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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Latest Episodes
Terri White
Georgina Godwin talks to Terri White, the award-winning magazine editor and current editor-in-chief of ‘Empire’ magazine. From the outside it seemed as though she was living the dream but this could not have been further from the truth. Her book ‘Coming Undone’ is a deeply compelling and brutally honest memoir…
Monocle Reads: Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist. Alongside his research he is a prolific author, publishing numerous books across academic and popular science. He speaks to Georgina Godwin about his latest book ‘Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships’.
Polly Samson
Polly Samson is a UK novelist and lyricist best known for writing the lyrics to seven tracks on Pink Floyd’s hit album, ‘The Division Bell’. The former journalist has written a number of critically acclaimed short stories and novels, the latest of which is ‘A Theatre for Dreamers’, a story…
Monocle Reads: Anna Lyons & Louise Winter
Progressive funeral director Louise Winter and end-of-life doula Anna Lyons are behind Life Death Whatever, an initiative that aims to rethink conversations around death. They speak to Georgina Godwin about their thoughtful new book ‘We All Know How This Ends: Lessons about life and living from working with death and…
Monique Roffey
Multi-award-winning writer and memoirist Monique Roffey was born in Trinidad and educated in the UK. She has won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and claimed the 2020 Costa Book of the Year award for her recent novel, ‘The Mermaid of Black Conch’. Roffey also teaches the next generation…
Monocle Reads: Jessie Greengrass
Jessie Greengrass is a rising star in British literature. She has won numerous awards and her debut novel ‘Sight’ was shortlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. She speaks to Georgina Godwin about her latest book ‘The High House’, which explores the difficult realities of living through climate change.
Michela Wrong
Georgina Godwin speaks to former foreign correspondent for Reuters, the BBC and ‘The Financial Times’, Michela Wrong. Reporting predominantly from Africa, she covered post-genocide Rwanda and the last days of the Mobutu dictatorship as well as numerous other stories across the continent. She has also written a number of books…
Monocle Reads: Failures of State
Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott are journalists at the award-winning ‘Sunday Times’ investigative platform Insight. They speak to Georgina Godwin about their new book ‘Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus’, a damning expose of the ineptitudes of Boris Johnson and his government’s handling of the…
Naomi Ishiguro
Naomi Ishiguro is one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in Britain in the past few years and daughter of the Nobel and Booker prize-winning author of the same name. Her debut novel ‘Common Ground’ proves that talent definitely runs in the family. She spoke to Georgina Godwin…
Monocle Reads: Delphine Horvilleur
Delphine Horvilleur is France’s third-ever female rabbi. She leads a Jewish congregation in Paris and co-leads the Liberal Jewish Movement of France. She speaks to Georgina Godwin about her latest book ‘Anti-Semitism Revisited: How the Rabbis Made Sense of Hatred’.
