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Author interviews

Monthly feature in which authors and editors of our Books of the Month are interviewed by CBTR Contributing Editor Tallulah Brennan.

Safe Harbours: Natasha Carthew, interviewed

Natasha Carthew speaks to Tallulah Brennan about the precarity of coastal living, the importance of working-class voices, and the ocean as a parental figure.

30/06/2026

Loyalty to The Given World: Melissa Harrison, interviewed

Melissa Harrison speaks to Tallulah Brennan about imagined rivers, our skewed relationship with the seasons, & the omission of farming from the nature writing canon.

20/05/2026

Dig Where You Stand: Zakia Sewell, interviewed

Zakia Sewell talks to Tallulah Brennan about rebellion & dissent, finding stories in the margins, & the importance of confronting complicated relationships with England.

27/04/2026

Sharing Terrain: Kate Brown, interviewed

Kate Brown and Tallulah Brennan discuss plants as human allies, gardens as public health measures, and the importance of touching dirt.

31/03/2026

A Tiny Place and a Huge Planet: Jason Allen-Paisant, interviewed

Jason Allen-Paisant speaks to Tallulah Brennan about the poetic impulses of the Caribbean, vernacular intimacy with plants, and soil as an emblem of life & death.

22/02/2026

A Cry to Live: Anna Chilvers & Clare Shaw, interviewed

Anna Chilvers & Clare Shaw on bogs as living presences, the need to restore our visceral connection with the land, and the suck and ooze of the peat.

23/12/2025

There is Always More to Love: Christina Riley, interviewed

Christina Riley speaks to Tallulah Brennan about the writings of Rachel Carson, seeing the world through a scallop’s eyes, and the inherent poetry of the sea.

24/11/2025

Just Nature’s Way: Hollie Starling, interviewed

The editor of Book of the Month 'Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror' — speaks to Tallulah about reclaiming folklore as a living, working-class art form.

27/10/2025

To Argue with a Ghost: Nicola Chester, interviewed

Nicola Chester speaks to Tallulah Brennan about lapwings, spectres of woman-farmers past, and the advent of agricultural chemicals.

29/09/2025 2 Réactions