The Writers' Cafe

Welcome to The Writers' Cafe! Brought to you from the award-winning indie, Sevenoaks Bookshop!This week's visitor to the cafe is the wonderful and brilliantly insightful, Noreen Masud. Noreen joins us to speak all things, A Flat Place, her debut memoir exploring complex trauma and flat landscapes. A book so lauded and acclaimed, from the shortlist of the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, to the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2024, and the Jhalak Prize! Join us as we discuss all things landscapes, trauma, politics and place, racialised perspectives, cats, cocktails, and protests in and through literature.If you are new to The Writer's Cafe pod: Inspired by our own in-shop cafe of the same name and the conversations about books, life, literature, and so much more every single day - as well as the literary salons of old where gossip thrived - this new podcast seeks to highlight and celebrate the best writers and voices every episode with a warm, detailed conversation about their work and craft.Noreen's work can purchased with us here:https://sevenoaksbookshop.co.uk/shop/a-flat-place-by-noreen-masud-2/https://sevenoaksbookshop.co.uk/

Welcome to The Writers' Cafe! Brought to you from the award-winning indie, Sevenoaks Bookshop!This week's visitor to the cafe is the utterly brilliant, Allen Bratton. Allen joins us upon the release of his debut novel, Henry Henry. Join us as we discuss all things Shakespeare adaptation, terrible rich kids, bad families, love, pain, sex, and misguided reviews! Allen was a delight and is welcome back to our cafe anytime!If you are new to The Writer's Cafe pod: Inspired by our own in-shop cafe of the same name and the conversations about books, life, literature, and so much more every single day - as well as the literary salons of old where gossip thrived - this new podcast seeks to highlight and celebrate the best writers and voices every episode with a warm, detailed conversation about their work and craft.Allen's work can purchased with us here:https://sevenoaksbookshop.co.uk/

Welcome to The Writers' Cafe! Brought to you from the award-winning indie, Sevenoaks Bookshop!Inspired by our own in-shop cafe of the same name and the conversations about books, life, literature, and so much more every single day - as well as the literary salons of old where gossip thrived - this new podcast seeks to highlight and celebrate the best writers and voices every episode with a warm, detailed conversation about their work and craft.This first episode is brilliantly exciting as we celebrate Independent Bookshop Week 2024 by featuring a fellow indie, a new publisher of translated Mediterranean texts, Foundry Editions, with founder, Richard Village.The Foundry Editions titles can be purchased with us online here:Brandy Sour by Constantia Soteriou: https://sevenoaksbookshop.co.uk/shop/brandy-sour-by-constantia-soteriou/Your Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone: https://sevenoaksbookshop.co.uk/shop/your-little-matter-by-maria-grazia-calandrone/Foundry Editions' website can be found here: https://www.foundryeditions.co.uk/-- Credits --Hosted and produced by Harry EdmundsonCover artwork by Imogen Mott (Inspired by our real life cafe!)