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Little Atoms

612 episodes - English - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★ - 44 ratings

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.

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Episodes

Little Atoms 843 - Paul Murray's The Bee Sting

August 07, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MB

Paul Murray talks to Neil about his latest novel The Bee Sting, which was recently long-listed for the 2023 Man Booker prize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 842 - Charles Frazier's The Trackers

July 31, 2023 23:01 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MB

Charles Frazier talks to Neil about his Great Depression set novel The Trackers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 841 - Mikki Brammar's The Collected Regrets of Clover

July 24, 2023 23:01 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MB

Mikki Brammar talks to Neil about her debut novel The Collected Regrets of Clover. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 840 - Patrick deWitt's The Librarianist

July 17, 2023 23:01 - 27 minutes - 37.6 MB

Patrick deWitt returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about his latest novel The Librarianist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 839 - Mark O'Connell's A Thread of Violence

July 13, 2023 23:01 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MB

Mark O'Connell returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about his latest book A Thread of Violence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 838 - Laura Cumming's Thunderclap

July 10, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MB

Laura Cumming returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her latest book Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 837 - Una Mannion's Tell Me What I Am

July 03, 2023 23:01 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MB

Una Mannion talks to Neil about her latest novel Tell Me What I Am. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 836 - Richard Ford's Be Mine

June 26, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MB

Richard Ford talks to Neil about his fifth and final Frank Bascombe novel Be Mine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 835 - Stephen Buoro's The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

June 19, 2023 23:01 - 26 minutes - 35.7 MB

Stephen Buoro talks to Neil about his Nigeria set debut novel The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 834 - K. Patrick's Mrs S.

June 12, 2023 23:01 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MB

K. Patrick talks to Neil about their debut novel Mrs S. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 833 - Kevin Brazil's Whatever Happened To Queer Happiness?

June 05, 2023 23:01 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MB

Kevin Brazil talks to Neil about his essay collection Whatever Happened To Queer Happiness? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 832 - Octavia Bright's This Ragged Grace

June 01, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MB

Octavia Bright talks to Neil about her memoir of recovery and renewal This Ragged Grace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 831 - Natasha Calder's Whether Violent or Natural

May 29, 2023 23:01 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MB

Neil talks to Natasha Calder about her new novel Whether Violent or Natural. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 830 - Kristen Ghodsee's Everyday Utopia

May 22, 2023 23:01 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MB

Kristen Ghodsee talks to Neil about her latest book Everyday Utopia: In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 829 - Claire Dederer's Monsters

May 18, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MB

Claire Dederer talks to Neil about her latest book Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 828 - Blessin Adams' Great And Horrible News

May 15, 2023 23:01 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MB

Blessin Adams talks to Neil Denny about her book Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 827 - Mat Osman's The Ghost Theatre

May 11, 2023 23:01 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MB

Mat Osman tells Neil about his latest novel The Ghost Theatre. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 826 - Margot Douaihy's Scorched Grace

May 08, 2023 23:01 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MB

Margot Douaihy talks to Neil about her New Orleans set debut novel Scorched Grace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 825 - Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost

May 04, 2023 23:01 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MB

Isabella Hammad talks to Neil about her latest novel Enter Ghost. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 824 - Michael Magee's Close To Home

May 01, 2023 23:01 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MB

Michael Magee talks to Neil about his Belfast set debut novel Close To Home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 823 - Jaime Green's The Possibility Of Life

April 27, 2023 23:01 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MB

Jaime Green talks to Neil about her new book The Possibility Of Life, longlisted for the Women's Prize Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 822 - Sheena Patel's I'm A Fan

April 24, 2023 23:01 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MB

Sheena Patel talks to Neil about her debut novel I'm A Fan, which is longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 821 - Claire Fuller's The Memory of Animals

April 20, 2023 23:02 - 24 minutes - 34 MB

Neil talks to Claire Fuller about her latest novel The Memory of Animals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 820 - Cecile Pin's Wandering Souls

April 17, 2023 23:01 - 25 minutes - 35 MB

Cecile Pin talks to Neil about her debut novel Wandering Souls, which is longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 819 - Dizz Tate's Brutes

April 13, 2023 23:01 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MB

Dizz Tate talks to Neil about her debut novel Brutes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 818 - Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis

April 10, 2023 23:01 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MB

Tara M. Stringfellow talks to Neil about her debut novel Memphis, which has been longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. (Content Warning: reading contains some racial slurs). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 817 - Max Porter's Shy

April 06, 2023 23:01 - 27 minutes - 38 MB

Max Porter talks to Neil about his latest novel Shy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 816 - Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood

April 03, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MB

Neil talks to Booker prize wiining novellist Eleanor Catton about her long awaited new novel Birnam Wood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 815 - Oliver Milman's The Insect Crisis

March 27, 2023 23:01 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MB

Oliver Milman talks to Neil about his book The Insect Crisis, out now in paperback. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 814 - Fiona McFarlane's The Sun Walks Down

March 21, 2023 00:01 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MB

Neil talks to Fiona McFarlane about her Australian outback set novel The Sun Walks Down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 813 - Alice Winn's In Memoriam

March 14, 2023 00:01 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MB

Alice Winn talks to Neil about her WWI set debut novel In Memoriam. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 812 - Ann-Helén Laestadius' Stolen

March 10, 2023 00:01 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MB

Ann-Helén Laestadius talks to Neil about her novel Stolen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 811 - Kevin Jared Hosein's Hungry Ghosts

March 07, 2023 00:01 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MB

Kevin Jared Hosein talks to Neil about his 1940's Trinidad set novel Hungry Ghosts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 810 - Sophie Mackintosh's Cursed Bread

March 03, 2023 01:00 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MB

Neil talks to Sophie Mackintosh about her latest novel Cursed Bread. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 809 - Santanu Bhattacharya's One Small Voice

February 28, 2023 00:01 - 31 minutes - 42.7 MB

Neil talks to Santanu Bhattacharya about his debut novel One Small Voice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 808 - Paul Harding's This Other Eden

February 21, 2023 00:01 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MB

Paul Harding talks to Neil about his latest novel This Other Eden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 807 - James Hannaham's Didn't Nobody Give A Shit What Happened To Carlotta

February 17, 2023 00:01 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MB

James Hannaham talks to Neil about his Ulysses influenced novel Didn't Nobody Give A Shit What Happened To Carlotta, about a trans woman returning after 23 years in prison to a gentrified Brooklyn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 806 - Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You

February 14, 2023 00:01 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MB

Jonathan Escoffery talks to Neil about his debut collection of stories If I Survive You. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 805 - Jan Grue's I Live A Life Like Yours

February 10, 2023 00:03 - 27 minutes - 37.6 MB

Neil talks to Jan Grue about I Live A Life Like Yours, his memoir about disability, difference, and living as a vulnerable body. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 804 - Aleksandar Hemon's The World And All That It Holds

February 07, 2023 00:01 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MB

Aleksandar Hemon talks to Neil about his latest novel The World And All That It Holds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 803 - Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse

February 03, 2023 00:01 - 26 minutes - 36 MB

Laura Purcell talks to Neil about her latest gothic novel The Whispering Muse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 802 - Gavin Plumley's A Home For All Seasons

January 31, 2023 00:01 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MB

Gavin Plumley takes us into the Herefordshire countryside in his new book A Home For All Seasons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 801 - Victoria MacKenzie's for Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on my Little Pain

January 27, 2023 00:01 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MB

Victoria MacKenzie talks to Neil about Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, in her debut novel for Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on my Little Pain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 800 - Bret Easton Ellis' The Shards

January 24, 2023 00:01 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MB

It's the 800th Little Atoms, and Bret Easton Ellis returns to the show to talk to Neil about his first novel in thirteen years, The Shards. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 799 - Jonathan Ames' The Wheel of Doll

January 10, 2023 00:01 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MB

Jonathan Ames returns to Little Atoms to talk about his latest novel The Wheel of Doll. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 798 - Matt Lodder's Painted People

January 03, 2023 14:23 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MB

On the first show of 2023, Neil talks to Matt Lodder about his new book Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 797 - Michael Pedersen's Boyfriends

December 30, 2022 00:01 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MB

On the last show of 2022, Michael Pedersen on male friendship in his new book Boyfriends. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 796 - Jessamine Chan's The School for Good Mothers

December 23, 2022 00:01 - 24 minutes - 34 MB

Jessamine Chan talks to Neil about her debut novel The School For Good Mothers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 795 - Amy Jeffs' Wild

December 20, 2022 00:01 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MB

Neil hears tales from medieval Britain with Amy Jeffs and her new book Wild. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Little Atoms 794 - Dorthe Nors' A Line In The World

December 16, 2022 00:01 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MB

Dorthe Nors returns to Little Atoms and talks to Neil about her latest book A Line In The World: A Year On The North Sea Coast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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