My guest this week is Rachel DeLoache Williams, whose recently-released book My Friend Anna: the True Story of the Fake Heiress of New York City, offers a riveting account of her friendship with Anna Sorokin. Anna, also known as the “Soho grifter,” was...

My guest this week is the food writer Olivia Potts. Olivia spent five years working as a criminal barrister before giving it all up to train as a party chef. Her recently released memoir, A Half-Baked Idea: How Grief, Love and Cake Took Me from the Co...

My guest this week is Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of the acclaimed 2016 novel Harmless Like You as well as this year’s Starling Days. One of the most exciting young voices in fiction today, she is the winner of The Authors’ Club First Novel Award as...

Already a successful journalist, Charlotte Philby has just published her debut novel, the psychological thriller The Most Difficult Thing. It should come with a warning sticker: you won’t be able to put it down. I absolutely loved it and devoured it i...

My guests this week are the hugely inspiring Anna Jones and Debbie Wosskow. Both successful business women in their own right - Anna was the CEO of Hearst for three years and Debbie was a serial entrepreneur who sold her home-swapping business LoveHom...

Nell Stevens is remarkable. Her 2017 book, Bleaker House, detailed her decision to move to an empty island in the Falklands in order to try and write a novel. She failed – but the memoir she wrote instead went on to become a critical and commercial hit...

My guest this week is Nimko Ali, activist, anti-FGM campaigner and author of What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway): Women’s Voices from East London to Ethiopia. A hugely important piece of writing, it contains interviews with wo...

My guest this week is Amelia Abraham, journalist, TED speaker and author of Queer Intentions: A (personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ culture. I’ve known Amelia for years, and she is one of the most interesting and original thinkers I’ve encountered. Queer...

My guest this week is Jessica Andrews, whose novel Saltwater has been one of the most talked-about debuts of the year. It tells the tale of Lucy who moves to London from Sunderland to go to university. Once there she grapples with feeling like an outsi...

My guest this week is the phenomenal Poorna Bell. Poorna is an award-winning journalist and author, and a hugely inspiring voice in the conversation around mental health. Her first book Chase The Rainbow, charts her life with her late husband Rob, who...