Little Atoms

Laurie Winkless talks to Neil about all things Sticky (and slippery) in her new book Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Will Storr talks to Neil about his new book The Status Game. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Neil talks to Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' about her epic debut novel The Love Songs Of W.E.B Du Bois. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Booker Prize winner Marlon James talks to Neil about the second novel in his fantasy trilogy Moon Witch Spider King. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sequoia Nagamatsu talks to Neil about his billion-year spanning debut novel How High We Go In The Dark. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Neil talks to Julie Bindel about how equality is not the same as liberation, in her new book Feminism for Women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Neil talks to John Banville about his latest two crime novels April in Spain and Snow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Neil talks to award-winning comedy writer Georgia Pritchett about her adventures in anxiety, in her memoir My Mess Is A Bit Of A Life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Padraig chats to Harper's and n+1 critic Christine Smallwood about "adjunct lit", therapists, the end of the world, and her debut novel The Life Of The Mind See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Brooks talks to Neil about how maths underpins the rise of civilisation in his new book The Art of More. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Helen Oyeyemi talks to Neil about her latest novel Peaces. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The New Yorker's Music critic Kelefa Sanneh talks to Neil about his new book Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On the last LittleAtoms of 2021, Judy Golding talks to Neil about her father William Golding, on the republication by Faber of The Inheritors, Pincher Martin and The Spire. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rebecca Donner talks to Neil about her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack and her part in the German Reistance to Hitler, in her new book All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tom Chivers joins Neil to talk about walking the historical strata of London and it's hidden rivers, in his new book London Clay. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Neil talks to Nickolas Butler about his latest novel Godspeed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Neil talks to Ruth Ozeki about her latest novel The Book of Form & Emptiness. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Qian Julie Wang talks to Neil about growing up hungry and afraid in America as an undocumented migrant, in her new memoir Beautiful Country. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tom Standage talks to Neil about his new book A Short History Of Motion, from who invented the wheel to self-driving cars. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Monisha Rajesh, author of Around The World in 80 Trains, talks to Neil about how her obsession with train travel began, puts up a hearty defence of Amtrak, and tells of her travels to North Korea. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.