Meet the Writers
Georgina Godwin in conversation with top authors. Explore their inspirations, writing processes, and the stories behind their books.
Latest Episodes
DBC Pierre
Georgina Godwin talks to DBC Pierre, who won the Booker prize with his debut novel ‘Vernon God Little’. He has gone on to write five more books, including his latest: dystopian satire ‘Meanwhile in Dopamine City’. It is a darkly funny, brilliantly clever and utterly terrifying vision of technology in…
Monocle Reads: Bolu Babalola
Georgina Godwin speaks to writer, commentator and ‘romcomoisseur’ Bolu Babalola about her debut novel, ‘Love in Colour’, a collection of beautifully reimagined folklore from across the world. A previous work, ‘Netflix & Chill’, was shortlisted for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Georgina Godwin meets filmmaker, playwright and writer Tsitsi Dangarembga, whose 1988 novel ‘Nervous Conditions’ was the first published in English by a black Zimbabwean woman and won the Commonwealth Writers’ prize. Thirty years on, at a time of political turmoil in the country, her follow-up, ‘This Mournable Body’, has been…
Monocle Reads: Lamorna Ash
Georgina Godwin speaks to Lamorna Ash about her debut book, ‘Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town’. Shortlisted for the 2020 Wainwright prize for nature writing, it offers a glimpse at life in Newlyn.
Romesh Gunesekera
The accolades that Sri Lankan-born novelist Romesh Gunesekera has received include being shortlisted for the Booker prize and having a novel on the ‘New York Times’ list of notable books. He joins Georgina Godwin – and her dog – for a walk and a discussion about home, identity, conflict and…
Monocle Reads: Sean Ashton
‘Sampler’ is a selection of encyclopaedia entries written by poets. The book is edited by Sean Ashton, who speaks to Georgina Godwin about the collection and his memoir, ‘Living in a Land’, which is written entirely in sentences constructed in the negative.
Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko is Ukraine’s leading author, best known for her novel ‘Field Work in Ukrainian Sex’, as well as her magnum opus ‘The Museum of Abandoned Secrets’. She speaks to Georgin Godwin about her work and her new book of short stories, ‘Your Ad Could Go Here’, which takes a…
Monocle Reads: Annie Zaidi
Georgina Godwin speaks to writer, poet and reporter Annie Zaidi about her latest book, ‘Bread, Cement, Cactus’. Part memoir and part reportage, it won the Nine Dots Prize, which celebrates creative thinking around contemporary societal issues.
Gill Bennett
Gill Bennett was chief historian at the UK Foreign Office for 40 years. She tells Georgina Godwin about her new book, ‘The Zinoviev Letter’, which investigates the murky world of espionage and global conspiracy in the 1920s.
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and writer whose vast catalogue of work has earned him celebrity status across the globe. A radical leftist, his work encompasses everything from psychoanalysis and political theory to art and film criticism. Described as “the leading Hegelian of our time”, he speaks to Georgina…
