Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

All the way from Barbados, multiple award-winning author Karen Lord chats with Gary about how the lockdown is affecting life there, how the whole worldwide experience is liking moving into a new country where you don’t quite know all the rules, what reading to return to in such times, and her own new story “The Plague Doctors” (and discussion of the story) from the free anthology, Take Us to a Better Place: Stories.

Books mentioned include:

• Unravelling by Karen Lord
• The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton
• The City Watch, Witches, and Tiffany Aching novels by Terry Pratchett
• Take Us to a Better Place: Stories

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Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

If his recent conversation with John Berlyne saw Jonathan embrace the fact that Coode Street’s ten minutes was at a best theoretical, then today’s conversation blows that out of the water extending beyond 35 minutes, and still only being just barely long enough. Today Jonathan talks to writer and editor Simon Ings about art, despots, fabulous books, and unexpected experiences. Utterly essential listening. It’s the most fun you’ll have with earphones in for ages!

Books mentioned include:

• We Robots edited by Simon Ings
• Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
• Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

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Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Jonathan spends ten minutes talking with Claire McKenna about working, reading, and writing during difficult times, pirate utopias, the joys of old bestsellers, and her debut novel, Monstrous Heart.

Books mentioned include:

• Monstrous Heart by Claire McKenna
• Monsoon by Wilbur Smith
• Gondar by Nicholas Luard

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Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking with the Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning ‘Hermit of Binghampton”, Jack Dann, who checks in from his home in coastal Victoria to talk about life, art, books, and more.

Books mentioned include:

• Shadows in the Stone by Jack Dann
• Pluche or the Love of Art by Jean Dutourd
• The Best of R.A. Lafferty by R.A. Lafferty
• Masters of Science Fiction: Kate Wilhelm (2 vols.) by Kate Wilhelm
• Marque of Caine by Charles E. Gannon
• The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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