THE VANISHING EARTH @bloomsburypub @scribeukbooks | WILD HISTORY @BirlinnBooks | Presenter @BBCRadio4 TAKE FOUR BOOKS | Editor @PolygonBooks | CHAIR @edbookfest
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Feb 17
🚨COVER REVEAL! 🚨
Several years in the writing, my new book, THE VANISHING EARTH is an odyssey to the frontiers of extraction & to the radical alternatives emerging just as we threaten to exhaust the earth's natural resources... OUT AUG/SEP from @scribepub & @BloomsburyPub
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Jun 9
“A dizzying feat of reporting” - delighted with this pre-pub starred review from @PublishersWkly for my forthcoming book THE VANISHING EARTH from @BloomsburyPub and @scribepub!
Historian and journalist Crawford takes readers on ‘a journey to the literal and ideological frontiers of extraction’ in this sweeping account of the toll the pursuit of endless economic growth has taken on the planet. buff.ly/XZdhpJB
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May 17
Loved talking to @katiekitamura on @BBCRadio4 about her latest @TheBookerPrizes shortlisted & @PulitzerPrizes finalist novel AUDITION and 3 brilliant influences inc Rosemary's Baby, Javier Marias, Maupassant (& bonus influence David Lynch!) Listen now! 👇 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wjj…
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May 10
On today's #TakeFourBooks on @BBCRadio4 I talked with @GhoshAmitav about new novel GHOST EYE & his 3 influences: two ghost stories (one about a haunted palace, another about a haunted river) and Robert Macfarlane's "Is A River Alive?"
Listen now! 📚🎧👇bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002w7…
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Apr 22
Danish poet Inger Christensen's book-length poem #alphabet was discussed on @BBCRadio4's Take Four Books with writer Solvej Balle. A clip of Susanna Nied reading from her translation (taken from @AilbheDarcy's 2020 Radio 4 feature Alphabet) was played.
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Apr 20
It may not be the 18th of November but it is 'Selter Day' on @BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks as I talk to SOLVEJ BALLE about her @FaberBooks serial novel ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME & her 3 influences (inc brill poem Alphabet!) - come join us in the time loop! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v9l…
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Mar 29
Listen now to my chat with Yann Martel on @BBCRadio4 about new novel SON OF NOBODY & his 3 influences: Homer's Iliad (as translated by Stephen Mitchell), Alice Oswald's poem Memorial & Edward Albee's classic 1960s play. From the Trojan War to marital war! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002td…
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Feb 22
Listen now to my @BBCRadio4 chat with John Lanchester about new @FaberBooks novel 'Look What You Made Me Do' and his three comic novel influences, Evelyn Waugh, Barbara Pym & Kurt Vonnegut!
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Feb 18
PRE-ORDER NOW FOR 25% off (My new book THE VANISHING EARTH coming out September ‘26!) waterstones.com/book/the-van…
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Feb 17
🚨COVER REVEAL! 🚨
Several years in the writing, my new book, THE VANISHING EARTH is an odyssey to the frontiers of extraction & to the radical alternatives emerging just as we threaten to exhaust the earth's natural resources... OUT AUG/SEP from @scribepub & @BloomsburyPub
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Jan 25
Listen now to my @BBCRadio4 chat with Ali Smith about new novel GLYPH & 3 influences, including a novel about a magic donkey hide (by Balzac!), a book of nonsense & Leo Tolstoy! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002qg…
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Jan 18
Today, 4pm on #TakeFourBooks on @BBCRadio4 I'm talking to @RobDoyle1 about his "mise en abyme" new novel CAMEO, and 3 influences - absolute crackers this week in the form of Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolano and Marguerite Yourcenar! Listen here 📚🎧👇bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q28…
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Jan 11
Today on #TakeFourBooks on @BBCRadio4 I'm talking to Makenna Goodman about her new @FitzcarraldoEds novel HELEN OF NOWHERE & her 3 influences: Jean Giono's "The Man Who Planted Trees", Bell Hooks' "All About Love" & the plays of Pulitzer-winner Annie Baker
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28 Dec 2025
Listen now to my @BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks chat with Andrew Michael Hurley about new novel SALTWASH and three influences including Philip Larkin's 'Aubade', 'Free Will' by Sam Harris, and Shirley Jackson's chilling 'The Summer People' 📻📚🎧👇bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002nv…
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14 Dec 2025
Proud to have produced this. James Crawford interviews Sir Salman Rushdie about his latest collection of short fiction — I’m biased obviously but found this an inspiring and important listen. 👇 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002nk…
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7 Dec 2025
Listen now to my @BBCRadio4 chat with Jo Nesbø about latest novel WOLF HOUR, “saving the cat” vs “killing the cat”, taxidermy, & 3 influences including Jim Thompson, Knut Hamsun and Brett Easton Ellis #TakeFourBooks 🎧📚👇
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30 Nov 2025
Listen now to my @BBCRadio4 chat with @McCallSmith about new novel THE PRIVATE SIDE OF FRIENDSHIP and 3 influences, including W.H. Auden on unrequited love, Robin Dunbar’s “Friends”, and Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles” #TakeFourBooks
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28 Nov 2025
How all literary events should end! 🍻
With @Jdcrawf, Natalie Jayne Clarke, @BeeRowlatt, @isobeldixon, Chris Barkley & Eimear McBride
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25 Nov 2025
Alexander is to guest on @BBCRadio4's Take Four Books this weekend, talking about his latest (and already much loved) stand-alone novel The Private Side of Friendship. Keep an eye on the BBC website to watch live or on catch-up:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025cx…
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