Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers

Cristina Bendek and Robin Myers - Salt Crystals

Both writer and translator of SALT CRYSTALS, Cristina Bendek and Robin Myers, are here to discuss this shape-shifting and history-searching novel.  A book about a woman, Victoria, who explores her own and the island she's from, San Andrés's, history.

Find out more about the book here

Rippling Points:

A momentaneous piece or peace? How can we write about the transient, the changing, in a form which preaches endurability and timelessness?

Disease as a symptom: why Cristina chose to write about diabetes

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Reference Points:

Geoffrey Hill

Nicholas Royle and White Spines:

"It's a quest to try to collect all of the Picadors..."

Nicholas Royle is here to talk about White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector, and his journey to find Picador books. You can buy the book here

 

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Rippling Points
The Second Life of Books: the second-hand bookshop as a home for new, undiscovered and forgotten writers

Got to Catch Them All: Is your favourite bookshop named?

 

Writers and Books

AJ Ashworth
Andrea Ashworth
The Lake John Foxx (Nightjar Press)
M. John Harrison
Anna Kavan - Ice (Picador: 1967)
Alberto Manguel (editor) Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature (Picador: 1983)
Livi Michael - The Lake (Nightjar Press)
Alison Moore
Nicholas Royle - First Novel (Vintage: 2013)
Nicholas Royle - Counterparts (Penguin: 1995)
Nicholas Royle - Ornithology (Confingo: 2017)
Nicholas Royle - An English Guide to Bird Watching (Myriad Editions: 2017)
Nicholas Royle - Uncanny (Manchester University Press: 2003)
Per Wahlöö - The Lorry (Picador: 1972)
Conrad Williams

Artists

Paul Delvaux
Salvador Dali

 

Caroline Clark and Own Sweet Time

"All this wouldn't have happened without that experience of cancer..."

Caroline Clark is here with one of the most tender and moving books due to be released this year: Own Sweet Time.

Caroline's book is about the "hardest thing she's been through physically" and the "hardest things she's found mentally. 

Find out more book here: 

 

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Rippling Points

• In the moment: how do we translate our most difficult moments?
• By your side: verbatim writing

Reference Points:

Svetlana Alexievich - Chernobyl Prayer
Marit Kapla - Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village

Caroline's interview with Rowena MacDonald - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/sovietica-an-interview-with-caroline-clark/

Caroline's Previous Books
Saying Yes in Russian (2012: Agenda Editions)
Sovetica (2020: CB Editions)

Sarah Schofield and Safely Gathered In

"As humans, we're really scared of forgetting..."

Welcome back for another episode of the Rippling Pages – I’m delighted to speaking to Sarah Schofield, author of the short story collection, SAFELY GATHERED IN (Comma Press - you can find here)


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Rippling Points:

• Safely Gathered In? Containment as a literary, psychological and physical idea
• Shopping lists and short stories: when fiction crosses over with the everyday.

 
Reference Points:

Elizabeth Baines
Roald Dahl

Tania Hershman

Adrian Henri

Mary Shelley
William Wordsworth

Richard Price - the Owner of the Sea

"Song is very powerful...it's not a truth teller, it's a state-changer."

Richard Price joins today's show to discuss his collection of 'Three Inuit Stories Retold.' Published by Carcanet, the book was a Scotsman Book of the Year in 2021, and Richard joined me to discuss the challenges of retelling these tales.

You can buy the book here: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800171176


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Rippling Points

• Don't read it on Wikipedia: shedding light on expectations of roles
• Travelling by song: the powerful nature of song.

Reference Points

• Ron King, artist
• Small World by Richard Price (2012: Carcanet)
• Quentin Tarantino

Erica Mou and Clarissa Botsford on THIRSTY SEA

"The first thing that came to me? A woman, alone with the sea, and in charge of her own destiny?"

 

Welcome back to the Rippling Pages and Series Three: Beneath the Surface. 

 

We have Erica Mou and Clarissa Botsford here to discuss Thirsty Sea. Erica is a successful musician with six albums to her name. Her novel is translated by Clarissa and published by exciting new press, Héloïse Press, who are championing world-wide female talent.

You can buy the book here:

https://www.heloisepress.com/book/thirsty-sea


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Rippling Points

• Sea change? How Erica sings and writes about the sea
• Translating as a reader: How Clarissa read the book 'like a reader.'

Reference Points

Erica's podcast, Punti di Fuga

 'Contro le Onde' by Erica Mou