Gillian Wheelan

BBC National Short Story Award - BBC National Short Story Award 2025 - You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle by Colwill Brown - BBC Sounds Colwill Brown's powerful story is a contender for the BBC National Short Story Award.

The winning story…..BBC National Short Story Awards 2025 #shortstory #booksky #writing

Colwill Brown is the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2025. A brilliant shortlist. And some amazing stories from the Young Writers’ Award!

BBC Sounds - BBC National Short Story Award - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of BBC National Short Story Award on BBC Sounds.

The winner of the BBC National Short Story Award is announced tomorrow night. You can hear all the shortlisted stories brought to life on #BBCSounds - some brilliant writing. Have a listen if you’re interested in a good #shortstory #booksky

This week on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 I was talking to William Boyd about his new spy novel 'The Predicament' and 3 influences Lawrence Durrell, Len Deighton and John Le Carre - also with guest @louisewelsh00.bsky.social - listen now!
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Our interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia goes out next week meanwhile, we have snippets! Mushrooms play a huge part in Mexican Gothic, we had to talk about it in the show. Now I've got vintage Japanese horror films to seek out.
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Hi again listeners! In Oct we’re welcoming Oyinkan Braithwaite into studio to talk about 'My Sister, The Serial Killer' a dark comedic thriller where sisterly love is pushed to the brink. Send us qus by Oct 10th to be on the show worldbookclub@bbc.co.uk #booksky #mysistertheserialkiller #WBC

Live Radio 4 Bookclub recording in Glasgow on Friday with the legendary @nivenj1.bsky.social John Niven for his 2008 debut Kill Your Friends. If you wanna be in the audience, message me and I’ll put you on the list. Should be a cracker!

Coming up later today on BBC Radio 4 I'm talking to Graham Norton on #TakeFourBooks about his latest novel Frankie, along with 3 influences - Elizabeth Bowen, Armistead Maupin & Gabrielle Zevin (and bonus influence Charlie Brown!) - at 4pm 👇🎧📚
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Loved talking to Ian McEwan (& @damedenisemina.bsky.social!) on BBCRadio4
#TakeFourBooks about climate, memory & the way the past haunts the present in his new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel WHAT WE CAN KNOW with 3 influences incl the epic
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
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Melissa Lucashenko was the guest on Take Four Books on Sunday. Recorded duing @edbookfest.bsky.social #BBCradio4 - she was talking about Edenglassie and her three influences.
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We recorded some great episodes of Take Four Books at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - the first was Rachel Kushner talking about her book Creation Lake - listen again here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @edbookfest.bsky.social #BBCRadio4

BBC Sounds - Speed of Light by Laura Cumming - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Speed of Light by Laura Cumming on BBC Sounds.

Speed of Light by Laura Cumming is a brilliant series about five trail blazing photographers (two from Paisley) - who made history. Catch up on Sounds ⬇️

If you fancy coming along to see Take Four Books or Bookclub being recorded for #BBCRadio4 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - all the details are here:
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Kit de Waal is talking about her debut novel, My Name Is Leon, on #Bookclub on #BBCRadio4 A lovely programme recorded with an audience of readers at Rare Birds bookshop in Edinburgh #booksky
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Take Four Books - Denise Mina - BBC Sounds Multi-award-winning writer Denise Mina discusses her new novel, The Good Liar.

Catch up on Take Four Books - this week award winning writer, Denise Mina, discusses her twentieth novel, The Good Liar, and the three key influences that inspired its creation #takefourbooks #booksky #denisemina #radio4

Listen now to my chat on Radio4 with Gurnaik Johal on his debut @serpents-tail.bsky.social novel Saraswati on #TakeFourBooks: where a lost river re-emerges in contemporary India. His 3 influences include @amitav.bsky.social, Joseph Conrad and poet Natalie Diaz! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Read both of these in a couple of days before the Colm Toibin episode of Take Four Books. Flew through them. A great episode. #booksksy #takefourbooks #radio4
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Radio 4’s Bookclub recording of My Name Is Leon with Kit de Waal will be in Edinburgh on Tuesday (22nd) 6.15pm start. If you fancy coming along DM me and I can get you on the list. @kitdewaal.com

The Roman Empire is the subject of this month’s Bookclub on #BBC Radio 4. Author and historian, Tom Holland, is talking about #Rubicon and answering questions at Topping Books in Edinburgh.
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World Book Club - Graeme Macrae Burnet - BBC Sounds The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.

Graeme Macrae Burnet is the guest on the latest episode of World Book Club. He’s answering readers questions about his critically acclaimed novel, His Bloody Project @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social #booksky

Listen now to my chat on Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks with Madeleine Thien about her new, time-warping @grantabooks.bsky.social novel of war, exile and refugees, 'The Book of Records' - and her three influences, including the evergreen 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino...
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Author, Wendy Erskine, talks about her new novel, The Benefactors, on the most recent episode of Take Four Books, plus the three other books that inspired her writing. #BBCRadio4 @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
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2025 marks 100 years since the National Library of Scotland was established by an Act of Parliament 🎂

Join our centenary champions, Val McDermid and Damian Barr, as they talk about the significance of libraries, and the importance of collections like ours 📚

‘Dear Library’ - this exhibition @natlibscot.bsky.social is lovely…including a brilliant picture of the old Paisley Library. I want a lego library. Get yourself along to the National Library of Scotland. How many times can I fit in the word LIBRARY #booksky #library

Elif Shafak talks about the books that inspired her novel, There Are Rivers In The Sky, on Take Four Books this week. Recorded backstage at Hay with Gwyneth Lewis joining the conversation #BBCRadio4 @hayfestival.bsky.social #booksky

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BBC Sounds - Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick on BBC Sounds.

This is worth a listen….Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick. It’s longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights. #BBCRadio4

Congratulations to Andrew Miller on winning the Walter Scott Prize for The Land in Winter. He spoke to Take Four Books about the novel and his influences at the Hay festival on #BBCRadio4 @walterscottprize.bsky.social @hayfestival.bsky.social
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Front Row - Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys remembered. - BBC Sounds Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys remembered.

Lally MacBeth, author of The Lost Folk, interviewed about her new book about the past, present and future of the UK's folk culture on Front Row yesterday.

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We are delighted to present the 30th winner of the #WomensPrize for Fiction: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. Congratulations, Yael! Thank you to the judges and our sponsors #Audible and #Baileys.

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