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 we really do welcome our guest Eva Wong Nava.

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.

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.

Our guest this month is Nigel Richardson, author of The Accidental Detectorist: Uncovering an Underground Obsession.

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 before going on to live in New York, Los Angeles and Madrid. He teaches scriptwriting at the Criterion Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and elsewhere.

Greg is married to novelist Kate Mosse and Suzie met them both for the first time at one of their many writing workshops. Greg went on to develop and teach an MA in Creative Writing.

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 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. We will also be joined by Katherine McInnes, whose book Snow Widows has been published recently.

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 previously successfully self-published three novels. Call Me Lion is her first traditionally published novel.  

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

The interview is with David Fennell, whose crime novels feature seem graphic descriptions of fictional violence. The interview makes a minor reference to this.

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.