Leigh Chambers focuses on historical fiction with studio guest, Francis Spufford. … [Read more...]

Bookmark welcomes Professor Martin Salisbury, Leader of the acclaimed MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University. Over the years many award-winning illustrators have graduated from the course and Martin reveals the secrets of what makes a good picture book, how artists develop their own style and why Babar the Elephant was so … [Read more...]

Bookmark this week welcomes author, Di Redmond. Under the name, Daisy Styles, her new novel Bomb Girls has become a bestseller, chronicling the lives of four women working in a munitions factory in 1940s Lancashire. … [Read more...]

Bookmark welcomes the redoubtable Jill Paton Walsh to our studio this week. Jill has been writing for almost 50 years and her critically acclaimed novel, Knowledge of Angels, was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1994. She is though perhaps best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries which have continued the work, and developed the character, … [Read more...]

Bookmark this week welcomes poet, Rod Mengham, here to talk about his fascination with words and rhythm and what inspired him to write his latest collection, Chance of a Storm. … [Read more...]

Bookmark welcomes historian and biographer, Ruth Scurr. Ruth’s most recent book, John Aubrey; My Own Life, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and described as ‘extraordinary’ by Mary Beard and ‘irresistible’ by Philip Pullman. We also talk to Geoff Andrews about Shadow Man, his biography of James Klugmann, the mysterious figure at the … [Read more...]

Bookmark welcomes historian and biographer, Ruth Scurr. Ruth’s most recent book, John Aubrey; My Own Life, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and described as ‘extraordinary’ by Mary Beard and ‘irresistible’ by Philip Pullman. We also talk to Geoff Andrews about Shadow Man, his biography of James Klugmann, the mysterious figure at the … [Read more...]