International bestselling author and screenwriter, William Boyd, joins Simon and Matt for a bit of Q&A.
He talks about his favourite authors, how he organises his bookshelves, his favourite screen adaptation of a book - and reveals who he's invite to his fantasy dinner party.
We also surprise him with a question from fellow author, Sebastian Faulks.
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William Boyd
Sunday Times bestseller, William Boyd, joins Simon and Matt for a natter about his latest novel - 'The Predicament'.
This is the second of a trilogy set in the 60s about reluctant spy, Gabriel Dax, who is also a travel writer.
William gives some writing advice (he always knows the ending), reflects on the smoking and drinking culture of the 1960s and talks us through his reasons for his spy's characteristic traits.
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Ian McEwan Q&A
International bestselling author, Ian McEwan, joins Simon and Matt for a little bit of Q&A.
He talks about his favorite places to write, being interrupted during a a writing flow and gives us some brilliant book recommendations too.
Ian also shares who he would invite to his fantasy dinner party.
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Ian McEwan
International bestselling author, Ian McEwan, joins Simon and Matt for a chat about his new novel 'What We Can Know'.
Optimistic manifesto? Or a cautious tale?
In the first half of the book, we learn about a lost poem - which is at the heart of the novel - as this is ultimately a book about a quest.
As well as poetry, they talk about renewable energies being on the rise and the positive conversations around climate change.
'you only have to stop doing bad things to nature, for it to push back quickly'
Here's more on the book:
2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.Tom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith.When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately.
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Laura Shepherd-Robinson Q&A
Crime author, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, joins Simon and Matt for a natter about the authors and books she loves - and her writing process.
We also surprise her with a question from the author SJ Parris - and find out who she would invite to her fantasy dinner party.
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