Episodios

  • Little Atoms 978 - Harry Sidebottom's Those Who Are About To Die

    Little Atoms 978 - Harry Sidebottom's Those Who Are About To Die
    Dec 5 2025
    Harry Sidebottom teaches classical history at Oxford University, and is the bestselling author of fifteen novels. His debut trade non-fiction book, The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome, was published in 2022 and was a Book of the Year in the Spectator, the Financial Times and BBC History. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind.

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    29 m
  • Little Atoms 977 - Ziyad Marar's Noticing

    Little Atoms 977 - Ziyad Marar's Noticing
    Nov 28 2025

    Ziyad Marar is a publisher and author of The Happiness Paradox , Deception, Intimacy and Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book, Noticing.


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  • Little Atoms 976 - Graham Robb's The Discovery of Britain

    Little Atoms 976 - Graham Robb's The Discovery of Britain
    Nov 21 2025
    Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest book The Discovery of Britain.

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    28 m
  • Little Atoms 975 - Joanna Pocock's Greyhound

    Little Atoms 975 - Joanna Pocock's Greyhound
    Oct 31 2025
    Joanna Pocock is an Irish-Canadian writer living in London. Her writing has notably appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Nation and Guardian US, and she is a contributing editor at the Dark Mountain project. She won the 2018 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Surrender and in 2021 she was awarded the Arts Foundation’s Environmental Writing Fellowship. On this episode of Little Atoms, Joanna talks to Neil Denny about her latest book Greyhound.

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    28 m
  • Little Atoms 974 - James Rebanks' The Place of Tides

    Little Atoms 974 - James Rebanks' The Place of Tides
    Oct 23 2025
    James Rebanks is a farmer and writer based in the Lake District. His No. 1 bestselling debut, The Shepherd’s Life, was translated into sixteen languages. His second book, English Pastoral, was also a Top Ten bestseller and was named the Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year. On this episode of Little Atoms, James talks to Neil Denny about his latest book The Place of Tides.

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    29 m
  • Little Atoms 973 - Mary Roach's Replaceable You

    Little Atoms 973 - Mary Roach's Replaceable You
    Oct 16 2025
    Mary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. On this episode of Little Atoms, Mary talks to Neil Denny about her latest book Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy.

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    29 m
  • Little Atoms 972 - Thomas McMullan's Groundwater

    Little Atoms 972 - Thomas McMullan's Groundwater
    Oct 9 2025

    Thomas McMullan lives and works in London. His debut novel, The Last Good Man, won the 2021 Betty Trask Prize. His short fiction has been published in Ploughshares, The Dublin Review, Granta, 3:AM Magazine, Lighthouse and Best British Short Stories, and his journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, frieze, ArtReview and BBC News. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Groundwater.


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  • Little Atoms 971 - Sarah Perry's Death of an Ordinary Man

    Little Atoms 971 - Sarah Perry's Death of an Ordinary Man
    Oct 2 2025
    Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Enlightenment, Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award. Enlightenment was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 and her other work has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her first full length work of non-fiction Death of an Ordinary Man.

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    29 m