Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers

Camille Bordas on making difficult topics funny and crafting sharp dialogue

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Camille Bordas is one heck of an exciting literary talent, and she’s joining me on the Rippling Pages to discuss her story collection, ONE SUN ONLY ...

Bonus! Lucy Caldwell on annotated Hamlets and Easter Eggs

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It's Easter - and it's easter egg time. In this bonus content, you're going to hear a lot about Easter Eggs, but not the chocolate kind. Instead, we’...

Lucy Caldwell on writing transcendent psychic moments and finding meaning in life

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Oh wow! It was my pleasure to have a coffee with and speak to the writer Lucy Caldwell about her new short story collection, DEVOTIONS (published by F...

Bonus! Why a letter knife told Leon Craig everything she needed to know about her characters’ desires

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to this bonus content with Leon Craig. We’re talking about how Leon found an old letter knife in a shop which helped her understand her char...

Leon Craig on misunderstanding ghosts and getting what we want

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I’m looking forward to diving into the crumbling and the haunted this week with Leon Craig.  We’re discussing Leon Craig’s THE DECADENCE. And...

Ana Schnabl on using childhood locations and memories in stories about unpleasant people

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We’re going to the Slovenian coast this week during the final years Yugoslavia with Ana Schnabl.  Dunja has finally launched her literary career, b...

Eva Meijer live in Leeds and panoramic crisis fiction based on personal experience

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What a lovely time I had speaking and sitting with Eva Meijer, the Dutch Author, in Leeds to discuss their novel SEA NOW.  A government who seems slo...

Bonus - Madeleine Dunnigan and Farah Ali on their favourite books and writing beyond the surface

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year! I’m delighted to bring you some more unedited and bonus content from my Christmas and New Year special with Madeleine Dunnigan and ...

Christmas and NY special - exciting talents, Madeleine and Farah, discussing healing and books that inspired their craft

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I’m kicking off a 2026 preview with two of the most exciting emerging voices publishing books this January. I speak to them about how they wrote the...

Editor Rali Chorbadzyiyska talking about how writers can manage rejections and marketing

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I'm delighted to be talking to Rali Chorbadzhiyska about her work as freelance editor, and we're asking what the road to publication really looks like...

Lee Cole Bonus - how Lee found old books at his grandparents to build his characters and worlds

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to some bonus content with Lee Cole, and we’re talking about how he used an old book he found at his grandparents to help build the world an...

Lee Cole on the ethics of writing about home, and the people who stay and leave small towns

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the latest episode of the Rippling Pages. I’m having a coffee with Lee Cole, the American writer from Kentucky. And we’re talking about...

Bonus! Joanna Pocock on why your phone and notebook might be all you need to write

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I’m talking with the essayist Joanna Pocock, and this is some bonus content from our original interview. America is a place that has compelled count...

LIVE! Agnes Lidbeck and how to write about major adjustments and characters that frustrate us

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I’m talking to the Swedish writer, Agnes Lidbeck, in this special edition live episode of the Rippling Pages! We really did have a coffee with one o...

Joanna Pocock on writing about kindness and perspective on the American Road

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

America is a place that has compelled countless writers to travel its vast and varied landscapes.  Perhaps you’ve done it yourself. But what happen...

Ask the Host! Liam on Latest Reads, Favourite Bookshop, and Reality TV

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the second edition of Rippling Pages: Ask the Host! It's time to answer some more questions from you, the listeners! So, that’s what I’...

BONUS! Gurnaik Johal on Objects, Perfect Art and Buster Keaton

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“It’s almost a perfect work of art.” This is some bonus content from the previous episode with Gurnaik Johal where we talk about objects of inf...

Gurnaik Johal on Rivers, Family and Pub Chats

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The return of a potentially holy river in the Indian mountains - is it a sign of a new age, a divine intervention, or simply the workings of nature? T...

Yan Ge Part 2 on Vulnerabilities, Younger Selves, Parents

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“I think when you’re young you really allow yourself to be stupid.” Welcome to part 2 of my conversation with Yan Ge. Yan Ge is here to discuss ...

Yan Ge Part 1 on Happiness, Elsewhere, and Striving

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

”If I enter a project knowing what I’m going to do, confidently, I wouldn’t do it.” It’s Women in Translation Month! Yan Ge is here to discu...

Kimberly Campanello - Bonus Content with memory, flags and music

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“She starts having an experience to see her own life as a more shifting sands that isn’t to be fear but in fact to be enjoyed.”   Kimberly Camp...

Kimberly Campanello on Autofiction, the Midwest, and Notebooks

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“How do you sound like you know what you’re doing when you don’t have the words” Kimberly Campanello is here to talk about her novel, USE THE...

Uttama Kirit Patel on Letters, Motherhood, and Mother-in-Laws

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“I found myself writing an apology letter…and I didn’t know what I was apologising for.” In Uttama Kirit Patel’s novel, The Shape of an Apos...

Ask the Bookshop- Bonus! On Leeds, Community and Safe Spaces

14 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“When I set out to plan the business, I wrote ten words - the world I always kept coming to was community.” The Rippling Pages is all about curat...

Roisin Dunnett on Time Travel, Protest, and Littering

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"It is also difficult to imbue the people and the movements of the past with the complexities we offer ourselves."  If you were to meet a time trav...

Rippling Pages Live with Katharina Volckmer Part 2 - On Clowns, Mothers and Part Time Jobs

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“They got fired for that!” Katharina Volckmer is here to discuss her second novel, Calls May Be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes (In...

Rippling Pages Live with Katharina Volckmer - Part 1 - on Call Centres, Intimacy and Toilet Humour

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Katharina Volckmer is here to discuss her second novel, Calls May Be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes (Indigo Press) and it was live at t...

Ask the Host! Liam on Dream Guests, New Books, and Talking to Animals

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the first edition of Rippling Pages: Ask the Host! Over the years, I’ve been asking the questions, but it’s about time I answered some ...

Elaine Garvey on 2002, Wadrobe Departments, and Women Walking

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"She finds herself in London working in a theatre having to touch people!"   Elaine Garvey, to discuss her novel, THE WARDROBE DEPARTMENT, published ...

Bonus Content - Benjamin Markovits on Subtexts, Michael Jordan, and family favourites!

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“It’s my mum’s favourite book that I wrote!” Benjamin Markovits is here to talk about his new and twelfth novel, THE REST OF OUR LIVES, publi...

Benjamin Markovits on Basketball, Family, and Illness

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

‘The people I like to write about are what I would describe as moderately successful failures.’ Benjamin Markovits is here to talk about his new ...

Bonus Content with Marni Appleton - Taylor Swift, and Getting Up Early

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Taylor Swift is somebody who has managed to keep reinventing herself to stay relevant." Welcome to Rippling Points, more content and more insights a...

Marni Appleton on Spotlights, Mirrors and the Art of the Title

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"It builds to women and girls choosing to hide their mouths because of the effect of this trend...things just morph and take on different meanings as ...

Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Vincenzo Latronico - Berlin, Italian novels, and on being translated into English

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Being published in English is a big milestone..." Vincenzo Latronico is here to talk about his first novel translated into English - PERFECTION, pub...

Vincenzo Latronico on Perfection, Authenticity, and Things

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Love is a dangerous topic.” Vincenzo Latronico is here to talk about his first novel translated into English - PERFECTION, published by Fitzcarra...

Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Pola Oloixarac - Archives, Horoscopes, and Twisted Desire

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“They had one objective - to get rid of certain men” Welcome to the first edition of Rippling Points - bonus content from last month’s episode!...

Pola Oloixarac and Unreliability, Energies, and Dopamine

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“I think it’s much more interesting to explore women through their powers.” Pola Oloixarac, one of the most exciting voices in world literature ...

Iris Mwanza - Zambia, Human Rights, and Elections

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I think it's a story few people have told before. And it's really about, what does a defender of human rights look like?" Iris Mwanza is here to tal...

Friða Ísberg and THE MARK

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“The book is me trying to have a conversation with my father and reach a middle ground.”   Friða Ísberg is here to talk about THE MARK (Faber a...

Naomi Wood and THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Some people have been, oh these women are so grotesque. I don’t think they are! They’re quite relatable.”   Naomi Wood joins me to discuss T...

Sam Sax and YR DEAD

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I think their experience in the bookstore is trying to think literary inheritance and spiritual and intellectual experience." Sam sax is here to dis...

Jennifer Lucy Allan and CLAY: A HUMAN HISTORY

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I'd done a lot of clay-making...you can spend a lifetime and only get good at one technique!" Jennifer Lucy Allan joins me to talk about her second ...

Bruce Omar Yates and The Muslim Cowboy

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"This book is begging to be written...It has this a frontier-ness to it..." Bruce Omar Yates is here to discuss his upcoming novel published by Dead ...

Claire Carroll and The Unreliable Nature Writer

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The smotheringly neutral voice" Claire Carroll is here to talk about her new and debut collection of short stories THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER. A t...

Marchelle Farrell and By the River

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The garden is a co-author" Marchelle Farrell is here to talk about her essay in a new anthology from Daunt Books, BY THE RIVER: ESSAYS FROM THE WATE...

Marianne Brooker and Intervals

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I wanted to be talking choice in a way that was routed in a social context, and that was true to the particularity and intimacy that I shared with my...

Dawn Garisch and Breaking Milk

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"That whole question of the invisible life...that there's something going on we cannot see that determines our health and the future of the planet." ...

Rachel Mann and Eleanor Among the Saints

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Wounds, whilst they open us to the world...they can be points of infection."  Welcome to 2024 and a new episode of the Rippling Pages. Rachel Mann ...

Jo Scott-Coe on the Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Kathy had a documentary impulse that is teaching us now." Jo Scott-Coe returns to the Rippling Pages to talk about her latest book, UNHEARD WITNESS:...

Charlotte Eichler and Swimming Between Islands

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"It's not confessional...but it's absolutely full of concrete details of things that I've observed or really happened." Charlotte Eichler joins the R...

Baron Wormser on Silence, Solitude and Shakespeare

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"There was a lot of solitude quiet and silence, and I believe poetry exists in relation to silence." Baron Wormser, a former National Endowment for t...

Leslie Smolan and the Life and Work of Rodney Smith

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"it took a lot of courage to keep going and channel that sadness and melancholy into pictures of such joy and exuberance " Leslie Smolan, widow and c...

Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Azúcar

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"We live in a world where we increasingly want to control everything...I hope that in fictional spaces, the effort of trying to keep up becomes so muc...

James Clarke and Sanderson’s Isle

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I hate judging characters - you have to have respect for people's origins." James Clarke is here to talk about his new novel, Sanderson's Isle, publ...

Bloomsday special with Helen Palmer!

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

'I wanted to write a queer love story, Blackpool is crying out for literary renditions and I'm obsessed by Ulysses.' Helen Palmer is here to talk abo...

Duncan Wiese and TITYRUS: A PASTORAL

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"There is a genuine search for something - much of the time it turns out to be distraction." Duncan Wiese joins me from Denmark to discuss his new co...

Soraya Palmer and The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I was interested in stories with stories and how the family used folklore to approach conflict" Soraya Palmer joins me from Brooklyn to discuss her ...

Catalan Literature in Translation Special!

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's a Catalan Literature in Translation Special! I'm delighted to welcome Mara Faye Lethem and Tiago Miller to discuss two recently released books f...

Seraphina Madsen and Aurora

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I was fascinated by the idea of what is real and what isn't real what people perceive to be real and not real" Welcome back to Series 4 of the Rippl...

Caitlin Stobie and THIN SLICES

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"I don't think poetry should be giving a lesson to anyone" Caitlin Stobie is here to talk about THIN SLICES, her new collection from Verve Press (Pre...

Cristina Bendek and Robin Myers - Salt Crystals

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Both writer and translator of SALT CRYSTALS, Cristina Bendek and Robin Myers, are here to discuss this shape-shifting and history-searching novel.  A...

Nicholas Royle and White Spines:

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"It's a quest to try to collect all of the Picadors..." Nicholas Royle is here to talk about White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector, and his j...

Caroline Clark and Own Sweet Time

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"All this wouldn't have happened without that experience of cancer..." Caroline Clark is here with one of the most tender and moving books due to be ...

Sarah Schofield and Safely Gathered In

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"As humans, we're really scared of forgetting..." Welcome back for another episode of the Rippling Pages – I’m delighted to speaking to Sarah Sch...

Richard Price - the Owner of the Sea

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Song is very powerful...it's not a truth teller, it's a state-changer." Richard Price joins today's show to discuss his collection of 'Three Inuit S...

Erica Mou and Clarissa Botsford on THIRSTY SEA

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The first thing that came to me? A woman, alone with the sea, and in charge of her own destiny?"   Welcome back to the Rippling Pages and Series Thr...

Emilio Fraia and Zoë Perry on Sevastopol

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"It's nice to see my imagination dressed with my words...It's very interesting to see a universe in other words." What a pleasure have both Emilio Fr...

Charlie Baylis and Santa Lucía

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'You can't just have a greatest hits collection, there has to be a flow of ideas.' Charlie Baylis, poet, critic, and editor joined me to talk about h...

Jo Scott-Coe on MASS

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"It seemed to be a flashpoint moment, it was saying more than we thought it was saying." Jo Scott-Coe joins me to talk about Charles Whitman, the man...

Jessie Greengrass on the High House

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'All the way through the book, it should feel like there's going to be some kind of ending which will enable a potential future' What a pleasure to ...

Jeff Chon and Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun

20 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"The thing I learned last year is that the product is sometimes the problem" Jeff Chon joins me to discuss his novel, Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun, pu...

Khalisa Rae and Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'The south is a living breathing thing in this book. it's a personality.' Really excited to have American poet, Khalisa Rae, join me for series two, e...

Polly Barton and Fifty Sounds

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome Back! Series Two: Horizons is here with Polly Barton. "I wanted to give people tools they could then forget about for the rest of the book." ...

Jacqueline Bishop on Jamaican Women Writers

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"The sense we don't have to trample on each other, to amplify each other, we can heal and nurture each other." Jacqueline Bishop is here to talk abo...

Samatar Elmi and A Portrait of Colossus

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"I knew from the age of 13, 14, I needed to write poetry, I just didn't fully understand why." It's part two of our Flipped Eye 20th birthday special...

Katherine Lockton on Paper Doll - Flipped Eye Anniversary Part 1

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'[Poetry] is the beginning to accepting, the beginning to processing emotion.' It's a Flipped Eye anniversary special as I'm joined buy two of their p...

How to Get in Touch with the Rippling Pages Podcast

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Griffiths on TRAUMA: Writing About Art and Mental Health

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"I was wrestling with what certain states of being feel like as negatives." Novelist and publisher, Neil Griffiths, joined me to discuss his essay, '...

Olja Knežević and Catherine the Great and the Small

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'Where there is conflict, there is always a path to literature...Freedom is an important topic for me.' What a pleasure to talk to the Montenegrin wri...

Jen Calleja on Time and Goblins

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'I want the story the story to be as disorientating for the reader as it is for me...I'm not trying to offer an answer or a safe and complete world......

Katharina Volckmer and The Appointment

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'It felt liberating to find that voice and put it on paper...Some restrictions can be creative.' Hello! Katharina Volckmer talks about her debut novel...

Katherine Horrex and the Growlery

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

‘I do believe that we’re all travellers of a fashion. For the poetic process I personally need a sense of freedom in order to write, and I like to...

Gaia Holmes and 'RESIST'

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'I did feel like I wasn't living my own life. I was in the world of Newbury and trees.' These are some Rippling Pages Pilot episodes published in Sum...

Thomas Chadwick and 'Above the Fat'

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

‘Things don’t always turn out how you intended them to, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.’ These are some Rippling Pages Pilot episode...