Episodes

  • Little Atoms 920 - Kate Summerscale's The Peepshow

    Little Atoms 920 - Kate Summerscale's The Peepshow
    Oct 3 2024

    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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    32 mins
  • Little Atoms 919 - Ekow Eshun's The Strangers

    Little Atoms 919 - Ekow Eshun's The Strangers
    Sep 26 2024
    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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    34 mins
  • Little Atoms 918 - Garth Greenwell's Small Rain

    Little Atoms 918 - Garth Greenwell's Small Rain
    Sep 19 2024

    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 Review, A 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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    28 mins
  • Little Atoms 917 - Rumaan Alam's Entitlement

    Little Atoms 917 - Rumaan Alam's Entitlement
    Sep 12 2024
    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 Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker and elsewhere. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his latest novel Entitlement.

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    29 mins
  • Little Atoms 916 - Donal Ryan's Heart Be At Peace

    Little Atoms 916 - Donal Ryan's Heart Be At Peace
    Sep 5 2024

    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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    28 mins
  • Little Atoms 915 - Irenosen Okojie's Curandera

    Little Atoms 915 - Irenosen Okojie's Curandera
    Aug 30 2024
    Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian and the Huffington Post. She has also judged various literary prizes including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award. She was a judge for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature in 2021. She is the director and founder of Black to the Future festival. On this episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel Curandera.

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    30 mins
  • Little Atoms 914 - Shahnaz Habib's Airplane Mode

    Little Atoms 914 - Shahnaz Habib's Airplane Mode
    Aug 22 2024
    Shahnaz Habib is a writer and translator based in Brooklyn. She translates from her mother tongue, the south Indian language of Malayalam, and has translated two novels, Jasmine Days, winner of the 2018 JCB Prize, and Al Arabian Novel Factory. Airplane Mode, her first book, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence.

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    29 mins
  • Little Atoms 913 - Harriet Constable's The Instrumentalist

    Little Atoms 913 - Harriet Constable's The Instrumentalist
    Aug 15 2024
    Harriet Constable is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker living in London. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, the Economist, and the BBC, and she is a grantee of the Pulitzer Center. Raised in a musical family, The Instrumentalist is her first novel. It has been selected as one of the Top 10 Debuts of 2024 by the Guardian.

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    29 mins