Little Atoms
Neil Denny
Little Atoms is a weekly show about books, with authors in conversation. Produced and presented by Neil Denny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jun 21, 2021 • 34min
Little Atoms 699 - Juliet Jacques' Variations
Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London, and a fellow contributor to Resonance FM. She is the author of Trans: A Memoir, and now a collection of short stories Variations, which uses "found" documents and real-life events to rewrite and reinvigorate a history of transgender Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 14, 2021 • 59min
Little Atoms 698 - Cherie Jones and Kate Mosse
Neil talks to Cherie Jones about her Women's Prize shortlisted debut novel How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, and to Kate Mosse about the Women's Prize Trust Discoveries programme. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 7, 2021 • 29min
Little Atoms 697 - Natasha Pulley's The Kingdoms
Natasha Pulley talks to Neil about time travel, slavery and the UK under French occupation in her latest novel The Kingdoms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 31, 2021 • 30min
Little Atoms 696 - Jonathan Ames' A Man Named Doll
Jonathan Ames talks to Neil about A Man Named Doll, the first in a series of detective novels about "A troubled man, aged 50", as coincidentally Neil is this week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 24, 2021 • 29min
Little Atoms 695 - Clare Chambers' Small Pleasures
Clare Chambers talks to Neil about her Women's Prize 2021 longlisted novel Small Pleasures, about repressed love and parthenogenesis in the South East London suburbs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 20, 2021 • 30min
Little Atoms 694 - Tabitha Lasley's Sea State
Tabitha Lasley talks to Neil about her first book Sea State, a study of masculinity in the oil industry, which becomes an accidental memoir when she becomes to close to her story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 17, 2021 • 25min
Little Atoms 693 - Philip Hoare's Albert & The Whale
Philip Hoare returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about his fascination with Albrecht Dürer, and Dürer's fascination with painting a whale in his new book Albert & The Whale. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 10, 2021 • 30min
Little Atoms 692 - Helen Scales' The Brilliant Abyss
Helen Scales returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about exploring the deep oceans, how creatures survive the great depths, and how human activity threatens even the deepest places in her new book The Brilliant Abyss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 6, 2021 • 32min
Little Atoms 691 - Tom Higham's The World Before Us
Tom Higham talks to Neil about the hunt for the Denisovans, and our other hominid ancestors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 29, 2021 • 28min
Little Atoms 690 - Claire Fuller's Unsettled Ground
Claire Fuller talks to Neil about her 2021 Women's Prize shortlisted fourth novel Unsettled Ground. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
