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Kimberly Campanello - Bonus Content with memory,...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/07/24

“She starts having an experience to see her own life as a more shifting sands that isn’t to be fear but in fact to be enjoyed.”Kimberly Campanello is here to talk about her novel, USE THE WORDS YOU HAVE (Somesuch Editions). It’s a sweltering summer in Bretagne, France. K, an American exchange student, is navigating more than just unfamiliar streets. She’s finding a new language. This is bonus content from the previous episode. In this bonus content, I’ve asked Kimberly to provide me with some

35:09

Kimberly Campanello on Autofiction, the Midwest, and...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/07/10

“How do you sound like you know what you’re doing when you don’t have the words”Kimberly Campanello is here to talk about her novel, USE THE WORDS YOU HAVE (Somesuch Editions). It’s a sweltering summer in Bretagne, France. K, an American exchange student, is navigating more than just unfamiliar streets. She’s finding a new language. Kimberly’s work moves between forms, genres, and histories. She’s the author of MOTHERBABYHOME (zimZALLA), a harrowing and formally innovative response to Ireland’s

35:33

Uttama Kirit Patel on Letters, Motherhood, and...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/06/26

“I found myself writing an apology letter…and I didn’t know what I was apologising for.”In Uttama Kirit Patel’s novel, The Shape of an Apostrophe (Serpent’s Tail), Lina is pregnant, and she’s finding that this seemingly salubrious society is not congenial and accommodating to the difficult challenges of an unplanned pregnancy. Uttama, born to Gujarati parents who then since found their way to the United Arab Emirates via Kampala, Surat, Pondicherry and Colchester. Her short fiction was nominated

11:20

Ask the Bookshop- Bonus! On Leeds, Community and Safe...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/06/14

“When I set out to plan the business, I wrote ten words - the world I always kept coming to was community.”The Rippling Pages is all about curating the best writers to inspire you and your writing - today, we’re speaking to another curator. Eden Barnes is the owner of Next Chapter Books, an indie women-focussed bookshop in Leeds, and I had a quick chat with her in store. There’s lots going on this week in Leeds. Leeds Lit Fest is starting, and it’s Indie Bookshop Week. Here someone who is at the

34:41

Roisin Dunnett on Time Travel, Protest, and Littering

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2025/06/12

"It is also difficult to imbue the people and the movements of the past with the complexities we offer ourselves." If you were to meet a time traveller from the future, what would you ask them? This is the question Roisin Dunnett asks in her novel, A LINE YOU HAVE TRACED (Magpie Books/Oneworld Publications). Spanning over three centuries, three women are connected by forces they, at first, don’t understand. From post-WWI Britain, to East End London’s modern queer scene, to a portentous dystopian

26:00

Rippling Pages Live with Katharina Volckmer Part 2 -...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/05/29

“They got fired for that!”Katharina Volckmer is here to discuss her second novel, Calls May Be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes (Indigo Press) and it was live at the Hyde Park Book Club! Thank you to the Hyde Park Book Club for hosting us and Next Chapter Books for supporting the event. This is the second part of our conversation. Katharina’s first novel, THE APPOINTMENT, was translated into over fifteen languages, it was adapted for the stage starring Camille Cottin and was

29:57

Rippling Pages Live with Katharina Volckmer - Part 1...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/05/15

Katharina Volckmer is here to discuss her second novel, Calls May Be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes (Indigo Press) and it was live at the Hyde Park Book Club! Thank you to the Hyde Park Book Club for hosting us and Next Chapter Books for supporting the event.Katharina’s first novel, THE APPOINTMENT, was translated into over fifteen languages, it was adapted for the stage starring Camille Cottin and was nominated for several prizes. Katharina is in ribald mode in this funny,

15:49

Ask the Host! Liam on Dream Guests, New Books, and...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/05/04

Welcome to the first edition of Rippling Pages: Ask the Host!Over the years, I’ve been asking the questions, but it’s about time I answered some too. So, that’s what I’ve done: I’ve picked out some questions from the Rippling Pages inbox, and answered them! In this episode, I answer: - Where am I from? - Why did I start the podcast? - Who would I like to interview? - What books have I enjoyed recently? - Would I rather speak every language or to every animal?! Got a question yourself? Why not

32:22

Elaine Garvey on 2002, Wadrobe Departments, and Women...

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2025/04/17

"She finds herself in London working in a theatre having to touch people!"Elaine Garvey, to discuss her novel, THE WARDROBE DEPARTMENT, published by Canongate Books. It’s 2002. Mairéad Sweeney has moved from rural Ireland to work in London’s West End. While the prestige of working in theatre doesn’t exactly wear off, the long hours and spoiled actors make Mairéad’s transition from Ireland more difficult than it should be. Things get even more difficult when Mairéad has to return home for her

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Bonus Content - Benjamin Markovits on Subtexts,...

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2025/04/03

“It’s my mum’s favourite book that I wrote!”Benjamin Markovits is here to talk about his new and twelfth novel, THE REST OF OUR LIVES, published by Faber and Faber. Tom Layward has made a pact with himself. After his daughter moves out of college, he’s moving out too. His wife had an affair, and he feels like he owes himself a road trip across America. He takes in the sights, sounds and basketball games of the American heartland and beyond. But he’s deferring some health issues and it seems like

33:04

Benjamin Markovits on Basketball, Family, and Illness

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/03/20

‘The people I like to write about are what I would describe as moderately successful failures.’Benjamin Markovits is here to talk about his new and twelfth novel, THE REST OF OUR LIVES, published by Faber and Faber. Tom Layward has made a pact with himself. After his daughter moves out of college, he’s moving out too. His wife had an affair, and he feels like he owes himself a road trip across America. He takes in the sights, sounds and basketball games of the American heartland and beyond. But

07:40

Bonus Content with Marni Appleton - Taylor Swift, and...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/03/06

"Taylor Swift is somebody who has managed to keep reinventing herself to stay relevant."Welcome to Rippling Points, more content and more insights and inspiration into the craft of literature: Marni Appleton is here to talk about her short story collection, I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, published by Indigo Press. We discuss: - How Taylor Swift's ability to reinvent herself and stay relevant differs to that of the characters - Ideas of productivity and how they shouldn't reflect your value in the

32:22

Marni Appleton on Spotlights, Mirrors and the Art of...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/02/20

"It builds to women and girls choosing to hide their mouths because of the effect of this trend...things just morph and take on different meanings as they're shared in different contexts"Marni Appleton is here to talk about her collection of short stories, I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, published by The Indigo Press. The modern world Marni presents to us in her stories is one that feels incredibly liberating, but then hinged by archaic attitudes from the past all at the same time. Women go viral on social

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Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Vincenzo...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/02/06

"Being published in English is a big milestone..."Vincenzo Latronico is here to talk about his first novel translated into English - PERFECTION, published by Fitzcarraldo editions and translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes. Welcome to Rippling Points, more content insights and inspiration into the craft of literature: - How and why he set his novel in Berlin, or why locations don't become so important for the novel - The global market of translation and the pleasure of being translated

32:31

Vincenzo Latronico on Perfection, Authenticity, and...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/01/23

“Love is a dangerous topic.”Vincenzo Latronico is here to talk about his first novel translated into English - PERFECTION, published by Fitzcarraldo editions and translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes. Vincenzo is one of the most distinguished novelists writing in Italian today. He has also translated many books into Italian, by authors such as George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hanif Kureishi. In PERFECTION, there’s something missing from Anna and Tom’s life, and they can’t

09:19

Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Pola Oloixarac -...

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2025/01/08

“They had one objective - to get rid of certain men”Welcome to the first edition of Rippling Points - bonus content from last month’s episode! A little bit more insight and a little bit more inspiration into the craft of writing! Here, you can hear Pola talking about her delve into the archives to learn more about Argentina in 1970s. You’ll then hear Pola talking about her next project, Bad Hombre - which features real life accounts collected from Pola of women who were wanting to ‘ruin men’s

37:45

Pola Oloixarac and Unreliability, Energies, and Dopamine

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2024/12/11

“I think it’s much more interesting to explore women through their powers.”Pola Oloixarac, one of the most exciting voices in world literature today, is here to talk about her two novels that have been translated into English. Most recently SAVAGE THEORIES and then MONA (translated by Roy Kesey). Both are published by Serpent’s Tail. She was named by Granta as one of the Best Young Spanish novelists as well as this and has written for a wide range of publications and an Eccles Centre

34:21

Iris Mwanza - Zambia, Human Rights, and Elections

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/11/21

"I think it's a story few people have told before. And it's really about, what does a defender of human rights look like?"Iris Mwanza is here to talk about her novel, THE LION'S DEN (Canongate Books). Iris's novel is about a human rights lawyer, Grace Zulu, whose client Willbess ‘Bessy’ Mulenga, has been arrested for offences ‘against nature. It launches Grace, and Iris, into the underbelly of the legal system. Iris is deputy director of the Gender Equality Division of the Bill & Melinda

33:44

Friða Ísberg and THE MARK

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/10/24

“The book is me trying to have a conversation with my father and reach a middle ground.”Friða Ísberg is here to talk about THE MARK (Faber and Faber) translated by Larissa Kyzer. The book centres on a referendum in Iceland about whether mandatory tests should be imposed on its citizens. Friða talks about writing over the divide, arguments with her father, and Icelandic literary culture and how they have all shaped the book. Rippling Points 02:05 - what is the mark? 04:12 - where are the

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Naomi Wood and THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS

Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers ·

2024/09/19

“Some people have been, oh these women are so grotesque. I don’t think they are! They’re quite relatable.”Naomi Wood joins me to discuss THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS (Published by Orion) It’s a collection that features the BBC Short Story Prize winner, Comorbidities. We talk about different kinds of intimacy in the stories, and how or why Naomi often writes about mothers in the . Naomi also talks about the craft and how she clashed registers to dazzling effect. Naomi Wood is the

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