Meet the Writers
Georgina Godwin in conversation with top authors. Explore their inspirations, writing processes, and the stories behind their books.
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Charlie Connelly
Charlie Connelly is a bestselling novelist and award-winning broadcaster with a passion for radio. His knowledge of the medium – from the best contemporary broadcasters to the UK’s smallest commercial station – is wide-ranging. He talks us through radio’s fascinating history.
Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah is one of the most successful crime-fiction novelists in the UK, having taken up where Agatha Christie left off by continuing the stories of Hercule Poirot. She’s also a poet, teaches thriller writing at degree level – and believes that holding grudges might be one of the secrets…
John ‘Rick’ McArthur
On Meet The Writers this week, Georgina Godwin talks to John ‘Rick’ MacArthur about his new book ‘Graham Greene: The Last Interview’. Rick is the scion of a great American philanthropic family but, in his own right, a veteran journalist, author and president of ‘Harper’s Magazine’, the second oldest continuous…
Gary Barker
Georgina Godwin talks to Gary Barker, a human rights activist, researcher and writer specialising in how we raise and socialise men and boys. His new novel, ‘The Museum of Lost Love’, which draws inspiration from a real museum in Zagreb, is about love set against a backdrop of violent conflict.
Jonathan Fenby
On Meet the Writers Georgina Godwin talks to author, journalist and analyst Jonathan Fenby. He’s written 20 books, including four on France and eight on China. He’s previously edited ‘The Observer’ and the ‘South China Morning Post’. In his latest book he looks at the period from June 1947 to…
Dan Cruickshank
Georgina Godwin talks to UK art historian and TV presenter Dan Cruickshank about his life, career and new book, ‘London: A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks’.
Mitch Albom
Georgina Godwin talks to best-selling writer Mitch Albom about his new book, ‘Finding Chika’, focusing on a young Haitain orphan, born in Port Au Prince just days after the 2010 earthquake, who becomes a popular character in Albom’s own orphanage.
Sharjah World Book Capital
Monocle’s Georgina Godwin travels to the Sharjah Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates to discover how the host city is putting together a programme to celebrate its status as Unesco’s 19th World Book Capital.
Hallie Rubenhold
We meet Hallie Rubenhold, the winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction. The author and social historian scooped the award for her book, ‘The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper’.
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo is a multi-award-winning, bestselling author, known for his children’s books, notably ‘War Horse’. A former Children’s Laureate, he’s written more than 100 titles, as well as screenplays and libretti for opera. Morpurgo’s work often tackles social issues; his most recent book, ‘Boy Giant’, is based on ‘Gulliver’s Travels’…
