Meet the Writers
Georgina Godwin in conversation with top authors. Explore their inspirations, writing processes, and the stories behind their books.
Latest Episodes
Monocle Reads: Molly McCully Brown
Molly McCully Brown is a writer, poet and essayist. Her work has featured across a variety of high-profile publications, including ‘The Paris Review’, ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Yale Review’, and she has been the recipient of a number of prestigious scholarships, including the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.…
Margaret Coker
In Margaret Coker’s time as a foreign correspondent for ‘The Wall Street Journal’ and ‘The New York Times’, she reported from over 30 countries on four continents, spending extended time in Russia, the Middle East and Turkey, where her reporting was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Now back home in…
Monocle Reads: Margaret Reynolds
Margaret Reynolds is a writer, critic, broadcaster, and professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Away from academia she presents BBC Radio 4’s ‘Adventures in Poetry’ and has written for a number of national newspapers. Her previous books include ‘The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories’, ‘The Sappho…
Afonso Cruz
Afonso Cruz has written more than 30 books, plays, young-adult novellas, essays and novels, including ‘Kokoschka’s Doll’, which won the EU Prize for Literature. His subsequent books have also found success: ‘Jesus Christ Drank Beer’ was Time Out Lisbon’s best Portuguese novel of the year; ‘Where do Umbrellas End Up’…
Monocle Reads: Bonnie Kemske
Bonnie Kemske is an artist, writer and former editor of ‘Ceramic Review’. Born in Okinawa but raised in the US, she studied the Zen Buddhist artform of Chanoyu in Japan before undertaking a PhD at the Royal College of Art, becoming a ceramicist and researcher. She speaks to Georgina Godwin…
Richard Fidler
Georgina Godwin speaks to celebrated Australian writer and broadcaster Richard Fidler, best known for presenting ‘Conversations’ on ABC Radio, which is one of the most popular podcasts in the country. Having also forged a successful writing career, Fiddler’s latest book, ‘The Golden Maze’, is about the fascinating history of Prague.
Monocle Reads: Caleb Azumah Nelson
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a writer and photographer from southeast London. He has been published in literary magazines such as ‘Litro’ and ‘Granta’, and was named by ‘The Observer’ as one of the 10 best debut novelists of the year. He was also shortlisted for the 2020 BBC National Short…
Florence de Changy
Florence de Changy’s recently released book ‘The Disappearing Act’ charts the disappearance of flight MH370, which took off from Kuala Lumpur heading for Beijing on 8 March, 2014, and was never, apparently, seen again. The French journalist spent seven years investigating this story and compiling a wealth of evidence to…
Monocle Reads: Eliot Higgins
Eliot Higgins is the founder of investigative journalism website Bellingcat. Founded in 2014, Bellingcat has revealed crucial details in stories including the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, chemical weapons in Syria and the Skripal poisonings. He speaks to Georgina Godwin about his new book ‘We are Bellingcat: An Intelligence…
Francis Spufford
Georgina Godwin speaks to Francis Spufford, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and professor at Goldsmiths University. At the beginning of his career, he specialised in non-fiction, writing five highly acclaimed books that saw him long- and shortlisted for prizes in scientific, historical, political and theological writing. He…
