Meet the Writers
Georgina Godwin in conversation with top authors. Explore their inspirations, writing processes, and the stories behind their books.
Latest Episodes
Dom Joly
Dom Joly, UK author, journalist and creator of comedy series ‘Trigger Happy TV’ bares all on his life and career. He talks about his troubles with anxiety, how he’s “so egotistical it’s insane” and his latest spontaneous purchase: a hot-air balloon.
Harlan Coben
With 60 million books in print, you might just have heard of the author on ‘Meet the Writers’ this week. Harlan Coben is a number-one bestseller in America, a superstar in France and Germany and a top-ten bestseller in hardcover and paperback in the UK. We ask what makes his…
London Book Fair
We join 25,000 visitors from more than 100 countries to take a behind-the-scenes look into the business of books at the London Book Fair. We hear from writers such as the creator of ‘Downton Abbey’ Julian Fellowes, as well as publishers, foreign-rights experts, printers and Monocle’s own publishing partner Gestalten.
Marc Adelman
Marc Adelman is our guest this week. A writer of a different sort, Marc gives us the lowdown on the inside of a US presidential campaign and tells us how he encourages those in the spotlight to say the right things – from Washington to Hollywood.
Tracy Chevalier
Best known for her second novel ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’, which was made into a film in 2003, Tracy Chevalier talks to Georgina Godwin about getting her first book published and imitating Johannes Vermeer’s painting style in words. Plus: she talks about creating trees as characters in her latest…
Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell’s ‘What Belongs To You’ has been hailed as a new US classic, the great gay novel of our times and the first great novel of 2016. We hear the story behind this extraordinary new talent as he talks about growing up gay in Kentucky, encountering poetry through opera…
Gillian Slovo
Gillian Slovo, author of new political thriller ‘Ten Days’, talks about growing up with anti-apartheid activist parents in South Africa, police brutality and the lure of Isis. Slovo is the author of 13 books and three plays and her latest work is based on rioting in London.
Ian Buruma
‘Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War’ is the latest book from writer and historian Ian Buruma. Based on the letters between his grandparents, an assimilated Jewish couple living in England, it spans from 1914 to 1945. Buruma joins Georgina Godwin to discuss what’s at the heart of…
Neil Jordan
This week on ‘Meet the Writers’ Georgina Godwin is joined by world-renowned director, screenwriter and novelist Neil Jordan, who has written several critically acclaimed novels and won an Academy Award for ‘The Crying Game’ and a Bafta for ‘The End of the Affair’. We hear about his brand-new book ‘The…
Xiaolu Guo and Emily St John Mandel
Our first guest is Chinese-British novelist and film-maker Xiaolu Guo, whose work has been translated into more than 26 languages. Also on the show we have Canadian dancer turned author Emily St John Mandel, whose latest book ‘Station Eleven’ is a ‘New York Times’ best-seller. Together the two examine themes…
