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Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers
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Liam Bishop is curating the best writers to help you with your writing.
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Keith Ridgway writing personal maps of cities and love stories of a sort
I got to sit with one of the most interesting and inventive writers working today: Keith Ridgway, the Goldsmith’s Prize shortlisted writers! So, today, we really are having a coffee with one of the world’s most interesting writers as I speak to Keith about his latest novel, Dooneen. On late night...
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Deb Olin Unferth on awe and writing the bottom of the ocean and outer space
We're going to the bottom of the ocean and to outer space for this near-future literary escapade about when the world is no longer habitable. Deb Olin Unferth joined me from Austin, Texas, to talk about her latest novel, Earth 7. Deb's novel is inventive in its world-building, taking us into the...
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Louisa Bello’s sheer determination to get published and being inspired by a friend
What company Louisa Bello is! A story about an agent, a publisher and a pub and sheer determination to get published, and taking a friend’s experience to inspire your first novel. Louisa Bello is here to talk about WHERE THE SHADOW’S END (époque Press) What I loved about Louisa’s novel, however…
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Deepa Anappara describes the importance of Moby Dick to her novel…and a Rippling Points Preview
This is some bonus content from the latest Rippling Pages Coffee Conversations. This is as real as it gets - two microphones, two writers getting real about writing! Here, Deepa is talking about our favourite Rippling Pages bonus segment, and speaks about the importance of Moby Dick. You’ll also...
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Deepa Anappara on great storytelling and complex explorations of grief
It’s time for another special episode where we have another coffee conversation! As ever with the coffee conversations, this is a real as it gets. Two microphones, two writers getting real about writing! And this is a book that has a bit of everything. It’s 1869. Tibet is a forbidden kingdom and...
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Ashton Politanoff tells us how to write tense scenes and write a novel set in the world of tennis
It's a summer of sport, and I am here for it! Ashton Politanoff is here to talk to me about his novel, DAD HAD A BAD DAY (Daunt Books) Ashton's novel is an articulate exploration of masculinity, its patiently crafted unraveling narrative, and its loyal homage to the sport of tennis. Here's some…
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Alice Hattrick on creatively writing about history and embroidery and mother daughter relationships
I had the absolute pleasure hosting Alice Hattrick up in Leeds for a special edition of the Rippling Pages at Leeds Literature Festival. I'm a huge fan of Alice's first book, ILL FEELINGS (Fitzcarraldo Editions), so I was obviously really excited to get stuck into their next book, FANCY WORK...
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Ask the Host - Liam on origins of the podcast, literary salons, and a summer books preview
Welcome to an episode of Ask the Host, i.e. with me, Liam! This the podcast where writers get real about writing, but today, we’re getting real about podcasting! In today’s episode of Ask the Host, we’re finding out: - What’s the difference between the live coffee conversations and remote...
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Nicholas Royle on writing about his love for second hand books and bookshops (archive re-release)
Let’s dust off the archives again and celebrate some of the guests we’ve had on the Rippling Pages This time, we’re going back to a conversation that was had in 2022 with the writer, editor, and all around bookish good guy, Nicholas Royle. I spoke to Nicholas about his wonderful book about book...
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Stu Hennigan on writing in vernacular and sympathetic truthful portrayals of the north
The podcast for the world’s most interesting writers is going a little closer to home; we’re visiting Leeds and the North of England for a conversation about with Stu Hennigan about his novel, KESHED. Not only is it lovely to speak about some of the places I know really well, but also a…
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Amber Medland on overcoming writers block and writing with George Saunders
Amber Medland is here to tell us about what it’s like to be in an anthology with George Saunders, overcoming writers block, and telling us whether it’s magic or mechanics that makes a story. Amber has been collated in one of the most select short story anthologies likely to hit the shelves this...
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Polly Barton on writing about knotty linguistic concepts and loving language (Archive Re-Release)
Let’s dust off the archives and celebrate some of the guests we’ve had on the Rippling Pages. This is a re-release of a previous episode with Polly Barton. Over the years, we’ve been proud to feature emergent writers on the Rippling Pages and speak to them in the early stages of their careers.…
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Camille Bordas on finding detail in small objects and writing in different languages
Camille Bordas likes miniature objects. It’s how they remind her of her childhood in Mexico and show off little details. In fairness, it might once have been a lighter for Camille, but she still has them all. This is bonus content on the Rippling Pages where we ask a writer to provide us with an...
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Camille Bordas on making difficult topics funny and crafting sharp dialogue
Camille Bordas is one heck of an exciting literary talent, and she’s joining me on the Rippling Pages to discuss her story collection, ONE SUN ONLY (Serpent’s Tail). What I loved about these stories is their wonderfully dry humour, empathetic narratives of flawed characters, and deeply woven...
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Bonus! Lucy Caldwell on annotated Hamlet and Easter Eggs
It's Easter - and it's easter egg time. In this bonus content, you're going to hear a lot about Easter Eggs, but not the chocolate kind. Instead, we’re talking those little secret insights to Lucy's work, both past, present and future. This is bonus content and our objects of influence segment...
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Lucy Caldwell on writing transcendent psychic moments and finding meaning in life
Oh wow! It was my pleasure to have a coffee with and speak to the writer Lucy Caldwell about her new short story collection, DEVOTIONS (published by Faber and Faber). That's right, we were live and in person having a coffee talking about Lucy's new collection I revelled in a theatre troupe...
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Bonus! Why a letter knife told Leon Craig everything she needed to know about her characters’ desires
Welcome to this bonus content with Leon Craig. We’re talking about how Leon found an old letter knife in a shop which helped her understand her characters desires. PLUS! You’ll hear Leon talking about plagues, the pandemic, and why she left the UK to write her novel about the UK. Leon was here to...
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Leon Craig on misunderstanding ghosts and getting what we want
I’m looking forward to diving into the crumbling and the haunted this week with Leon Craig. We’re discussing Leon Craig’s THE DECADENCE. And you the listener picked Leon as one of the rising stars of literature that you wanted me to interview. Have you ever walked past an old abandoned house and...
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Ana Schnabl on using childhood locations and memories in stories about unpleasant people
We’re going to the Slovenian coast this week during the final years Yugoslavia with Ana Schnabl. Dunja has finally launched her literary career, but the shadow and spectre of her brother’s death haunts both her and her family. What happens when she returns to investigate her brother’s death? And...
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Eva Meijer live in Leeds and panoramic crisis fiction based on personal experience
What a lovely time I had speaking and sitting with Eva Meijer, the Dutch Author, in Leeds to discuss their novel SEA NOW. A government who seems slow to respond to a rapidly encroaching crisis. Marketing executives exploiting ways to make quick cash. A missing Prime Minister. Leavers and…
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Bonus - Madeleine Dunnigan and Farah Ali on their favourite books and writing beyond the surface
Happy New Year! I’m delighted to bring you some more unedited and bonus content from my Christmas and New Year special with Madeleine Dunnigan and Farah Ali. There was just so much good stuff in our craft and curation special, that I wanted to bring you a little more to start the year. These…
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Christmas and NY special - exciting talents, Madeleine and Farah, discussing healing and books that inspired their craft
I’m kicking off a 2026 preview with two of the most exciting emerging voices publishing books this January. I speak to them about how they wrote their novels, before asking which books inspired them along the way, and what their books and book selections say about the world today. If you’re…
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Editor Rali Chorbadzyiyska talking about how writers can manage rejections and marketing
I'm delighted to be talking to Rali Chorbadzhiyska about her work as freelance editor, and we're asking what the road to publication really looks like. It must be another edition of Ask the Curator. In these episodes, we go behind the curtain of the literary industry to ask another literary...
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Lee Cole Bonus - how Lee found old books at his grandparents to build his characters and worlds
Welcome to some bonus content with Lee Cole, and we’re talking about how he used an old book he found at his grandparents to help build the world and characters in his novels. Plus, you’re going to hear some extra bits about writing heroes and villains. Fulfillment, Lee Cole’s second novel…
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Lee Cole on the ethics of writing about home, and the people who stay and leave small towns
Welcome to the latest episode of the Rippling Pages. I’m having a coffee with Lee Cole, the American writer from Kentucky. And we’re talking about balancing the feelings and ethics of writing about home. Now living a humdrum life in Kentucky, Emmett spends his days packing boxes in a warehouse.…
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Bonus! Joanna Pocock on why your phone and notebook might be all you need to write
I’m talking with the essayist Joanna Pocock, and this is some bonus content from our original interview. America is a place that has compelled countless writers to travel its vast and varied landscapes. Perhaps you’ve done it yourself. But what happens when you feel compelled to do it all again?...
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LIVE! Agnes Lidbeck and how to write about major adjustments and characters that frustrate us
I’m talking to the Swedish writer, Agnes Lidbeck, in this special edition live episode of the Rippling Pages! We really did have a coffee with one of the world’s, one of Sweden’s most interesting writers, because as we were live in person with a live audience in Leeds! Life is full of adjustments…
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Joanna Pocock on writing about kindness and perspective on the American Road
America is a place that has compelled countless writers to travel its vast and varied landscapes. Perhaps you’ve done it yourself. But what happens when you feel compelled to do it all again? That’s the question at the heart of Joanna Pocock’s essay, Greyhound (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Named after...
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Ask the Host! Liam on Latest Reads, Favourite Bookshop, and Reality TV
Welcome to the second edition of Rippling Pages: Ask the Host! It's time to answer some more questions from you, the listeners! So, that’s what I’ve done: I’ve picked out some questions from the Rippling Pages inbox, and answered them! In this episode, I answer: - What I have been reading lately?…
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BONUS! Gurnaik Johal on Objects, Perfect Art and Buster Keaton
“It’s almost a perfect work of art.” This is some bonus content from the previous episode with Gurnaik Johal where we talk about objects of influence. The return of a potentially holy river in the Indian mountains - is it a sign of a new age, a divine intervention, or simply the workings of…
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Gurnaik Johal on Rivers, Family and Pub Chats
The return of a potentially holy river in the Indian mountains - is it a sign of a new age, a divine intervention, or simply the workings of nature? These are the questions at the heart of Gurnaik Johal’s novel, SARASWATI, published by Serpent’s Tail. Frauds, politicians, mystics, writers, and…
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Yan Ge Part 2 on Vulnerabilities, Younger Selves, Parents
“I think when you’re young you really allow yourself to be stupid.” Welcome to part 2 of my conversation with Yan Ge. Yan Ge is here to discuss her life and writing. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province People’s Republic of China. Emerging as a prodigious writer in Chinese and Sichuanese…
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Yan Ge Part 1 on Happiness, Elsewhere, and Striving
”If I enter a project knowing what I’m going to do, confidently, I wouldn’t do it.” It’s Women in Translation Month! Yan Ge is here to discuss her life and writing. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province People’s Republic of China. Emerging as a prodigious writer in Chinese and Sichuanese, she...
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Kimberly Campanello - Bonus Content with memory, flags and music
“She starts having an experience to see her own life as a more shifting sands that isn’t to be fear but in fact to be enjoyed.” Kimberly Campanello is here to talk about her novel, USE THE WORDS YOU HAVE (Somesuch Editions). It’s a sweltering summer in Bretagne, France. K, an American exchange...
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Kimberly Campanello on Autofiction, the Midwest, and Notebooks
“How do you sound like you know what you’re doing when you don’t have the words” Kimberly Campanello is here to talk about her novel, USE THE WORDS YOU HAVE (Somesuch Editions). It’s a sweltering summer in Bretagne, France. K, an American exchange student, is navigating more than just unfamiliar...
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Uttama Kirit Patel on Letters, Motherhood, and Mother-in-Laws
“I found myself writing an apology letter…and I didn’t know what I was apologising for.” In Uttama Kirit Patel’s novel, The Shape of an Apostrophe (Serpent’s Tail), Lina is pregnant, and she’s finding that this seemingly salubrious society is not congenial and accommodating to the difficult...
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Ask the Bookshop- Bonus! On Leeds, Community and Safe Spaces
“When I set out to plan the business, I wrote ten words - the world I always kept coming to was community.” The Rippling Pages is all about curating the best writers to inspire you and your writing - today, we’re speaking to another curator. Eden Barnes is the owner of Next Chapter Books, an…
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Roisin Dunnett on Time Travel, Protest, and Littering
"It is also difficult to imbue the people and the movements of the past with the complexities we offer ourselves." If you were to meet a time traveller from the future, what would you ask them? This is the question Roisin Dunnett asks in her novel, A LINE YOU HAVE TRACED (Magpie Books/Oneworld...
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Rippling Pages Live with Katharina Volckmer Part 2 - On Clowns, Mothers and Part Time Jobs
“They got fired for that!” Katharina Volckmer is here to discuss her second novel, Calls May Be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes (Indigo Press) and it was live at the Hyde Park Book Club! Thank you to the Hyde Park Book Club for hosting us and Next Chapter Books for supporting the...
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Rippling Pages Live with Katharina Volckmer - Part 1 - on Call Centres, Intimacy and Toilet Humour
Katharina Volckmer is here to discuss her second novel, Calls May Be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes (Indigo Press) and it was live at the Hyde Park Book Club! Thank you to the Hyde Park Book Club for hosting us and Next Chapter Books for supporting the event. Katharina’s first…
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Ask the Host! Liam on Dream Guests, New Books, and Talking to Animals
Welcome to the first edition of Rippling Pages: Ask the Host! Over the years, I’ve been asking the questions, but it’s about time I answered some too. So, that’s what I’ve done: I’ve picked out some questions from the Rippling Pages inbox, and answered them! In this episode, I answer: - Where am…
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Elaine Garvey on 2002, Wadrobe Departments, and Women Walking
"She finds herself in London working in a theatre having to touch people!" Elaine Garvey, to discuss her novel, THE WARDROBE DEPARTMENT, published by Canongate Books. It’s 2002. Mairéad Sweeney has moved from rural Ireland to work in London’s West End. While the prestige of working in theatre...
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Bonus Content - Benjamin Markovits on Subtexts, Michael Jordan, and family favourites!
“It’s my mum’s favourite book that I wrote!” Benjamin Markovits is here to talk about his new and twelfth novel, THE REST OF OUR LIVES, published by Faber and Faber. Tom Layward has made a pact with himself. After his daughter moves out of college, he’s moving out too. His wife had an affair, and...
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Benjamin Markovits on Basketball, Family, and Illness
‘The people I like to write about are what I would describe as moderately successful failures.’ Benjamin Markovits is here to talk about his new and twelfth novel, THE REST OF OUR LIVES, published by Faber and Faber. Tom Layward has made a pact with himself. After his daughter moves out of…
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Bonus Content with Marni Appleton - Taylor Swift, and Getting Up Early
"Taylor Swift is somebody who has managed to keep reinventing herself to stay relevant." Welcome to Rippling Points, more content and more insights and inspiration into the craft of literature: Marni Appleton is here to talk about her short story collection, I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, published by…
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Marni Appleton on Spotlights, Mirrors and the Art of the Title
"It builds to women and girls choosing to hide their mouths because of the effect of this trend...things just morph and take on different meanings as they're shared in different contexts" Marni Appleton is here to talk about her collection of short stories, I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, published by The...
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Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Vincenzo Latronico - Berlin, Italian novels, and on being translated into English
"Being published in English is a big milestone..." Vincenzo Latronico is here to talk about his first novel translated into English - PERFECTION, published by Fitzcarraldo editions and translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes. Welcome to Rippling Points, more content insights and inspiration...
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Vincenzo Latronico on Perfection, Authenticity, and Things
“Love is a dangerous topic.” Vincenzo Latronico is here to talk about his first novel translated into English - PERFECTION, published by Fitzcarraldo editions and translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes. Vincenzo is one of the most distinguished novelists writing in Italian today. He has…
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Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Pola Oloixarac - Archives, Horoscopes, and Twisted Desire
“They had one objective - to get rid of certain men” Welcome to the first edition of Rippling Points - bonus content from last month’s episode! A little bit more insight and a little bit more inspiration into the craft of writing! Here, you can hear Pola talking about her delve into the archives…
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Pola Oloixarac and Unreliability, Energies, and Dopamine
“I think it’s much more interesting to explore women through their powers.” Pola Oloixarac, one of the most exciting voices in world literature today, is here to talk about her two novels that have been translated into English. Most recently SAVAGE THEORIES and then MONA (translated by Roy…
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