Show notes
In this episode, we talk to two novelists who have written deeply personal essays. How have their narratives changed in the process of moving from fiction to non-fiction? Chibundu Onuzo gives us a taste of ‘1991’, her series of autobiographical essays performed at the London Literature Festival at the Southbank, and Olivia Sudjic discusses her first book of non-fiction, EXPOSURE (Peninsula Press). Lucy Scholes introduces us to HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL, a collection of essays by novelist Alexander Chee (Bloomsbury). And finally, we interview Ben Schott and discover a different type of literary alchemy in his novel JEEVES AND THE KING OF CLUBS (Hutchinson), an homage to the great humourist PG Wodehouse.