Little Atoms

James Meek is the author of six novels including  The People's Act of Love  which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than thirty countries. Meek's last novel  The Heart Broke In  was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and he has also written two collections of short stories and two books of non-fiction,  Private Island ,   which won the 2015 Orwell Prize and  Dreams of Leaving and Remaining . He is a Contributing Editor to the  London Review of Books  and writes regularly for the  Guardian  and  New York Times. His latest novel is To Calais, In Ordinary Time . For information regarding your data privacy, visit

Padraig Reidy hosts this episode, joined by Caleb Klaces to discuss his debut novel Fatherhood . They talk about the place of being a father today, the value of home and the novel as an adult bildungsroman. For information regarding your data privacy, visit

Emma Forrest has published three novels, an essay collection and the memoir  Your Voice In My Head . An Anglo-American currently based in London, she recently wrote and directed her feature debut,  Untogether . Her latest novel is Royals. For information regarding your data privacy, visit

In this episode Neil speaks to Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman. She was named journalist of the year (Press Gazette) and won the 2018 Paul Foot journalism award for her reportage on the Windrush scandal, which led to the downfall of the Home Secretary and the government loosening its ‘hostile environment’ policy for migrants. She tells Neil about her new book The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment. For information regarding your data privacy, visit

David Keenan was born in Glasgow and grew up in Airdrie, in the west of Scotland, in the late-70s and early-1980s. He is the author two novels, the cult classic This Is Memorial Device , which won the Collyer Bristow/London Magazine Award for Debut Fiction 2018 and was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, and For The Good Times which won the Gordon Burn Prize. He is also the author of England's Hidden Reverse , a history of the UK's post-punk/Industrial underground. For information regarding your data privacy, visit