Nibbies Podcast: from the author’s mind to the reader’s hand

Kate Mosse is a bestselling novelist and founder-director of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction. She is also shortlisted for Book of the Year: Fiction for The Ghost Ship. In this episode, Kate talks with Hannah MacInnes about women pirates, the rare delight of being shortlisted for a prize when your day job involves promoting other prize nominees and her joy at being immersed in the jeopardy and adventure of crafting a novel. The British Book Awards, fondly referred to as The Nibbies, celebrate books and everyone who makes them, charting a journey from the writer’s mind to the reader’s hand. This podcast series delves deeper into the journeys behind the Books of the Year, as broadcaster and podcast host Hannah MacInnes interviews a bestselling and celebrated author for each episode. The podcast is produced by Heavy Entertainment and brought to you by The Bookseller, the team behind The British Book Awards.

Philippa Gregory is best known for her historical novels but in 2023 she turned her hand to uncovering the hidden contributions made by women across history to our world. She is shortlisted for Book of the Year: Non-Fiction Narrative and in this episode, she talks with Hannah MacInnes about how women historically got credit for their efforts when their work fit with gender and social class norms, how courageous women can be tracked through their criminal records and the surprising history of women priests.The British Book Awards, fondly referred to as The Nibbies, celebrate books and everyone who makes them, charting a journey from the writer’s mind to the reader’s hand. This podcast series delves deeper into the journeys behind the Books of the Year, as broadcaster and podcast host Hannah MacInnes interviews a bestselling and celebrated author for each episode. The podcast is produced by Heavy Entertainment and brought to you by The Bookseller, the team behind The British Book Awards.

This episode, host Hannah MacInnes is in conversation with Katherine Rundell, shortlisted for the Book of the Year: Children’s Fiction. In their conversation, they discuss why we conjure fantastical beasts, taking inspiration from Tolkein and the paragraph that Katherine rewrote perhaps thirty times to get it just right.The British Book Awards, fondly referred to as The Nibbies, celebrate books and everyone who makes them, charting a journey from the writer’s mind to the reader’s hand. This podcast series delves deeper into the journeys behind the Books of the Year, as broadcaster and podcast host Hannah MacInnes interviews a bestselling and celebrated author for each episode. The podcast is produced by Heavy Entertainment and brought to you by The Bookseller, the team behind The British Book Awards.

Yomi Adegoke made the move from non-fiction to writing novels with The List, nominated for Book of the Year: Debut Fiction. For this episode, Yomi talks to host Hannah MacInnes about how people take to the Internet with accusations when systems that should protect, instead fail them, the case for whisper networks and working for months on the right emoji for the book’s cover. The British Book Awards, fondly referred to as The Nibbies, celebrate books and everyone who makes them, charting a journey from the writer’s mind to the reader’s hand. This podcast series delves deeper into the journeys behind the Books of the Year, as broadcaster and podcast host Hannah MacInnes interviews a bestselling and celebrated author for each episode. The podcast is produced by Heavy Entertainment and brought to you by The Bookseller, the team behind The British Book Awards.

This episode, host Hannah MacInnes is in conversation with Lauren Roberts, shortlisted for the Book of the Year: Children’s Fiction for Powerless. In their conversation, they discuss Lauren’s love of writing at night with white noise playing, the power of a reading community and the cover design process.The British Book Awards, fondly referred to as The Nibbies, celebrate books and everyone who makes them, charting a journey from the writer’s mind to the reader’s hand. This podcast series delves deeper into the journeys behind the Books of the Year, as broadcaster and podcast host Hannah MacInnes interviews a bestselling and celebrated author for each episode. The podcast is produced by Heavy Entertainment and brought to you by The Bookseller, the team behind The British Book Awards.

We are back with two guests for this episode - author Atinuke and illustrator Kingsley Nebechi. When Atinuke started out on her research for this project, her twenty-somethingth book, she expected to cover 2000 years of Brilliant Black British History. It soon emerged that the roots go deeper and that an expansion to 12,000 years was needed. In this episode, host Hannah MacInnes talks to Atinuke and Kingsley about the research and design process for their book, shortlisted for Book of the Year: Children’s Non-Fiction. We learn about the moving reactions of not just children but also elders in the Black British community, how the contributions of enslaved people were not given due credit for innovation until recently and hear of a spectacular ‘aha!’ moment in the British Library.The British Book Awards, fondly referred to as The Nibbies, celebrate books and everyone who makes them, charting a journey from the writer’s mind to the reader’s hand. This podcast series delves deeper into the journeys behind the Books of the Year, as broadcaster and podcast host Hannah MacInnes interviews a bestselling and celebrated author for each episode. The podcast is produced by Heavy Entertainment and brought to you by The Bookseller, the team behind The British Book Awards.

Working from home during the pandemic in a corporate job, Nathan Anthony was quite literally, Bored of Lunch. And so he challenged himself to create handy, healthy recipes that could be whipped up at speed between Zoom calls. Enter the airfryer. A few short years later and if you don’t own an airfryer or a copy of Bored of Lunch, chances are you know someone who does. In this episode of The Nibbies Podcast, host Hannah MacInnes chats to Nathan about the rollercoaster ride that took him from his kitchen in Northern Ireland to the bestseller charts, running out of books when the printer closed over the Christmas break and how his family keep his feet on solid ground.The British Book Awards, fondly referred to as The Nibbies, celebrate books and everyone who makes them, charting a journey from the writer’s mind to the reader’s hand. This podcast series delves deeper into the journeys behind the Books of the Year, as broadcaster and podcast host Hannah MacInnes interviews a bestselling and celebrated author for each episode. The podcast is produced by Heavy Entertainment and brought to you by The Bookseller, the team behind The British Book Awards.

Following up his children’s classic, The Queen’s Knickers, with a new pair of underwear for a new monarch, this episode, host Hannah MacInnes is in conversation with Nicholas Allen, author of The King’s Pants, shortlisted for the Book of the Year: Children’s Illustrated.  In their conversation, they discuss humour for children, fake news and the joys of collaborating with Nicholas’s publishing team.The British Book Awards, fondly referred to as The Nibbies, celebrate books and everyone who makes them, charting a journey from the writer’s mind to the reader’s hand. This podcast series delves deeper into the journeys behind the Books of the Year, as broadcaster and podcast host Hannah MacInnes interviews a bestselling and celebrated author for each episode. The podcast is produced by Heavy Entertainment and brought to you by The Bookseller, the team behind The British Book Awards.