Talking Books – March 2023

Mar 21, 2023 | Audio stories, Talking Books

This Month’s Programme Suzie: We don’t have an author guest this month … Tim: We have two! John has cleverly extracted Kate Mosse’s interview with you at the launch of Landfall and we’re including highlights Suzie: That’s brilliant! This month’s...

Talking Books – February 2023

Feb 20, 2023 | Audio stories, Talking Books

This Month’s Programme This month we really do welcome our guest Eva Wong Nava. Now based in London, she is passionate about how her culture, heritage, and people are represented in all media. Eva Wong Nava was born on a tropical island where a heraldic animal...

Talking Books – January 2023

Jan 24, 2023 | Audio stories, Talking Books

This Month’s Programme 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...

Talking Books – December 2022

Dec 15, 2022 | Audio stories, Talking Books

This Month’s Programme This month Suzie and Tim review Christmas books and discuss what they have been reading. Also the One Tree Book elves have been bribed with mince pies and champagne to reveal their favourites. This month’s books were: Still Me by Jo...

Talking Books – November 2022

Nov 21, 2022 | Audio stories, Talking Books

This Month’s Programme Our guest this month is Nigel Richardson, author of The Accidental Detectorist: Uncovering an Underground Obsession. Nigel is a travel writer, novelist, and journalist. He was Deputy travel editor of the Daily Telegraph for thirteen years....

Talking Books – October 2022

Oct 19, 2022 | Audio stories, Talking Books

This Month’s Programme The guest interview this month is with Greg Mosse, author of The Coming Darkness. Greg describes himself as ‘A writer and encourager of writers.’ He also has a lifelong interest in theatre, both in the UK and, as a graduate, in Paris...

Talking Books – September 2022

Sep 25, 2022 | Audio stories, Talking Books

This Month’s Programme We don’t have a guest on Talking Books this month so we are able to chat a bit more about all things literary. This month’s books were: Lessons by Ian McEwanBourneville by Jonathan CoeThe Lincoln Highway by Amor TowlesGreat...

Talking Books – August 2022

Aug 7, 2022 | Audio stories, Talking Books

This Month’s Programme This is a bumper August edition, with an interview with director, scenographer, curator, educator, writer and national treasure, Pamela Howard and the co-author of her memoir, Pavel Drabek. There will also be an interview with Katherine...

Talking Books – July 2022

Jul 17, 2022 | Audio stories, Talking Books

This Month’s Programme This month we are joined by author Camilla Chester, described as ‘a dog walker who writes’ by her publisher. Camilla has been a finalist in two national children’s writing competitions, for the National Literacy Trust and Mslexia, and has...

Talking Books – June 2022

Jun 18, 2022 | Audio stories, Talking Books

This Month’s Programme This month we have two guests, Wendy Smith as promised last month, comes to talk about her brilliantly named book club ‘Reading between the Wines’. She’s also Fundraising Manager for The Rosemary Foundation Hospice at Home. We also enjoyed...