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By day, Lucy Worsley is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, which looks after The Tower of London, Hampton Court, and Kensington Palace inter al.
By night, she is a TV presenter and writer, most recently author of Courtiers: The Secret History of Kensington Palace. You can listen to my interview with her by clicking here.
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Louise Foxcroft is the author of Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause, which won the Longman History Today prize for Book of the Year 2009.You can listen to my interview with Louise about this book by clicking here.
Here are her holiday reading recommendations:
In the early summer, ready to get […]

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Today’s guest selector of summer reading is Elizabeth Speller, author most recently of a highly praised debut novel, The Return of Captain John Emmett. She is also the author of several works of non-fiction - including a memoir, Sunlight on the Garden - and a prize-winning poet. Here are her choices:
Dragging a hefty suitcase of […]

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Our next guest recommender of Summer Reading is Michael Bywater, author (of Lost Worlds and Big Babies, inter al.), broadcaster, and - as you will see when you read on - now writing for the stage…
This summer I’m too too utterly utterly up to my ears in queers, dears. Specifically the (slightly illusory) late […]

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The latest volume in the city-pick series - on Amsterdam - has just been published. When their Berlin book came out, Podularity carried an interview with the book’s editor, Heather Reyes.
This time, we go one better and present an audio diary which I compiled on location in Amsterdam with Dutch poet and critic, Victor Schiferli, […]

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I met François Lelord in London recently to discuss his international bestseller - just released in English - Hector and the Search for Happiness (Gallic Books).
François is a psychiatrist by training, so it’s no coincidence that the hero in his first venture into fiction is a Candide-like young practitioner of that profession who becomes […]

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 Speller: Return of Captain John Emmett [23:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

To record this week’s podcast, I travelled to the Cotswolds to visit my guest (and friend), Elizabeth Speller. Elizabeth has recently bought a splendid shepherd’s hut on wheels which she is using as a retreat to write in. Although this book wasn’t written there, its sequel, currently a work in progress, will be.
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My interview with Nicola Upson, recorded last autumn in Heffers in Cambridge, is currently on the Bookhugger home page. In it I talk to Nicola about her second Josephine Tey mystery, set in 1930s Cornwall. Click on the image below to listen.

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