Ep479 — Fiona Valpy — “Say Yes to Everything.”
Fiona is an acclaimed bestselling author, whose books have sold millions of copies and been translated into more than thirty different languages worldwide. Her latest novel is The Cypress Maze, set in Tuscany and is the perfect book for these long winter nights. Fiona has a degree in Geography, has worked as an IT systems […]
Continue readingEp478 — Mira V Shah — “Healing Through Writing.”
Mira V Shah is a British-African-Indian author and legal writer who lives in North London with her husband, three good dogs and one mediocre cat. She studied History at the University of Warwick before practising as a City lawyer. During the pandemic, Mira wrote her first ever novel, HER, a psychological drama, which explores themes […]
Continue readingThe Bestseller Experiment Wins Best Books Podcast at the Independent Podcast Awards
The Bestseller Experiment Wins Best Podcast at the Independent Podcast Awards
Continue readingEp477 — Michael R Miller — “A Sprinkle of My Experience”
Hailing from Scotland’s wet and wild west coast, Michael writes sweeping and epic fantasy and since 2018 has sold over 330,000 books topping Amazon and Audible charts along the way. He’s also worked for Bloomsbury publishing, and is the co-founder of digital publisher Portal Books. He’s written The Dragon’s Blade trilogy and now returns with […]
Continue readingEp476 — IVY NGEOW — “EMOTION MORE THAN ANYTHING.”
Ivy Ngeow was born and raised in Malaysia and is a multi-award winning author. Her latest novel The American Boyfriend was longlisted for the Avon x Mushens Entertainment Prize for Commercial Fiction Writers of Colour 2022. Ivy is a musician, she’s also written non-fiction cookery books, diet books, interior design books, she sells tie-in merch […]
Continue readingEp475 — Heather Morris — “Shut up and Listen!”
We celebrate seven years of the podcast with the amazing Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which has sold over 6 million copies worldwide. She returns with a new novel, Sisters Under The Rising Sun, which transports the reader to the women in Japanese POW camps in WWII and is another incredibly powerful […]
Continue readingEP473: Julie Owen Moylan — “Tiny, Weird Obsessions.”
Julie Owen Moylan is a novelist and filmmaker. Her graduation short film ‘BabyCakes’ scooped Best Film awards at the Swansea Film Festival where Ken Russell was a judge! And Julie has written two novels, THAT GREEN EYED GIRL and 73 DOVE STREET, which was released just this summer. Julie talks about how she knows when […]
Continue readingEP472: Gareth L Powell — “Be Kind, Be Encouraging.”
The award-winning Gareth L. Powell returns to the podcast with Descendant Machine his new science fiction epic. He also tells about working with Peter F Hamilton, how starting a commercial thriller led him to writing his most personal book, how he wrote a book on writing almost by accident, and he gives us some insight […]
Continue readingEP471: Jesse Sutanto — “Pure Writing.”
Jesse Sutanto is the award-winning, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties, Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers and I’m Not Done With You Yet. Jesse tells how she learned about human behaviour through real estate and weddings, why she doesn’t dwell on projects that are on submission, and why she writes in 15 minute […]
Continue readingEP470: Suzie Edge — “Vital Organs, Poo & Wee!”
We are delighted to welcome back Suzie Edge for this special episode of the podcast! Suzie is a phenomenon on TikTok and after her smash hit debut book Mortal Monarchs she returns with Vital Organs, a wonderful dissection of history’s strangest body parts. Suzie takes us through her incredible career so far and reveals the […]
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