The Brighton Book Club

• 78: Christmas Gift Guide with Elizabeth Perry and Gabrielle Griffiths

  Our bumper Christmas Recommendation episode is here! Whether you're looking for inspiration for gifts to buy loved ones, or to put on your own wish-lists, Elizabeth Perry and I have got you covered! We also speak to Brighton-based writer Gabrielle Griffiths  about her debut novel GREATER SINS. Books we discussed on the show: Fiction The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden The Lilac People by Milo Todd All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker Heartwood by Amity Gaige The Artist by Lucy Steeds The Two Roberts by Damian Barr Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor. Moderation by Elaine Castillo A Family Matter by Claire Lynch The Correspondent by Virginia Evans Non-fiction Lone Wolf by Adam Weymouth Deep House by Jeremy Atherton Lin Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen Bunker by Bradley Garrett / In Love with Love by Ella Risbridger Challenger by Adam Higginbotham Paradise by Lizzie Johnson Supremacy by Parmy Olson If Then by Jill Lepore Question 7 by Richard Flanagan That Dark Spring by Susannah Stapleton

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• 77: Chris Bridges, Hayley Dunlop, Social Sauna Book Club, Demystifying Publishing and more!

  On this month's show we talk to Chris Bridges about his new book SICK TO DEATH; to Hayley Dunlop about her Christmas novel IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS, to Anna Jefferson about New Writing South's DEMYSTIFYING PUBLISHING DAY and to Kelly from SOCIAL SAUNA BOOK CLUB. Events we mention at the end of the show: Queer Gothic: Chloe Michelle Howarth & Leon Craig How to Build a Writing Career with Real Writers Circle and Amanda Prowse Interactive Murder Mystery Evening at Waterstones Online Writing Retreat with Writers HQ JOURNALISM BASICS: What is journalistic writing?

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• 76: 🛟The Coast is Queer LGBTQ+ Literary Festival featuring Ayse Huseyin, Abi Fellows, Kit Heyam and DG Coutinho 🛟

  This month's show is dedicated to The Coast is Queer Festival, Brighton's landmark festival of LGBTQ+ literature. Info about all the events we speak to festival speakers Ayse Huseyin, Abi Fellows, Kit Heyam and DG Coutinho. We also chat to Sarah from Writers HQ about their Writing As Resistance Festival in September.  The Coast is Queer events mentioned on the show: The Queer Girls Book Club presents Christina Fonthes Not That Innocent with with Jack Jordan, DG Coutinho, Piotr Cieplak and Lesley Thomson Developing Your Non-Fiction with Abi Fellows and Paula Akpan Is a Shared History Possible? with Dr. Nat Arias, Kit Heyam, Jane Traies and Paula Akpan

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• 75: Jo Morey, Sally Gardner, Piotr Cieplak and Chapter 34 Books

  On this month's episode, we speak to Jo Morey about her new book THE NIGHT LAGOON, to Sally Gardner about THE BRIDE STONE and to Piotr Cieplak about ZOFIA NOWAK'S BOOK OF SUPERIOR DETECTING. We also chat to Kelly at Chapter 34 Books in Shoreham about their event programme and summer reads. If you're interested in coming to our day long writing retreat, you can find out more here.

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• 74: Marisa Linton, Kerry Downes, Jill Johnson, E.C. Nevin and Brighton Book Festival

  On this month's show, we speak to Brighton-based writers Marisa Linton, Kerry Downes and Jill Johnson, plus Althea from Brighton Book Festival tells us about this year's offering. We break our own Brighton-based rules to have E.C. Nevin on the show... the book was just that good! 

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