Leigh Chambers and Alex Ruczaj present a fortnightly show featuring Cambridge-based writers. This week’s show focuses on some of the fantastic writers involved in Cambridge’s very own festival of new plays –Hotbed. Staged at the Cambridge Junction, Hotbed is the brainchild of the Menagerie Theatre Company who support writers to develop … [Read more...]
Book Night 26/06/2013
Leigh Chambers and Alex Ruczaj present a fortnightly show featuring Cambridge based writers. Each show includes a studio guest or local author who chats about their life and career in the world of literature as well as playing some of their favourite music. … [Read more...]
Book Night 12/06/2013
Our studio guest this week is the wonderful Sarah Wise (author of The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London, The Blackest Streets: Life and Death of a Victorian Slum, and Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad Doctors in Victorian England) and we also have interviews with the marvellous Clare Mulley (The Spy Who Loved: The … [Read more...]
Book Night 29/05/2013
This week Book Night speaks to bestselling author, Victoria Hislop. Her first novel, The Island, has sold over two million copies worldwide. Her second novel, The Return, was a Sunday Times bestseller and The Thread, her third novel, followed suit. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Paige Toon (centre with Leigh and Alex), … [Read more...]
Book Night 15/05/2013
Book Night this week speaks to Christobel Kent (centre with Leigh and Alex), author of seven crime novels – four of which feature Florence-based detective Sandro Cellini. Christobel’s writing has been labelled as sexy and evocative – ‘Italian noir’. … [Read more...]
Book Night 01/05/2013
This week’s Book Night features the writer and critic Olivia Laing. Between 2007 and 2009, she was Deputy Books Editor of The Observer and now writes and reviews widely for the The Observer, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian. We discuss the pros and cons of book reviews with Olivia as well as her two brilliant books, To the … [Read more...]
Book Night: Crime Fiction
According to a survey in 2012 crime fiction is the most loaned form of book genre in UK libraries. In 2011, a third of the books shortlisted for the Booker Prize were crime novels, proving the genre is popular with readers and critics alike.Why? Is it that we like to feel scared, perplexed, out of control in the knowledge that order will have … [Read more...]