Claire Kinton's guest appearances

Claire Kinton

The Reading Room

Emma Donoghue

Ben Atkinson

Stewart Lee

Douglas Adams

Kazuo Ishiguro

Abigail Tarttelin

Elly Griffiths

Nick Hornby

Luke Wright

Mark Kermode

John Peel

Baz Luhrmann

Robert Llewellyn

Carol Ann Duffy

Jon McGregor

OwlTail

David Nicholls

This month the Reading Room Book Group take an outing to the cinema to watch the film adaptation of One Day by David Nicholls, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. Will Hollywood ruin one of our favourite books - or bring a whole new audience to it?  We’ll also be talking to actress and writer Abigail Tarttelin about her first novel Flick, Claire Kinton returns with the first chapter of her book Dead Game, we find out how thebookpond.com helps students swap academic books, and our tea break story comes from Jim Gotts. All this plus more 101 Books To Read Before You Die, poetry from Paul Eteng and Jamie McKay brings us Musings of a Muddled Mind.Click the player below to listen online, or subscribe to our feed using the buttons on the right...

This month the Reading Room Book Group take an outing to the cinema to watch the film adaptation of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1444724584/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therearoo07-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1444724584" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One Day</a> by David Nicholls, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. Will Hollywood ruin one of our favourite books - or bring a whole new audience to it?  We’ll also be talking to actress and writer <a href="http://www.abigailtarttelin.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Abigail Tarttelin</a> about her first novel <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1907616187/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therearoo07-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1907616187" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Flick</a>, Claire Kinton returns with the first chapter of her book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00500PYH4/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therearoo07-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B00500PYH4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dead Game</a>, we find out how <a href="http://www.thebookpond.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thebookpond.com</a> helps students swap academic books, and our tea break story comes from Jim Gotts. All this plus more <a href="http://readingroom.podbean.com/101-books-to-read-before-you-die/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">101 Books To Read Before You Die</a>, poetry from Paul Eteng and <a href="http://jami0mckay.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jamie McKay</a> brings us Musings of a Muddled Mind.<br><br>Click the player below to listen online, or subscribe to our feed using the buttons on the right...

ROOM 13 - September 2011: One Day by David Nicholls, Abigail Tarttelin, Claire Kinton, The Book Pond

Karen Maitland

John Welsh

Joe Evans

On August's podcast we talk to historical fiction author Karen Maitland about how and where she finds her inspiration, poet John Welsh tells us about his third book Manic Reflections and how being bipolar affects his creativity, author Claire Kinton talks about the writing process of her first novel Dead Game which was inspired by the death of her cousin whilst serving in Iraq, our Tea Break Story comes from Joe Evans, and the Reading Room Book Group discusses The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.Click the player below to listen online or subscribe to the podcast using the buttons on the right...

On August's podcast we talk to historical fiction author <a href="http://www.karenmaitland.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Karen Maitland</a> about how and where she finds her inspiration, poet John Welsh tells us about his third book <a href="http://chipmunkapublishing.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=1356" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Manic Reflections</a> and how being bipolar affects his creativity, author <a href="http://www.clairekinton.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Claire Kinton</a> talks about the writing process of her first novel <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00500PYH4/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therearoo07-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B00500PYH4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dead Game</a> which was inspired by the death of her cousin whilst serving in Iraq, our Tea Break Story comes from Joe Evans, and the Reading Room Book Group discusses <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099464462/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therearoo07-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0099464462" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Time Traveler's Wife</a> by Audrey Niffenegger.<br><br>Click the player below to listen online or subscribe to the podcast using the buttons on the right...

ROOM 12 - August 2011: Karen Maitland, The Time Traveler's Wife, John Welsh, Claire Kinton,Joe Evans