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Episodes: 72
Frequency: Monthly
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Unknown
Location: United Kingdom
Instagram: 46.0k followers
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ryan.edgington@waterstones.com
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Ryan Edgington - Bookshop podcast host and interviewer presenting author conversations for Hatchards.
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Recent Guest Discussions
David Sedaris - His Essay Collection The Land And Its People, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Life Abroad, Humor, Grief, And The Experiences Behind His Writing.
Kathryn Stockett - Her Novel The Calamity Club, Writing About The American South During The Great Depression, Sisterhood, And The Reception Of Her Earlier Bestselling Novel.
Edward Chisholm - The Marković Affair, Alain Delon, Organized Crime, French Political History, Cinema, And The Research Behind His Book.
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Episodes
Colson Whitehead on Cool Machine: Noir, New York, and Nothing Getting Better
August 25, 2026
On this episode, we’re joined by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead to discuss his latest novel, Cool Machine, the final entry in his epic crime series, The Harlem Trilogy. Charting four decades in the life of a furniture salesman who moonlights in the buying and selling of stolen goods, Whitehead draws inspiration from the stylised worlds of James Ellroy and Donald Westlake, but suffuses them with the New York social history of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker. It’s also a...
David Sedaris on The Land and Its People: AI, Americans Abroad, and the Absurdities of Being Human
July 21, 2026
On this episode, we’re joined by David Sedaris, one of the most celebrated modern essayists, to discuss his latest collection, The Land and Its People, which has been chosen as our Hatchards Nonfiction Book of the Month for July. It continues his decades long exploration of life's absurdities—both the comic and the painful—transforming them into essays about everything from generative AI, to having a priest's cassock tailor-made for him in Vatican City.He also reflects on being a godparent, o...
Kathryn Stockett on The Calamity Club: Sisterhood in the American South
June 16, 2026
On this episode, we're joined by author Kathryn Stockett to discuss her new novel, The Calamity Club, which follows a group of remarkable women as they confront the reactionary social, cultural, and economic forces that defined much of the American South during the Great Depression.It has been 17 years since Stockett published The Help, one of the defining publishing successes of its era, and she shares with us the anxiety she felt returning to this world after writing a wildly successful, al...
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