Open Book - Sinéad Gleeson
Sinéad Gleeson is a writer, broadcaster and editor of three anthologies of Irish writing. Her collection of essays, Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards, and now publishes her debut novel, Hagstone.
Hagstone is set on a remote island o…
Open Book - Maggie Nelson
Octavia Bright talks to Maggie Nelson about Like Love, an anthology of essays which explore art and friendship and criticism. And a new prize for climate fiction.
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To mark the publication of its paperback edition, this episode is a discussion with Octavia Bright around her wonderful memoir, This Ragged Grace. Published last year, many of you will already know it as an unsparing yet hopeful navigation of unravelling and recovery. It is a deepl…
Lauren Elkin & Octavia Bright: Scaffolding
In her debut novel Scaffolding (Chatto) Lauren Elkin – ‘The Susan Sontag of her generation’, according to Deborah Levy – presents two couples occupying the same Paris apartment, five decades apart. Lauren Elkin’s previous works include Art Monsters, a landmark study of women artists, Flâneuse and a…
World Book Café: Oslo
World Book Café heads to Oslo to Europe’s largest Literature House to find out if Norway is the best place in the world to be a writer?
Octavia Bright is joined to discuss the highs and lows by the internationally bestselling novelist and climate activist Maja Lunde. Johan Harstad prize winning no…
Sarah Moss & Octavia Bright: My Good Bright Wolf
Best known for her novels – most recently, 2021’s The Fell – now Sarah Moss has turned her hand to life-writing. My Good Bright Wolf unflinchingly details her experience of girlhood and anorexia in prose described by Jan Carson as ‘part memoir, part confessional, part dark and feverish fairytale’. …
Review: The Last Showgirl, Oedipus, Nobel author Han Kang's novel We Do Not Part
Tom is joined by the writer and broadcaster Octavia Bright and the Observer's theatre critic Susannah Clapp to review another version of the Greek classic Oedipus, this time at the Old Vic in London and starring Rami Malek.
Also reviewed: The Last Showgirl, which has Pamela Anderson starring as She…
Transcendence for Beginners: Clare Carlisle in conversation with Octavia Bright (14 October 2025)
An evening with Clare Carlisle and Octavia Bright in conversation about Clare's latest book TRANSCENDENCE FOR BEGINNERS (published by Fitzcarraldo Editions) at Pages of Hackney. Recorded live on Tuesday 14 October 2025.
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Ragnar Jonasson: The Darkness
Octavia Bright talks to Ragnar Jónasson about his shocking thriller, The Darkness.
When Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir is unceremoniously told she is being forced into early retirement, she is given the chance to work on one last Cold Case, anything she likes. The case she chooses to revi…
Miriam Toews & Octavia Bright: A Truce That Is Not Peace
In her first work of non-fiction A Truce That Is Not Peace (4th Estate), acclaimed novelist Miriam Toews spirals out from a question asked of her at a literary festival in Mexico City – ‘Why do you write?’ – in a dazzling exploration of grief, guilt, futility and creativity. Toews read from her wor…
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