Podcast: Vintage Books

The VINTAGE Podcast is a fortnightly books podcast, released every other Sunday. Author interviews, book news and discussions on subjects ranging from literary fiction to graphic novels, cookery to crime fiction, history and travel to biography and poetry. It comes from the publishers of Jo Nesbo, Nigella Lawson, Irvine Welsh, Haruki Murakami, Ian McEwan, Joe Sacco, Anne Enright, Mark Haddon and more. #VINTAGEPodcast

Costa Book Awards special

Vintage were thrilled to see Keggie Carew win the Biography category of the Costa Awards for Dadland whilst Alice Oswald scooped the Poetry award for her collection, Falling Awake. To celebrate, whilst we await the judges decision on which book will…

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Xiaolu Guo on her moving memoir Once Upon a Time in the East

Vintage Classics: The Russians, Anne Brontë and Angela Carter

We’re beginning 2017 with a bumper podcast filled with classic goodness. Translator Robert Chandler and author Cathy Rentzenbrink join Alex Clark to discuss the Russian Greats, Will Rycroft chats with Samantha Ellis about the life of Anne Brontë a…

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2017 New fiction: Karl Geary on his debut Montpelier Parade

The debut novel from Karl Geary introduces us to Sonny and Vera, a young man and an older woman who meet and forge an unconventional relationship in the Dublin of the early 1980s

Chance meetings become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for…

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2017 preview with Jen Campbell

Midnight approaches and we’re about to welcome in a new year. The great news is that a new year means new books, oodles of them. Alex Clark and WIll Rycroft are joined by Jen Campbell for part two of our bumper podcast. What books are they most lo…

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Christmas with Jeanette Winterson and Ruth Padel

A stocking crammed full of goodness this month with a Books of the Year chat with Jen Campbell; Ruth Padel on her new collection, Tidings, and Jeanette Winterson on why she loves Christmas and some of the stories behind her new book Christmas Days….

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Murakami on Music – Vintage Podcast Live at Spiritland

To celebrate the publication of Haruki Murakami’s Absolutely on Music, VINTAGE held an afternoon of music and discussion at Spiritland in King’s Cross.

This live edition of the VINTAGE Podcast featured James Rhodes, renowned concert pianist and…

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Antoine Leiris and Cathy Rentzenbrink in conversation

One night last winter, Antoine Leiris was at home looking after his son while his wife, Hélène, was at a concert with friends. Suddenly he started receiving text messages asking if he was ok. Turning on the TV, Antoine watched the terrorist attacks in…

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Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan on Transformations

Two authors take their inspiration from Shakespeare and create something entirely new. This month’s podcast looks at transformations and allows you the listener to be in at least two places at once. Recorded at the Cheltenham and Manchester Litera…

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Irvine Welsh and Marlon James in conversation

Winner of the Man Booker prize in 2015, Marlon James, met with Irvine Welsh at the Hay Festival this year and they both spoke with Alex Clark about their writing lives, violence in fiction, writing as a political act, and what comes next after winning…

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