In the Reading Corner Podcast
1) JonArno Lawson: Wise Up!! Wise Down!
Nikki Gamble talks to CLiPPA shortlisted poet JonArno Lawson about his co-authored poetry collection (with John Agard) Wise Up! Wise Down! Jon talks about why writing poetry excites him and his though...Show More
2) Brian Bilston: Let Sleeping Cats Lie
In the second of our podcasts with CLiPPA shortlisted poets, Nikki Gamble talks to Brian Bilston about his collection of pet poems, Let Sleeping Cats Lie. Brian talks about why he writes, his thoughts...Show More
3) Jane Newbery - CLiPPA shortlisted poet
Nikki Gamble talks to Jan Newbery about her CLiPPa shortlisted collection, Big Red Dragon, and writing verse for very young children and their adults. Support the show Thank you for listening. If yo...Show More
4) Jenny Downham and Louis Hill: Let the Light In
Jenny Downham and Louis Hill are the mother and son writing partners of the YA novel Let the Light In. In this interview, they talk with Nikki Gamble about the discoveries made when writing together. ...Show More
5) The Pinchers with Anders Sparring and Per Gustavsson
Anders Sparring and Per Gustavsson are the creative duo behind The Pinchers. Originally published in Swedish, the books have been translated into English by Julia Marshall and are published by Gecko P...Show More
6) Jeremy Strong: Fox Goes North
Jeremy Strong's final novel, Fox Goes North, is a beautifully written fable about a brave, loyal and quirky group of friends who travel together in a topsy-turvy caravan on a quest to see the Northern...Show More
7) Elle McNicoll: Keedie
In this episode, Elle McNicoll talks to Nikki Gamble about her novel, Keedie, the prequel to her novel, A Kind of Spark, now a BBC television series.About KeedieSet in Juniper five years before A Kind...Show More
8) Clare Pollard: The Untameables
In this episode, Nikki Gamble talks to award-winning poet, novelist, playwright, and literary critic Clare Pollard about her debut children's novel, The Untameables.About the UntameablesUnder the...Show More
9) Jodie Lancet-Grant: The Wild West Twins
Jodie Lancet-Grant is the author of The Pirate Mums and The Marvellous Doctors for Magical Creatures. and The Legend of the Wild West Twins, The Pirate Mums made history as the first book with a two-m...Show More
10) Lucy Strange: The Island at the Edge of Night
After training as an actor and working as an English teacher, Lucy published her first novel, The Secret of Nightingale Wood, which won the 2014 Montegrappa First Fiction Prize; further novels, Our Ca...Show More