BOOKS WITH JEN

Jen runs a podcast where she interviews authors and talks about books.
You can either stream these for free on Youtube (links below each episode) or download an audio file for 75p to listen to when you're out and about.
EPISODE ELEVEN features Louise O'Neill, author of Only Ever Yours and Asking For It. In this episode, we chat about her brilliant new books Almost Love and The Surface Breaks (a feminist retelling of The Little Mermaid).​
You can stream the episode on Youtube here. 
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EPISODE TEN features Ed Brooke Hitching, author of The Phantom Atlas. In this episode, Jen and Ed chat about weird historical facts and how to get your work published.​
You can stream the episode on Youtube here. 
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EPISODE NINE features Rachel Joyce, author of many books, including The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. In this episode, Jen and Rachel chat about the magic of books and music, and Rachel's newest book, The Music Shop.​
You can stream the episode on Youtube here. 
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EPISODE EIGHT features MR Carey author of The Girl With All the Gifts. In this episode, Jen and Mike chat about Mike's career writing for DC and Marvel, the success of The Girl With All the Gifts and its prequel The Boy on the Bridge which has just been released.​
You can stream the episode on Youtube here. 
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EPISODE SEVEN features Deborah Smith, translator of the Man Booker International Prize winning The Vegetarian by Han Kang. In this episode, Jen chats with Deborah about the intricacies of translation work and the relationship between an author and their translator.
You can stream the episode on Youtube here
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EPISODE SIX features Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, a wonderful book (part essay, part novella, part poetry) which has just won the Dylan Thomas International Prize. Max is also senior editor at Granta and Portobello Books. In this episode, Jen and Max chat about writing, books and ridiculous authors. 
You can stream the episode on Youtube here
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EPISODE FIVE features Emily Urquhart, author of Beyond the Pale. Jen and Emily chat about albinism and folklore around the world, looking at the stories that shape all of us. In the second half of the podcast, Jen chats with Will from Vintage Books, discussing books coming out in the next six months
You can stream the episode on Youtube here. 
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​​​​EPISODE FOUR features author Sophie Hardach chatting about writing and identity. Jen and Sophie discuss the responsibility writers feel: Sophie (born in a divided Germany) finds herself tracking her family's stories & other stories of divided nations. Recently she has been travelling with Syrian refugees.
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​​​EPISODE THREE features Janet Ellis chatting about her first novel The Butcher's Hook and Holly Burrows - from House of Illustration -  talking about female comic artists of the last 100 years
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​EPISODE TWO features Tracy Chevalier (author of Girl With a Pearl Earring etc) and Mike Mackmin, who runs the poetry journal The Rialto.
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EPISODE ONE features Claire Fuller (author of Our Endless Numbered Days) and vlogger Leena Norms.
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