Blackwell Online Podcast
1) Antonia Macaro and Julian Baggini
On this week's programme we have two guests: Antonia Macaro and Julian Baggini, the eponymous shrink and sage, whose unique brand of self-help with a distinctly cerebral flavour is a regular feature i...Show More
2) Robert Macfarlane
This week, we're delighted to welcome to the programme Robert Macfarlane, one of the most distinguished of contemporary British nature writers and the author most recently of The Old Ways: A Journey o...Show More
3) Summer Reading Choices
In this programme, we hear the summer reading choices of two of Heffers' most experienced and knowledgeable booksellers, Richard Osborne and Richard Reynolds. Whether you're after the best of this sea...Show More
4) Diego Marani Part 2
In part 2 of the podcast Diego introduces us to his latest book to appear in English, The Last of the Vostyachs, and talks about his interest in questions of language and identity which form a common ...Show More
5) Elaine Fox
In this programme we are delighted to have as our guest Elaine Fox, who is professor of cognitive psychology at the university of Essex. Elaine has just published Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain: The New Sci...Show More
6) Diego Marani Part 1
Diego Marani's novel, New Finnish Grammar in a prizewinning translation by Judith Landry, was one of the surprise bestsellers of the past year. Blackwell's has been an enthusiastic promoter of the nov...Show More
7) Marilynne Robinson
We are delighted to welcome to the programme one of America's greatest living novelists and essayists, Marilynne Robinson. In 2009 Elaine Showalter wrote of her: 'Marilynne Robinson has published only...Show More
8) Rebecca Stott
Our guest in this week's podcast is novelist and historian, Rebecca Stott. Rebecca's previous non-fiction books include Darwin and the Barnacle, about the great naturalist's fascination with the tiny ...Show More
9) Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel joins us for an exclusive in-depth interview, in which she discusses her much anticipated new book, Bring Up the Bodies
10) Jonah Lehrer
We caught up with Jonah Lehrer just after he arrived for the UK leg of his book tour to ask him what he had discovered in his attempt to 'break open the black box of the imagination' for his latest bo...Show More