My Life In Books with Red Szell

Manda Scott is a novelist, podcaster and shamanist practitioner. After building a reputation as one of Britain’s leading crime writers, she achieved international recognition with her highly acclaimed series of historical novels about the warrior Queen Boudica, and a quartet of spy thrillers set in ancient Rome. More r

Catherine Bush is a Canadian novelist who has spoken internationally about the importance of addressing the climate crisis through fiction. Her latest novel, Blaze Island, is an ecological retelling of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, set on a fictional island off Newfoundland. Cut off from the rest of the world after a

Join writer, broadcaster and blind adventurer Red Széll for the latest episode of AMI-audio’s My Life in Books. Each fortnight Red invites you to join him in conversation with a renowned author about their work and the books that inspired them to write. David Tatel is a recently retired US Federal Appeals Court judge w

Bestselling novelist Helen Simonson revels in setting strength of character against small-minded social convention. While her debut, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, was a contemporary romantic satire, her latest book, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club, transports the reader back to the summer of 1919, and

Alissa York is a Canadian author whose novels and short stories have won her international acclaim. Her latest book, Far Cry, immerses the reader in the harsh conditions of a salmon cannery on the remote north west coast of British Columbia in 1922. It’s a haunting tale of survival, forbidden love, addiction, and jealo

Throughout the history of talking books, the question of how to bring illustrations to life has posed problems for authors and audio producers. But it’s a challenge that artist James Norbury was eager to meet. Following the international success of his illustrated book Big Panda and Tiny Dragon, James set about adaptin