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Tove Alsterdal

KATE HAMER, PETER SWANSON, TOVE ALSTERDAL &amp; CHARLOTTE VASSELL chat to Paul Burke in a special episode featuring four FABER authors who have just published a new thriller/crime novel. KATE HAMER The Lost Girls  'Reads like a shiver down the spine.' ANNA BAILEYPETER SWANSON The Kind Worth Saving  'Smart, surprising, cool and fun, with a deeply satisfying ending. I loved it!' -- Gillian McAllister (The Kind Worth Killing)TOVE ALSTERDAL trans. Alice Menzies You Will Never Be Found  'Strong characters, a great sense of place and plot twists galore.' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB (We Know You Remember )CHARLOTTE VASSELL The Other Half'Delicious, searing . . . What a great new voice she is in detective fiction!' S. J. BENNETTProduced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate and LeighCrime TimePaul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .Produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate and LeighCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023&amp;CWA Daggers 2023

KATE HAMER, PETER SWANSON, TOVE ALSTERDAL &amp; CHARLOTTE VASSELL chat to Paul Burke in a special episode featuring four FABER authors who have just published a new thriller/crime novel. KATE HAMER <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-lost-girls-kate-hamer/7313087?ean=9780571336715" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Lost Girls </a> 'Reads like a shiver down the spine.' ANNA BAILEY PETER SWANSON <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-kind-worth-saving-peter-swanson/7350342?ean=9780571373550" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Kind Worth Saving</a> 'Smart, surprising, cool and fun, with a deeply satisfying ending. I loved it!' -- Gillian McAllister (The Kind Worth Killing) TOVE ALSTERDAL trans. Alice Menzies <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/you-will-never-be-found-tove-alsterdal/7313094?ean=9780571372072" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">You Will Never Be Found</a> 'Strong characters, a great sense of place and plot twists galore.' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB (We Know You Remember ) CHARLOTTE VASSELL <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-other-half-charlotte-vassell/7280469?ean=9780571374939" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Other Half</a> 'Delicious, searing . . . What a great new voice she is in detective fiction!' S. J. BENNETT Produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh <a href="https://www.crimetime.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crime Time </a> Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .Produced by Junkyard Dog Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh <a href="https://www.crimetime.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crime Time</a> Crime Time FM is the official podcast of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 CrimeFest 2023 &amp; CWA Daggers 2023

Kate Hamer, Peter Swanson, Tove Alsterdal & Charlotte Vassell - FABER SPECIAL - chat In Person With Paul

Coming home was just the beginning... Kate Hamer follows up her taut psychological blockbuster The Girl in the Red Coat with an equally engrossing sequel, The Lost Girls.   Carmel has been returned home five years after she was abducted by the preacher of a cult. But the trauma of her experience continues to haunt her and and her mother Beth. Beth is paralysed by fear for her daughter while Carmel is tortured by the knowledge that she wasn't the only girl to go missing and further dismayed that she must confront the preacher in order to uncover the truth.   @Radio_Gorgeous @kate_hamer @FaberBooks #TheLostGirls

Coming home was just the beginning... Kate Hamer follows up her taut psychological blockbuster The Girl in the Red Coat with an equally engrossing sequel, The Lost Girls.  Carmel has been returned home five years after she was abducted by the preacher of a cult. But the trauma of her experience continues to haunt her and and her mother Beth. Beth is paralysed by fear for her daughter while Carmel is tortured by the knowledge that she wasn't the only girl to go missing and further dismayed that she must confront the preacher in order to uncover the truth.  @Radio_Gorgeous @kate_hamer @FaberBooks #TheLostGirls

Donna Freed with Kate Hamer, author of The Lost Girls

Louis Saha

This week on CUTalks, we are talking to Kate Hamer and Louis Saha, co-founders of AxisStars - a business which connects sports and entertainment stars with select partners via a mobile app. Louis is a former professional footballer and played for Fulham, Everton and Manchester United amongst others, whilst Kate has vast experience in the marketing world and has her own marketing and digital consulting company.  We discussed how Louis and Kate met and how they were each able to utilise their previous experiences when it came to building the platform. They also shared lessons they’ve learnt along the way and the impact of mentors on their careers.To find out more about CUTEC, visit https://www.cutec.io/This podcast was produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV.

This week on CUTalks, we are talking to Kate Hamer and Louis Saha, co-founders of AxisStars - a business which connects sports and entertainment stars with select partners via a mobile app. Louis is a former professional footballer and played for Fulham, Everton and Manchester United amongst others, whilst Kate has vast experience in the marketing world and has her own marketing and digital consulting company. We discussed how Louis and Kate met and how they were each able to utilise their previous experiences when it came to building the platform. They also shared lessons they’ve learnt along the way and the impact of mentors on their careers. To find out more about CUTEC, visit <a href="https://www.cutec.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cutec.io/</a> This podcast was produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV.

Kate Hamer and Louis Saha, Axis Stars

Dom Joly

Harriett Gilbert talks to Dom Joly and Kate Hamer about their favourite books.

A Good Read: Dom Joly and Kate Hamer talk favourite books

Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. The opening lines of Macbeth could also set the scene in Bath for three adolescent girls bound or intent? on: "double toil and trouble!" Each of Kate Hamer's books (The Girl in the Red Coat &amp; The Doll Funeral) starts with a strong image. Crushed, which takes place in crucible shaped Bath and its ancient bubbling, sulphurous core, snuck up on Kate, much like the angels climbing Bath Abbey but when it came, the central image was a body floating down the Avon. Three teenage girls, isolated and under pressure, come together one sultry summer. Power, obsession, need, naivety and self-absorption lead to disaster. After all, weren't the Furies once teenage girls?  @FaberBooks @kate_hamer www.katehamer.co.uk

Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. The opening lines of Macbeth could also set the scene in Bath for three adolescent girls bound or intent? on: "double toil and trouble!" Each of Kate Hamer's books (The Girl in the Red Coat &amp; The Doll Funeral) starts with a strong image. Crushed, which takes place in crucible shaped Bath and its ancient bubbling, sulphurous core, snuck up on Kate, much like the angels climbing Bath Abbey but when it came, the central image was a body floating down the Avon. Three teenage girls, isolated and under pressure, come together one sultry summer. Power, obsession, need, naivety and self-absorption lead to disaster. After all, weren't the Furies once teenage girls?  @FaberBooks @kate_hamer <a href="http://www.katehamer.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.katehamer.co.uk</a>

Kate Hamer, Crushed with Donna Freed

Jennifer Egan

The Doll Funeral with Kate Hamer Kate Hamer won the Rhys Davies short story prize in 2011 and the story was broadcast on #BBC Radio 4, she also has short stories published in anthologies such as ‘A Fiction Map of Wales’ and ‘New Welsh Short Stories’. She’s written articles and reviews for ‘The Independent’, ‘The Sunday Mail’ and ‘The New York Times’. https://www.katehamer.co.ukManhattan Beach with Jennifer EganJennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She is the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories and the bestselling The Keep. Her most recent novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney’s and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her non-fiction articles appear frequently in the New York Times Magazine. http://jenniferegan.comFor more show information visitwww.MomentswithMarianne.com

The Doll Funeral with Kate Hamer Kate Hamer won the Rhys Davies short story prize in 2011 and the story was broadcast on #BBC Radio 4, she also has short stories published in anthologies such as ‘A Fiction Map of Wales’ and ‘New Welsh Short Stories’. She’s written articles and reviews for ‘The Independent’, ‘The Sunday Mail’ and ‘The New York Times’. <a href="https://www.katehamer.co.uk" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.katehamer.co.uk</a> Manhattan Beach with Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She is the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories and the bestselling The Keep. Her most recent novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney’s and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her non-fiction articles appear frequently in the New York Times Magazine. <a href="http://jenniferegan.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">http://jenniferegan.com</a> For more show information visit <a href="http://www.MomentswithMarianne.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">www.MomentswithMarianne.com</a>

The Doll Funeral with Kate Hamer & Manhattan Beach with Jennifer Egan

Sheena Kamal

Sheena Kamal has been a stunt double (for children), a stand-in (most notably Archie Panjabi) and a film/TV extra. She has been a producer’s assistant and most recently, a researcher for a gritty TV crime drama series set in Toronto. Sheena’s debut novel Eyes Like Mine is inspired by one issue that kept cropping up during her research- the plight of the missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. Sheena holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, which she attended on Canada's most prestigious scholarship and was awarded a TD Canada Trust Scholarship for community leadership and activism around the issue of homelessness.Kate Hamer grew up in Pembrokeshire and has recently been awarded a Literature Wales bursary. Her bestselling novel The Girl in the Red Coat was a no 3. Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award, the Bookseller Industry Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, the John Creasey New Blood Dagger and Wales Book of the Year. Her second novel is The Doll Funeral. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sheena Kamal has been a stunt double (for children), a stand-in (most notably Archie Panjabi) and a film/TV extra. She has been a producer’s assistant and most recently, a researcher for a gritty TV crime drama series set in Toronto. Sheena’s debut novel Eyes Like Mine is inspired by one issue that kept cropping up during her research- the plight of the missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. Sheena holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, which she attended on Canada's most prestigious scholarship and was awarded a TD Canada Trust Scholarship for community leadership and activism around the issue of homelessness.Kate Hamer grew up in Pembrokeshire and has recently been awarded a Literature Wales bursary. Her bestselling novel The Girl in the Red Coat was a no 3. Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award, the Bookseller Industry Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, the John Creasey New Blood Dagger and Wales Book of the Year. Her second novel is The Doll Funeral. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

454: Sheena Kamal & Kate Hamer

Searching for your parents? THE DOLL FUNERAL Kate Hamer a Sainsbury's Magazine Book Choice with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous As with her previous novel, The Girl in the Red Coat, there are paranormal elements to The Doll Funeral that weave and whirl around Ruby as she searches for her birth parents. Hamer explores family ties, love and loss and the nature of neglect and survival. (This is Kate's second time on Radio Gorgeous). Follow: @kate_hamer LOVE interviews? Sign up to the best interviews on the planet www.radiogorgeous.com 

Searching for your parents? THE DOLL FUNERAL Kate Hamer a Sainsbury's Magazine Book Choice with Donna Freed on Radio Gorgeous As with her previous novel, The Girl in the Red Coat, there are paranormal elements to The Doll Funeral that weave and whirl around Ruby as she searches for her birth parents. Hamer explores family ties, love and loss and the nature of neglect and survival. (This is Kate's second time on Radio Gorgeous). Follow: @kate_hamer LOVE interviews? Sign up to the best interviews on the planet <a href="http://www.radiogorgeous.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.radiogorgeous.com</a>

Searching for your parents? THE DOLL FUNERAL Kate Hamer SAINSBURY'S MAG Book Choice on RADIO GORGEOUS

Part two of our interview with Kate Hamer begins with a discussion of Carmel, the 'Girl' in The Girl in the Red Coat. ----more----Having avoided the subject of her special power - spoilers alert etc - we move onto:   love and its distortions   'I am not really interested in monsters': Hamer on her villains religion in the novel Hamer and the Gothic    Beth, Carmel and the use of tenses parents making maps of their children's lives time in the novel stasis and waiting: the challenge of writing Beth's narrative     'For both of them it was like a journal of survival' how parenthood changes you parents and their parents is it an optimistic novel?    how to end the novel Hamer's own childhood in Wales religion, mysticism and storytelling   formative reading: 'Anything deeply, deeply tragic' influences and Hamer's current literary crush: Nicole Krauss why Hamer took so long to write her debut! life as a novelist and future plans   

Part two of our interview with Kate Hamer begins with a discussion of Carmel, the 'Girl' in The Girl in the Red Coat. ----more----Having avoided the subject of her special power - spoilers alert etc - we move onto: <ul><li>love and its distortions </li> <li>'I am not really interested in monsters': Hamer on her villains</li> <li>religion in the novel</li> <li>Hamer and the Gothic </li> <li>Beth, Carmel and the use of tenses</li> <li>parents making maps of their children's lives</li> <li>time in the novel</li> <li>stasis and waiting: the challenge of writing Beth's narrative  </li> <li>'For both of them it was like a journal of survival'</li> <li>how parenthood changes you</li> <li>parents and their parents</li> <li>is it an optimistic novel? </li> <li>how to end the novel</li> <li>Hamer's own childhood in Wales</li> <li>religion, mysticism and storytelling </li> <li>formative reading: 'Anything deeply, deeply tragic'</li> <li>influences and Hamer's current literary crush: Nicole Krauss</li> <li>why Hamer took so long to write her debut!</li> <li>life as a novelist and future plans </li> </ul>

Episode 36 - Kate Hamer: Part 2

If Kate Hamer's debut novel The Girl in the Red Coat sounds familiar, in part because it joins a horde of books with the word 'Girl' in the title,----more---- then readers might be pleasantly surprised by the strange story that awaits. By turns Gothic and emotional, funny and heard-breaking, supernatural and realistic, it tells the story of a kidnapped girl and a grieving mother that takes a number of strange turns.    When I met Kate at her London publisher, Faber and Faber, we began by talking about the (for her) strange, new prospect of discussing her first work of fiction. We then moved onto:   her creative writing course at Aberystwyth answering personal questions reading work-in-progress aloud Kate described her novel 21st century fairytales where did the idea for the novel come from (I had to ask it!)   writing and working through universal fears the cultural power of red coats the title of the novel using the word 'girl' in the title the character of the 'girl', Carmel to research or not to research the unknowableness of children and parents rural childhoods divorce the problem of spoilers  Kate Hamer's profile at Faber &amp; Faber is: here.

If Kate Hamer's debut novel The Girl in the Red Coat sounds familiar, in part because it joins a horde of books with the word 'Girl' in the title,----more---- then readers might be pleasantly surprised by the strange story that awaits. By turns Gothic and emotional, funny and heard-breaking, supernatural and realistic, it tells the story of a kidnapped girl and a grieving mother that takes a number of strange turns. When I met Kate at her London publisher, Faber and Faber, we began by talking about the (for her) strange, new prospect of discussing her first work of fiction. We then moved onto: <ul><li>her creative writing course at Aberystwyth</li> <li>answering personal questions</li> <li>reading work-in-progress aloud</li> <li>Kate described her novel</li> <li>21st century fairytales</li> <li>where did the idea for the novel come from (I had to ask it!) </li> <li>writing and working through universal fears</li> <li>the cultural power of red coats</li> <li>the title of the novel</li> <li>using the word 'girl' in the title</li> <li>the character of the 'girl', Carmel</li> <li>to research or not to research</li> <li>the unknowableness of children and parents</li> <li>rural childhoods</li> <li>divorce</li> <li>the problem of spoilers</li> </ul> Kate Hamer's profile at Faber &amp; Faber is: <a href="http://www.faber.co.uk/author/kate-hamer/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.