Author's Afterword
Episodes
45: Claire North (Notes From The Burning Age)
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Claire North (Notes From The Burning Age) discuss climate change today and into the future, sexism back of house in theatre, and how she v...
44: Tyler Keevil (Your Still Beating Heart)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Tyler Keevil (Your Still Beating Heart) discuss using the violence of Snow White in an adult thriller to shocking and literary effect, wri...
43: Rachel Hore (A Beautiful Spy)
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Rachel Hore (A Beautiful Spy) discuss the life and work of a female spy in the years between the First and Second World Wars, the man who ...
42: Gill Paul (The Second Marriage)
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Gill Paul (The Second Marriage) discuss the lives and loves of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas from their early married years until later ...
41: Rosanna Ley (The Orange Grove)
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Rosanna Ley (The Orange Grove) discuss whether one of her main characters, Ella, made the right decision with the situational contexts at ...
40: Zen Cho (Black Water Sister)
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Zen Cho (Black Water Sister) discuss traditional Chinese beliefs, smashing up shrines, and Jane Austen. Some podcast apps do not show desc...
39: Christina Courtenay (Echoes Of The Runes; The Runes Of Destiny)
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Christina Courtenay (Echoes Of The Runes; The Runes Of Destiny) discuss what the Vikings were really like, time travellers' historical par...
38: Nicola Cornick (The Forgotten Sister; The Last Daughter)
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
She's back! Nicola Cornick (The Forgotten Sister; The Last Daughter) returns to discuss Amy Robsart and the mystery of her death, the relationship bet...
37: Kimberly Derting (The Body Finder)
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Kimberly Derting (The Body Finder) discuss publishing a dark YA series in the wake of Twilight, avoiding romance and family tropes, and th...
36: Kate Forsyth (Bitter Greens; The Wild Girl)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Kate Forsyth (Bitter Greens; The Wild Girl) discuss the story and history of Rapunzel - which was part of Kate's doctoral thesis - as well...
35: Liz Fenwick (The Path To The Sea)
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Liz Fenwick (The Path To The Sea) discuss the success of spies in the Cold War who were - on the face of it - 'just' housewives, bringing ...
34: Lillian Li (Number One Chinese Restaurant)
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Lillian Li (Number One Chinese Restaurant) discuss racial prejudice in Chinese restaurants, looking at the narrative of immigrant parents ...
33: Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (The Rabbit Back Literature Society; Secret Passages In A Hillside Town)
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (The Rabbit Back Literature Society; Secret Passages In A Hillside Town) discuss dreams that become literature...
32: Susmita Bhattacharya (Table Manners)
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Susmita Bhattacharya (Table Manners) discuss her world-wide travel and moves abroad - including a visa-less stopover, the experiences of r...
31: Elizabeth Baines (Used To Be; Astral Travel)
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Elizabeth Baines (Used To Be; Astral Travel) discuss writing for radio, short stories - the relative importance of their first lines and d...
30: Katy Yocom (Three Ways To Disappear)
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Katy Yocom (Three Ways To Disappear) discuss tiger conservation in India and balancing numbers alongside human requirements for life, the ...
29: Marianne Holmes (A Little Bird Told Me; All Your Little Lies)
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Marianne Holmes (A Little Bird Told Me; All Your Little Lies) discuss procedures when children go missing, societal changes in regards to ...
28: Deborah Swift (Past Encounters; The Occupation)
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Deborah Swift (Past Encounters; The Occupation) discuss Brief Encounter at Carnforth, the experiences of prisoners of war at the time and ...
27: Tammye Huf (A More Perfect Union)
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Tammye Huf (A More Perfect Union) discuss her great-great-grandparents’ relationship as an 1840s Irishman and a Black American slave, th...
26: Eric Beck Rubin (School Of Velocity)
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Eric Beck Rubin (School Of Velocity) discuss the representation of the Holocaust in literature, using classical music as a literary device...
25: Intisar Khanani (Thorn; The Sunbolt Chronicles)
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Intisar Khanani (Thorn; The Sunbolt Chronicles) discuss working to better the health of people in Cincinnati, rewriting and exploring the ...
24: Joanna Hickson (First Of The Tudors; The Tudor Crown; The Lady Of The Ravens)
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Joanna Hickson (First Of The Tudors; The Tudor Crown; The Lady Of The Ravens) discuss the royal and noble individuals of the War of the Ro...
23: Nicholas Royle ('critic') (Quilt; An English Guide To Birdwatching; Mother: A Memoir)
27 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Nicholas Royle (Quilt; An English Guide To Birdwatching; Mother: A Memoir) discuss killing yourself – your avatar – off in your fictio...
22: Midge Raymond (Forgetting English; My Last Continent)
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Midge Raymond (Forgetting English; My Last Continent) discuss the current situation in Antarctica and the balance of keeping it clean whil...
21: Peter Ho Davies (The Welsh Girl; The Fortunes)
23 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Peter Ho Davies (The Welsh Girl; The Fortunes) discuss moving as a writer from Britain to the US, Welsh with English as a second language,...
20: Tracy Rees (Amy Snow; Florence Grace; The Hourglass; Darling Blue; The House At Silvermoor)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Tracy Rees (Amy Snow; Florence Grace; The Hourglass; Darling Blue; The House At Silvermoor) discuss Richard, Judy, Dickens, Austen, and Br...
19: Sofie Laguna (One Foot Wrong; The Eye Of The Sheep; The Choke)
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Sofie Laguna (One Foot Wrong; The Eye of the Sheep; The Choke; the forthcoming Infinite Splendours) discuss beginning with acting, writing...
18: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (The Whispering Trees; Season Of Crimson Blossoms)
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (The Whispering Trees; Season of Crimson Blossoms) discuss Nigeria at this time, publishing a novel on a very contro...
17: Roselle Lim (Natalie Tan's Book Of Luck And Fortune; Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop)
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Roselle Lim (Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune; Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop) discuss weaving culture, mental illness, and mag...
16: Isla Morley (Come Sunday; Above; The Last Blue)
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Isla Morley (Come Sunday; Above; The Last Blue) discuss growing up and travelling back to South Africa, creating a negative heroine, the 1...
15: Terri Fleming (Perception)
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Terri Fleming (Perception) discuss looking at the further lives of Mary and Kitty Bennet, working with Austen's original stories and prose...
14: Zoe Duncan (The Shifting Pools)
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Zoe Duncan (The Shifting Pools) discuss coping with and healing from war trauma in reality and fiction, the use and power of dreams, emplo...
13: Dan Richards (Holloway; The Beechwood Airship Interviews; Climbing Days; Outpost)
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Dan Richards (Holloway, The Beechwood Airship Interviews, Climbing Days, Outpost) discuss asking to join well-known people for lunch and p...
12: Weike Wang (Chemistry)
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Weike Wang (Chemistry) discuss having both a scientific – in epidemiology no less! – and a writer background, making use of extracts a...
11: Laura Pearson (Missing Pieces; Nobody's Wife; I Wanted You To Know)
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Place and Laura Pearson (Missing Pieces; Nobody’s Wife; I Wanted You To Know) discuss the process of grieving for various members of a famil...
10: Camilla Bruce (You Let Me In)
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Place and Camilla Bruce (You Let Me In) discuss the darker side of faerie, being as in the dark about answers as your readers are, survival an...
09: Fran Cooper (These Dividing Walls; The Two Houses)
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Place and Fran Cooper (These Dividing Walls, The Two Houses) discuss open mic nights, current and recent sociopolitical situations in Paris (a...
08: Andrew Blackman (On The Holloway Road; A Virtual Love)
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie and Andrew Blackman (On the Holloway Road, A Virtual Love) discuss life on the road, following in Jack Kerouac’s footsteps, offline and onli...
07: E C Fremantle (The Poison Bed)
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Place and E C Fremantle (The Poison Bed) discuss changing pen names, a horrific murder case in the Stuart nobility, coping as a new mother in ...
06: Nancy Bilyeau (The Joanna Stafford Trilogy; The Blue; Dreamland)
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Place and Nancy Bilyeau (The Joanna Stafford Trilogy; The Blue; Dreamland) discuss the lifestyle of Dissolution-era nuns, using a website's 'c...
05: Samantha Sotto (Before Ever After; Love And Gravity; A Dream Of Trees)
21 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in as Charlie Place and Samantha Sotto (Before Ever After; Love and Gravity; A Dream of Trees) discuss characters that join you in your car in th...
04: Phillip Lewis (The Barrowfields)
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Place and Phillip Lewis (The Barrowfields) discuss planning out fictional houses, the detail and beauty of classical music, books about books,...
03: Naomi Hamill (How To Be A Kosovan Bride)
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in as Charlie Place and author Naomi Hamill (How To Be A Kosovan Bride) discuss post-war Kosovo, using a narrative method that divides opinion, a...
02: Orlando Ortega-Medina (Jerusalem Ablaze; The Death Of Baseball)
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in as book blogger Charlie Place and author Orlando Ortega-Medina (Jerusalem Ablaze; The Death of Baseball) discuss celebrity fictional reincarna...
01: Nicola Cornick (House Of Shadows; The Phantom Tree; The Woman In The Lake)
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tune in as book blogger Charlie Place and author Nicola Cornick (House of Shadows; The Phantom Tree; The Woman In The Lake) discuss burning down your ...
Author's Afterword: Trailer
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The trailer for Author's Afterword, an author interview deep-dive show that focuses on a book (or one or two more), covering themes, characters, the e...