Episodios

  • 74: Marisa Linton, Kerry Downes, Jill Johnson, E.C. Nevin and Brighton Book Festival

    74: Marisa Linton, Kerry Downes, Jill Johnson, E.C. Nevin and Brighton Book Festival
    May 24 2025
    On this month's show, we speak to Brighton-based writers Marisa Linton, Kerry Downes and Jill Johnson, plus Althea from Brighton Book Festival tells us about this year's offering. We break our own Brighton-based rules to have E.C. Nevin on the show... the book was just that good!
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    1 h
  • 73: Emma Jane Unsworth, Lauren Bravo, Andrew Flewitt and Beyond The Book Festival

    73: Emma Jane Unsworth, Lauren Bravo, Andrew Flewitt and Beyond The Book Festival
    Apr 26 2025
    This month we speak to three Brighton-based writers; Emma Jane Unsworth (SLAGS), Lauren Bravo (PROBABLY NOTHING) and Andrew Flewitt (DO YOU BELIEVE IN LIFE AFTER LOSS?). We also talk to Phil Viner about BEYOND THE BOOK festival which takes place on May 10th.
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    1 h
  • 72: Saba Sams is coming to Brighton Festival on May 8th

    72: Saba Sams is coming to Brighton Festival on May 8th
    Apr 23 2025
    In this bonus Footnote episode, Saba Sams joins us to talk about her debut novel, GUNK, which she's launching at the Brighton Festival in conversation with Fee Mac. Get tickets here.

    Jules has been divorced from her ex-husband Leon for five years, but she still works alongside him at the nightclub. With the arrival of Nim, a new employee at the bar, Jules is jolted awake for the first time in years and with an unexpected pregnancy in the mix, this novel poses questions around who we choose to build our families with.

    Selected for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023 and author of the dazzling collection of short stories, Send Nudes, Saba Sams is a voice not to be missed.

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    15 m
  • 71: Annabel Thorpe, Judy Upton, Tom Johnstone, Waterstones Events and Publishing Industry Day

    71: Annabel Thorpe, Judy Upton, Tom Johnstone, Waterstones Events and Publishing Industry Day
    Mar 22 2025
    Today's show includes Ditching based Annabel Thorpe talking about her historical fiction set in Italy and how her work as a travel journalist has informed her writing. Judy Upton discusses her Sussex based mystery Series. Tom Johnstone talks about how he uses Brighton's unseen history to write short fiction. Sam at Brighton Waterstones talks about their jam-packed event programme in April and May and Anna Jefferson from New Writing South is back to discuss their Publishing Industry Day which is a must go-to for all aspiring authors in Sussex.

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    1 h
  • 70: Frances Quinn, D.E White's Crime Writing Workshop, Forthwrite Festival, The First Graphic Novel Award and Brooke Robinson's attempt to write in every cafe in Brighton

    70: Frances Quinn, D.E White's Crime Writing Workshop, Forthwrite Festival, The First Graphic Novel Award and Brooke Robinson's attempt to write in every cafe in Brighton
    Feb 22 2025
    In this month's jam-packed show, we talk to Brighton-based Fran Quinn about her new book THE LOST PASSENGER; to D.E. White about her crime-writing workshop in Horsham on March 27th; to Anna and Sam from Forthwrite Festival which takes place in Brighton and Crawley in March; to Brighton-based graphic novelists Myf and Corinne from the First Graphic Novel Award and to new-to-Brighton thriller writer, Brooke Robinson.
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    1 h
  • 69: Laura Wilkinson, Hannah Dolby, Simon Maddrell and Charlie Ross AKA The Roaming Reader

    69: Laura Wilkinson, Hannah Dolby, Simon Maddrell and Charlie Ross AKA The Roaming Reader
    Jan 25 2025
    On this jam-packed episode, we talk to Brighton-based writer Laura Wilkinson about her new book That Night in New York; to Charlie Ross AKA The Roaming Reader about Chichester's new poetry Slam; to Simon Maddrell about his forthcoming pamphlet Jonathan Blake, L1, and the launch in Brighton on February 19th at 7om at Lunch Positive, and to Hannah Dolby, about her Victorian Hastings set books No Life for a Lady and How To Solve Murders Like A Lady.
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    1 h
  • 68: Holly Bourne and Alan Edwards (are coming to a venue near you)

    68: Holly Bourne and Alan Edwards (are coming to a venue near you)
    Dec 28 2024
    We speak to Alan Edwards and Holly Bourne about their forthcoming events in Brighton and Sussex and the books they’ll be discussing.

    See Holly on Jan 16th at Chapter 34 https://www.chapter34.co.uk/event/book-launch-of-so-thrilled-for-you-by-holly-bourne/

    See Alan on Feb 7th at The Old Market https://www.theoldmarket.com/shows/i-was-there-in-conversation-with-alan-edwards
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    1 h
  • 67: Holiday Book Recommendations with Kemptown Books and our very first Christmas Story with Fran Swaine

    67: Holiday Book Recommendations with Kemptown Books and our very first Christmas Story with Fran Swaine
    Nov 23 2024
    On our Christmas special we speak to Cathy Hayward from Kemptown Books about her Holiday Recommendations, and Brighton based writer Fran Swaine reads her Christmas short story, The Lost Dog.
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    1 h
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