Leigh Chambers welcomes Nicola Streeten. Nicola explains how the death of her two-year-old son 13 years ago inspired her graphic memoir Billy, You and Me, based on diaries written at the time. … [Read more...]

Leigh Chambers welcomes graphic novelist Woodrow Phoenix. He talks to us about why he’s drawn to illustration and his groundbreaking novel, Rumble Strip, about society’s relationship with cars, described by Ali Smith as ‘brilliant’. We also chat to Shaun the Sheep writer, Glenn Dakin. And Jade Sarson discusses her raunchy award-winning graphic … [Read more...]

Leigh Chambers welcomes Benjamin Johncock whose debut novel The Last Pilot about the space race won the Authors Club Best First Novel Award as well as glittering reviews from the likes of Ian Rankin, AL Kennedy and Jon McGregor. … [Read more...]

Leigh Chambers welcomes author and former journalist, Roger Hermiston. Roger was Assistant Editor of Radio 4’s Today programme before becoming a writer. He’s with us to talk about his three books on four mysterious and charismatic men: Winston Churchill, soviet spy George Blake, and football managers Don Revie and Brian Clough. … [Read more...]

New series. Our studio guest on Bookmark this week is aviation writer, Rowland White. His first book, Vulcan 607 centring around the Falklands conflict was published in 2006, followed by Phoenix Squadron, and then Storm Front, about the Dhofar War in Oman. … [Read more...]

Leigh Chambers' guest is food writer, Bee Wilson, who’ll be talking about her latest book First Bite: How We Learn to Eat which examines how our eating habits are formed early in our lives. We also chat to therapist, Ali Knowles, author of Oli and His Super Powers a series of stories aimed at helping troubled children. And Edel Hopkin guides us … [Read more...]

Leigh Chambers welcomes poet, author and novelist Elizabeth Speller. Elizabeth’s latest novel At Break of Day centres around four very different men whose lives intersect at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Elizabeth talks about how her own family’s history has inspired her writing and why the first World War has been at the heart of so much of her … [Read more...]