Meet the Writers
Georgina Godwin in conversation with top authors. Explore their inspirations, writing processes, and the stories behind their books.
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Naomi Ishiguro
Naomi Ishiguro is one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in Britain in the past few years and daughter of the Nobel and Booker prize-winning author of the same name. Her debut novel ‘Common Ground’ proves that talent definitely runs in the family. She spoke to Georgina Godwin…
Monocle Reads: Delphine Horvilleur
Delphine Horvilleur is France’s third-ever female rabbi. She leads a Jewish congregation in Paris and co-leads the Liberal Jewish Movement of France. She speaks to Georgina Godwin about her latest book ‘Anti-Semitism Revisited: How the Rabbis Made Sense of Hatred’.
Peter Oborne
Peter Oborne has had a long and distinguished career in British journalism, including stints at ‘The Spectator’, ‘The Daily Mail’ and most notably as former chief political commentator of ‘The Daily Telegraph’. As well as presenting Channel 4’s flagship investigative show ‘Dispatches’, he has also written numerous books on topics…
Monocle Reads: Molly McCully Brown
Molly McCully Brown is a writer, poet and essayist. Her work has featured across a variety of high-profile publications, including ‘The Paris Review’, ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Yale Review’, and she has been the recipient of a number of prestigious scholarships, including the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.…
Margaret Coker
In Margaret Coker’s time as a foreign correspondent for ‘The Wall Street Journal’ and ‘The New York Times’, she reported from over 30 countries on four continents, spending extended time in Russia, the Middle East and Turkey, where her reporting was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Now back home in…
Monocle Reads: Margaret Reynolds
Margaret Reynolds is a writer, critic, broadcaster, and professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Away from academia she presents BBC Radio 4’s ‘Adventures in Poetry’ and has written for a number of national newspapers. Her previous books include ‘The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories’, ‘The Sappho…
Afonso Cruz
Afonso Cruz has written more than 30 books, plays, young-adult novellas, essays and novels, including ‘Kokoschka’s Doll’, which won the EU Prize for Literature. His subsequent books have also found success: ‘Jesus Christ Drank Beer’ was Time Out Lisbon’s best Portuguese novel of the year; ‘Where do Umbrellas End Up’…
Monocle Reads: Bonnie Kemske
Bonnie Kemske is an artist, writer and former editor of ‘Ceramic Review’. Born in Okinawa but raised in the US, she studied the Zen Buddhist artform of Chanoyu in Japan before undertaking a PhD at the Royal College of Art, becoming a ceramicist and researcher. She speaks to Georgina Godwin…
Richard Fidler
Georgina Godwin speaks to celebrated Australian writer and broadcaster Richard Fidler, best known for presenting ‘Conversations’ on ABC Radio, which is one of the most popular podcasts in the country. Having also forged a successful writing career, Fiddler’s latest book, ‘The Golden Maze’, is about the fascinating history of Prague.