Chelsea Kwakye is impressive - seriously impressive. A history graduate from Homerton College, Cambridge, she was the only black girl in her year group of around 200 people studying the subject. The experience prompted her to write Taking Up Space with...

My guest this week is Laura Jane Williams, who has just published her third book, and first novel, Our Stop, a hugely fun Sliding Doors-style romantic comedy about almost missing the love of your life. She’s also written a memoir, Becoming, exploring h...

My guest this week is Marie Le Conte. Marie grew up in France then moved to the UK in 2009 to study journalism. As a political journalist she has written for the likes of The New Statesman, the Sunday Times, the Evening Standard and Buzzfeed and is a...

My guest this week is none other than Emma Barnett, broadcaster, journalist and author of Period. It’s About Bloody Time. I’ve known Emma since she was an editor at the Telegraph, where she launched the phenomenally successful Wonder Women digital sect...

My guest this week is none other than Jessie Burton, the best-selling author of The Miniaturist (which became a BBC miniseries starring Anya Taylor-Joy) and The Muse (which was published in a staggering 38 languages). She has also published a children’...

My guest this week is Hannah Ewens, a writer and editor at VICE who specialises in writing about youth culture, mental health, music and film - and who has recently published her first book, Fangirls: Scenes From Modern Music Culture. It’s a fascinatin...

I’ve known Lotte for five years - she was once my editor at ES magazine and I’ve watched in awe as she has achieved ever greater things, becoming Deputy Editor and then Acting Editor in Chief of ELLE, winning awards for her writing, moving into adverti...

My guests this week are Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke, authors of the phenomenal Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible. Recently-released in paperback, Slay In Your Lane is absolutely essential reading. It celebrates the ways in which black w...

Warning: there is a LOT of laughter in this episode. Sophia Money-Coutts is a journalist, columnist and the author of two hilarious novels, The Plus One and What Happens Now. I love Sophia’s writing – she is so, so funny but also so clever and observa...

My guest this week is Juno Dawson, the bestselling novelist, screenwriter, and columnist. Juno has won acclaim for her young adult novels, which include her debut, Hollow Pike and last year’s hit Clean about a young woman struggling with addiction. Her...