Hannah Murray will start by looking at the bestseller lists on Amazon.co.uk and The Sunday Times, the oldest and most influential book sales chart in the UK, and seeing what new entries there are.Guy Lloyd is the International Sales Manager at Penguin Random House, and joins us once a month to talk all things books. Among other things, this month he's talking about why there is a resurgence in the classics, and what makes a classic? The sad passing of Jilly Cooper, and the recently awarded Nobel

An unnamed young man has a recurring nightmare in which he visits a friend's house in the summer. The friend's family is silent and grim. The friend's sinister mother, Mrs. Stone, assigns the young man a room in the tower, a room that fills him with dread. The dream never reveals what is in the room. The dream varies each night, and over years the characters grow older and stranger. At some point Mrs. Stone dies and is buried, yet she still assigns him the room in the tower. Become a supporter of

Archivum (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025) by Dr. Theresa Muñoz is a book – wise, funny and inventive by turn – that explores what it means to look at artefacts in an archive, and how these objects resonate with events in our lives. Imagined as a walk across Edinburgh, landmarks such as the Balmoral clock, National Library of Scotland, Meadows, Canongate Kirkyard and Water of Leith provide a meditative backdrop to the poems.The archives - in particular the archive of the writer Muriel Spark

العبرات، من أشهر وأقوى إبداعات المنفلوطي، ويعتبر من كلاسيكيات الأدب العربي، هو عبارة عن مجموعة من القصص التراجيدية، صدر عام 1915، بوقت كان فيه المجتمع العربي عم يعيش حالة من التغيير الاجتماعي والسياسي، ولبى حاجة الناس لأدب يعبر عن مشاعرهم وآلامهم، فحقق شهرة واسعة بعصره ولا يزال من أبرز كتب الأدب العربي الكلاسيكياحتوى العبرات على تمن لوحات أو قصص قصيرة، غلب عليها طابع الحزن، عكست معاناة الناس، سلطت الضوء على مشاعر الإنسان وأحواله، وطرحت مواضيع كانت شاغلة المجتمع بهديك الفترةثلاث قصص منها وضعها الكاتب

Listen Ad Free https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! Join us as we unveil a new chapter each day from Austen's celebrated works, including "The Watsons," "Sense and Sensibility," "Pride and Prejudice," "Persuasion," "Northanger Abbey," "Mansfield Park," "Love and Friendship," "Lesley Castle - Dramatic Reading," "Lady Susan," "Jane Austen's Juvenilia," and "Emma." Delight in the charm, romance, and wit that have

Host, author, and narrator Mike Luoma brings you the Grand Finale of The Time War of The Devrizium! Alibi Jones’ fight against the time traveling Devrizium ends this week with Part Two of the long “short” story Alibi Jones: The Last Time Battle. The Devrizium who’ve waged a temporal war against Alibi Jones now drag him in front of them to answer for his “crimes” in Alibi Jones: The Last Time Battle Part Two on this episode of Glow-in-the-Dark Radio. Free, independent audio science fiction

There’s zero doubt, Absolute Batman Annual #1 will be one of the year’s most talked-about comics. Featuring three stories by Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer, James Harren, Dave Stewart, Meredith McClaren, and Clayton Cowles, this hefty comic centers on the early Absolute Universe adventures of Bruce Wayne, revealing how that chonky Batmobile came to be, and just how Black Mask’s party animals first encountered the Dark Knight. We read the comic a couple of weeks back, and the instant we flipped

In Belfast, good fences can make for bad neighbors. David Cunningham ( Wash U. sociologist, author of There’s Something Happening Here and Klansville, U.S.A and frequent RTB visitor) joins John to speak about the Troubles and their aftermath with the brilliant Northern Irish novelist/essayist/memoirist Glenn Patterson. His fiction includes The International (1999) and Where Are We Now? but the conversation’s main focus is his two collections of short non-fiction, Lapsed Protestant (2006) and Here’s

It’s Halloween…so who better to follow up our conversations about middle school reading than R.L. Stine? With over 400 titles to his name (the latest being The Last Sleepover In the Goosebumps House of Shiver series) this man has been scaring kids for decades and decades. And oh wow, are his stories worth the price of admission?! Join us as we talk to Bob (what he asked we call him) about what makes him tick, how he sees writing for middle school audiences and why horror keeps him in stiches.Find

È il 2022. La Russia ha invaso l’Ucraina. Kostya ha dieci anni. Orfano di madre e con il padre al fronte, viaggia da solo verso Napoli per raggiungere la nonna Irina. Nello zaino, una foto della madre e un indirizzo. Giunto a destinazione, Kostya si trova a casa di Vita, una donna distrutta dal dolore e dalla depressione, per cui Irina lavora come domestica. Nel suo ultimo romanzo “Tanta ancora Vita” Viola Ardone racconta l’incontro tra questi tre personaggi e i loro fantasmi: l’arrivo di Kostya

In this episode of Big Blend Radio’s “A Toast to The Arts” Show, filmmaker, writer, and actor Olivia Nash joins us to discuss her heartfelt independent feature film “Hi.” debuting nationwide November 1, 2025, on AppleTV, Amazon Prime Video, and Fandango.Set in a picturesque seaside town, "Hi." follows the intertwined journeys of two young writers navigating love, grief, and creative rediscovery. Olivia shares insights into the film’s emotional depth, the challenges of independent filmmaking, and

Tad is joined by Todd Mignola to discuss his upcoming foray into his brother Mike's Hellboy Universe- The Crown: A Tale of Hell.

Épisode 61. On parle de direction et d’intention dans l’écriture, de la nécessité de choisir un cap clair pour avancer. On évoque l’importance d’un cadre créatif qui permet de lâcher prise sans abandonner, et le rôle des archétypes dans la construction des récits. On aborde aussi la discipline, la confiance en son instinct et le courage de faire des choix, ceux qui ouvrent de nouvelles possibilités d’écriture.Dans ce podcast je souhaite te partager le chemin par lequel je passe, les difficultés, les

Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, anthologist, aphorist, and playwright. He has also written film scripts. His works have won numerous national and international prizes, including the Booker Prize for Fiction. His newest book is a short story collection called Prayer for the Living.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices