Papertrail Podcast

Hannah is a poet, memoirist and creative writing tutor. Her books include 'Chick', 'Long Time No See', and most recently, 'Chan'. HANNAH'S'S BOOK CHOICES: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Small Island by Andrea Levy Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, Edited by Neil Astley You can follow Hannah on twitter @HannaLowePoet If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes. It makes a massive difference and helps new people discover the show.

Samantha Harvey is the author of four novels, the most recent of which is The Western Wind. Her novels have been shortlisted many prizes, including the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award and the James Tait Black Prize. She won the AMI Literature Award and the Betty Trask Prize. She lives in Bath, UK, and is a Reader in creative writing at Bath Spa University. Sam's Book Choices: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf All The Names by Jose Saramago Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace You can find out more about Sam on her website. If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes. It makes a massive difference and helps new people discover the show.

Jules is an author interested how individuals and organisations use therapeutic practices from ancient philosophies and wisdom traditions today. His first book, Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations, explored how people are rediscovering ancient Greek and Roman philosophies and was a Times book of the year. His second book, The Art of Losing Control, was published in the UK in May 2017 JULES'S BOOK CHOICES: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Moksha by Aldous Huxley You can find out more about Jules on his website. If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes. It makes a massive difference and helps new people discover the show.

Sharlene Teo was born in Singapore in 1987and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she received the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship and the David TK Wong Creative Writing award.  In 2016, she won the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writer's Award for Ponti, her first novel, which is coming out on the 19th of April. Sharlene's Book Choices: Things To Make And Break by May-Lan Tan Nowhere To Be Found by Bae Suah Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You In Your Life – Yiyun Li You can follow Sharlene on twitter @treebirds Support The Show! If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes. It makes a massive difference and helps new people discover the show. Also, consider supporting the show by buying one of the books we spoke about today using the links above. We get a small portion of what you spend, which helps keep the show running smoothly.

Johnny Harris is a writer, actor, and producer. His latest film, Jawbone, came out in 2017 and has been nominated for a BAFTA. Johnny has also starred in This is England '86, Welcome to the Punch, London to Brighton, and more. He was BAFTA nominated for his performance in This is England '86. Johnny's Book Choices: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Grass Arena by John Healy The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter You can follow Jawbone on twitter @Jawbonethemovie If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes. It makes a massive difference and helps new people discover the show.

Dr Preti Taneja is the author of 'We That Are Young', published by Galley Beggar Press. We that are young was listed as one of the Sunday Times' 'Books of 2017'. She is also the author of a novella 'Kumkum Malhotra' which was published in 2015 and won the Gatehouse Press New Fictions Prize. As well as being a writer, Preti is a Leverhulme Early Career Reseach Fellow at Warwick University working in the department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, and the Centre for Human Rights in Practice. She is also the co-founder and editor of Visual Verse, an anthology of art and words. Preti's Book Choices: A Spy In The House of Love by Anaïs Nin Everybody Loves a Good Drought by P. Sainath Citizen by Claudia Rankine You can find out more about Preti by visiting her website. And you can follow her on Twitter @PretiTaneja.

Niven is the author of four books. Including All the Days And Nights, and Black Bread White Beer. He has also been featured in Best British Short Stories 2017. He is currently working on his next novel. NIVEN'S BOOK CHOICES: Shadows On The Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Door by Magda Szabo There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker Niven tweets @Niven_Govinden. You should also check out the Tumblr for Black Bread White Beer If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes. It makes a massive difference and helps new people discover the show.

Dan is the author of 'Climbing Days' in which he retraces the steps of his great-great-aunt and uncle, the mountaineers Dorothy Pilley and I.A. Richards . He is also the author of 'The Beechwood Airship Interviews', and co-authored 'Holloway' with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. He is currently working on his next book, Outpost. DAN'S BOOK CHOICES: But Beautiful by Geoff DyerThe Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones Bluets by Maggie Nelson Dan tweets @Dan_Zep   If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes. It makes a massive difference and helps new people discover the show.  

Darran is the author of 'Imaginary Cities', an exploration of metropolis, imagination, and the symbiosis within. It was published by Influx Press. His second book, Tidewrack will be released on the 8th of March 2018 from Chatto & Windus. It is the second in a trilogy of books about cities. He is a Contributing Editor for White Noise Magazine. DARRAN'S BOOK CHOICES: The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov Darran tweets prolifically @Oniropolis and you can visit his website for more information about what he's up to. If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes. It makes a massive difference and helps new people discover the show.

Joanna Walsh is a writer of fiction and non, fiction. Her latest book, 'Worlds From The Words End', is available now from And Other Stories. She has been published in a number of magazines, including Granta Magazine, Gorse Journal, and the Dublin Review. She is also a contributing editor at 3:AM Magazine and Catapult.co.  You can read her experimental digital novella 'Seed' for free here. JOANNA'S BOOK CHOICES: Zoo: Or Letters Not About Love by Viktor Shklovsky Gaudy Bauble by Isabel Waidner Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer Joanna tweets @badaude. You can find out all about her on her website. She also runs the twitter account @read_women If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes.

Dan is a writer and journalist. His first novel 'The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas' is currently available for pre-order from the wonderful Dead Ink Books. You can pre-order your copy of Ezra Maas, as well as four other excellent new titles, by visiting Dead Ink's Site. DAN'S BOOK CHOICES: The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski Dan tweets @DanJamesWriter. You can find out all about him on his website. If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes.

Cassandra is a writer of fantastic stories that blend cultures, mythologies, and the modern world together in wonderful ways. The sequel to her fantastic novella 'Hammers on Bone' will be out in August 2017, and she is also one of the writers for the eagerly anticipated '2084' from Unsung Stories. CASSANDRA'S BOOK CHOICES: Flex by Ferrett Steinmetz Brimstone by Cherie Priest The Girl From The Well by Rin Chupeco Cassandra tweets @CassKhaw. You can find out all about her work, both existing and upcoming, on her website.  If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes.

This month I'm joined by novelist Helen McClory. Helen's novel, Flesh of the Peach, is available now from Freight Books. She is also the author of On The Edges of Vision, a collection of short stories. HELEN'S BOOK CHOICES: The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird Helen tweets @HelenMcClory and you can find out more about her on her website. She also curates a wonderful TinyLetter with essays on under-hyped books. If you're enjoying the show, please consider leaving us a review on iTunes. It makes a world of difference. If you love Podcasts, but wish there was an easier way to discover new shows you'll love, consider signing up for PodChaser with the beta code 'Papertrail'. If you do, we'd love a rating and review from you as well!

Sarah is an Online Editor at The Bookseller, and writes about books for Stylist Magazine. She is also the co-founder of BAME in publishing, a network for people who are from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and who work in the UK publishing industry, to come together and connect. SARAH'S BOOK CHOICES: The Peacock Garden by Anita Desai Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla Pippa tweets @sarahshaffi and you can find out more about her on her website.

Pippa is a Novelist and Short Story writer with a PhD in Astronomy. She was awarded a New Writers Award in 2012 by the Scottish Book Trust and her novel 'The Falling Sky' was runner-up in the Dundee International Book Prize. Her latest collection, 'The Need For Better Regulation Of Outer Space', is clever and entertaining, exploring untold stories about science and scientists. PIPPA'S BOOK CHOICES: The Owl Service by Alan Garner Burn Your Boats by Angela Carter Kepler by John Banville Pippa tweets @goldipipschmidt and you can find out more about her and her upcoming projects on her website.

Martine is a novelist and the Programme Leader of the MA in Creative Writing & Publishing at the University of Sussex. Her previous novels are 'After Pheonix' and 'I Have Waited and You Have Come'. Her latest novel, Narcissism for Beginners was released earlier this month from Unbound. MARTINE'S BOOK CHOICES: The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton A Crisis of Brilliance by David Boyd Haycock Martine Tweets @MartineM_Writer and you can find out more about her, her writing, and upcoming events on her website.

Paul is the Editor of 'Elsewhere', a journal of place. His latest book, 'Ghosts on the Shore: Travels along Germany's Baltic Coast' will be published in June by Influx Press. You can find much of his writing about place on the website 'Caught by the River'. Paul's Book Choices: Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris (Faber Books) Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnović (Istros Books) What I Saw by Joseph Roth (W. W. Norton & Company) Paul Tweets @underagreysky and @seeyouelsewhere

Irenosen is the author of two books. Her novel 'Butterfly Fish' won a 2016 Betty Trask Award, and her short story collection 'Speak Gigantular' is Longlisted for the inaugural Jhalak prize. Both books are published by Jacaranda Books. IRENOSEN'S BOOK CHOICES: Geek Love - Katherine Dunn (Abacus) Glyph - Percival Everett (Graywolf Press) Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen - Marilyn Chin (Penguin) She tweets @IrenosekOkojie and you can visit her website for more information. SHOW NOTES: Mentioned: Ishmael Reed What Irenosen's reading at the moment: Kevin Barry's Beatlebone

Kerry is the Author of two books: 'Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma' won the Scottish First Book Award. And her second, 'THIRST', won the Prix Femina Étranger, France's most prestigious award for foreign fiction. She is also the founder of The WoMentoring Project. Kerry's Book Choices: Jazz - Toni Morrison (Vintage Books) The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler (Vintage Books) 'Tis - Frank McCourt (Harper Perennial) She tweets @KerrysWindow and you can visit her website for more information Show Notes: 2:20 The Accidental Tourist discussion begins. 17:25 Jazz discussion begins. 26:40 'Tis discussion begins. 40:20 Kerry speaks about her involvement with the WoMentoring Project.

Hannah is a Graphic Novelist and illustrator. She has also worked as a Tutor for the Arvon Foundation and was the Online Writer in Residence for Booktrust. HANNAH'S BOOK CHOICES: Cruddy - Lynda Barry Weapons of Mass Diplomacy - Lanzac & Blain Through The Woods - Emily Carroll She tweets at @streakofpith and you can find out more about her/her books on her website. Show Notes: Other books mentioned: Emily Carroll co-created a game called 'THE YAWHG' (Hannah apologises for mauling the spelling in the original recording) Becoming Unbecoming, by Una. About Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper Publishers mentioned: Save Our Souls Magazine Self Made Hero Avery Hill Jonathan Cape Hannah recommends the following comic shops: "both of these shops are light and airy and welcoming. Anyone concerned about walking into a sweaty comics dungeon needn't worry." Gosh Comics, London Page 45, Nottingham