Best Jeremy Segal Podcasts (2025)

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Sheyla Smanioto: 'It's a haunted story, where you know something is going to happen' 21:52

6d ago21:52

21:52

This summer series of podcasts has taken us from the snow and ice of AL Kennedy's Expedition Skills to the blunt heat of Ali McClary's Proper Magic, and from the staccato fragments of Pete Segall's Bolex Man to the unstoppable momentum of Dafydd McKimm's The Nosebleed. We bring this season to a close with Sheyla Smanioto and the haunting threat of …

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Dafydd McKimm: 'I write this kind of story in a bit of a fever' 18:27

14d ago18:27

18:27

This summer, we've heard from AL Kennedy, Pete Segall and Ali McClary. We'll be bringing this series to a close with Sheyla Smanioto, but this time Dafydd McKimm steps into the consulting room with his short story The Nosebleed. McKimm tells us how The Nosebleed was a story that came to him with the ending already in place, citing the translator Mi…

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Ali McClary: 'This story started as a conversation between two young women' 15:15

1M ago15:15

15:15

We've already heard from AL Kennedy and Pete Segall in this summer series of podcasts, and we’ll be hearing from Sheyla Smanioto and Dafydd McKimm over the next few weeks. But this time we're summoning up Ali McClary and her short story Proper Magic. McClary confesses that the intense friendship between Min and Hazel is drawn from her own experienc…

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Pete Segall: 'I don’t feel like it’s my job as a writer to answer questions' 17:07

1M ago17:07

17:07

We began this Summer series of podcasts with AL Kennedy arguing that the empathy which powers fiction makes writing it a political act. We'll be talking fiction – or maybe politics – with Sheyla Smanioto, Ali McClary and Dafydd McKimm over the next few weeks. But this time we're zooming in on Pete Segall and his story Bolex Man. Segall tells us tha…

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AL Kennedy: 'It's all political, if you're writing fiction' 28:39

1M ago28:39

28:39

It's raining in London, but it's time for another issue – and another series of Fictionable podcasts. Over the next few weeks we'll be hearing from Sheyla Smanioto, Pete Segall, Ali McClary and Dafydd McKimm. But we begin Summer 2025 with AL Kennedy, and her icy short story Expedition Skills. Kennedy says that the story emerged out of the "very str…

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Susanna Clarke: 'You’ve got to play with things being very fantastical and also slightly humdrum' 30:06

4M ago30:06

30:06

This spring we've heard from Fríða Ísberg, Bronia Flett, Jeremy Wikeley and PR Woods already. But we bring this series to a close with Susanna Clarke and her short story The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City. Clarke tells us that it's a story she's been thinking about for some time. "I have never really stopped thinking about Strange …

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Jeremy Wikeley: 'I would always defend the notion of being able to write about a place called England' 19:36

4M ago19:36

19:36

We've already welcomed Fríða Ísberg, Bronia Flett and PR Woods in this Spring series, and Susanna Clarke will be joining us next time. But now we're hearing from Jeremy Wikeley with his short story Kent's Oak. According to Wikeley, his main character's disconnected connection with his neighbours on the estate is just how it felt when he was growing…

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PR Woods: 'I would never write anything against Wolf Hall' 19:58

4M ago19:58

19:58

We've already heard from Fríða Ísberg and Bronia Flett in this Spring series, and we'll be welcoming Susanna Clarke and Jeremy Wikeley on to the Fictionable podcast over the next few weeks. But this time we're going back in time with PR Woods and her short story Our Lady of Sorrows. Woods tells us how Sister Avis came to her after someone wrote to …

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Bronia Flett: 'This is obviously all fiction' 22:51

4M ago22:51

22:51

Fríða Ísberg got this Spring series of podcasts started, with a dialogue on monologues and a reading from her short story Fingers, translated by Larissa Kyzer. We'll be welcoming Susanna Clarke, Jeremy Wikeley and PR Woods on to the podcast over the next few weeks, but right here and right now we're talking transformation with Bronia Flett. Flett t…

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Fríða Ísberg: 'We are always just looking for simple stories' 25:33

5M ago25:33

25:33

Everything is changing, but one thing you can rely on is a new set of stories and a new series of podcasts from Fictionable. Spring 2025 brings us stories from Susanna Clarke, Bronia Flett, Jeremy Wikeley and PR Woods – we'll be hearing from them all over the next few weeks. But we begin with Fríða Ísberg and her short story Fingers, translated by …

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Joanna Kavenna: 'We all make fictions about the future' 27:18

7M ago27:18

27:18

After hearing from Helga Schubert, Ben Sorgiovanni, Julian George and Rachida Lamrabet, we bring this Winter series of podcasts to a close with Joanna Kavenna and her short story Notes on the Future. Kavenna tells us how this story was born from an obsession with patterns and a robust detachment from her characters. "I like to have quite questing n…

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Rachida Lamrabet: 'Fiction gives me the opportunity to introduce another perspective' 18:24

7M ago18:24

18:24

In this Winter season we've already heard from Helga Schubert, Ben Sorgiovanni and Julian George. Joanna Kavenna will be rounding off the series next time, but right here and now we welcome Rachida Lamrabet and her short story Two Girls on Bicycles, translated by Johanna McCalmont. Lamrabet recalls how this story was set in motion by a chance encou…

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Julian George: 'Any word out of place, the whole thing is worthless' 16:56

7M ago16:56

16:56

So far we've heard from Helga Schubert and Ben Sorgiovanni in this Winter season. We'll be welcoming Joanna Kavenna and Rachida Lamrabet over the next couple of weeks, but for this feature we present Julian George and The Movie Lovers. George tells us how this short story emerged from the classic 1950s sitcom, The Honeymooners. "I just thought of t…

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Ben Sorgiovanni: 'What fiction does really well is capture the nuance of human experience' 14:59

8M ago14:59

14:59

This Winter series of podcasts got underway with Helga Schubert, who told us how she put together her short story On Getting Up from pieces of her past. This season we'll be hearing from Joanna Kavenna, Rachida Lamrabet and Julian George, but this time we meet Ben Sorgiovanni and his story No One Here Knows You. He tells us how this story grew out …

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Helga Schubert: 'There's got to be distance between the writer and their story' 24:34

8M ago24:34

24:34

As the world lurches into 2025 we launch into another series of Fictionable podcasts. We'll be hearing from Joanna Kavenna, Rachida Lamrabet, Ben Sorgiovanni and Julian George over the next few weeks, but we start with Helga Schubert and her short story On Getting Up, translated by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks. Banks turns interpreter as Schuber…

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Esther Karin Mngodo: 'I am more myself when I write in Swahili' 29:09

8M ago29:09

29:09

Last year we heard from Daisy Johnson, Judith Vanistendael, Scott Jacobs and Hannah Webb. We bring our Autumn series to a close – just in time for Winter – with Esther Karin Mngodo and the translator Jay Boss Rubin, who join us to talk about First Date. Mngodo tells us how this story ate another of her short stories, Without Sun. "It came from the …

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The Mysterious Disappearance of Madilene McCann 12:02

8M ago12:02

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Hannah Webb: 'I always seem to end up writing at the extremes' 19:09

10M ago19:09

19:09

We opened this Autumn season with Daisy Johnson and followed up with Judith Vanistendael and Scott Jacobs. We'll be sitting down with Esther Karin Mngodo over the next week or so, but this episode is devoted to Hannah Webb and her short story Titanic. While Jacobs told us Be Careful Who Your Friends Are was drawn from his own life, Webb insists tha…

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Scott Jacobs: 'I made a few things up along the way' 18:18

11M ago18:18

18:18

This season we've already heard from Daisy Johnson and Judith Vanistendael. Over the next few weeks we'll be sitting down with Esther Karin Mngodo and Hannah Webb, but this time we welcome Scott Jacobs and his short story Be Careful Who Your Friends Are. According to Jacobs, this curious tale was a "real-life experience". "I changed the names, to p…

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Judith Vanistendael: 'This first love has defined my storytelling' 22:37

11M ago22:37

22:37

In the first of our Autumn podcasts, Daisy Johnson told us how she was living on the edge when she was writing her collection The Hotel, and read from her short story Conference. Over the course of this season we'll be ranging all round the world to hear from Esther Karin Mngodo, Scott Jacobs and Hannah Webb, but this time Judith Vanistendael expla…

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Daisy Johnson: 'Most of the things I write do have a twist' 24:07

11M ago24:07

24:07

The leaves are swirling, there's a nip in the air, so it's time for a whole new bunch of Fictionable podcasts. Over the next few weeks we'll be hearing from Judith Vanistendael, Esther Karin Mngodo, Scott Jacobs and Hannah Webb, but we're launching into Autumn with Daisy Johnson and her short story Conference. Conference appears in Johnson's forthc…

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Susan Muaddi Darraj: 'My writing has changed forever by what's happening in Gaza' 31:20

1y ago31:20

31:20

This Summer podcast series has brought us Samantha Harvey, Patrick Cash, Carolina Bruck – translated by Ellen Jones – and Jack Klausner. We bring it to a close with Susan Muaddi Darraj and her mighty story May You Wake Up to a Homeland. Darraj tells us that she started with an image, an old man in his kitchen "looking at this bizarre package of fro…

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Jack Klausner: 'I write more on the darker end of the spectrum' 14:43

1y ago14:43

14:43

Already this summer we've heard from Samantha Harvey, Patrick Cash, Carolina Bruck and her translator Ellen Jones. This time we're getting under the surface of Jack Klausner's short story The Coalface. Klausner tells us how this story emerged from a memory – his partner's mother remembering her own father eating a block of melted cheese for his tea…

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Carolina Bruck: 'Fiction can transform the way we understand the world' 18:04

1y ago18:04

18:04

This summer series has already brought us Samantha Harvey and Patrick Cash. Now it's time for Carolina Bruck and her translator Ellen Jones, with Bruck's short story China. We start with questions of vocabulary, as Bruck clears up exactly what a china is and fills us in on the cultural significance of the gaucho. The author says she was writing aga…

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Patrick Cash: 'The coming out story has been told so many times' 15:36

1y ago15:36

15:36

Last time Samantha Harvey let the cat out of the bag, diving straight into the heart of her story Bona Fide Nihon-kitsch. This time Patrick Cash is a little less spoiler heavy as he talks about and reads from his story Trish Malone. Cash tells us how the cabaret artist who takes a leading role came to his rescue a few years back and has been "wande…

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Samantha Harvey: 'This is what fiction can do' 34:26

1y ago34:26

34:26

The weather may be up the spout but it's still summer, so it's time for another batch of Fictionable podcasts. We'll be hearing from Susan Muaddi Darraj, Carolina Bruck, Patrick Cash and Jack Klausner in this summer season. But Summer opens with Samantha Harvey and her mighty short story Bona Fide Nihon-kitsch. If you haven't read it already, you m…

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Jakub Żulczyk: 'We're all two inches tall' 19:51

1y ago19:51

19:51

In this Spring series of podcasts we've heard from Jenny Erpenbeck, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz. We bring it to a close with Jakub Żulczyk and his story Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff. Żulczyk became a bestseller with hard-hitting thrillers such as The Institute and Blinded by the Light…

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Rose Rahtz: 'What if you did have magical powers in a toddler?' 24:27

1+ y ago24:27

24:27

This spring we've already heard from Jenny Erpenbeck, Grahame Williams and Lauren Caroline Smith. This time we welcome Rose Rahtz and her short story Where Hast Thou Been, Sister? Rahtz tells us how the story started as a response to the opening of Macbeth, where there is a roll of thunder and Shakespeare's First Witch asks, "Where hast thou been, …

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Lauren Caroline Smith: 'There is something countercultural in Christianity' 20:38

1+ y ago20:38

20:38

In this Spring series of podcasts we've already heard from Jenny Erpenbeck and Grahame Williams. Now it's time for Lauren Caroline Smith and her short story The Placing of Hands. Smith looks back on her teenage years, when being a committed Christian made her something of an oddity, and reflects on what it’s like to be a person of faith within a pr…

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Grahame Williams: 'Random acts of violence could happen at any time' 19:26

1+ y ago19:26

19:26

Last time we heard from Jenny Erpenbeck, who told us that before her latest novel Kairos she'd "never written a love story". This time we welcome Grahame Williams and his short story Making It Happen. Like the industrialist Sir John Harvey-Jones, an inspirational figure in Making It Happen, Williams says he's not much of a planner: "If there's a sp…

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Jenny Erpenbeck: 'What you write down can be made to hide something' 25:18

1+ y ago25:18

25:18

Spring has finally sprung and with it another series of Fictionable podcasts. Over the next few weeks we'll be hearing from Jakub Żulczyk, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz. But we launch into Spring with Jenny Erpenbeck and her haunting short story Sloughing Off One Skin. When we spoke down the line from Berlin, Erpenbeck bega…

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Liam Hogan: 'I want to be entertained' 25:20

1+ y ago25:20

25:20

We've already heard from Linda Mannheim, Richard Smyth, Ariel Marken Jack. and Robert Neuwirth in this Winter series of podcasts. Now we bring it to a close with Liam Hogan and his short story Backstory. Hogan tells us how it all came from his suspicion of heroes. "They often have it far too easy," he explains. "If you have someone with supreme ski…

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Robert Neuwirth: 'I wanted it to be plausible as a machine thinking' 30:18

1+ y ago30:18

30:18

In this Winter series of podcasts we've heard from Linda Mannheim, Richard Smyth and Ariel Marken Jack. This time we welcome Robert Neuwirth and his short story The Disambiguation. Neuwirth tells us how his story started from a couple of one-liners that were driving him crazy and wound up stuffed full of computer code. We anthropomorphise the machi…

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Ariel Marken Jack: 'The way I fight back is through my writing' 34:47

1+ y ago34:47

34:47

We've already heard from Linda Mannheim and Richard Smyth in this Winter series, and now it's time for Ariel Marken Jack and their story The Bread Boy. Marken Jack tells us how their writing began in isolation, flat on their back with chronic fatigue syndrome. This debilitating illness is giving rise to writing they call "the most 21st-century form…

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Richard Smyth: 'We all need an Otherland' 32:58

1+ y ago32:58

32:58

Last week we heard from Linda Mannheim, who told us that the only way she can go back to the neighbourhood where she grew up is in fiction. This time we welcome Richard Smyth and his short story Karóly Bálint's Metaphor. Smyth explains how his story isn’t exactly set in Budapest and reflects on how the bleakness of the steppe echoes the stereotypic…

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Linda Mannheim: 'What is a happy ending?' 24:06

1+ y ago24:06

24:06

In this Winter series of podcasts, we'll be hearing from Richard Smyth, Ariel Marken Jack, Robert Neuwirth and Liam Hogan. We start off with Linda Mannheim, who joined us down the line from Berlin. Mannheim explains how the central character in her story Those Last Days appeared to her "out of the blue" and how she found her fiction inexorably draw…

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Catriona Bolt: 'Everyone in the story associates mushrooms with death' 23:24

2y ago23:24

23:24

We've already heard from M John Harrison, Irena Karpa, Seán Padraic Birnie and Shauna Mackay on the Fictionable podcast. Now we bring this autumn series to a close with Catriona Bolt and her mycological short story Bloom. Bolt tells us how she fell in love with mushrooms despite, or perhaps because of, their double nature. These mysterious organism…

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Shauna Mackay: 'It's listening to the characters and letting them take the lead' 14:42

2y ago14:42

14:42

In this autumn series of podcasts we've heard from M John Harrison, Irena Karpa and Seán Padraic Birnie. This week we welcome Shauna Mackay to discuss her short story Matching up the Pattern at the Join. Mackay tells us how her short stories are driven by voice, by characters she conjures up and then follows on the page: "I sound like a witch now."…

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Seán Padraic Birnie: 'I was quite depressed and pissed off with work' 22:57

2y ago22:57

22:57

This autumn we've already heard from M John Harrison, Irena Karpa and her band, Qarpa. This week we have an appointment with Seán Padraic Birnie and his story The Medical Room. Birnie tells us how he was fuelled by frustration at work and struggles with chronic fatigue syndrome. "It made me laugh, I think," he says, "but I wasn't sure it would make…

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Irena Karpa: 'Literature must entertain, especially in dark times' 31:19

2y ago31:19

31:19

After hearing last week from M John Harrison, who discussed how he makes fiction from fragments of reality, this week we turn it up to eleven as we welcome Irena Karpa. Fuelled by the latest track from her band, Qarpa, she reads from Kate Tsurkan's translation of her short story, Fellow Traveler, and gives us the inside track on that journey. Karpa…

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M John Harrison: 'How do you know who’s alive and who’s the ghost?' 30:10

2y ago30:10

30:10

Over the next few weeks, we'll be hearing from Irena Karpa, Seán Padraic Birnie, Shauna Mackay and Catriona Bolt. But we launch this autumn podcast series with M John Harrison and his haunting short story, I Can't Tell. Harrison tells us how he constructs his stories from fragments of real life, filed in notebooks and then reassembled into uncanny …

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Sabba Khan: 'The terraced house is a big character in this story' 20:55

2y ago20:55

20:55

This summer we've been hearing a little more from our amazing authors in an expanded series of podcasts. Joyce Carol Oates confessed she feels "like a fourteen-year-old girl" while Fiona Mozley admitted to an "awkward personality". José Falero – voiced by Maria Jacqueline Evans – argued that the 21st century's obscene inequalities can only be addre…

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Donal McLaughlin: 'I've got that Derry voice in my head' 22:54

2y ago22:54

22:54

In this summer's new, expanded podcast we've already heard from Joyce Carol Oates, Fiona Mozley and José Falero – translated and interpreted by Maria Jacqueline Evans. This time we're heading north to catch up with Donal McLaughlin and his story runaway. McLaughlin has been writing short stories about his main character, Liam O'Donnell, for thirty …

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José Falero: 'If people started robbing cars en masse, that would be a political event' 23:28

2y ago23:28

23:28

We've heard already this summer from Joyce Carol Oates and Fiona Mozley, but now the translator Maria Jacqueline Evans turns interpreter as we talk – via the magic of email – to José Falero. He tells us why he wanted to look at the violence of a flash kidnapping from the inside in his short story Flash of Dignity, and what drives his characters to …

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Fiona Mozley: 'Fiction really is a conversation' 17:21

2y ago17:21

17:21

After hearing last week how Joyce Carol Oates is firmly focused on the future, this week we’re focusing on Fiona Mozley and her mighty story Cadair Idris. She tells us how this trip up the mountain began on a family holiday and explores how characters suffering from mental illness pose a particular challenge for writers of fiction. As the kind of a…

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Joyce Carol Oates: 'With prose fiction you can go beneath the surface' 23:33

2y ago23:33

23:33

It's revolution on the Fictionable podcast, where we've evolved again to hear more from our fabulous contributors. We're devoting an entire programme to Joyce Carol Oates and her fantastic story Small Veins, with Fiona Mozley, José Falero and his translator Maria Jacqueline Evans, Donal McLaughlin and Sabba Khan all joining us over the coming weeks…

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Etgar Keret: 'When I write a story I also live it' 51:40

2+ y ago51:40

51:40

The Fictionable podcast heads for Tel Aviv, where Etgar Keret talks about the mystery of translation, the surrealism of technology and surprising himself with his own fiction. The sudden reverses in stories like Point of No Return are rarely planned in from the start, Keret explains, but emerge as he writes – an impulse towards instability he attri…

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084 | How Ricky Kesler gained a total of 14 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube! 56:25

2+ y ago56:25

56:25

In this interview, we'll learn more about how Ricky helps people to be financially independent! Visit: https://whyinfluence.com/ Support the Channel through Affiliate Links: https://www.tubebuddy.com/account/fre... https://streamyard.com?pal=6618293747056640http://www.riverside.fm/?via=influencer Join me on other platforms:https://www.linkedin.com/…

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Diana Evans: 'You can actually go quite far with very little' 26:29

2+ y ago26:29

26:29

On this edition of the Fictionable podcast, Diana Evans tells us how she started cooking up her short story Broth. She talks about minimalism in fiction, female friendship and how the category "black writing" doesn't make any sense. She also gives us a heads up about her forthcoming novel, A House for Alice, which finds the characters from Ordinary…

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Evie Wyld: 'I feel much more able to do wilder things in the present tense' 28:47

3y ago28:47

28:47

Evie Wyld joins us for the second edition of the Fictionable podcast to spill the beans about the inspiration for her short story The Land. She tells us about childhood holidays in a rat-infested caravan on the Isle of Wight and how she's fascinated by the twists and folds of time. She also keeps us up to the minute, confessing that she can go wild…

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