
Books Up Close is a show for writers, readers, and anyone who wants to know how texts get made. Listen as writer and academic Chris Lloyd performs a 'close reading' of some writing with the author themselves.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 29 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Society & Culture | |||

In this new episode - the start of season 2!!!! - I talk to the amazing Elaine Castillo about her novel Moderation (2025).
(Also I said Dostoyevsky in the episode but obviously meant Tolstoy, so sorry).
Named one of “30 of the Planet’s Most Excitin... more
In this festive holiday special, I talk with Prof. Holly Furneaux about Charles Dickens' classic 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.
Professor Holly Furneaux teaches and researches Victorian literature and culture at Cardiff University. Her work focuse... more
In today's episode I talk to Michael Donkor about his novel Grow Where They Fall (2023); we talk about a passage from p.83 of the paperback edition.
Michael Donkor studied English at Wadham College, Oxford and then undertook a Masters in Creative Wr... more
In this episode I talk to Victoria Adukwei Bulley's poem 'The Ultra-Black Fish' from her collection Quiet (2022). You can also read the poem at Granta.
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist whose work has appeared widely in publicatio... more
I read a Flat Place earlier this year and was so enriched by it that I jabbed Noreen’s name into Apple podcast just to see if anything came up because I wanted to be in her head more. I found this podcast and Inside a Mountain and both have become two of my most loved podcasts. I love listening to Chris and his guests talk about the process and the smallest particulars. As an aspiring writer I feel like I should be blushing for getting to hear the answers to all the questions that I really want ... more







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