On today's new Little Atoms podcast, Manish Chauhan on his debut novel Belgrave Road. Out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

If you can, please help a vulnerable #trans #autistic person get out of #TrumpsUSA and back home to England, friends and family, and the NHS. And if you can't contribute, a share would be much appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/catsmedica...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, George Saunders returns to the show to talk about his latest novel Vigil. Out now from @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here - shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, Grace Murray on her marvellous debut novel Blank Canvas. Out now from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On this week's new Little Atoms podcast, Daniyal Mueenuddin on his brilliant new novel This is Where The Serpent Lives. Out now from @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

Little Atoms will be back in 2026, with a packed first quarter of exciting debuts and plenty of returning old friends.

On the last Little Atoms podcast of the year, friend of the show Jarett Kobek returns for an extra long chat about his latest book Invocation Of My Demon Brother. Out now from DieDieBooks. Podcast here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751... And the book can be found here: diediebooks.com/en-gb

2016 by Sarah Hesketh was named in the Guardian as a Poetry Book of the Year. Booksellers ordering in from Gardners are told “Publisher out of Stock”. The book's in stock both at the distributor and here, within arm’s reach – order from the CB editions website and I’ll post within 24 hours.

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, Miriam Robinson on her debut novel And Notre Dame is Burning. Out now from Corsair books. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

My 10 favourite books of 2025. A great year (for books).

On this week's Little Atoms podcast, Harry Sidebottom on his latest book Those Who Are About to Die. Out now from Hutchinson Heinemann books. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @ziyadmarar.bsky.social on his new book Noticing. Out now from @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, Graham Robb on his new book The Discovery of Britain. Out now from @picadorbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

Also, am on holiday so there will be a couple of weeks break in transmission. The next podcast on 21st November.

On the latest Little Atoms podcast, @joannapocock.bsky.social on her wonderful new book Greyhound. Out now from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

Wrote about the Statesman, AI Christopher Hitchens, and why writers need heroes but not idols open.substack.com/pub/padraigr...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, James Rebanks (@herdyshepherd.bsky.social) on his latest book The Place of Tides, out now in paperback from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @thomasmcmullan.bsky.social on his new novel Groundwater. Out now from @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social. listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, Sarah Perry on her brilliant new book Death of an Ordinary Man. Out now from @jonathancape.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, Kiran Desai on her @thebookerprizes.com shortlisted novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. Out now from Hamish Hamilton books. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

Had a lovely afternoon celebrating 60 years of @churchillfship.bsky.social and was reminded to mention that next year's travel grant applications are now open until early November so you should pull your finger out and apply.

Kiran Desai on this week's Little Atoms.

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @nataliehaynes.bsky.social talks about her new novel No Friend To This House. Out now from Mantle Books (@panmacmillan.bsky.social). Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's Little Atoms podcast, Patrick Ryan on his new novel Buckeye. Out now from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On this week’s Little Atoms - @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social on her new book A Truce That Is Not Peace. Out now from @4thestatebooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

There's no new Little Atoms podcast today due to stuff.

Reality is now a videogame that runs itself… not even the Minotaur is safe inside his Labyrinth. The Bright Labyrinth by Ken Hollings is a subtle and sometimes disturbing account of how technology has impacted upon human culture. Buy now strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/bright-l...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, Stuart Nadler on his wonderful new novel Rooms For Vanishing. Out now from @picadorbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @lauralippman.bsky.social on her brilliant new novel Murder Takes a Vacation. Out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @olibasciano.bsky.social on his new book Outcast. Out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, Claire Adam on her wonderful @thebookerprizes.com longlisted novel Love Forms. Out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @mikejay.bsky.social on his latest book Free Radicals. Out now from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

I’m so thrilled to have been on show! #transrights #transgender #history

A new Little Atoms podcast with @bschillace.brandyschillace.com on her wonderful new book The Intermediaries. Out now from @wwnorton.com. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

Was absolutely brilliant to talk to Neil. Thanks so much.

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social on her incredible debut novel The Benefactors. Out now from @sceptrebooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here. shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

I had a great time chatting to @littleatoms.bsky.social about Nature's Genius - somehow, in 30 minutes we touched on almost the entire book!

On the the latest Little Atoms @davidfarrier.bsky.social talks about his latest book Nature's Genius. Out now from @canongate.co.uk. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @nellstevens.bsky.social on her brilliant new novel The Original. Out now from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

Really dug this conversation with Neil. One of the more enjoyable I've had in sometime

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @specktor.bsky.social on his wonderful new memoir The Golden Hour. Out now from @eccobooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On this week's Little Atoms podcast, Francesca Wade on her brilliant new biography Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife. Out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you find your podcasts or via this link: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @michaelpedersen.bsky.social on his wonderful new novel Muckle Flugga. Out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

For Easter, a new Little Atoms podcast with Megan Hunter on her Easter Sunday set novel Days of Light. Out now from @picadorbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here. shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, Ron Currie on his brilliant new novel The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne. Out now from @atlanticbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, Xiaolu Guo on her wonderful new novel Call Me Ishmaelle. Out now from Chatto & Windus, listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @danzep.bsky.social on his wonderful new book Overnight. Out now from @canongate.co.uk. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, Dani Heywood-Lonsdale on her brilliant debut novel The Portrait Artist. Out now from @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

Really enjoyed this! @littleatoms.bsky.social in conversation with Sarah Hesketh on Trump, Carrie Fisher, Syria, and why people are both great and terrible @cbeditions.bsky.social

Very sad to hear about the death of Caspar Melville: a good colleague and sparring partner and a wonderful editor of @newhumanist.bsky.social newhumanist.org.uk/articles/640...