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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.

June 30, 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.

May 20, 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.

April 27, 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.

March 31, 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.

February 22, 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.

December 23, 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.

November 24, 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.

October 27, 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.

September 29, 2025 2 Reactions