Our studio guest is local author, Susan Sellers who talks to us about her latest novel, Given the Choice and her first book, Vanessa and Virginia (which examines artist Vanessa Bell's relationship with her sister, Virginia Woolf). We also have interviews with Diana Reich, Artistic Director at Charleston in East Sussex, home of Vanessa Bell, and we … [Read more...]

Leigh Chambers and Alex Ruczaj's studio guest is Cambridge resident, Deborah Meyler, whose debut novel The Bookstore, is a modern day love story set in New York. We also have interviews with Cambridge writer, Penny Hancock, whose second novel The Darkening Hour looks set to be as successful as her first, Tideline, chosen as a Richard & Judy … [Read more...]

Dr Who and Star Trek fans will particularly love this week's Bookmark (Saturday 2-3pm) because our studio guest is Una McCormack. As well as being a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University she's also a fan fiction writer and the author of several Star Trek and Doctor Who novels. We ask her about the process of writing Dr Who and … [Read more...]

We're talking about other people on this weeks show as we look at biography. Why are we so fascinated by other peoples' lives? Do they cast light on our own or is it just plain nosiness? Our studio guest is Dr Anna Whitelock, historian, author and broadcaster whose first biography, Mary Tudor: England's First Queen was shortlisted for the … [Read more...]

This week Book Night focuses on poetry. Our studio guest is winner of the Crashaw Prize and Granta New Poet, Kaddy Benyon, who talks to us about her first poetry collection, Milk Fever, and her forthcoming collection, Call Her Alaska (as well as what it was like to write for Hollyoaks!). We also have interviews with performance poets Fay Roberts … [Read more...]

This week Book Night meets up with writer and poet André Mangeot. André has published two poetry collections to date: Natural Causes (Shoestring, 2003) and Mixer (Egg Box, 2005) along with two books of short stories, A Little Javanese (Salt, 2008) and True North (Salt, 2010).  … [Read more...]

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...]