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Tom's Book Club

Podkast av Thomas Watters

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Tom’s Book Club is a weekly books podcast featuring in-depth conversations with leading contemporary authors. Each episode features a focused, in-depth conversation with the authors behind the most talked-about new fiction, exploring the ideas, craft, and real-world questions that shape their work. Recent guests include Booker Prize winners George Saunders and Howard Jacobson, alongside bestselling writers and emerging voices from across the literary world. Subscribe for thoughtful author interviews, new book recommendations, and a closer look at the stories everyone’s talking about. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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episode Eric Puchner on Dream State cover

Eric Puchner on Dream State

In this episode of Tom’s Book Club, Eric Puchner discusses his novel Dream State, an expansive story about love, friendship, and the decisions that shape a lifetime. The novel begins in Montana, where Cece arrives at her future in-laws’ lake house to prepare for her wedding to Charlie. But when Charlie’s oldest friend Garrett enters the picture, a single summer sets three lives on an entirely different course with consequences that ripple across fifty years and multiple generations. In this conversation, Eric Puchner talks about writing characters across decades, the challenges of writing about climate change and the real-life experiences that informed the novel. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

19. mai 2026 - 14 min
episode Lucy Steeds on The Artist cover

Lucy Steeds on The Artist

In this episode of Tom’s Book Club, Lucy Steeds discusses her debut novel The Artist, winner of both the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2025 and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025. Set in Provence in 1920, The Artist follows Ettie, a young woman living in the shadow of her uncle, the celebrated painter Edouard Tartuffe. When an ambitious journalist arrives at the isolated farmhouse hoping to interview the elusive artist, long-buried secrets begin to surface over the course of one sweltering summer. In this conversation, Lucy Steeds talks about writing from dual perspectives, capturing the sensory atmosphere of 1920s France, and how synesthesia shaped the novel’s vivid descriptions and emotional texture. The episode also explores creativity, power, and the tension between artistic genius and those forced to support it from the margins. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

12. mai 2026 - 13 min
episode Liz Moore on The God of the Woods cover

Liz Moore on The God of the Woods

In this episode of Tom’s Book Club, Liz Moore discusses her gripping novel The God of the Woods, shortlisted for the 2026 British Book Awards in the Crime & Thriller category. Set in a remote American summer camp, the novel begins with the disappearance of a teenage girl — fourteen years after her brother vanished in the same wilderness. As the search unfolds, long-buried secrets surrounding the powerful Van Laar family begin to surface, raising questions about what really happened, and who might be responsible. In this conversation, Liz Moore explores the origins of the novel, her approach to writing across multiple timelines and perspectives, and the challenges of inhabiting such a wide cast of characters. She also discusses research, character creation, and the real-life influences behind the story. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

5. mai 2026 - 12 min
episode Yael van der Wouden on The Safekeep cover

Yael van der Wouden on The Safekeep

In this episode of Tom’s Book Club, Yael van der Wouden discusses her debut novel The Safekeep, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025. Set in the Netherlands in the years after the Second World War, The Safekeep follows Isabel, whose ordered, solitary life is disrupted by the arrival of her brother’s enigmatic girlfriend. As the summer unfolds, desire, tension, and long-buried secrets rise to the surface, leading to a powerful and unsettling revelation. In this extended conversation, Yael van der Wouden talks about unlikeable narrators, being surprised by her characters and how it felt to win the Women's Prize. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

21. april 2026 - 17 min
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