Talking Books

For Occupy The Airwaves, three writers and historians - Suzie Grogan (writing about Harriet Martineau), Lucienne Boyce (Millicent Price) and Karen Hunt (Dora Montefiore) - currently working on biographies of women talk about some of the rewards and challenges of writing about women’s lives.

I welcome the wonderful author Jennifer Bohnet to Talking Books. Jennie lives and works in France now and her bestselling books, set in Devon and France, are wonderful escapism, taking the reader to beautiful places and into the lives of interesting women and their families. We talk about her latest book, the hard work of writing, good publishers and the joy of libraries and indie bookshops.

I interview Sue Noble, co-author of a book shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2023. We talk about coaching, change in our working lives and managing our responses to it. I was thrilled to help prepare this book for submission to its publisher, Kogan Page. Do listen in if you can - it was fun.

I have great fun chatting with historian and writer Catherine Hanley about her passion for the Middle Ages, how her nonfiction and fiction offer a rich picture of the period, the fun we can have with real-life tales of ordinary folk and the power of social history.

On my Talking Books show for 10Radio.org I welcome the wonderful Lucienne Boyce, to talk about her Dan Foster detective series and her ongoing research into the suffrage movement.

Suzie welcomes Brendon Hills author Chip Tolson to the studio, a man whose interesting life experiences have inspired his later career as an author, writing prize-winning short stories, poetry, novels and screenplays. He also shares his experience of taking part in the Novel in a Year course run by Talking Books favourite Jenny Kane who is also guiding Suzie through that daunting process