Talking Books with Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly: Recent Episodes
Petersfield's Shine Radio
Published author Suzie Wilde and bookshop owner Tim O'Kelly explore their love of books, the joy of stories and the craft of writing in this monthly series.
Shine Radio broadcasts a fresh edition of Talking Books on the second Monday of each month.
The programme is produced by John Welsman in Petersfield, Hampshire, UK.
Contact Suzie and Tim via email at team@shineradio.uk or call 01730 555 500.
Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books.
We are joined this month by Louise Morrish, author and bookseller and Piper Knight, storyteller and encourager of young writers, The interview is with Kitty Kettle, author of speculative fiction that explores power dynamics, grief and the human cost of control and technology.
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Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books.
We are joined this month by Lucy Foley and Kate Lord Brown. Lucy was doing an event at One Tree Books and Suzie manged to get a short interview with her. Kate Lord Brown has recently published her book The Silver Thread and Suzie discusses this with her.
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Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books.
We are joined by Izzy Broom who talks about her book The House of Hidden letters which takes place on a Greek island. We are also joined by Jenny Uglow who is talking about Gilbert White and his lifelong observations. Why soldiers took copies into the trenches.
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Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books.
We are joined by Louise Morrish who is an author, bookseller, creative writing tutor, and historical speaker from Hampshire and librarian! Louise has always been interested in women’s history, particularly stories of real women who did extraordinary things in the past, but whom history has forgotten.
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Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books.
Is the Petersphere ready for spicy romance? Tim and I say Yes: but is it a korma or full vindaloo? We are joined this month by three fabulous writers of Romance with a touch of spice: Pippa Nixon, Emma Rae and Gemma Morr. They were at One Tree Books for a live event that was hugely informative and fun. Get a flavour of it here, as well as Watching Narrowly, the natural history book event that happens on Saturday 21st March at Gilbert White’s House & Gardens. Trustee Sian MacLeod has details.
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Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books.
We are joined by Michael Arnold, author of The Savage Isle and now the sequel, The River Warriors –Britannia, 42AD. The wild island at the fringe of the known world is in chaos. He has a great way of bringing the English Civil War to life … Back this up with great prose, magical pace and of course a lead character that you love to spend time around makes this a series that is not only a pure joy to read but a wonderful piece of escapism from the real world.
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Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books.
We are joined in person by Pushpinder Khaneka, a journalist who has worked for the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, ITN and ABC radio and he has written a glorious guide to the best books from Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books.
A zoom guest this month – Ian Skewis who chats about how he’s become a publisher and what, why, when and where all royalties are going (it’s a charity).
We are joined in person by Sally, Dorota and Anna from the bookshop.
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Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books.
One Tree books are back in their premises from the 1st of the month so there is much to celebrate. This month there is no guest but as Michael Arnold has been selected for the Times Book of the Year, we are repeating part of his interview.
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Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books.
This month their guest is William Shaw who is promoting his book The Red Shore, a new departure in that it is set in the west country.
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Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books.
This month their guest is Kate Lord Brown who knows Petersfield well. She speaks to Suzie in Madeline's Delicatessen on Lavant Street about her latest novel, The Golden Hour.
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We have two guests in this month's Talking Books. First is the renowned actor Anton Lesser, famous for roles in Theatre, Film and TV. He talks about his upcoming show about Thomas Hardy in Winchester. Ed Davey launches his book 'Why I Care.' Tim is back to talk about One Tree Books' move across the street and to give his recommendations for the month.
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This months Talking Books is a little different as Tim is somewhat preoccupied with getting his temporary shop up and running after the fire in Lavant Street. Suzie had booked an interview with Roger Morgan-Grenville and that is the main feature of this months edition.
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This month we are playing the second half of the interview with Thomas Harding, a prizewinning Guardian columnist and bestselling author discussing his illustrated book "The House on the Canal".
Tim is away this month but Suzie, Sally and Anna focus on their best summer reads.
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We have two guests this month, Thomas Harding, a prizewinning Guardian columnist and bestselling author, whose books have been translated into twenty languages, and Izzy Barret, who is an illustrator based in West Sussex, and a recent Illustration graduate from UCA Farnham.
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Our guest this month is Ally Sherrick, prize-winning author of rip-roaring historical adventures. Ally launched her latest book, Rebel Heart at Farnham last week. With actual cavaliers!
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The guest author this month is the hugely popular writer, Michael Arnold, best known for his Civil War Chronicles. As usual, Tim and Suzie discuss all the latest book news and events to look out for.
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This month’s guest is Niall Edworthy, who has been writing for 30 years, mainly as a ghost writer but also on his own account. He has now set up his own publishing operation and explains why to Suzie.
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In this edition Suzie, Tim and the team review their best books of 2024 as well as what is coming up shortly.
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Suzie and Tim discuss books for Christmas and there are interviews with Tom Parker-Bowles, author of Cooking and the Crown and Petroc Trelawny, Radio 3 presenter and author of Trelawny's Cornwall, a Journey through Western Lands
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This month Tim and Suzie give a heads-up for Christmas presents and there is also a great interview with Katherine McInnes who has written Behind Everest. She has used the name Kate Nicholson for that book for reasons that will become clear.
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This month is slightly different. Tim has Covid so there is nor chat between Tim and Suzie so they have both recorded separately. There is still much of interest and plenty of book recommendations.
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This is the month when all the big names release their latest books. Tim is on the case with great suggestions and Suzie revisits her interview with rising thriller star David Fennell. Next month is the show's 50th so listen out for ideas.
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The August edition of Talking Books continues our best summer reading - but without Tim! Suzie is joined by Sally and Anna from One Tree Books for a lively chat and a rerun of Tim’s interview with Angela Harding, the illustrator of one of their picks. You can also hear the winning entries to the Eco Fair’s writing competition.
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Tim and Suzie are in holiday mood, so this months Talking Books is a bumper interview edition, chosen by listeners. It's fitting that first up is Martin Muncaster, the best radio voice ever, who was inspired to write his life story after the loss of many loved ones. Now we have lost him too, but this segment celebrates his passion for broadcasting.
Another popular choice from 2022: Nigel Richardson, whose book The Accidental Detectorist: Uncovering an Underground Obsession is out in paperback.
Last up are award-winning authors Kathryn Evans, author of Beaty Sleep, and Sue Walman, author of Every Word a Lie. Interviewed in July last year, a listener liked sharing this chat between friends.
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This month Tim and Suzie select some of their favourite summer reads that are surefire hits. Their June guest is prize-winning author Barbara Henderson, on zoom from the Far North of Scotland. Writing mostly for children, Barbara visits schools to inspire young people and she is the Fiction judge for the PeCAN Writing Competition.Barbara Henderson
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This month there are two interviews, one with renowned illustrator Angela Harding and the other with local author Steve Sheppard who's third book has just been published.
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This month’s Talking Books starts on a bright day in April but the clocks aren’t striking thirteen when Suzie and Tim talk about their favourite reads this month. There’s an interview with Roger Morgan-Grenville about his latest book The Return of the Grey Partridge, written with the Duke of Norfolk about restoring biodiversity to his estate near Arundel. It’s beautifully illustrated by Claire Harrup.
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Instantly recognisable from her trademark collection of black hats, British author Frances Hardinge is one of the most acclaimed and inventive writers of her generation. This month's edition features an interview with her.
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Suzie and Tim discuss this months books and interview Elle M Keating, author of Poison Summer.
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This month there is no guest interview but there are many interesting books reviewed by Tim and Suzie
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Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly host the books and writing programme made in Petersfield.
This month's interview is with best-selling author Michelle Magorian who lives locally.
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Ever wondered why insomnia might make you want to murder your husband? Or have another reason? Find out how not to do it when Katie Marsh talks to Tim and Suzie about the first book in her new cozy crime series.
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This month we have two interview, both with local authors.
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This month, the interview is with Claire Fuller, a prize-winning author and short fiction writer. Also, Tim and Suzie share their favourite reads and review what is coming up
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This month there are two guests, Greg Mosse and Gethin Jones.
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The interview this month is with Kathryn Evans and Sue Wallman, successful young adult authors.
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Suzie and Tim talk about Suzie's visit to the Cymera Festival in Edinburgh and what is current in the book world.
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The guest this month is Frances Liardet, the interview having been recorded at her book launch last month.
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Our guest this month is Candy Gourlay, talking about her Sunday Times book of the month Wild Song. We praised the first book, Bone Talk, and and in Wild Song we pick up the story again of young Filipino Luki in 1904.
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Suzie's book launch for Landfall and a celebration of the trilogy
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This month the interview is with Eva Wong Nava, and award-winning author while Suzie and Tim discuss what is exciting at the moment.
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Bad weather and bad colds have changed this month’s edition, so we’ll have to wait until next month to welcome our guest Eva Wong Nava. Instead we’re going to replay our first two interviews back in October 2020, but we still discuss what is new in the literary world.
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This month - talking about Christmas books.
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This month the Nigel Richardson, author of The Accidental Detectorist is interviewed by Suzie and Tim.
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This month the guest is Greg Mosse, author of The Coming Darkness.
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Without a guest this month, Suzie and Tim take the opportunity to have a more in depth discussion about the world of books
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Suzie and Tim review books they have read and those coming up. The interview this month is With Katherine McInnes who wrote Snow Widows, published recently.
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This month we are joined by author Camilla Chester, described as ‘a dog walker who writes’ by her publisher. Camilla's latest book, Call me Lion, has just been published.
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This month we have two guests, Wendy Smith as promised last month, come to talk about her brilliantly named book club ‘Reading between the Wines’. She’s also Fundraising Manager for The Rosemary Foundation Hospice at Home, and we did an event here with author David Jarrett, whose book 33 Meditations on Death has sold really well
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This month's guest is David Fennell whose crime novels are discussed in this edition. The interview makes a minor reference to scenes of fictional violence which could be upsetting to some listeners.
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In addition to talking through what has been read, what is coming up shortly and then a back-listed book, we have an interview with Ben Dark. Ben is a head gardener, journalist and landscape historian working at the top of British horticulture. He's been described as 'the future of horticulture' by Horticulture Week, and more importantly 'the millennial Monty' by Gardeners' World Magazine.
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This month's guests are Martin Muncaster and Sir Vince Cable, both of whom have books published recently
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February 2022 Talking Books with Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly with an interview with best selling authors Elly Griffiths and Lesley Thomson
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Suzie and Tim choose their favourite books from 2021, endeavour to lighten a dark January and look forward to what will be coming in 2022. An unusual interview this month as John Welsman asks Tim O'Kelly about his life in books.
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This months Talking Books features an interview with Gyles Brandreth who knows Petersfield well having been a pupil at Bedales. His autobiography is now available.
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This month I’m talking to bestselling author Sophie Kinsella. She has sold over 45 million copies of her books in more than 60 countries, and she has been translated into over 40 languages.
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Our guest is JOHN MICKLEWRIGHT talking about his book The Opening Country. He tells Tim about walking from Portsmouth to the Alps, following in the footsteps of his father and inspired by John Buchan.
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Our guest, Jennifer Selway lives in Petersfield. She has a book just out - The Making of Horror movies: Key Figures who Established the Genre
She was Executive Editor of the Daily Express and before that was a journalist on The Observer. Now has a weekly opinion column in Sunday Express.
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Nigel Farndale’s new novel, The Dictator's Muse, is set in the 1930s. He will be talking about it - and the connection with Mick Jagger!
He is the bestselling author of, amongst others, The Blasphemer, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, and Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. And I’m in awe of the interviews he has conducted over the years, from Gillian Anderson to Kirsty Young, with every letter of the alphabet between, in sport, politics and culture.
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We’re joined this month by Katie Marsh, whose latest book Unbreak Your Heart was our top selling book last month. She’s a Petersfield author whose books sell all over the world. After a ten year career in the NHS she left to take up writing full time.
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This month we are talking to Lissa Evans, about her new book, out in paperback this month.
Lissa Evans writes for both adults and children when she's not guesting on Backlisted Pod. Her recent novel, V for Victory - which is out in paperback from Black Swan in June - is set in London at the end of the Second World War and completes a loose historical trilogy which began with Old Baggage and Crooked Heart. Both hilarious and tragic.
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It’s another YA special, with Sue Wallman - a prize-winning author of YA thrillers. Her debut, Lying about Last Summer, was Winner of Zoella Book Club 2016 and she has since published another three, all winning awards and Dead Popular was WHSmith Book of the Month 2019.
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We are back in person at One Tree Books, ready for the bookshop to reopen to customers on 12 April. Besides my backlisted choice (this month: Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs) Tim will have his list of what’s coming out this month and I'll be talking to author Roger Morgan-Grenville. He was a soldier in the Royal Green Jackets for 9 years and led the first expedition to successfully retrace Shackleton's journey across the island of South Georgia. He was also a founder and first head fundraiser for the charity Help for Heroes. But he typically describes himself as ‘a passionate, but talentless, cricketer’
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Guest is Tim Bouquet, who grew up on his father’s farm at Butser. Mother still lives in Petersfield. He is a ghost-writer and biographer who makes dry material page-turners. Tim O’Kelly talks to him about his stunning book on Philip Jackson (sculpture studio in Midhurst; was Stroud at the start of his career) and the angel Gabriel in Harting church. But where did Writer Tim start - and how does he meet so many Indian billionaires? How did the Renault boss Ghosn escape? My Backlisted choice is Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming: published in 1954! With all the attitudes and some words we no longer use. The extract is really good writing, though, and won’t offend anyone.
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Our guest this month is Kathryn Evans, who has been an actor, a waitress, a celery cutter and newspaper deliverer - she's even scrubbed the decks of the Mary Rose. Now she combines being an author with being a mum, running a farm, volunteering as co-Regional Advisor for SCBWI, and fencing competitively
Her debut More of Me won the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award - the first YA novel ever to do so. It also won the 2017 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for GB and Ireland. Beauty Sleep is her latest novel, which was shortlisted for the STEAM prize and won the 2020 CrimeFest Award for a YA novel.
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Special guest Thomas Harding, a bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than 16 languages. He has written for the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, among other publications. He is the author of HANNS AND RUDOLF which won the JQ-Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction; THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; and BLOOD ON THE PAGE which won the Crime Writers’ Association “Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction”. His recent books include LEGACY, FUTURE HISTORY, and a picture book version of THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE.
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Tim and Suzie are joined in One Tree Books by bestselling author Kate Mosse.
Suzie’s backlisted choice is Kate’s ghostly Christmas love story, set after the horrors of the First World War, The Winter Ghosts.
With a short extract read by son, actor Felix Mosse. She is published in over 40 countries. Playwright, broadcaster, defender of live theatre and libraries; champion of women's creativity.
Kate is the Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction - the largest annual celebration of women's writing in the world - and sits on the Executive Committee of Women of the World - and she was awarded an OBE in 2013.
Settle with a comforting drink and join Suzie and Kate as they catch up with news.
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Tim and Suzie start their fortnightly catch up. bite-size chunks so you can have a cuppa, grab a biscuit, whatever. It’s pure pleasure – so join in twitter, FB or online.
Starting with tv:
Valhalla Rising
The Crown: fascination with 1980s! memories? Hatreds?
Bake Off, Strictly and Master Chef Professionals – appeal?
series/box sets: Life on Mars = Ashes to Ashes, Spooks
Black Books - Bill Bailey Tamsin Greig Dylan Moran Graham Linehan
Schitt’s Creek
Films? Rams
Reading as mild sedative? Olive, Mabel and Me – Andrew Cotter
The Sentinel -Lee and Andrew? Child
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Tim’s top picks for Christmas presents and a socially distanced interview with Niall Edworthy, the author of Main Battle Tank and over a dozen other books under a variety of noms de plume, covering military history, biography, sport, general humour, wildlife and gardening. WILL, the Will Greenwood autobiography, was shortlisted for the 2005 Sports Book Awards in the Best Autobiography category. His first novel, Otto Eckhart’s Ordeal, is recently published. Suzie is raving about her current read about a rock group in the Sixties and her Backlisted brings some much-needed laughter.
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Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly discuss how they organise their bookshelves and the books they have been reading.
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It’s Halloween. Tim hates ghost stories and Suzie loves them. That’s not their only difference of opinion. Tim meets Bob Stone, owner of Write Blend books in Liverpool, and I talk rainbow shelfies and Giles Coren’s end of books with author and bookstagrammer Mel Rogerson.
The books discussed in the October edition are:
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Summer Water by Sarah Moss, This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Never Greener by Ruth Jones, Because of You by Dawn French, 100 Great Black Britons by Patrick Vernon OBE and Dr Angelina Osborne, Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler and finally Normandy 44 by James Holland.
Links to Mel Rogerson’s sites are:
http://www.thebookfamilyrogerson.com/
http://www.instagram.com/thebookfamilyrogerson
Talking Books is broadcast on the third Monday evening of the month at 8pm on Petersfield’s Shine Radio and than repeated at other times during the month.
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The brighter books show from Petersfield.
in September's edition of Talking Books, Susie Wilde & Tim O'Kelly discuss how they arrange their books, what books they persist with, some new titles recommended by Tim and a back-listed recommendation from Susie.
Audio production John Welsman.
Contact Suzie and Tim via team@petersfieldradio.uk or call Petersfield 01730 555 500.
Show notes
Tim and Suzie are Currently Reading
Deadland by William Shaw
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
What’s Coming Up? Tim Recommends
V2 by Robert Harris
The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
And also
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
Normandy ‘44 by James Holland
The Mission House Carys Davies
Backlisted. Suzie is reading:
The Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage by Tim Robinson, 2008 paperback published by Faber with introduction by Robert MacFarlane.
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Suzie Wilde and John Welsman share their love of audio books in this first edition of our new Talking Books series.
What makes an audiobook special and what makes John a very particular critic of them?
Suzie and John discuss their favourites including the Harry Potter series, read by Stephen Fry; The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (Author), Fred Berman (Narrator), Phoebe Strole (Narrator), Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny, narrated by Adam Sims.
The next edition in September will feature Suzie and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books.
Talking Books is broadcast monthly on Monday evenings at 8pm on Petersfield's Shine Radio.
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