Ben Halls is a London-based writer and journalist. He worked in pubs, off licences and several minimum wage jobs before deciding to return to school to pursue his passion for writing. In 2014 Ben completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston, MA, and completed his Master of Fine Arts at Kingston University in 2016.&nbsp;The Quarry&nbsp;is his debut novel. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Ben Halls is a London-based writer and journalist. He worked in pubs, off licences and several minimum wage jobs before deciding to return to school to pursue his passion for writing. In 2014 Ben completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston, MA, and completed his Master of Fine Arts at Kingston University in 2016.&nbsp;The Quarry&nbsp;is his debut novel. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Little Atoms 630 - Ben Halls' The Quarry

Peter Swanson's novels include&nbsp;The Girl With a Clock for a Heart, nominated for an&nbsp;LA Times&nbsp;book award,&nbsp;The Kind Worth Killing, a Richard and Judy pick and the iBooks store's thriller of the year in 2015, and, most recently,&nbsp;Before She Knew Him. His latest novel is Rules For Perfect Murders. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Peter Swanson's novels include&nbsp;The Girl With a Clock for a Heart, nominated for an&nbsp;LA Times&nbsp;book award,&nbsp;The Kind Worth Killing, a Richard and Judy pick and the iBooks store's thriller of the year in 2015, and, most recently,&nbsp;Before She Knew Him. His latest novel is Rules For Perfect Murders. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Little Atoms 629 - Peter Swanson's Rules For Perfect Murders

Rosamund Lupton is the author of&nbsp;Sister,&nbsp;a BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime", a&nbsp;Sunday Times&nbsp;and&nbsp;New York Times bestseller, winner of the Strand Magazine critics award and the Richard and Judy Bookclub Readers' Choice Award. Her next two books&nbsp;Afterwards&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Quality of Silence&nbsp;(also a Richard and Judy pick) were Sunday Times bestsellers. Her books have been published in over thirty languages. Her latest novel is Three Hours. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Rosamund Lupton is the author of&nbsp;Sister,&nbsp;a BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime", a&nbsp;Sunday Times&nbsp;and&nbsp;New York Times bestseller, winner of the Strand Magazine critics award and the Richard and Judy Bookclub Readers' Choice Award. Her next two books&nbsp;Afterwards&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Quality of Silence&nbsp;(also a Richard and Judy pick) were Sunday Times bestsellers. Her books have been published in over thirty languages. Her latest novel is Three Hours. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Little Atoms 628 - Rosamund Lupton's Three Hours

Gaia Vince&nbsp;is a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She has held senior editorial posts at&nbsp;Nature&nbsp;and&nbsp;New Scientist, and her writing has featured in newspapers and magazines including the&nbsp;Guardian,&nbsp;The Times&nbsp;and&nbsp;Scientific American. She also writes and presents science programmes for radio and television. Her research takes her across the world: she has visited more than 60 countries, lived in three and is currently based in London. In 2015, she became the first woman to win the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize solo for her debut,&nbsp;Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made.&nbsp;Her latest book&nbsp;is Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Gaia Vince&nbsp;is a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She has held senior editorial posts at&nbsp;Nature&nbsp;and&nbsp;New Scientist, and her writing has featured in newspapers and magazines including the&nbsp;Guardian,&nbsp;The Times&nbsp;and&nbsp;Scientific American. She also writes and presents science programmes for radio and television. Her research takes her across the world: she has visited more than 60 countries, lived in three and is currently based in London. In 2015, she became the first woman to win the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize solo for her debut,&nbsp;Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made.&nbsp;Her latest book&nbsp;is Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Little Atoms 627 - Gaia Vince's Transcendence

Melissa Harrison is the author of the novels&nbsp;Clay&nbsp;and&nbsp;At Hawthorn Time, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize, and one work of non-fiction,&nbsp;Rain, which was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. She is a nature writer, critic and columnist for&nbsp;The Times, the&nbsp;Financial Times&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Guardian,&nbsp;among others. Her latest novel&nbsp;is All Among the Barley. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Melissa Harrison is the author of the novels&nbsp;Clay&nbsp;and&nbsp;At Hawthorn Time, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize, and one work of non-fiction,&nbsp;Rain, which was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. She is a nature writer, critic and columnist for&nbsp;The Times, the&nbsp;Financial Times&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Guardian,&nbsp;among others. Her latest novel&nbsp;is All Among the Barley. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

From the Archive - Melissa Harrison's All Among The Barley

Lauren Groff is the author of three&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestselling novels –&nbsp;Fates and Furies&nbsp;(named by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015),&nbsp;The Monsters of Templeton and&nbsp;Arcadia&nbsp;– as well as the story collection&nbsp;Delicate Edible Birds. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Groff’s fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/O. Henry Award, among others, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and the&nbsp;Los Angeles Times&nbsp;Book Prize. In 2017, she was named one of&nbsp;Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in publications including&nbsp;The New Yorker, the&nbsp;Atlantic,&nbsp;One Story&nbsp;and&nbsp;Ploughshares, and in several of the annual&nbsp;The&nbsp;Best New American Stories&nbsp;anthologies.&nbsp;Her latest story collection is Florida. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Lauren Groff is the author of three&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestselling novels –&nbsp;Fates and Furies&nbsp;(named by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015),&nbsp;The Monsters of Templeton and&nbsp;Arcadia&nbsp;– as well as the story collection&nbsp;Delicate Edible Birds. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Groff’s fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/O. Henry Award, among others, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and the&nbsp;Los Angeles Times&nbsp;Book Prize. In 2017, she was named one of&nbsp;Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in publications including&nbsp;The New Yorker, the&nbsp;Atlantic,&nbsp;One Story&nbsp;and&nbsp;Ploughshares, and in several of the annual&nbsp;The&nbsp;Best New American Stories&nbsp;anthologies.&nbsp;Her latest story collection is Florida. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

From the Archive - Lauren Groff's Florida

Eoin Colfer is the author of the internationally bestselling Artemis Fowl series, which has been translated into over forty languages. A Disney film adaptation will be released in 2019, directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Dame Judi Dench. Eoin's books have won numerous awards including The British Children's Book of the Year, The Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and The German Children's Book of the Year. Born in Ireland, Eoin was educated at Dublin University and qualified as a primary teacher, before turning his hand to writing in 2001.&nbsp;Highfire, is his first adult fantasy novel. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Eoin Colfer is the author of the internationally bestselling Artemis Fowl series, which has been translated into over forty languages. A Disney film adaptation will be released in 2019, directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Dame Judi Dench. Eoin's books have won numerous awards including The British Children's Book of the Year, The Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and The German Children's Book of the Year. Born in Ireland, Eoin was educated at Dublin University and qualified as a primary teacher, before turning his hand to writing in 2001.&nbsp;Highfire, is his first adult fantasy novel. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Little Atoms 626 - Eoin Colfer's Highfire

An Yu was born and raised in Beijing, and left at the age of eighteen to study in New York at NYU. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she writes her fiction in English. Braised Pork is her debut novel. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

An Yu was born and raised in Beijing, and left at the age of eighteen to study in New York at NYU. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she writes her fiction in English. Braised Pork is her debut novel. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Little Atoms 625 - An Yu's Braised Pork

Ziya Tong&nbsp;is on the board of WWF International and was formerly the Vice Chair of WWF Canada. She presented&nbsp;Daily Planet, Discovery Channel's flagship science programme, until its final season in 2018. Tong also hosted the CBC's Emmy-nominated series&nbsp;ZeD, PBS' national prime-time series,&nbsp;Wired Science, and worked as a correspondent for NOVA&nbsp;scienceNOW. She is the author of The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Ziya Tong&nbsp;is on the board of WWF International and was formerly the Vice Chair of WWF Canada. She presented&nbsp;Daily Planet, Discovery Channel's flagship science programme, until its final season in 2018. Tong also hosted the CBC's Emmy-nominated series&nbsp;ZeD, PBS' national prime-time series,&nbsp;Wired Science, and worked as a correspondent for NOVA&nbsp;scienceNOW. She is the author of The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Little Atoms 624 - Ziya Tong's The Reality Bubble

Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning,&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestselling author of&nbsp;Brain on Fire:&nbsp;My Month of Madness,&nbsp;a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain, which was made into a film by Netflix. Her latest book is&nbsp;The Great Pretender:&nbsp;The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning,&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestselling author of&nbsp;Brain on Fire:&nbsp;My Month of Madness,&nbsp;a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain, which was made into a film by Netflix. Her latest book is&nbsp;The Great Pretender:&nbsp;The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Little Atoms 623 - Susannah Cahalan's The Great Pretender

Romesh Gunesekera is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction including&nbsp;Reef, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize,&nbsp;The Sandglass, winner of the inaugural BBC Asia Award, and&nbsp;The Match, the ground-breaking cricket novel. His fiction has been translated into over a dozen languages and he is the recipient of many awards including a Premio Mondello in Italy. He was born in Colombo and lives in London. His latest novel is Suncatcher. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Romesh Gunesekera is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction including&nbsp;Reef, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize,&nbsp;The Sandglass, winner of the inaugural BBC Asia Award, and&nbsp;The Match, the ground-breaking cricket novel. His fiction has been translated into over a dozen languages and he is the recipient of many awards including a Premio Mondello in Italy. He was born in Colombo and lives in London. His latest novel is Suncatcher. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Little Atoms 622 - Romesh Gunesekera's Suncatcher

James Meek&nbsp;is the author of six novels including&nbsp;The People's Act of Love&nbsp;which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than thirty countries. Meek's last novel&nbsp;The Heart Broke In&nbsp;was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and he has also written two collections of short stories and two books of non-fiction,&nbsp;Private Island,&nbsp;which won the 2015 Orwell Prize and&nbsp;Dreams of Leaving and Remaining. He is a Contributing Editor to the&nbsp;London Review of Books&nbsp;and writes regularly for the&nbsp;Guardian&nbsp;and&nbsp;New York Times. His latest novel is To Calais, In Ordinary Time. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

James Meek&nbsp;is the author of six novels including&nbsp;The People's Act of Love&nbsp;which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than thirty countries. Meek's last novel&nbsp;The Heart Broke In&nbsp;was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and he has also written two collections of short stories and two books of non-fiction,&nbsp;Private Island,&nbsp;which won the 2015 Orwell Prize and&nbsp;Dreams of Leaving and Remaining. He is a Contributing Editor to the&nbsp;London Review of Books&nbsp;and writes regularly for the&nbsp;Guardian&nbsp;and&nbsp;New York Times. His latest novel is To Calais, In Ordinary Time. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Little Atoms 621 - James Meek's To Calais, In Ordinary Time

Padraig Reidy hosts this episode, joined by Caleb Klaces to discuss his debut novel Fatherhood. They talk about the place of being a father today, the value of home and the novel as an adult bildungsroman. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Padraig Reidy hosts this episode, joined by Caleb Klaces to discuss his debut novel Fatherhood. They talk about the place of being a father today, the value of home and the novel as an adult bildungsroman. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Little Atoms 620 - Caleb Klaces' Fatherhood

Emma Forrest has published three novels, an essay collection and the memoir&nbsp;Your Voice In My Head. An Anglo-American currently based in London, she recently wrote and directed her feature debut,&nbsp;Untogether. Her latest novel is Royals. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

Emma Forrest has published three novels, an essay collection and the memoir&nbsp;Your Voice In My Head. An Anglo-American currently based in London, she recently wrote and directed her feature debut,&nbsp;Untogether. Her latest novel is Royals. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Little Atoms 619 - Emma Forrest's Royals

In this episode Neil speaks to Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman. She was named journalist of the year (Press Gazette) and won the 2018 Paul Foot journalism award for her reportage on the Windrush scandal, which led to the downfall of the Home Secretary and the government loosening its ‘hostile environment’ policy for migrants. She tells Neil about her new book The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

In this episode Neil speaks to Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman. She was named journalist of the year (Press Gazette) and won the 2018 Paul Foot journalism award for her reportage on the Windrush scandal, which led to the downfall of the Home Secretary and the government loosening its ‘hostile environment’ policy for migrants. She tells Neil about her new book The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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