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Bonus - Madeleine Dunnigan and Farah Ali on their...

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2026/01/08

Happy New Year!I’m delighted to bring you some more unedited and bonus content from my Christmas and New Year special with Madeleine Dunnigan and Farah Ali. There was just so much good stuff in our craft and curation special, that I wanted to bring you a little more to start the year. These books are going to be spoken about in literary circles in January. In Pakistan, a young woman grapples with a strange, indefinable illness against a backdrop of political upheaval. In England, a teenager

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Christmas and NY special - exciting talents,...

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2025/12/18

I’m kicking off a 2026 preview with two of the most exciting emerging voices publishing books this January. I speak to them about how they wrote their novels, before asking which books inspired them along the way, and what their books and book selections say about the world today.If you’re looking for your next great reads of 2026, look no further — Rippling Pages has you covered. We’re going from Pakistan to a rural boarding school in 1970s London. In Pakistan, a young woman grapples with a

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Editor Rali Chorbadzyiyska talking about how writers...

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2025/12/06

I'm delighted to be talking to Rali Chorbadzhiyska about her work as freelance editor, and we're asking what the road to publication really looks like. It must be another edition of Ask the Curator. In these episodes, we go behind the curtain of the literary industry to ask another literary curator, how they do what they do. Over the years, Rali has worked at Penguin RandomHouse, Faber and Canongate, working with some of the biggest names in literature. But she recently went freelance to deliver

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Lee Cole Bonus - how Lee found old books at his...

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2025/11/27

Welcome to some bonus content with Lee Cole, and we’re talking about how he used an old book he found at his grandparents to help build the world and characters in his novels. Plus, you’re going to hear some extra bits about writing heroes and villains. Fulfillment, Lee Cole’s second novel, follows two half brothers whose clashing ambitions—Emmett’s longing to be a screenwriter and his brother’s academic ideals about “rural despair”—go beyond a simple difference in worldview. Something deeper

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Lee Cole on the ethics of writing about home, and the...

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2025/11/13

Welcome to the latest episode of the Rippling Pages. I’m having a coffee with Lee Cole, the American writer from Kentucky. And we’re talking about balancing the feelings and ethics of writing about home.Now living a humdrum life in Kentucky, Emmett spends his days packing boxes in a warehouse. But what happens when he begins to dream of another life—and when those dreams start to fracture his family relationships? These questions lie at the heart of Fulfilment, Lee Cole’s second novel. The book

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Bonus! Joanna Pocock on why your phone and notebook...

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2025/10/30

I’m talking with the essayist Joanna Pocock, and this is some bonus content from our original interview.America is a place that has compelled countless writers to travel its vast and varied landscapes. Perhaps you’ve done it yourself. But what happens when you feel compelled to do it all again? That’s the question at the heart of Joanna Pocock’s essay, Greyhound (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Named after the iconic bus company whose intercity network carries passengers from Detroit to Los Angeles — and

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LIVE! Agnes Lidbeck and how to write about major...

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2025/10/16

I’m talking to the Swedish writer, Agnes Lidbeck, in this special edition live episode of the Rippling Pages! We really did have a coffee with one of the world’s, one of Sweden’s most interesting writers, because as we were live in person with a live audience in Leeds!Life is full of adjustments - perhaps there isn’t a bigger adjustment than having children. But what happens when you start to question your role in this adjustment? Crucially, what happens when a mother starts to question her role in

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Joanna Pocock on writing about kindness and...

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2025/10/02

America is a place that has compelled countless writers to travel its vast and varied landscapes. Perhaps you’ve done it yourself. But what happens when you feel compelled to do it all again?That’s the question at the heart of Joanna Pocock’s essay, Greyhound (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Named after the iconic bus company whose intercity network carries passengers from Detroit to Los Angeles — and which Joanna relies on for her own journey — Greyhound revisits familiar motels, crossings, and bus

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Ask the Host! Liam on Latest Reads, Favourite...

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2025/09/28

Welcome to the second edition of Rippling Pages: Ask the Host! It's time to answer some more questions from you, the listeners! 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: - What I have been reading lately? - How are my French lessons going? - How do I prepare for interviews? - What is my favourite bookshop? - What is my favourite season? - Who's going to win the Premier League and Women's Super League? Got a

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BONUS! Gurnaik Johal on Objects, Perfect Art and...

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2025/09/18

“It’s almost a perfect work of art.”This is some bonus content from the previous episode with Gurnaik Johal where we talk about objects of influence. The return of a potentially holy river in the Indian mountains - is it a sign of a new age, a divine intervention, or simply the workings of nature? These are the questions at the heart of Gurnaik Johal’s novel, SARASWATI, published by Serpent’s Tail. Frauds, politicians, mystics, writers, and the family who own the farm in which the river exists,

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Gurnaik Johal on Rivers, Family and Pub Chats

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2025/09/04

The return of a potentially holy river in the Indian mountains - is it a sign of a new age, a divine intervention, or simply the workings of nature? These are the questions at the heart of Gurnaik Johal’s novel, SARASWATI, published by Serpent’s Tail. Frauds, politicians, mystics, writers, and the family who own the farm in which the river exists, are caught up in trying to determine what the return of the SARASWATI river means. It is a novel that is truly global in its scope, set in Canada, India,

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Yan Ge Part 2 on Vulnerabilities, Younger Selves,...

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2025/08/21

“I think when you’re young you really allow yourself to be stupid.”Welcome to part 2 of my conversation with Yan Ge. Yan Ge is here to discuss her life and writing. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province People’s Republic of China. Emerging as a prodigious writer in Chinese and Sichuanese, she was named as one of China’s twenty future literary masters by People Magazine. In 2012, she was chosen as Best New Writer by the Prestigious Chinese Literature Media Prize. For English language readers,

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Yan Ge Part 1 on Happiness, Elsewhere, and Striving

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2025/08/07

”If I enter a project knowing what I’m going to do, confidently, I wouldn’t do it.”It’s Women in Translation Month! Yan Ge is here to discuss her life and writing. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province People’s Republic of China. Emerging as a prodigious writer in Chinese and Sichuanese, she was named as one of China’s twenty future literary masters by People Magazine. In 2012, she was chosen as Best New Writer by the Prestigious Chinese Literature Media Prize. For English language readers,

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Kimberly Campanello - Bonus Content with memory,...

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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,

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