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London Review Bookshop Podcast

London Review Bookshop

Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more.Find out about our upcoming events here: See acast.com/pr...

Episodes

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Jeremy Lee & Bee Wilson: Kitchening

Jeremy Lee’s smoked eel sandwich became a London sensation when it was introduced at Soho’s Quo Vadis, where Lee is chef proprietor and, amo...

59:12Oct 28, 2026

Lavinia Greenlaw & Mark Wallinger: On Difficulty (and Poetry)

In On Difficulty (Faber), her latest book of non-poetry, poet and essayist Lavinia Greenlaw explores the fascination, terror and opportunity...

58:26Oct 21, 2026

Claudia Rankine & Victoria Adukwei Bulley: Triage

Triage (Allen Lane), Claudia Rankine’s new book, is an unclassifiable piece of writing, blending narrative, criticism and lyricism to create...

71:57Oct 14, 2026

Transitions: Sita Balani & Jay Bernard

In Transitions, the latest title in MACK’s ‘Discourse’ series writers Sita Balani and Jay Bernard, guided by Stuart Hall’s notion of ‘conjun...

58:05Oct 7, 2026

Amy Larocca and Gaby Wood: ‘How to Be Well’

In How to Be Well, journalist and essayist Amy Larocca takes on the behemoth which is the contemporary ‘wellness’ industry, in prose which J...

59:10Oct 1, 2026

Edna Bonhomme & Lola Olufemi: Tending to Our Wounds

Haitian-American scholar Edna Bonhomme, now based in Berlin, is well placed to unpick what it means to be Black at home and abroad. In Tendi...

76:47Sep 23, 2026

Sex, Poetry and the Turning World: Sarah Howe, Sandeep Parmar and guests

Sex in novels is commonplace, but how do poets write about sex--and is it any good? Join Sarah Howe and Sandeep Parmar for a live recording...

63:12Sep 16, 2026

Holly Pester & Luke Roberts: Cafés

Holly Pester’s Cafés (Fitzcarraldo) continues the trajectory which, since her debut Comic Timing, has made her one of the most exciting poet...

54:20Sep 9, 2026

Sara Baume & Emily LaBarge: Opening Night

Shortly after the pandemic lockdown Sara Baume came across a painting in a pop-up exhibition in a renovated West Cork shed. Fascinated by it...

63:56Sep 7, 2026

Sophie Lewis & Keiran Goddard: Femmephilia

In a series of provocative essays encompassing Marilyn Monroe, the myth of Apollo and Daphne, octopuses and girlbosses, reluctant heterosexu...

71:34Sep 4, 2026

Elizabeth Bishop’s Styles: Andrew Dickinson and Peter McDonald

To call Elizabeth Bishop one of the greatest female American poets of the 20th century is to make too many qualifications. Increasingly, cri...

61:23Aug 31, 2026

Colin Grant & Michael Rosen: What We Leave We Carry

Historian Colin Grant and WritersMosaic writers have travelled the length and breadth of the country to gather the voices and experiences of...

54:44Aug 26, 2026

Erin Maglaque & Hannah Dawson: Presence

Erin Maglaque’s first book, Presence, explores the hidden history of the female body through deep archival research: fragments in medical te...

55:36Aug 24, 2026

Eli Davies & Rebecca May Johnson: The Spinster Cookbook

The kitchen has always been a complex space for women: a place of labour and gendered expectations, as well as a site of nourishment, care a...

53:31Aug 19, 2026

Rachel Long & Sarah Howe: Sparrow on the Rooftop

Rachel Long’s debut collection, My Darling from the Lions (Picador), was nominated for the Forward Prize, the Costa, and the Sunday Times Yo...

49:49Aug 17, 2026

Michael Bracewell & Leo Robson: The Smiths

In Michael Bracewell’s new novella The Smiths an anonymous narrator recounts the impact of the iconic pop group on his life. Accompanied by...

51:49Aug 15, 2026

Martha Sprackland & James Butler: John of the Cross

The poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers...

43:54Aug 12, 2026

Olivia Laing & Jack Parlett: The Silver Book

Venice, September 1974. A chance meeting between a young English artist and Danilo Donati, production manager for Fellini and Pasolini, lead...

60:45Aug 10, 2026

Lauren Elkin & Shahidha Bari: Vocal Break

In Vocal Break: On Women, Music and Power Lauren Elkin uses her own experience of training as a young soprano in the 1990s as a springboard...

59:09Aug 8, 2026

Doireann Ní Ghríofa & Rachael Allen: Said the Dead

Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s new book Said the Dead is part history, part ghost story and part unreliable memoir, exploring the lives, presences an...

64:28Aug 3, 2026