Little Atoms

Neil Denny

Little Atoms is a weekly show about books, with authors in conversation. Produced and presented by Neil Denny.

  • 30 minutes 29 seconds
    Little Atoms 926 - Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Sequel

    Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of seven novels, including The Devil and WebsterYou Should Have Known (adapted as the 2020 HBO series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland), Admission (adapted as the 2013 film of the same name, starring Tina Fey, Lily Tomlin and Paul Rudd), The White RoseThe Sabbathday River, A Jury of Her Peers, The Latecomer and The Plot. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel The Sequel.



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    15 November 2024, 12:01 am
  • 28 minutes 39 seconds
    Little Atoms 925 - Jonathan Coe's The Proof Of My Innocence

    Jonathan Coe was born a few miles from Bournville in 1961. The author of political satires such as BournvilleWhat a Carve Up! and Number 11, and family sagas such as The Rotters' Club and The Rain Before It Falls, his novels have won prizes at home and abroad, including Costa Novel of the Year and the Prix du Livre Européen. On this episode of little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel The Proof Of My Innocence.



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    8 November 2024, 12:01 am
  • 27 minutes 47 seconds
    Little Atoms 924 - Francesca Segal's Welcome To Glorious Tuga

    Francesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Innocents (2012) and The Awkward Age (2017), and a memoir of NICU motherhood, Mother Ship (2019). Her writing has won the 2012 Costa First Novel Award, a Betty Trask Award, and been longlisted for the Women's Prize. On today’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Welcome To Glorious Tuga.



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    1 November 2024, 12:01 am
  • 28 minutes 13 seconds
    Little Atoms 923 - Dava Sobel's The Elements of Marie Curie

    Dava Sobel is the internationally renowned author of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter. She was an award-winning former science reporter for the ‘New York Times’ and writes frequently about science for several magazines, including the ‘New Yorker’, ‘Audubon’, ‘Discover’, ‘Life’ and ‘Omni’. On today’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.



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    24 October 2024, 11:01 pm
  • 32 minutes 4 seconds
    Little Atoms 922 - Xan Brooks' The Catchers

    Xan Brooks is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He was one of the founding editorial team at the Big Issue magazine in London and spent 15-years as a writer and associate editor at the Guardian newspaper. His debut novel, The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times, was listed for the Costa First Novel Award, the Author's Club Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. On this episode of Little Atoms, he tells Neil Denny about his latest novel The Catchers.



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    17 October 2024, 11:01 pm
  • 29 minutes 26 seconds
    Little Atoms 921 - Lynne Peeples' The Inner Clock

    Lynne Peeples is a freelance science journalist, specialising in the environment, public health and medicine. She holds a M.S. in Biostatistics from Harvard and an M.A. in Science Journalism from New York University. Her writing has appeared in Huffington Post, Nature, Scientific American and The Atlantic, amongst others. A 2020-2021 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow and a finalist for the 2018 National Association of Science Writers long-form reporting award, on this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her new book The Inner Clock: Living in Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms.



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    10 October 2024, 11:01 pm
  • 31 minutes 50 seconds
    Little Atoms 920 - Kate Summerscale's The Peepshow

    Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Kate Summerscale has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest book The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place.



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    3 October 2024, 11:01 pm
  • 33 minutes 44 seconds
    Little Atoms 919 - Ekow Eshun's The Strangers
    Ekow Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer, editor, curator, broadcaster, and author of the memoir Black Gold of the Sun, which was nominated for the Orwell Prize for its exploration of race and identity. He writes for publications including the New York Times, Financial Times and Guardian, and has created documentaries for BBC4 and BBC Radio 4. Eshun was the first Black editor of a major magazine in the UK and the first Black director of a major arts organisation. In this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book The Strangers.

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    26 September 2024, 11:01 pm
  • 28 minutes 4 seconds
    Little Atoms 918 - Garth Greenwell's Small Rain

    Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness. His novel What Belongs to You won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the James Tait Black Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries, and is being translated into a dozen languages. His novella Mitko won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Literary Award. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris ReviewA Public Space, and VICE, and he has written criticism for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Small Rain.



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    19 September 2024, 11:01 pm
  • 29 minutes 15 seconds
    Little Atoms 917 - Rumaan Alam's Entitlement
    Rumaan Alam is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Leave the World Behind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and adapted into a major motion picture, as well as two other novels. His writing has appeared in the New York TimesWall Street JournalNew Yorker and elsewhere. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Entitlement.

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    12 September 2024, 11:01 pm
  • 28 minutes 29 seconds
    Little Atoms 916 - Donal Ryan's Heart Be At Peace

    Donal Ryan is an award-winning author from Nenagh, County Tipperary, whose work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fourth novel, From a Low and Quiet Sea, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018, and won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. His novel, Strange Flowers, was voted Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was a number one bestseller, as was his most recent novel The Queen of Dirt Island, which was also shortlisted for Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Donal lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Heart Be At Peace.



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    5 September 2024, 11:01 pm
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