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Stay in touch with the bookshop through The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director Adam Biles the show features conversations with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded live from the bookshop.
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Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry”
11 October 2024
This week’s guest is Aysegul Savas, whose mesmerising third novel, The Anthropologists is about a great many things. It’s about what it means to leave one’s home. It’s about attempting...
On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)
26 September 2024
For this special episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adam Biles was joined by novelists Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee for a wide-ranging discussion that takes the...
Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024)
19 September 2024
Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel Creation Lake is a spy novel stacked with ideas. As our fast-thinking, gun-packing protagonist wends her way down to the south of France, charged—by forces unknown—with...
Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits
05 September 2024
Our guest in the writer’s studio this week is Ferdia Lennon, whose debut novel Glorious Exploits depicts the ancient world in a way readers will never have experienced it before...
Roxy Dunn on As Young As This
29 August 2024
Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, strikingly, in...
Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions
22 August 2024
School of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground the experience—brutal, significant, but long...
Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall
15 August 2024
This week’s guest is Michael Donkor whose new novel Grow Where They Fall is a meticulous and tender exploration of two formative moments in the life of one Kwame Akromah...
Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin
08 August 2024
The seven stories in Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses are not just about houses—how they contain us, how they constrain us—but are also about the families compressed in them, the...
