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Field RambleField Ramble with Eva Wyles and Vanessa SantosSend us a textShort story special: Two collections from two great independent presses. First up is Make A Home of Me by Vanessa Santos. Dead Ink Books bring us an exciting new voice in the horror landscape. Eight unsettling stories full of haunted children, impossible reappearances and unnatural forces desperate to be known. Definitely one for fans of Carmen Maria Machado or Matt Hill.Then we meet Eva Wyles to discuss DeliveryWoman, recently published by Influx Press. A stunning debut that dives into the complexities of human connection and the struggles of modern day...2025-06-2622 minField RambleField Ramble with Gurnaik JohalSend us a textSaraswati Published by Serpent's TailIt’s hard to talk about Gurnaik Johal’s debut novel without using the word epic. Saraswati is transcontinental, multi-generational and led by a broad cast of characters - if you’re a fan of fiction on the scale of a book like Martin MacInnes’ In Ascension, then Saraswati is for you.Beginning with the re-emergence of a supposedly mythical river, Saraswati follows the descendants of a lone couple Sejal and Jugaad, pursuing familial tributaries that run across borders and time. Weaving in themes...2025-06-2019 minField RambleField Ramble with Wendy ErskineSend us a textOn June 19th Wendy Erskine’s long awaited debut novel The Benefactors is published. Many of you will already know Wendy from her two acclaimed short story collections Sweet Home and Dance Move and you’ll find The Benefactors filled with the same deep curiosity for people, the same raw laughs and the same unsparing honesty. Set, once again, in her much loved Belfast it is a broad and embracing portrait of a community that moves from the sexual assault of one of its central characters ‘Misty,’ to explore the isolating and insul...2025-06-0528 minField RambleField Ramble with Holly DawsonSend us a textOn this episode Holly Dawson speaks to us about her debut All of Us Atoms. Faced with the prospect of losing her memory Holly set out to revisit the moments that had shaped her, from the earliest recollections of childhood to her diagnosis. What follows is the documenting of a ‘felt’ life. In a series of essays, letters and short stories she weaves together memory, dreams, and reality, grasping hold of the consolations of science and discovering a deep love for the forgettable and forgotten moment. At its heart All of...2025-05-0825 minField RambleField Ramble with Lucia LijtmaerSend us a textOn this episode we meet Lucia Lijtmaer to hear all about her upcoming novel Cautery. Published for the first time in English by Charco Press, it is a novel filled with apocalyptic fantasies and a deep mistrust of the supposed greater good. Set between modern day Barcelona and puritan New York Cautery follows the stories of two women (one real, the other imagined) who, although separated by 400 years both share a vision of either escaping the confines of society or burning it to the ground. It’s a novel that...2025-05-0218 minField RambleField Ramble with Max Porter (part 2)Send us a textALL OF THIS UNREAL TIME Published by Rough Trade Books Hopefully, you're listening to this surrounded by mountains of chocolate. What follows is the second part of our conversation with Max. If you’ve enjoyed it, follow the link to get yourself a copy straight from the Rough Trade website. https://roughtradebooks.com/products/all-of-this-unreal-time-max-porter-foreword-by-cillian-murphyAs our discussion about All Of This Unreal Time came to an end there were inevitably other things I wanted to ask Max about. Our con...2025-04-2028 minField RambleField Ramble with Max Porter (part 1)Send us a textALL OF THIS UNREAL TIME Published by Rough Trade Back this weekend with a double header, we turn to All of This Unreal Time by Mr Max Porter. Described in the foreword as ‘a gift, written in friendship’ it is an elusive, ever moving torrent of apology, love and gratitude. A response to the countless human and non-human lives that intersect with and impact on our own.Written during the first, weird summer months of the pandemic, the piece blossomed into a collaboration commissioned by Manchester Film festival...2025-04-1824 minField RambleField Ramble with Naomi BoothSend us a textOn this episode we speak to Naomi Booth about her latest novel Raw Content. Set during a bleak Yorkshire winter, the book follows Grace, a legal editor whose job demands she reduce unspeakable acts to neatly worded clauses. The care and attention with which Grace approaches this work is only matched by her risk taking outside it. When she falls unexpectedly pregnant she attempts the same compartmentalisation, hoping to keep the new, visceral weirdness that her body is undergoing at arms length. But after the gory, psychedelic experience of birth an unravelling begins...2025-04-0442 minField RambleField Ramble with Anna WhitwhamSend us a textOn this episode, we speak to Anna Whitwham about Soft Tissue Damage, her startling account of a healing found in controlled violence. Published by Rough Trade Books on 27.03 it charts both the loss of Anna’s mother to cancer and her subsequent choice to battle unresolved anger in the boxing ring. From early sparing sessions to the draining seconds of the final round, Anna writes both with immediacy and unflinching honesty. What emerges is an exploration of the pain we choose, the impossible opponent in grief and the strange self-possession that fighting can of...2025-03-2124 minField RambleField Ramble with Ben MarkovitsSend us a textOn this episode, Ben Markovitz talks to us about his latest novel The Rest of Our Lives. Starting in the midst of a failing relationship, the story follows Tom Layward, a man on the cusp of a life changing decision. Having lived for years in the shadow of a brief affair that his wife Amy pursued, Tom resolves to leave, following their own adult children out into the world. What follows is a road trip of wrong turns and misdirections, across a strangely dislocated and misremembered America as Tom runs both from the...2025-03-1319 minField RambleField Ramble with Ellen E. JonesSend us a textOn this episode Ellen E. Jones speaks to us about Screen Deep, How Film and TV can Solve Racism and Save the World. Many of you will know Ellen from Radio 4’s Screen Shot, in which, alongside her co-host Mark Kermode, she enters the various worlds of Doris Day, jobbing hitmen and the longest running video shop in the world. Screen Deep is written with the same insight, encyclopaedic knowledge and social consciousness that Ellen brings to her broadcasting. (She also does a fantastic line in knowing asides.) It is a rei...2025-03-0639 minField RambleField Ramble with Adelle StripeSend us a textOn this episode we speak to Adelle Stripe about her incredible memoir Base Notes. Published by White Rabbit and described perfectly by Wendy Erskine as ‘a marvel of specificity,’ it is everything you’d expect if you’ve read any of Adelle’s previous work. Open, kind and often very funny, it is a deeply humane book and one written with the clear economy of a poet. There are small town break outs, serendipitous strangers, sex line stints and New York hustle but there's no spoilers here. More than anything Base Notes is a...2025-02-2125 minField RambleField Ramble with Omar El AkkadSend us a textOn this episode we meet novelist Omar El Akkad to discuss One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Published by Canongate (27.02 - UK) it is a powerful meditation on what it means to live in the heart of an empire, an indictment of Western complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians and an exploration of the hypocrisies on which we build our lives.Drawing from Omar’s own journalistic experience reporting on years of the ‘War on Terror,’ and the migration of his childhood, this book chronicles a painful realis...2025-02-1432 minField RambleField Ramble with Elaine GarveySend us a textWe catch up with Elaine Garvey to discuss her wonderful debut novel The Wardrobe Department. Set in the early 2000s and written with a disarming first hand delivery, it is the story of Mairéad, a young Irish theatre professional who’s come to London in a bid to pursue a career backstage. Caught between an acute homesickness for the Ireland of her imagination and a gruelling work life, Mairéad is adrift and unable to make a home in either place. When an urgent call to return home comes she is forced both...2025-02-0723 minField RambleField Ramble with Vincenzo LatronicoSend us a textFirst published in Italian three years ago Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection is brought to an English speaking readership for the first time by Fitzcarraldo who publish Sophie Hughes’ exceptional translation on February 13th.Taking inspiration from George Perec’s - Things, A Story of The Sixties, Perfection is the story of Anna and Tom, an Italian couple living a carefully curated life in Berlin as freelance graphic designers. The novel purposefully remains on the surface of their lives, never letting us into Anna or Tom’s thoughts - and the effect is uncann...2025-01-3126 minField RambleField Ramble with Orlando ReadeSend us a textOn this episode we speak to Orlando Reade about What in Me is Dark; his exploration of the radical life of Paradise Lost. Within it, the author considers the relationship between the poem and some of the writers and revolutionaries who have drawn inspiration from it over the centuries since its writing. From Mary Shelley to Malcolm X the influence of Milton’s epic is as far reaching as the poet hoped it to be, but in intriguingly contradictory ways. What in Me Is Dark is an accessible and dynamic reappraisal of Paradise Lo...2024-12-2723 minField RambleField Ramble with Jen CallejaSend us a textAnother gem from the mighty Rough Trade Books on this episode. This time round we hear from the wonderful Jen Calleja on her latest book Goblinhood, a compelling patchwork of pop culture, family histories and poetics that sets out Jen’s theory of ‘goblin’ as a mode. What at first appears a dizzying and at times disparate array of references soon emerge as a map of behaviours; the false starts, foolish consistencies, safe spaces and new beginnings we all share. Part memoir, part reckoning, Goblinhood is a formally inventive, daring and playful collection of essa...2024-12-0525 minField RambleField Ramble with Rebecca SmithSend us a textOn this episode we hear from Rebecca Smith about Rural; her account of the lives of the working class countryside. Weaving in her own family’s history as foresters, miners, millworkers and more, Rural sees Rebecca explore stories of the countryside that are often overlooked. The role of tied housing, the precarious nature of farming and the destructive power of Airbnb all feature in a book for anyone interested in the future of rural Britain.@fieldzine www.fieldzine.comwww.patreon.com/fieldzine2024-11-2521 minField RambleField Ramble with Alejandro Zambra & Megan McDowellSend us a textOn this episode we speak to Alejandro Zambra about his latest book, Childish Literature; a chronicle of early fatherhood. Written in a 'state of attachment', it is a beautiful collection of roaming essays, poetry and short stories - that show how the birth and growth of a child changes not only the present and the future but also reshapes our perceptions of the past. We also hear from Alejandro's close friend and translator Megan McDowell on the process of their working relationship and her role in bringing this graceful, funny and p...2024-11-1634 minField RambleField Ramble with Edward Carey & Erin E. AdamsSend us a textTwo suitably spooky novels on this episode.First up, Erin E. Adams and her debut, Jackal. Published in the UK by Dead Ink Books and set in contemporary Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Jackal is the story of one woman’s determination to uncover the truth around the disappearance of a number of young black girls. A taught, psychological thriller, Erin’s skill is undoubtedly in underscoring the existent horror within US society today. 'A tight, thought provoking novel that transcends genre'Los Angeles Review of Books'Erin...2024-10-2836 minField RambleField Ramble with Raymond AntrobusSend us a textOn this episode we speak to poet Raymond Antrobus about his recently published collection Signs, Music. Comprised of two extended sequences Signs, Music centres on both the imminence and the realisation of a new and overwhelming love. At times compulsive, at others reflective it captures the trepidation and courage of early parenthood. But, more than that, Signs, Music asks us to consider the worlds we create for each other, to question the conditions we place on the love that we offer and to somehow re-find the wonder we once had for...2024-10-1836 minField RambleField Ramble with Andrew Michael HurleySend us a textAs the film adaptation of Starve Acre is released we speak to Andrew Michael Hurley about the origins and evolving life of his much loved novel. Set in the seventies, in the deceptive and unforgiving northern landscapes that fill Andrew’s work, Starve Acre is the story of a family with a bitter inheritance. Sudden tragedy leads to costly obsession and primeval forces are unearthed in an unnerving and sinister return, truly fertile ground for cinema.Directed by Daniel Kokotaljo (who many of you will know from his fantastic fea...2024-08-3129 minField RambleField Ramble with Rachelle AtallaSend us a textOn this episode we catch up with Rachelle Atalla to hear more about her latest novel The Salt Flats. A tale of many threads, it centres around Martha and Finn a couple who have come to find themselves at the end of their relationship. In a bid to save what’s left between them they travel to a mysterious retreat on the Bolivian salt flats as part of a group of privileged tourists. There, they undergo a series of ceremonies to unlock the fears that separate them. But as each hallucinogenic epis...2024-08-2125 minField RambleField Ramble with Mateo García ElizondoSend us a textOn this episode we meet Mateo García Elizondo to hear more about his debut novel Last Date in El Zapotal. First published in Mexico in 2019 it won the City of Barcelona Literature Award that year but has had to wait until 2024 to be published in English by Charco Press. At first glance Last Date is the story of a man who’s given up on life. Already almost a ghost, he arrives in El Zapotal with enough heroin to see him through his final days of longing and desp...2024-08-0925 minField RambleField Ramble with Evie WyldSend us a textOn this episode we meet the wonderful Evie Wyld to find out more about her latest novel, The Echoes. As with Evie’s previous books, The Echoes is bold in its use of time and space, spanning generations and moving from one side of the world to the other.It’s a book filled with thrilling misdirections - so no spoilers here friends.We can tell you that - The Echoes is deeply moving, very funny and provocative throughout. It is a book that draws so much from the reade...2024-07-2835 minField RambleField Ramble with Ella FrearsSend us a textOn this episode we speak to Ella Frears about her incredible fictional memoir Good Lord. Taking the form of a single 30,000 word email it is a genre-defying, stream of consciousness address directed toward Ava, an unsuspecting estate agent. Ella’s writing is both fearless and full of energy, ranging widely across the common spaces of our lives to take in the wild precarity of the housing market, endemic violence towards women in the UK today and much more. Good Lord is provocative, disconcerting and very, very funny. It poses searching questions abo...2024-07-1229 minField RambleField Ramble with Noreen MasudSend us a textOn this episode we sit down with Noreen Masud to hear more about her incredible memoir A Flat Place. Shortlisted this year for both the Women’s Prize for Non Fiction and the Jhalak Prize, it is an exploration of both the flat landscapes Noreen loves and ‘the flat place’ she identifies within herself.Taking in the Fens, the Orkneys, Morecombe Bay and more Noreen writes on the contradictions of these places, their stark beauty, immediacy and evasive nature. And through them she finds a way to explore the symptoms of childh...2024-07-0733 minField RambleField Ramble with Katie HaleSend us a textOn this episode we’re joined by Katie Hale to discuss her upcoming novel The Edge of Solitude. Set on a lone ship that's slowly drifting toward the heart of the Antarctic, it's a book which asks us to consider the risks of the planet’s future being left in the hands of a few insanely wealthy individuals. The Edge of Solitude is a story of ambition, principle and above all fallibility that foregrounds our current climate emergency in the near future. A time of hubris and disappearance.The book ca...2024-06-3024 minField RambleField Ramble with Lara HaworthSend us a textOn this episode we meet Lara Haworth to discuss her wonderful new novel Monumenta. It tells the story of Olha Pavic whose house has been requisitioned by Belgrade city council. They aim to bulldoze it and build a monument to an unspecified massacre in its place. Three architects pay Olga a visit in turn pitching their ideas for the monument that will replace her family home. The novel is in turns searching and surreal, but always a tender portrayal of a family moving through the flood of a nation’s history. 2024-06-2628 minField RambleField Ramble with Octavia BrightSend us a textTo mark the publication of its paperback edition, this episode is a discussion with Octavia Bright around her wonderful memoir, This Ragged Grace. Published last year, many of you will already know it as an unsparing yet hopeful navigation of unravelling and recovery. It is a deeply human piece of work that asks us to consider the value of ambivalence and the acceptance we can offer ourselves. A book that remains long after reading with much to say about the cycle we're bound in.'To love is to welcome the spectre o...2024-06-0742 minField RambleField Ramble with Kevin Barry & Elizabeth O'ConnorSend us a textTwo wonderful books on this episode. First up we hear from Elizabeth O' Connor about her incredible debut novel Whalefall. Set on a remote island off the coast of Wales in the run up to World War Two it is a story that maps the tension between home and the hope that exists in a young heart for a life of their own. We loved this book, the island is as wild & windswept as you'd want and the themes of imposition and the violence of 'progress' felt so timely. Do...2024-05-3143 minField RambleField Ramble with Will Burns and Kevin BonifaceSend us a textOn this episode we meet Will Burns to hear about his latest poetry collection Natural Burial Ground. Many of you will know Will from his fantastic (lockdown set) novel The Paper Lantern, a portrait of a transforming social & physical landscape during the strangest of years. It is a book flooded with new found time unlike Natural Burial Ground. Instead there, Will’s voice is open to the complexities and trials of loss. Both books though urge the reader to look again at the wider world and the moment they find themselves in and are...2024-05-2441 minField RambleField Ramble with Catherine Prasifka and Vida AdamczewskiSend us a textOn this episode we meet up Vida Adamczewski and Catherine Prasifka. First up, Vida to discuss Amphibian her vividly inventive short story collection. It is provocative storytelling infused with a radical compassion that finds voice in new places and reimagines the body as a territory, a swamp we are invited to wallow in by the cover. Amphibian is published by the wonderful Toothgrinder press - www.toothgrinder.co.uk - Do search out them out and get yourself a copy. Many of you will know Catherine Prasifka from her st...2024-05-0338 minField RambleField Ramble with Richard NorrisSend us a textOn this episode of the Ramble we meet Richard Norris to hear about his memoir of a lifetime in music, Strange Things Are Happening. The book spans the entirety of Richard’s career from an early pivotal meeting with John Peel, via the birth of Acid House to Californian adventures with Joe Strummer. But Strange Things Are Happening is much more than a series of anecdotes. At its heart are a series of reflections on forty years of creative practice, a lifetime of collaborations and innovations in music that have brought coun...2024-04-2528 minField RambleField Ramble with Niamh MulveySend us a textOn this episode we speak to author Niamh Mulvey about her upcoming debut novel The Amendments. Many of you will know Niamh from her short story collection Hearts and Bones. (Head back to episode 6 of the pod if not to hear our interview with her shortly after H&B’s publication.) With The Amendments (published by Picador on April 11th) Niamh takes the titular story from the collection and crafts it into what is a beautifully wrought novel. Set between London and Ireland The Amendments spans the lives of three generations of w...2024-04-1124 minField RambleField Ramble with Sinéad GleesonSend us a textOn this episode we hear from Sinéad Gleeson about her upcoming debut novel Hagstone. Set on a rugged island somewhere in the wild Atlantic it centres around the life of Nel an artist who draws inspiration from the landscape, folklore and unexplained phenomena that surround her. The island is also home to a reclusive community of women, the Inions, who task Nel with the creation of a new artwork, a request that leads her to uncover truths both about them and herself. If you’ve read Sinéad’s essays or know...2024-03-2829 minField RambleField Ramble with Balsam KaramSend us a textOn this episode we meet Balsam Karam to hear about her latest novel The Singularity. Set in an unnamed coastal town the story follows the impact of one woman’s death on another. It is a study of loss, migration and motherhood and a book that remains with you long after you’ve put it down. Through bold formal experimentation Balsam builds a language of post trauma, moving from separate narratives that co-exist on the same line to episodic, crystalline remembering. This is definitely a book for those who’ve read and lov...2024-03-2020 minField RambleField Ramble with Magogodi oaMphela MakheneSend us a textOn this episode of the Ramble, an interview with Magogodi oaMphela Makhene in which we discuss her stunning, debut short story collection, Innards. Set in Soweto (where Magogodi was raised) her stories map the lives of a small group of residents living under and after apartheid.By turns shockingly violent and deeply funny Innards is beautiful wrought from the first page. It is fiction that lays bare the enduring nature of trauma and celebrates the capacity of people to pursue life amid daunting realities.There is so much to l...2024-03-0726 minField RambleField Ramble with Magogodi oaMphela MakheneOn this episode of the Ramble, an interview with Magogodi oaMphela Makhene in which we discuss her stunning, debut short story collection, Innards. Set in Soweto (where Magogodi was raised) her stories map the lives of a small group of residents living under and after apartheid.By turns shockingly violent and deeply funny Innards is beautiful wrought from the first page. It is fiction that lays bare the enduring nature of trauma and celebrates the capacity of people to pursue life amid daunting realities. There is so much to love about Magogodi’s work, but for...2024-03-0745 minField RambleField Ramble with Aniefiok EkpoudomSend us a textOn this episode of Field Ramble, an interview with Aniefiok Ekpoudom to discuss his incredible work of narrative non fiction Where We Come From. Set between communities in South London, South Wales and the West Midland’s Neef’s book documents the rise of UK Rap and Grime. Beginning with the tenacious community hubs of Pirate Radio in Birmingham under the guiding hand of Cecil Morris to the emergence of artists such as Stormzy and Dave, Aniefiok documents the early years and emergence of the genres and the vital role that progenitors such as Ca...2024-02-2922 minField RambleField Ramble with Mary Costello and Feryal Ali GauharSend us a textField Ramble is back with award winning Irish novelist Mary Costello to hear about her latest short story collection Barcelona. It follows firmly in the footsteps of her debut novel Academy Street ( Novel of the Year 2014, The Irish Book Awards) and her first collection The China Factory in its fearlessness. Never afraid to shine a light on our darker side, Barcelona is unsparing in its exploration of cruelty and, in Mary's own words, our straining for consciousness. In this bumper episode we also meet up with film maker, activist and novelist Fe...2024-02-2249 minField RambleField Ramble with Lottie Hazell and Andrew McMillanSend us a textJanuary is grim, there’s no two ways about it. So here are two fantastic debuts to keep you tucked up indoors and out of whichever storm has just landed. First off a chat with Lottie Hazell whose novel Piglet is published on 25.01. An unrelenting story of compulsion and unfulfilled hunger, it majors on love, class and the lack at the centre of modern life. (It also has one of the most insane wedding scenes you’ll read this year.) Follow the link below to order a copy.https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/97...2024-01-2433 minField RambleField Ramble with Ali MillarSend us a textHappy 2024 people! In our first episode of the year we hear from author Ali Millar about her debut novel Ava Anna Ada. Many of you will know Ali from her incredible memoir The Last Days, a courageous and unsparing account of her upbringing in and break from the Jehovah’s Witness Cult. It was an incredible read and is a huge recommend if you’ve yet to get to itDescribed by Ali as her 'strange little book,' her much anticipated debut novel braids together themes of climate chaos, social collap...2024-01-0128 minField RambleField Ramble with Mike McCormack & John Patrick McHughSend us a textField 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 part noir, part metaphysical thriller. Huge thanks to b...2023-12-1541 minField RambleField Ramble with Alycia Pirmohamed, Keiran Goddard & Nasim Rebecca AslSend us a textThis 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 inspiration in surprising places, the responsibilities he felt when building the fictional co...2023-11-2020 minField RambleField Ramble with Daisy Johnson and Matt HillSend us a textThis 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 about.Also - another killer pub...2023-10-2627 minField RambleField Ramble with Wendy ErskineSend us a textThis 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 love, false accusations, obsession and murder. If you...2023-10-0527 minField RambleField Ramble with Rachelle Atalla & Dan CoxonSend us a textThis 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 Writing the Uncanny it's another great book for writers working in the g...2023-09-0628 minField RambleField Ramble With Guy GunaratneSend us a textThis 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 Ramblers. Till next month, Big lo...2023-08-0931 minField RambleField Ramble with David Roberts & Ayesha Manazir SiddiqiSend us a textThis 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. @fieldzine www.fieldzine.comwww.patreon.com/fieldzine2023-07-0535 minField RambleField Ramble with Kim Moore and Laurent PetitmanginSend us a textTwo 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.) Find him on Bandcamp at Al...2023-05-2637 minField RambleField Ramble with Martin Macinnes and Kerri ní DochartaighSend us a textTwo 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 EPFor Distance Brings Us Closer - Upward Eyes EP2023-04-2847 minField RambleField Ramble with Aidan Cottrell Boyce and Niamh MulveySend us a textField 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 for the use of the beautiful music in...2023-03-3042 minField RambleField Ramble with Cynan JonesSend us a textIn 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 w...2022-12-2155 minField RambleField Ramble with Ros AndersonSend us a textSam 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 Hierarchies, its a huge recommend from both of...2022-12-0341 minField RambleField Ramble with Naomi Booth & Lucie McKnight HardySend us a textA 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 @fieldzine www.fieldzine.comwww.patreon.com/fieldzine2022-10-3046 min