.
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Things are not what they appear to be, and not even what they appear later to be. Foxes are animals that cannot be trusted, and sometimes they are not even animals. This is that in Sjón's slender novel. Intriguing.
Is there anything better than the story of a master forger? If there is, I don't know it. This time we take a trip to the realm of non-fiction, looking into the complex world of Han Van Meegeren, a forger working in the style of Frans Hals and, especially, Johannes Vermeer, who sold his work to Hermann Goering, then tried to convince the world it was in the name of patriotism.
An interview with author, professor and psychoanalyst Josh Cohen, spy of our inner selves, examiner of the lies we live, and creator of the smash new meme, '#pervingon'. No secrets, please – we're going English.
Hans Erich Nossack's rare first person account of the 1943 destruction of Hamburg is served with a side of WG Sebald, who employs the word 'should', with grave consequences. BFFs.
King Charles, Oliver Cromwell, a vagrant narrator, hedge mazes and dreaded puritans – Jeanette Winterson goes historical fiction on us again in her 1989 novel that is less than the sum of its parts. For a short book, it's quite long.
Traitor? Spy? Loyal American or self-serving amoralist? Howard W Campbell Jr tries to write his own get out of jail free card in in Kurt Vonnegut's 'Mother Night'. Vintage.
Canonical fodder about a little boy with a man's mind, who becomes a fully grown man in a little boy's body, born and raised in the foreshadow and shadow of the Second World War. Blechtrommel is one word for it: execrable.
Review of the 2011 debut novel by Ben Lerner in which a young American goes to Spain on the US government's buck, meets two girls, and learns to fall in love with himself. Excellent book.
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The latest struggle between Amazon and a major publisher is anything but a regular business negotiation. It will, we believe, profoundly affect the future of the global publishing industry. Hear our analysis – and decide for yourself.
Links to other stories mentioned in this show include:
- Author awarded $100,000 in 'Billy the Kid' lawsuit
- SCOTUS rules in favor of Fox News reporter
- Holder declares 'No reporter is going to go to jail'
- Supremes Disallow 'Laches' Defense in Copyright Suit
- Led Zeppelin accused of plagiarism, 40 years after the release of ‘Stairway to Heaven’
- 'Matrix' Did Not Infringe Upon Revenant Nazis
- 'Mockingbird' author's settlement with museum off
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The growing media furor occasioned by the dismissal of former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson finds a strange connection this week to a far larger media scandal in the UK. How much did former BBC Director-General Mark Thompson know about the activities of BBC star and serial paedophile Jimmy Savile – who may have abused up to 1,000 victims on BBC premises, apparently under the noses of BBC staff for more than 40 years?
According to Mr. Thompson, he knew zilch. “During my time as director general of the BBC, I never heard any allegations or received any complaints about Jimmy Savile”, he told the New York Times.
But just four days into his new job as President and CEO of The New York Times, Mr Thompson’s veracity was questioned... by the Times itself. In a story that ran under the aegis of now-sacked executive editor Jill Abramson.
Connected events? Some believe so.
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Bestselling author Tess Gerritsen thinks shes been ripped off by the movie “Gravity” – and she may have a point! Presented from Florida by leading lawyer Donna Ballman and from London by literary agent Peter Cox.
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Book-banning seasons is here again! Gather round the bonfire, folks, warm your hands and enjoy the mulled wine and scent of lightly-toasted paperbacks... Plus, why do people get so mean on the net? Presented from Florida by leading lawyer Donna Ballman and from London by literary agent Peter Cox.
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Allegedly, they made love every Tuesday, like clockwork. They would sing and dance all night long. Chinese foot binding comes into it, too. Not one of Holmes’s more outré cases – but in fact, a real-life legal drama – which is what The Debriefer is all about! Presented from Florida by leading lawyer Donna Ballman and from London by literary agent Peter Cox.
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A setback for authors who want to reclaim their e-book rights from publishers; Peter reveals one of his negotiating techniques; and someone in South Carolina has the world’s most highly-tuned Gaydar! Presented from Florida by leading lawyer Donna Ballman and from London by literary agent Peter Cox.
Links to stories mentioned in this show:
- Judge Rules for HarperCollins in Open Road E-Book Dispute
- Musicians May Lobby To Change Royalty Regs After Manhattan Court Ruling
- Holocaust novel focus of copyright suit
- South Carolina House votes to cut funds for universities over gay books
Follow ups on old stories:
- Artist and Photographer Settle Infringement Suit
- Judge won't dismiss Ventura defamation suit against widow of 'American Sniper' author
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It started in Sochi — the most expensive winter Olympics in history. A winter Olympics which, let us not forget, saw Great Britain take the gold in curling!
Then Pussy Riot— which is decidedly not a niche pornography market — were being publicly horsewhipped by men in funny hats while the world recoiled in horror and… didn’t do much of anything, really.
Then, in the beating Orange heart of Kiev’s Independence Square, came the protesters — or maybe they weren’t protesters at all: maybe they were agent provocateurs from America.
Next came the riot police — or maybe they weren’t riot police at all — maybe they were paramilitary thugs from the infamous mercenary force, Blackwater.
Suddenly there were 70 dead, hundreds injured, a Ukrainian president forced to flee his massive gold-plated presidential palace leaving behind that most incriminating evidence of dictatorship — a private zoo.
Suddenly Russian troops — or maybe they’re not Russian; the uniforms are vague —deployed inside Crimea. Suddenly, if you believe the narrative being played out on the nightly news — half of Ukraine wants an EU passport while the other half wants to strip half-naked and wrestle bears a la Vladamir Putin.
On tonight’s Litopia After Dark, we have, in studio, satirist, television talking head and former Kremlin advisor Alexander Nekrassov. And folks, believe us – Alexander does not get an easy time.
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We’re talking advances again, and following the cautionary tale of a pair of writers who went from self-made success... to “traditional” publishing failure... and now, hopefully, back to the self-publishing world again where the advances aren’t stellar - but at least you are your own boss. Follow along, it’s well worth studying.
Links to items mentioned on this show...
- Author cheated Bronx dog trainer out of book profits
- Adult Magazine Publisher Sues LeaseWeb for Providing Services to Copyright Infringers
- Beneficial Owner of “Spank” Has Standing in Copyright Infringement Suit
- City wants journalist to turn over documents related to book about NYPD whistleblowers
- Ninth Circuit Holds Actor In Minor Role Owns Independent Copyright In Performance Embodied In Motion Picture
- YouTube must take down explosive 'Innocence of Muslims' video in copyright suit
- Chicago publisher sued for publishing Malcolm X’s diary
- True-crime author Ann Rule's suit against Seattle Weekly tossed
Presented from Florida by leading lawyer Donna Ballman and from London by literary agent Peter Cox.
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Jim Davidson gives his first major interview since winning Celebrity Big Brother!
Cockney comic Jim Davidson was written off as a dinosaur by a younger breed of middle class stand-ups. Falsely suspected of all the "isms", Tory-backing, troops-loving, womanising Jim had been sacked by the BBC and snubbed by TV.
And when he was arrested by Operation Yewtree in January 2012... well, it seemed that after four explosive and lucrative decades of fame, Davidson was finally finished.
Media commentators queued up to dance on what they saw as the grave of his career.
But then in rapid succession the charges were dropped - Jim entered the Celebrity Big Brother house and - against the odds - he won the series with the biggest vote in the show's history!
The public rallied behind him and Jim Davidson was reinvented as a star for a new generation.
So who is the real Jim Davidson?
Is really the monster that the Ben Elton generation of comics tried to make out?
On tonight’s Garry Bushell Show, you can meet this comedy legend and make up your own mind.
Up close and personal, he opens his heart about the hurt and frustration of his nightmare year - revealing how the Conservative Party let him down... and naming the one politician who rallied behind him.
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One of the nice things about our listeners is that they share their views and experiences with us. So it is that, after we last covered the lawsuit brought by “To Kill a Mockingbird” legend Harper Lee against a museum in her south Alabama hometown, both Donna and Peter have changed their views on the case. Thank you, Debriefists!
Well, that suit has been settled now – and a very good thing, too.
And while we’re speaking of past shows, here is the link Peter mentioned to our show featuring author Sherry Jones, whose trilas and tribulations with her book “The Jewel of Medina” we covered very extensively. Sadly, extremist never sleeps, and here is a similar case, this time featuring Penguin and Wendy Doniger's book “The Hindus”.
Other links in this show include:
- Harper Collins to stop illegally collecting personal information about children
- Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz sues student newspaper
- Books Rate More Negatively After Winning Awards
- Why Are Book Sales A Secret?:
- Court-Appointed Monitor To Stay At Apple
Presented from Florida by leading lawyer Donna Ballman and from London by literary agent Peter Cox.
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We’re back! With more stories, more opinion and even more insight into that murky confluence that lies somewhere between the edge of publishing and the beginning of matters legal. Big stories this show are:
- Sherlock Holmes is definitely in the public domain, judge rules
- Warning Drivers Of Speed Traps With Flashing Headlights Is Free Speech
- Tom Cruise Sued For $1 Billion By Angry Screenwriter
- Single Mom Sob Story? JK Rowling Sues Daily Mail For Libel
- Science writer files lawsuit against NASA after it failed to investigate 'alien doughnut' on Mars
- Noncompetition Agreements & Editing
- Gawker Defends Linking to Tarantino Script
- Long-standing copyright suit nets plaintiff nearly $4M
- FBI Agent Copyrights Secret Interrogation Manual, Makes It Public
Presented by leading lawyer Donna Ballman in Florida and literary agent Peter Cox in London.
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