Talking Books with Suzie Wilde & Tim O'Kelly
Episodes
Talking Books - March 2026
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books. Is ...
Talking Books - February 2026
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books. We ...
Talking Books - January 2026
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books. We ...
Talking Books - December 2025
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books. A z...
Talking Books - November 2025
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books. One...
Talking Books - October 2025
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books. Thi...
Talking Books - September 2025
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Local author Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly of One Tree Books immerse you in a monthly indulgence of literature, storytelling and the world of books. Thi...
Talking Books - August 2025
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have two guests in this month's Talking Books. First is the renowned actor Anton Lesser, famous for roles in Theatre, Film and TV. He talks a...
Talking Books - July 2025
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This months Talking Books is a little different as Tim is somewhat preoccupied with getting his temporary shop up and running after the fire in Lavant...
Talking Books - June 2025
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month we are playing the second half of the interview with Thomas Harding, a prizewinning Guardian columnist and bestselling author discussing hi...
Talking Books - May 2025
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have two guests this month, Thomas Harding, a prizewinning Guardian columnist and bestselling author, whose books have been translated into tw...
Talking Books - April 2025
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this month is Ally Sherrick, prize-winning author of rip-roaring historical adventures. Ally launched her latest book, Rebel Heart at ...
Talking Books - March 2025
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The guest author this month is the hugely popular writer, Michael Arnold, best known for his Civil War Chronicles. As usual, Tim and Suzie discu...
Talking Books - February 2025
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month’s guest is Niall Edworthy, who has been writing for 30 years, mainly as a ghost writer but also on his own account. He has now set up...
Talking Books - January 2025
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition Suzie, Tim and the team review their best books of 2024 as well as what is coming up shortly.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...
Talking Books - December 2024
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Suzie and Tim discuss books for Christmas and there are interviews with Tom Parker-Bowles, author of Cooking and the Crown and Petroc Trelawny, Radio ...
Talking Books - November 2024
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month Tim and Suzie give a heads-up for Christmas presents and there is also a great interview with Katherine McInnes who has written Behind Ever...
Talking Books - October 2024
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month is slightly different. Tim has Covid so there is nor chat between Tim and Suzie so they have both recorded separately. There is still m...
Talking Books - September 2024
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the month when all the big names release their latest books. Tim is on the case with great suggestions and Suzie revisits her interview with...
Talking Books - August 2024
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The August edition of Talking Books continues our best summer reading - but without Tim! Suzie is joined by Sally and Anna from One Tree Books for a...
Talking Books - July 2024
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim and Suzie are in holiday mood, so this months Talking Books is a bumper interview edition, chosen by listeners. It's fitting that first up is Ma...
Talking Books - June 2024
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month Tim and Suzie select some of their favourite summer reads that are surefire hits. Their June guest is prize-winning author Barbara Henderso...
Talking Books - May 2024
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month there are two interviews, one with renowned illustrator Angela Harding and the other with local author Steve Sheppard who's third book has ...
Talking Books - April 2024
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This month’s Talking Books starts on a bright day in April but the clocks aren’t striking thirteen when Suzie and Tim talk about their favourite r...
Talking Books - March 2024
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Instantly recognisable from her trademark collection of black hats, British author Frances Hardinge is one of the most acclaimed and inventive writers...
Talking Books - February 2024
25 Feb 2024
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Suzie and Tim discuss this months books and interview Elle M Keating, author of Poison Summer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Talking Books - January 2024
22 Jan 2024
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This month there is no guest interview but there are many interesting books reviewed by Tim and SuzieSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...
Talking Books - December 2023
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly host the books and writing programme made in Petersfield. This month's interview is with best-selling author Michelle Mago...
Talking Books - November 2023
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered why insomnia might make you want to murder your husband? Or have another reason? Find out how not to do it when Katie Marsh talks to Tim...
Talking Books - October 2023
18 Oct 2023
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This month we have two interview, both with local authors.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Talking Books - September 2023
19 Sep 2023
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This month, the interview is with Claire Fuller, a prize-winning author and short fiction writer. Also, Tim and Suzie share their favourite reads and ...
Talking Books - August 2023
22 Aug 2023
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This month there are two guests, Greg Mosse and Gethyn Jones.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Talking Books - July 2023
24 Jul 2023
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The interview this month is with Kathryn Evans and Sue Wallman, successful young adult authors.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Talking Books - June 2023
19 Jun 2023
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Suzie and Tim talk about Suzie's visit to the Cymera Festival in Edinburgh and what is current in the book world.See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...
Talking Books - May 2023
22 May 2023
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The guest this month is Frances Liardet, the interview having been recorded at her book launch last month. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...
Talking Books - April 2023
18 Apr 2023
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Our guest this month is Candy Gourlay, talking about her Sunday Times book of the month Wild Song. We praised the first book, Bone Talk, and and in ...
Talking Books - March 2023
21 Mar 2023
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Suzie: We don’t have an author guest this month ... Tim: We have two! John has cleverly extracted Kate Mosse’s interview with you at the launch ...
Suzie Wilde's Book Launch
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Suzie's book launch for Landfall and a celebration of the trilogy. Warning of small incident of strong language.See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...
Talking Books - February 2023
20 Feb 2023
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This month the interview is with Eva Wong Nava, and award-winning author while Suzie and Tim discuss what is exciting at the moment.See omnystudio.com...
Talking Books - January 2023
24 Jan 2023
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Bad weather and bad colds have changed this month’s edition, so we’ll have to wait until next month to welcome our guest Eva Wong Nava. Instead ...
Talking Books - December 2022
13 Dec 2022
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This month - talking about Christmas books.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Talking Books - November 2022
21 Nov 2022
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This month the Nigel Richardson, author of The Accidental Detectorist is interviewed by Suzie and Tim.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...
Talking Books - October 2022
19 Oct 2022
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This month the guest is Greg Mosse, author of The Coming Darkness.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Talking Books - September 2022
16 Sep 2022
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Without a guest this month, Suzie and Tim take the opportunity to have a more in depth discussion about the world of booksSee omnystudio.com/listener ...
Talking Books - August 2022
07 Aug 2022
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Suzie and Tim review books they have read and those coming up. The interview this month is With Katherine McInnes who wrote Snow Widows, published r...
Talking Books - July 2022
17 Jul 2022
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This month we are joined by author Camilla Chester, described as ‘a dog walker who writes’ by her publisher. Camilla's latest book, Call me Lion, ...
Talking Books - June 2022
18 Jun 2022
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This month we have two guests, Wendy Smith as promised last month, come to talk about her brilliantly named book club ‘Reading between the Wines...
Talking Books - May 2022
16 May 2022
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This month's guest is David Fennell whose crime novels are discussed in this edition. The interview makes a minor reference to scenes of fiction...
Talking Books - April 2022
18 Apr 2022
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In addition to talking through what has been read, what is coming up shortly and then a back-listed book, we have an interview with Ben Dark. Be...
Talking Books - March 2022
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month's guests are Martin Muncaster and Sir Vince Cable, both of whom have books published recentlySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
Talking Books - February 2022
14 Feb 2022
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February 2022 Talking Books with Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly with an interview with best selling authors Elly Griffiths and Lesley ThomsonSee omnystud...
Talking Books - January 2022
17 Jan 2022
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Suzie and Tim choose their favourite books from 2021, endeavour to lighten a dark January and look forward to what will be coming in 2022. ...
Talking Books - December 2021
12 Dec 2021
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This months Talking Books features an interview with Gyles Brandreth who knows Petersfield well having been a pupil at Bedales. His autobiograph...
Talking Books - November 2021
16 Nov 2021
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This month I’m talking to bestselling author Sophie Kinsella. She has sold over 45 million copies of her books in more than 60 countries, and sh...
Talking Books - October 2021
17 Oct 2021
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Our guest is JOHN MICKLEWRIGHT talking about his book The Opening Country. He tells Tim about walking from Portsmouth to the Alps, following in the fo...
Talking Books, September2021
09 Sep 2021
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Our guest, Jennifer Selway lives in Petersfield. She has a book just out - The Making of Horror movies: Key Figures who Established the Gen...
Talking Books, August 2021
16 Aug 2021
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Nigel Farndale’s new novel, The Dictator's Muse, is set in the 1930s. He will be talking about it - and the connection with Mick Jagger! H...
Talking Books with guest Katie Marsh - July 2021
19 Jul 2021
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We’re joined this month by Katie Marsh, whose latest book Unbreak Your Heart was our top selling book last month. She’s a Pete...
Talking Books with guest Lissa Evans - June 2021
14 Jun 2021
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This month we are talking to Lissa Evans, about her new book, out in paperback this month. Lissa Evans writes for both adults and children when she's ...
Talking Books - May 2021
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s another YA special, with Sue Wallman - a prize-winning author of YA thrillers. Her debut, Lying about Last Summer, was Winner of Zoel...
Talking Books - April 2021
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are back in person at One Tree Books, ready for the bookshop to reopen to customers on 12 April. Besides my backlisted choice (this month: Clive Ja...
Talking Books - March 2021
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Guest is Tim Bouquet, who grew up on his father’s farm at Butser. Mother still lives in Petersfield. He is a ghost-writer and biographer who mak...
Talking Books - February 2021
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this month is Kathryn Evans, who has been an actor, a waitress, a celery cutter and newspaper deliverer - she's even scrubbed the decks of t...
Talking Books - January 2021
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Special guest Thomas Harding, a bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than 16 languages. He has written for the Sunday Times, ...
Talking Books with Kate Mosse - December 2020
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tim and Suzie are joined in One Tree Books by bestselling author Kate Mosse. Suzie’s backlisted choice is Kate’s ghostly Christmas love st...
Talking Books Café - November 2020
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tim and Suzie start their fortnightly catch up. bite-size chunks so you can have a cuppa, grab a biscuit, whatever. It’s pure pleasure – s...
Talking Books - November 2020
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tim’s top picks for Christmas presents and a socially distanced interview with Niall Edworthy, the author of Main Battle Tank and over a d...
Talking Books - September 2020
21 Oct 2020
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Suzie Wilde and Tim O'Kelly discuss how they organise their bookshelves and the books they have been reading.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...
Talking Books - October 2020
19 Oct 2020
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It’s Halloween. Tim hates ghost stories and Suzie loves them. That’s not their only difference of opinion. Tim meets Bob Stone, owne...
Talking Books - September 2020
14 Sep 2020
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The brighter books show from Petersfield. in September's edition of Talking Books, Susie Wilde & Tim O'Kelly discuss how they arrange their books,...
Talking Books - August 2020
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Suzie Wilde and John Welsman share their love of audio books in this first edition of our new Talking Books series. What makes an audiobook spec...