James Crawford
@jdcrawf
THE EDGE OF THE PLAIN @canongatebooks @wwnorton | WILD HISTORY @BirlinnBooks | Presenter @BBCRadio4 TAKE FOUR BOOKS | Editor @PolygonBooks | CHAIR @edbookfest
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Today, 4pm on BBC Radio 4, I'm talking to David Szalay about his new novel FLESH & his 3 influences: American writer Katherine Faw, Virginia Woolf & Joseph Conrad (also with Andrew Meehan!) Listen here/wherever you get your podcasts๐ง๐ป๐ #TakeFourBooks bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00โฆ
Today on BBC Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks I'm with Eoin McNamee talking about his new novel THE BUREAU โ a story of kidnap, murder & fraud in the Irish borderlands โ& his 3 influences including Truman Capote's IN COLD BLOOD and MILKMAN, by Anna Burns ๐๐ป๐ง bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00โฆ
โญ๏ธWaterstones Scottish Book of the Month!โญ๏ธ Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland by James Crawford has been selected as the April Scottish Book of the Month by Waterstones. This is a brilliant book that encourages readers to discover Scotland more deeply. Get yours now!
#TakeFourBooks coming to the Hay Festival in May! ๐๐ป๐ง
More wonderful stuff on #takefourbooks tonight featuring eoin mcnamee with Dom Howell in the producer's chair ๐๐๐๐
Just caught up with this ahead of Laurent Binet event tonight Institut franรงais UK A very good listen! #Perspectives
4pm on BBC Radio 4 - I'm talking to Andrew O'Hagan about CALEDONIAN ROAD and his three influences, incl Henry James, poet Wallace Stevens, and a certain Peter Pan, by JM Barrie... #TakeFourBooks Listen here! ๐๐ป๐ bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00โฆ
Itโs a whale-filled #TakeFourBooks today, 4pm BBC Radio 4 - with Xiaolu Guoโs epic Vintage Books reworking of Moby Dick, CALL ME ISHMAELLE and influences including Melville, Philip Hoare & Othello -also with Alan McMunnigall of thi wurd! ๐๐ง๐bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00โฆ
4pm on BBC Radio 4 #TakeFourBooks Vincenzo Latronico is talking to me about his International The Booker Prizes shortlisted novel 'Perfection' on the 'curated existentialism' (Claudia Durastanti) of digital nomads, and his 3 influences, including Patricia lockwood bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00โฆ
I'm talking to Sir Ben Okri on BBC Radio 4 #TakeFourBooks about new book 'Madame Sosostris & The Festival for the Broken-Hearted' with influences 'The Waste Land', 'The Outsider', Shakespeare & a bonus book we both love: Les Grand Meaulnes! Listen now!๐ง๐ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0โฆ
I'm talking to Ocean Vuong on BBC Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks - about his new Vintage Books novel 'The Emperor of Gladness' and his 3 influences, including The Brothers Karamazov and Jack Kerouac - also with Heather Parry. Listen now! ๐๐ง๐ bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00โฆ
#TakeFourBooks has been at the Hay Festival the past few days - including a show in front of live audience for the first time with Andrew Miller & Joanne Harris; and lovely interview today with Elif Shafak and poet Gwyneth Lewis - look out for BBC Radio 4 broadcasts v soon! ๐ง
Listen now to latest #TakeFourBooks recorded for BBC Radio 4 Hay Festival- Andrew Miller talking about his Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction-shortlisted novel 'The Land in Winter' & influences including a book about a mad party - with excellent Joanne Harris as guest! ๐๐ง bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00โฆ
Listen to us chat to Elif Shafak behind the scenes Hay Festival on BBC Radio 4 #TakeFourBooks: talking 'There Are Rivers in the Sky' &3 influences incl the earliest recorded poem The Epic of Gilgamesh: along with first national poet of Wales, Gwyneth Lewis! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00โฆ
Another excellent episode of BBC Sounds #TakeFourBooks, this time with Wendy Erskine. Wendy joins as at WCLF on 18 July westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/weโฆ
Listen now to Madeleine Thien on #TakeFourBooks BBC Radio 4 talking about her epic, time-warping new Granta Books novel 'The Book of Records', along with 3 influences, including the evergreen 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino! ๐๐ง๐ป bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00โฆ
