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This episode features David Whitehouse discussing his Gordon Burn Prize-shortlisted nonfiction book About A Son. It's about Colin Hehir's battle to know the truth about his son's murderer. <br /><br />The book is...

In this episode I interviewed Keith Blackmore, who edited Philip Gould’s book When I Die, which was published after Philip had died.<br /><br />Philip was one of the architects of New Labour, but in 2011 he had cancer...

A slightly different episode, this time I spoke to David Wolf, editor of The Guardian Long Read, about their new magazine-format publication comprising some of their best pieces.<br /><br />David previously worked for...

I spoke to David James Smith about his book The Sleep of Reason, which is about the murder of James Bulger.<br /><br />David is a tremendous journalist who has written features for places like The Sunday Times Magazine...

This is an interview with Will Storr about his book The Status Game, which was named a book of the year by The Times and was recently championed on Joe Rogan's podcast. <br /><br />Will is my friend and former features...

This was a hugely revealing conversation with David Blum, who now works for Audible, but once wrote books. <br /><br />We started off talking about David's early journalism career, including the famous 1985 New York...

For this episode I spoke to American writer Jo Ann Beard about her latest collection Festival Days and her previous collection The Boys of My Youth. <br /><br />We talked about fact, fiction, creative writing...

For this episode I spoke to Sam Knight about his book The Premonitions Bureau, published by Faber. <br /><br />It's nonfiction, about a phsyciatrist, a journalist, and an experiment they ran for a while to see whether...

In this episode I interview Michela Wrong about her book Do Not Disturb, which is about the murder of Rwanda's former head of intelligence Patrick Karegeya. <br /><br />We talked about her interviews with people who had...

After a bit of a wait, finally this is the Adam Hochschild episode. Adam teaches journalism at Berkeley, which we talk a bit about as well as some of his other books.<br /><br />The focus though was King Leopold's...

In this episode I interviewed American journalist and lawyer Alia Malek, whose work has been published by the New York Times and New Yorker. <br /><br />I spoke to her about her 2017 book The Home That Was Our Country...

In this episode I talked to Jon Ronson about his book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. We covered his career leading up to the book, how he nailed down the idea, how a book deal works for an author at his level, and what...

This episode I spoke to New York Times writer Jon Mooallem about his book This is Chance!<br /><br />The book is about a huge but little-known earthquake in Alaska. I talked to Jon about why he chose the story, how he...

In this episode of Logroll I spoke to Cathy Rentzenbrink about her book The Last Act of Love.<br /><br />The book is about her brother, Matty, who was hit by a car, and what happened afterwards. We talked about her...

In this episode of Logroll I spoke to Carl Anka, writer for the Athletic, about his book You Are A Champion, which he wrote with professional footballer Marcus Rashford. It is a book for children, so we talked about...