The Queen's Reading Room Podcast

A very warm welcome to this week's episode of The Queen's Reading Room Podcast!

This week, we catch up with friend of The Queen's Reading Room, best selling author & creator of the Roy Grace series, the brilliant Peter James. In this very special episode, Peter invites us into his own personal reading room where he recalls the literature which has shaped his life from childhood.

The Queen's Reading Room Podcast is a place for book lovers - and those who wish they loved literature a little more - to be inspired by the bookish confessions of global literary heroes. Authors from all over the world have shared their own literary treasures with us; revealing their favourite writers, most treasured books and earliest reading memories.

Discover the joy of reading with The Queens Reading Room podcast, available weekly on all podcast platforms.

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Welcome to the episode six of The Queen's Reading Room podcast.

The Queen's Reading Room podcast is a place for book lovers - and those who wish they loved literature a little more - to be inspired by the bookish confessions of global literary heroes. Authors from all over the world have shared their own literary treasures with us; revealing their favourite writers, most treasured books and earliest reading memories.

Ann Patchett was the winner of the Pen/Faulkner award 2022 and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, and is one of the world’s most loved novelists to boot. She speaks to The Queen’s Reading Room from her home in America, and gives us unique insight into her writing, her life and her home that overflows with books.

Discover the joy of reading with The Queens Reading Room podcast, available weekly on all podcast platforms.

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Welcome to the episode four of The Queen's Reading Room podcast.

The Queen's Reading Room podcast is a place for book lovers - and those who wish they loved literature a little more - to be inspired by the bookish confessions of global literary heroes. Authors from all over the world have shared their own literary treasures with us; revealing their favourite writers, most treasured books and earliest reading memories.

Elif Shafak has long been a friend of The Queen’s Reading Room and so when she agreed to record a podcast episode with us, we knew she wouldn’t disappoint. This remarkable novelist speaks to the unique literary experience of immigrants, as well as the extensive reading that she undertakes in order to create her own masterpieces.

Discover the joy of reading with The Queens Reading Room podcast, available weekly on all podcast platforms.

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Welcome to the episode three of The Queen's Reading Room podcast.

The Queen's Reading Room podcast is a place for book lovers - and those who wish they loved literature a little more - to be inspired by the bookish confessions of global literary heroes. Authors from all over the world have shared their own literary treasures with us; revealing their favourite writers, most treasured books and earliest reading memories.

This week, we step inside the reading room of Joseph Coelho, British poet and popular children’s book author who was elected Children’s Laureate in 2022. Joseph talks to The Queen’s Reading Room about his own literary loves, his writing career and why he feels that it is so important for children to be given the opportunity to hold a book in their hands.

Discover the joy of reading with The Queens Reading Room podcast, available weekly on all podcast platforms.

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Welcome back to season three of The Queen's Reading Room Podcast - the podcast on a mission to uncover the books that have inspired today's greatest writers.

This week, join us as we step into the personal reading room of Dermot O'Leary - the much loved TV presenter and best-selling children's author of the hugely popular series 'Toto The Ninja Cat', which has been translated into 16 different languages. In this episode, Dermot takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the novels which shaped his life and inspired his creativity. This is an episode not to be missed!

Discover the joy of reading with The Queen's Reading Room Podcast.

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