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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.
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Roxy Dunn on As Young As This
29 August 2024
Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, strikingly, in...
Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions
22 August 2024
School of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground the experience—brutal, significant, but long...
Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall
15 August 2024
This week’s guest is Michael Donkor whose new novel Grow Where They Fall is a meticulous and tender exploration of two formative moments in the life of one Kwame Akromah...
Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin
08 August 2024
The seven stories in Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses are not just about houses—how they contain us, how they constrain us—but are also about the families compressed in them, the...
Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips
01 August 2024
So much has been written about the imminent transformation that Artificial Intelligence will bring to our world. But it is often hard to get much of a sense of what...
Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey
25 July 2024
We recently welcomed Catherine Lacey to the bookshop to discuss her vertiginous latest novel Biography of X. Ostensibly the quest of a journalist, C.M. Lucca, to discover more about the...
Paul Murray on The Bee Sting
17 July 2024
Set in small-town, post-crash Ireland, The Bee Sting follows the Barnes family—Dickie, Imelda, Cass and PJ—as the fabric of their lives first frays at the edges, then begins to unravel...
Claire Kilroy on Parenting under the Patriarchy
04 July 2024
A woman tells her son about his early life. About the months and years that he will by now have forgotten. When he was a baby, then a toddler, and...
