Tune in to hear Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch (Costa Book of the Year 2020), in conversation with editor Jeremy Poynting from Peepal Tree Press. You can find out more about The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey here: https://bit.ly/33W5Rl3 Subscribe to get notifications about future episodes! Follow us on Twitter @vintagebooks ᛫ Sign up to the Vintage newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: sign up here ᛫ Music by puremusic See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information ..read more

Tune into hear Ossian Ward in conversation with Ai Weiwei, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows. This conversation was recorded in partnership with Penguin Live and Manchester's HOME. You can find out more about 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows here: https://bit.ly/3Cyazk5 Subscribe to get notifications about future episodes! Follow us on Twitter @vintagebooks ᛫ Sign up to the Vintage newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: sign up here ᛫ Music by puremusic   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informatio ..read more

South African writer Damon Galgut, author of The Promise, speaks to Ted Hodgkinson (Head of Literature and Spoken Word at Southbank Centre) just days before it is announced that The Promise has won the 2021 Booker Prize. You can find out more about The Promise here: https://bit.ly/306y1rp Books and authors mentioned: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf https://bit.ly/3BWMjHX Howards End by E. M. Forster https://bit.ly/2ZYO22U William Faulkner https://bit.ly/3bOdCK7 Patrick White https://bit.ly/3kfQ7OF Subscribe to get notifications about future episodes! Follow us on Twitter @vintagebooks ..read more

This year marks 100 years of Vintage imprint Jonathan Cape. To celebrate, we’ve launched Cape in Conversation, a Vintage Books podcast miniseries which will see authors from across the generations and genres of Cape’s list discuss their work and ideas, and give you a flavour of the many kinds of book and different voices that Cape publishes. Today, series host Shahidha Bari is in conversation with an artist who writes and a writer whose subject is often art, Celia Paul and Julian Barnes. You can find out about Celia Paul’s work here: https://bit.ly/2XEZAqF And about Julian Barnes’s work her ..read more

You can find out more about Sugar by Bernice McFadden here: https://bit.ly/3B4Dtbz This episode contains explicit language. Follow us on Twitter @vintagebooks ᛫ Sign up to the Vintage newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: sign up here ᛫ Music by puremusic   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information ..read more

This week's episode of the Vintage Books Podcast features an extract from the audiobook of Greek Myths by Charlotte Higgins, illustrated by Chris Ofili. Content notice: this episode contains mentions of rape and sexual violence. You can find out more about the book here: https://bit.ly/greekmyths_Cs Follow us on Twitter @vintagebooks ᛫ Sign up to the Vintage newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: sign up here ᛫ Music by puremusic   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information ..read more

China Room by Sunjeev Sahota is the story of Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, and that of a young man who in 1999 travels from England to the now-deserted farm, its china room locked and barred. To celebrate its publication and being longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021, in this episode, Ted Hodgkinson talks to Kamila Shamsie and Sunjeev Sahota about China Room, authorship, writing histories, and more. You can find out more about China Room by Sunjeev Sahota here: https://bit.ly/33lucwP You can find out more about Kamila Shamsie's books here: https://bit.ly/3DQbDBF Follow us on Tw ..read more

This year marks 100 years of Vintage imprint Jonathan Cape. To celebrate, we’ve launched Cape in Conversation, a Vintage Books Podcast miniseries which will see authors from across the generations and genres of Cape’s list discuss their work and ideas, and give you a flavour of the many kinds of book and different voices that Cape publishes.   Today, series host Shahidha Bari is in conversation with two authors, Alison Bechdel and Anne Enright.   You can find out more about Alison Bechdel's work here: https://bit.ly/37IDGUV   And about Anne Enright's here: http://bit.l ..read more

This week's episode features an extract from the audiobook of GO BIG: How To Fix Our World by Ed Miliband. You can find out more about GO BIG here – https://bit.ly/2UJFZUS Tune into the Cheerful Book Club and join Ed Miliband, Geoff Lloyd and friends for a conversation about the biggest ideas in non-fiction books – https://bit.ly/3y4QJM2 Follow us on Twitter @vintagebooks ᛫ Sign up to the Vintage newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: sign up here ᛫ Music by puremusic   See acast.com/privacy for privacy an ..read more

This week's episode features a special extract from the audiobook of Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal, author of the bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. You can find out more about Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal here: https://bit.ly/3vdOft0 Follow us on Twitter @vintagebooks ᛫ Sign up to the Vintage newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: sign up here ᛫ Music by puremusic   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information ..read more