Podcasts
Stay in touch with the bookshop through The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director Adam Biles the show features conversations with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded live from the bookshop.
Small Girl, Big Ideas: Getting to know Mafalda, with Samanta Schweblin and Frank Wynne
21 August 2025
In this episode Adam speaks with translator Frank Wynne and Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin about the first-ever English edition of Mafalda, the beloved Argentine comic strip by Quino (Archipelago Books)...
Calls May Be Recorded: Lipstick, Loneliness, and Late Capitalism with Katharina Volckmer
06 August 2025
Katharina Volckmer joins Adam Biles to discuss her biting, bleakly funny second novel, Calls May Be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes. Set in a London call centre, the book...
The Shape of Survival: Eimear McBride on Love, Art, and the City
30 July 2025
In this textured conversation, author Eimear McBride joins Adam Biles at Shakespeare and Company to discuss her latest novel The City Changes Its Face. Set in Camden Town in the...
Katie Kitamura on Fiction’s Shifting Realities
25 July 2025
Katie Kitamura joins Adam Biles to discuss her remarkable novel Audition. Centred on a middle-aged actress whose settled life is upended by a young man claiming to be her son...
Renton Returns, Sick Boy in Love: Irvine Welsh Reimagines His Antiheroes
17 July 2025
In this electric conversation, Irvine Welsh joins Adam Biles at Shakespeare and Company to discuss Men in Love, the long-awaited sequel to Trainspotting. Picking up moments after Renton's betrayal, Welsh...
Inside the Story Machine: Natasha Brown on Media, Power, and Fiction
10 July 2025
In this episode novelist Natasha Brown joins Adam Biles to discuss her daring second book, Universality. The conversation explores the novel’s structural audacity—opening with a fictional long-read article—and its thematic...
Making Sense of Gertrude Stein, with Francesca Wade
03 July 2025
In this rich conversation, Francesca Wade joins Adam Biles to discuss her biography Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife. Wade explores the complexities of Stein’s life, legacy, and literary innovations, foregrounding Stein’s...
Geoff Dyer’s Homework: Family, Class, and Memory
26 June 2025
In this episode, Adam Biles speaks with acclaimed author Geoff Dyer live from Shakespeare and Company about his new memoir, Homework. Dyer reflects on growing up in 1960s Cheltenham, navigating...
