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#476: Kate Mosse, founder of Women's Prizes and bestselling author with Caroline Sanderson

Release Date: 02/02/2025

#492: Blake Morrison, poet, memoirist and critic

Collected: The Podcast

Blake Morrison joins Julia Copus to respond to material from the RLF archives, and reflect on his work and process. They discuss how he grew into being more confessional in his writing, how he encourages students to overcome their fears when writing memoir and how he has come to write in such an extraordinary range of genres. © Royal Literary Fund

#491: Marianne Colbran, TV scriptwriter turned criminologist

Collected: The Podcast

Presenter Doug Johnstone is joined by Marianne Colbran, whose work explores how media presentations of crime and the police differ from reality. They discuss finding your voice in academic writing, the pressures of TV writers’ rooms and how an unexpected stint as a magazine sex expert launched Marianne’s writing career. © Royal Literary Fund

#490: Pragya Agarwal, behavioural and data scientist, and founder of The 50 Percent Project

Collected: The Podcast

Academic Pragya Agarwal joins host Sonia Faleiro on a deep dive into the Royal Literary Fund archives, using the recordings to reflect on her work drawing attention to the spaces where women have been rendered invisible, the role that science writing can play in combatting climate change and the inequalities embedded in the publishing industry. © Royal Literary Fund

#489: Caroline Sanderson, Associate Editor of The Bookseller, critic, non-fiction author

Collected: The Podcast

Ann Morgan is joined by Associate Editor of The Bookseller, critic, non-fiction author and regular Collected presenter Caroline Sanderson, whose new book Listen With Father has just hit the bookshop shelves. Together, they discuss programming literary festivals, finding a new way of writing about music and bereavement, and how books journalism has changed over the past 25 years. © Royal Literary Fund

#488: Jonathan Edwards, Award-winning poet on why rejection hits writers so hard

Collected: The Podcast

Award-winning poet Jonathan Edwards delves into the Royal Literary Fund’s sound archives with host Julia Copus, using other writers’ reflections to explore his views on the role of teachers, what happens when a poem really lives and why rejection hits writers so hard. © Royal Literary Fund

#487: Rosemary Jenkinson, writer, playwright, poet, essayist, memoirist and cultural commentator

Collected: The Podcast

Host Jonathan Tulloch is joined by short-story writer, playwright, poet, essayist, memoirist and cultural commentator Rosemary Jenkinson, who writes edgy work often based on people she meets in the pub, and has braved intimidating situations to record untold stories from the Northern Irish Troubles. © Royal Literary Fund

#486: Tessa Hadley, author of novels, short stories and non-fiction

Collected: The Podcast

Celebrated author Tessa Hadley, in conversation with presenter Caroline Sanderson, delves into the Royal Literary Fund’s sound archives, using the recordings to reflect on the challenges of the writing life and her work spinning psychologically astute domestic dramas. © Royal Literary Fund

#485: Alex Wong, literary critic and poet

Collected: The Podcast

Julia Copus is joined in the studio by Alex Wong, a literary critic and poet who writes without being able to visualise images. © Royal Literary Fund

#484: Laura Barnett, bestselling novelist and writing teacher

Collected: The Podcast

Internationally bestselling author Laura Barnett delves into the Royal Literary Fund’s sound archives with presenter Ann Morgan, exploring writer's block, the perils and perks of publication day, and how swapping the city for the countryside affects writing. © Royal Literary Fund

#483: Howard Linskey, crime writer

Collected: The Podcast

Presenter Doug Johnstone is joined in the studio by fellow crime writer Howard Linskey to chew the fat about the writing life and share his surprising, non-linear approach to storytelling. © Royal Literary Fund

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The internationally bestselling author and co-founder of what is now the Women’s Prize for Fiction delves into the Royal Literary Fund’s sound archives, using the recordings to reflect on the highs and lows of her career.

The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is published on 10 Oct by Mantle (Pan Macmillan) and is available as a hardback, ebook and audio recording. Kate’s live one-woman stage show, Labyrinth, will be on tour in 2025. Dates and info can be found here:

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