Aug 22

How #1 Sunday Times Bestselling Author Stuart MacBride Writes

#1 Sunday Times bestselling author Stuart MacBride spoke to me about playing god, why there are no shortcuts for writers, and his latest Logan McRae novel THIS HOUSE OF BURNING BONES. Stuart MacBride is the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson ... Show More

49m 28s

Aug 15

How Acclaimed Debut Novelist Priscilla Morris Writes

Acclaimed debut novelist and English Professor Priscilla Morris spoke to me about finding her voice, and the germ of an idea that became her labor of love, acclaimed debut novel BLACK BUTTERFLIES. Priscilla Morris is a British author and lecturer whose debut novel, Black Butterfl ... Show More

49m 55s

Aug 13

How #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Jennifer Lynn Barnes Writes: Part Two - Redux

#1 New York Times bestselling author, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, returned to chat about why bestsellers stick around for years, why fiction is perfectly geared for the human mind, and her latest YA thriller, THE GRANDEST GAME. Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the #1 New York Times bestselling ... Show More

40m 6s

Feb 2021

450. How to Be Better at Death

Caitlin Doughty is a mortician who would like to put herself out of business. Our corporate funeral industry, she argues, has made us forget how to offer our loved ones an authentic sendoff. Doughty is the author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From the Crematory. I ... Show More

57m 38s

May 2023

How to have a good death

This week, we consider what it means to have a good death. As nursing strikes escalate throughout the UK and Ireland, the writer Imogen Savage couldn't help but think of her mother Anne, who spent more than 45 years working in end of life care. Imogen spent her childhood watching ... Show More

17m 58s

Dec 2018

318: Caitlin Doughty

Celebrate the holidays with Caitlin Doughty, author, mortician, and founder of The Order Of The Good Death. Caitlin is part of the "death positivity" movement. And her light hearted and compassionate approach to dealing with death is quite inspirational. This episode is brought t ... Show More

1h 32m

Mar 2023

Toni Morrison

Today we are celebrating Women’s History Month and looking at the pioneering writer, Toni Morrison. From her poem, ‘Someone leans near’ to her debut novel, ‘The Bluest Eye’, Susie and Gyles delve into the books, poetry, and legacy of the Nobel Literary Prize winner. We encounter ... Show More

34m 52s

Aug 2019

Growing Up With Toni Morrison

By the time Toni Morrison died last week, a whole generation of readers had come of age in a world where she was already a legend. So, on this week’s show, we’re talking to women about growing up with Morrison’s books—how they first discovered her work, and what it’s meant to the ... Show More

34m 56s

Aug 2022

What Love Does To You & The Oddities of Death

Have you ever noticed how great ideas and solutions often come to you in the shower? This episode begins with an explanation as to why that often happens to so many people. https://www.headspace.com/articles/shower-epiphaniesIs love an emotion? Not according to Anna Machin an evo ... Show More

49m 38s

Aug 2022

Dolly Alderton (Replay): Everything She Knows About Writing A Memoir

Welcome back to this replay episode of Ctrl Alt Delete. Recorded three(?) years ago, writer Dolly Alderton and I discuss her memoir Everything I Know About Love, writing truthfully, turning thirty and how her life changed when her memoir sky-rocketed her to suddenly being in the ... Show More

38m 19s

Dec 2020

Mother Death (Intermediate)

Buy me a coffee to say thank you for the podcast! === A poor man's wife dies and he is left alone to look after 13 children. That is, until Death comes along and makes a deal: they'll become the mother of his son and make him into the best doctor in the land. But as Mortimer grow ... Show More

20m 42s

May 2024

Grief: How to Move Through Losing a Friend with Sloane Crosley

CW: Discussion of suicide Abby and Glennon welcome New York Times bestselling author Sloane Crosley. Sloane shares her experience of losing her dear friend to suicide and the grief journey she went on in the aftermath. The conversation explores handling loss, the nuances of frie ... Show More

1h 4m

How New York Times Bestselling Author & ...