In Conversation with Clare Whitfield
Talking to the author of People of Abandoned Character and The Gone and the Forgotten about those novels and her writing practice at Waterstones Winchester High Street, 10 January 2023.
Her first novel, People of Abandoned Character is set in the London of 1888 and the story is built around the Jack the Ripper Whitechapel murders.
What if Jack was a married man?
2023’s The Gone and the Forgotten is a coming of age mystery story set in 1990’s Shetland.
London teenager Prue is packed off to stay with her aunt and uncle on a small island. Family secrets galore in this taut psychological thriller with classic gothic elements.
In Conversation with Claire Gradidge
Talking to Claire Gradidge about her writing practice and her new Josephine Fox novel, A Conflict of Interests, at Waterstones Winchester High Street on Thursday evening, 3 November 2022.
The third instalment in the WW2 Homefront crime thriller series finds Jo on her own, struggling to get to bottom of a gruesome death that puts both herself and Bram Nash under suspicion.
Set in and around the market town of Romsey in Hampshire, with the D-Day landings happening offstage, the author again vividly recreates a wartime England with all its combined doughty resilience and small-town prejudices.
Barney Norris
in conversation with
Claire Fuller
Novelist and playwright Barney Norris interviewed by 2021 Costa Novel Award winning author Claire Fuller about his new book, Undercurrents, at Waterstones Winchester High Street, 6 September 2022.
“Norris offers a profound meditation on dealing with loss and finding your moorings in destabilising times.”
Lucy Popescu in the Guardian
Talking to author Jessica Moor about her novels, Keeper and Young Women., at
Waterstones Winchester High Street
23 June 2022
Both novels have themes arising out of the issue of ‘toxic masculinity’. In Keeper spousal abuse and women’s shelters.
Her new novel, Young Women., it’s the ‘Me Too’ generation in zeitgeisty London.
In Conversation with Jessica Moor
In Conversation with Sam Holland
Talking to author Sam Holland about her 2022 novel, The Echo Man at Waterstones Winchester High Street on 26 April 2022
Someone is recreating the crimes of famous serial killers and DCI Cara Elliot and her team are in the hunt to find and stop them.
In Conversation with Thomas Harding
Talking to the author about his 2022 book, White Debt. A recounting of the 1823 Demerara (Guyana) slave uprising and the legacy of empire and the slave trade in Britain and Guyana today.
Recorded 23 March 2022 at Waterstones Winchester High Street.
In Conversation with Victoria Findlay
Talking with Victoria Findlay, author of Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox, about her 2022 book, Fabric:The Hidden History of the Material World.
15 February 2022 at Waterstones Winchester High Street, UK
In Conversation with Claire Fuller
Talking with the author at Waterstones Winchester High Street about her writing practice and her 2021 Costa Novel Award winning novel Unsettled Ground.
Recorded 13 January 2022
Also, featuring Henry Ayling performing We Roamed Through the Garden (16:27)
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Author Interviews
Susmita Bhattacharya
In conversation with Winchester author Susmita Bhattacharya; discussing her 2018 short story collection, Table Manners (published by Dahlia), and her 2015 novel, Normal State of Mind (published by Parthian).
Interview held on Wednesday 4th November 2020. Video produced by Patryk Thomas.
S J Watson
In conversation with S J Watson; discussing his psychological thrillers; Before I Go To Sleep, Second Life and Final Cut.
5 October 2021 at Waterstones Winchester High Street.