Field sees the year out with Mike McCormack and JP McHugh. John's short story collection was the find of the year at Field HQ a beautiful set of stories about the fragility and cut throat business of friendship. If you're doing some last minute Christmas shopping this is a huge recommend. Mike McCormack needs little introduction. A multi award winning novelist, whose work is thrilling unconfined by genre. Mike's latest novel This Plague of Souls was published in October by Canongate and is...

This month Field is joined by novelist Keiran Goddard to discuss his upcoming novel I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.  The book lovingly traces the relationships between a group of friends who have remained close since childhood. Central to the novel are thoughts on lost opportunity and fragmented community. Why is success measured by leaving the place we love? Why do those early relationships continue to exert such a grasp? And where can we still find hope?  Keiran talks about finding...

This month Field is joined by novelist Daisy Johnson from the depths of her writing shed to talk ghosts, hotels and the Fen. If you get to this time of year and fancy swimming in darker waters then look no further than Daisy's short story collections. From the opening line these are stories that beguile,  disorientate and terrify. There are things in the walls of Daisy's buildings, her characters are rarely who we assume and her houses and hotels  are definitely not places to hang...

This month’s episode of Field Ramble is a conversation I’ve been looking forward to for so long. Wendy Erskine needs little introduction. Author of two incredible collections Sweet Home and Dance Move, she is an unbelievable story teller and my go to when I’m asked for a book recommend. Wendy writes through the voices that surround her in her East Belfast home. In them we soon slip beneath the surface of day to day lives to meet abandoned children, paramilitary death squads, extortion, lost...

This month Field sits down with author Rachelle Atallato discuss her latest novel Thirsty Animals as well as her new radio series Invasive Species , currently unfolding on Radio 4. Both are fantastic pieces of speculative story telling that pose compelling what ifs which live on long after you've put the novel down or turned the radio off.  Rachelle has also contributed a wide ranging essay on dystopian fiction to Dead Ink Books latest collection Writing The Future. (Following on from...

This month's pod is devoted entirely to an extended interview with author Guy Gunaratne, discussing  his latest novel Mister Mister. Many of you will know Guy from his incredible debut In Our Mad and Furious City and Mister Mister is another  compelling and provocative read (& a huge favourite at Field HQ.) If you've yet to read it, don't push that Amazon button! Just click on the link below and head to the wonderful Hastings Bookshop where Charlie has kindly sorted a discount for all...

This month Field goes for a swim with David Roberts to discuss the rather beautiful  The Way The Day Breaks and sits down with Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi to hear all about The Centre her incredible debut novel which is out this month.  We also have a performance from Syrian poet Dua Al Bostani Al Fattohi to start the show and of course more gorgeous soundscapes from musician Ian Hawgood.  

Two more great interviews with two wonderful writers.  Field heads to France to talk  with Laurent Petitmangin about his latest novel What You Need From The Night.  L 'Obs calls the book 'A tragedy of Unconditional Love' & Le Parisien 'As sublime as it is painful.' Then we head to Charleston Festival on a sunny evening  to talk Kim Moore about her incredible Forward Prize winning collection All the Men I Never Married.  Music on this episode is by Huw Marc Bennett. (Such a bassline.)...

Two more great interviews with two wonderful authors.   We talk to Martin Macinnes about his stunning, epic  In Ascension. And the wonderful Kerri ní Dochartaigh about her incredible lockdown chronicles Cacophony of Bone.  Our beautiful music on this episode is all by Ian Hawgood. Find all his music on Bandcamp by searching Home Normal and check out the  beaut that is @_handstitched on instagram.  Tracks used on this episode were taken from the albums: Fields - Upward Eyes EP For Distance...

Field Ramble is back and we have two great interviews with Aidan Cottrell-Boyce and Niamh Mulvey.  Aidan tells us what lies behind his incredible novel The End of Nightwork an absolute favourite at Field. Then we catch up with Niamh to discuss her beautiful collection of short stories, Hearts and Bones,  published last year. If you've yet to read it, we'd echo Sinéad Gleeson's description of Niamh's work as panormaic, precise, stunning prose. Huge thanks go to Ian Hawgood and Lisa O Neill...

In the final episode of this series Sam and Spencer chat with  author Cynan Jones about his incredible novels The Dig, The Long Dry and Everything I Found on the Beach. Cynan conjures a deep sense of place and we delve into how he does it. The Dig is a big favourite in Field HQ, so if you're yet to read it, get it on the top of the pile. We also chat with the wonderful Orla Fletcher about capturing her native Derry and the magnetic draw of childhood to the writer. We check in with Clive, one...

Sam and Spencer chat with  Ros Anderson about her compelling page turner The Hierarchies.   Ros's novel is the story of Sylvie a sex robot whose growing self awareness compellingly clashes with her programming. Think Angela Carter goes to work on  A.I. We also chat with emerging novelist Dan Hett about the joys of writing speculative fiction and his current project Arc. As well as get a couple of recommends in the genre from Argonaut Books (Leith) owner Adam. If you've yet to read The...

A  Halloween special. Julia from the wonderful Golden Hare Books in Edinburgh gives us her top 5 for Halloween & Sam & Spencer chat with Lucie McKnight Hardy and Naomi Booth about their incredible short story collections Dead Relatives & Animals at Night.  Thanks as ever to superstar Kibrom Birhane for the use of his beautiful track Maleda as our theme. Hope you enjoy and Happy Halloween x 

In this episode we chat with the marvellous Rosa Rankin Gee about her wonderful novel Dreamland. We also meet writer Abby Walker to discuss her new collection of eerie short stories , check in with Ben at the wonderful Interesting Books in Berwick Upon Tweed & we have a fantastic performance by poet Kate Bradley too.  Thanks as ever to Kibrom Birhane for the use of Maleda taken from his album Here and...

We talk all things folk horror with  Andrew Michael Hurley author of The Loney & Devil's Day & emerging novelist Johnny Gaunt. We also chat with  Tom, owner of Gloucester Road Books in Bristol & have a performance from poet Ezra England.