E.J. Swift‘s sixth novel, When There Are Wolves Again, is one of the standout science fiction novels of 2025. For the final instalment of the Coode Street Advent Calendar for 2025, Jonathan chats with Emma about what she has been reading and would recommend, the writing and publication of When There Are Wolves Again, her holiday reading, and what she has coming up next.

As always, our thanks to Emma for making time to chat with us. Our thanks also to everyone who has taken part in the Advent Calendar. We hope you enjoy this and all of the other episodes.

It’s December 24, the final day of Advent, and Coode Street has just two more episodes to go before our holiday break. Today, Gary and Jonathan chat with Ursula Vernon about her writing alter-ego T.Kingfisher, about what she’s read lately and would recommend, her recent work like Hemlock & Silver, What Stalks the Deep and Snake-Eater, her holiday traditions, and what she’s been working on and has coming out including Wolf Worm and Daggerbound.

As always, our thanks to Ursula for making time to talk to us today. We hope you enjoy the episode.

World Fantasy and Ignyte winner Tochi Onyebuchi joins Gary for a brief but wide-ranging discussion that touches upon his genre-hopping 2025 novel Harmattan Season, his fascinating Internet memoir Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, the virtues of Roberto Bolaño and Dostoevsky, and Tochi’s own work in progress.

As always, our thanks to Tochi for making time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Today Jonathan and Gary spend some time talking to Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who write together as “James S.A. Corey”, about what they’ve been reading, what they’d recommend, their seasonal reading and viewing, and their upcoming new novel, The Faith of Beasts.

We also touch upon progress on Daniel’s third Kithamar novel and their ongoing project to write an entirely new novel right before your very eyes: James SA Corey writes a novel.

As always, our thanks to Daniel and Ty for making the time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode.

As both the Advent Calendar and the year move slowly towards a close, Gary and Jonathan chat with Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill, Light Perpetual, and the wonderful Cahokia Jazz about what he’s been reading, what he’d recommend, his holiday reading traditions and his incredible novel, Nonesuch.

As always, our thanks to Francis for making time to talk to us today. We hope you enjoy the episode.