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Episodes: 73
Frequency: Monthly
Rating: 4.7/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Neutral
Location: United Kingdom
Instagram: 46.0k followers
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ryan.edgington@waterstones.com
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Ryan Edgington - Host of The Hatchards Podcast, a book-focused conversation series from Hatchards, England's oldest bookshop.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Hernan Diaz - His Novel Ply, Writing Without Compromise, 19th-century British Fiction, And Writing At Ingmar Bergman's Desk
Colson Whitehead - His Novel Cool Machine, The Harlem Trilogy, Noir, New York Social History, African American Popular Culture, And Literary Influences
David Sedaris - His Essay Collection The Land And Its People, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Personal Absurdities, Aging, Loss, And His Path To Becoming A Prominent Comic Writer
Kathryn Stockett - Her Novel The Calamity Club, Sisterhood, The American South During The Great Depression, And Returning To Fiction After The Help
Edward Chisholm - The Markovi Affair, Alain Delon, French Crime And Politics, Organized Crime, And The Cultural History Of Cinema In The 1960s
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Episodes
Hernan Diaz on Ply: Punk, Power, and the Pulitzer Prize
September 22, 2026
In this episode, we’re joined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Argentine author Hernan Diaz to discuss his new novel, Ply, which is set in a distant future, where humankind is on the verge of an evolutionary transformation.At the centre of the story is an orphan known only as a ‘Pincher’, who steals electricity from the grid and sells it on the black market, helping to power underground gigs for artists across the city.The book marks a striking departure for Diaz, whose previous novel, Trust, wo...
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...
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