Book Recommendation Interviews

Eugenia Cheng, author of Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths recommends a super stack of books! Read interview

Michael Banissy, author of When We Touch: Handshakes, hugs, high fives and the new science behind why touch matters recommends a superb set of books! Read interview

Annabel Sowemimo, author of Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare recommends a critical collection of books! Read interview

Victoria Smith, author of Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women recommends a superb selection of books! Read interview

Marieke Bigg, author of This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women recommends a wealth of books! Read interview

Richard Fisher, author of The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time recommends a stellar set of books! Read interview

Eleanor Tucker, author of Thanks for Sharing: How I Gave Up Buying and Embraced Borrowing, Swapping and Renting recommends a beautiful bounty of books! Read interview

Charles Dunst, author of Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman recommends an important batch of books! Read interview

Lila Haines, author of Radicals & Realists : Political Parties in Ireland: A Concise History recommends an interesting selection of books! Read interview

J. Bradford DeLong, author of Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century recommends a stellar set of books! Read interview

Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick, authors of Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women recommends a fascinating flurry of books! Read interview

Rafa Euba, author of You are not meant to be happy. So stop trying! recommends a great group of books! Read interview

Lisa Johnson, author of Make Money Online: Your no-nonsense guide to passive income recommends a brilliant batch of books! Read interview

Sarah Graham, author of Rebel Bodies: A guide to the gender health gap revolution recommends a great group of books! Read interview

Pico Iyer, author of The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise recommends a super set of books! Read interview

Joanna Wolfarth, author of Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding recommends some fantastic books! Read interview

Janet Reibstein, author of Good Relations: Cracking the code of how to get on better recommends an excellent list of books! Read interview

Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne, authors of The Devil You Know : Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry recommend some fantastic books! Read interview

Rebecca Giblin, author of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back recommends an interesting list of books! Read interview

Seirian, Suzanne, Ben, Miranda, Victoria, & Florence tell us what books would make great gifts this year!Read interview

David, Nina, David, & Kathryn tell us what books would make great gifts this year!Read interview

Sally, Rob, Rebecca, Ryan, Karla, & Erez tell us what books would make great gifts this year!Read interview

Talya, David, Lucy, Laura, Steve, & Matt tell us what books would make great gifts this year!Read interview

Heidi L. Maibom, author of The Space Between : How Empathy Really Works recommends a fascinating group of books! Read interview

Emily Mayhew, author of The Four Horsemen: And The Hope Of A New Age recommends a great group of books! Read interview

Miriam Frankel, author of Are You Thinking Clearly?: 29 reasons you aren't, and what to do about it recommends some superb books! Read interview

Daniel Pick, author of Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control recommends some great books! Read interview

Edward Chancellor, author of The Price of Time: Interest, Capitalism and the Curse of Easy Money recommends some brilliant books! Read interview

Ethan Kross, author of Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It recommends some fantastic books! Read interview

James Crawford, author of The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World recommends some fantastic books! Read interview

Jennifer Jacquet, author of The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World recommends some intriguing books! Read interview

Ben Cave, author of What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry recommends some interesting books! Read interview

David Robson, author of The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World recommends some fascinating books! Read interview

Sam Dogen, author of Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth and Freedom recommends some useful books! Read interview

Florence Wilkinson, author of Wild City: Encounters With Urban Wildlife recommends some excellent books! Read interview

Victoria Shepherd, author of A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse recommends some important books! Read interview

Mattias Desmet, author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism recommends some fascinating books!Read interview

Samantha Walton, author of Everybody Needs Beauty : In Search of the Nature Cure recommends some fantastic books!Read interview

Miranda Keeling, author of The Year I Stopped to Notice recommends some fantastic books!Read interview

Suzanne O'Sullivan, author of The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness recommends some lovely books!Read interview

Seirian Sumner, author of Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps recommends a brilliant group of books!Read interview

Angela Kirwin, author of Criminal: How Our Prisons Are Failing Us All recommends some excellent books! Read interview

Erez Yoeli, co-author of Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior recommends some intriguing books! Read interview

Lucy Foulkes, author of What Mental Illness Really Is… (and what it isn’t) recommends some excellent books! Read interview

Kathryn Harkup, author of A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie recommends a great set of books! Read interview

Nina Jankowicz, author of How to Be A Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back recommends some excellent books! Read interview

Ryan North, author of How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain recommends a great set of books! Read interview

David Rooney, author of About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks recommends some brilliant books! Read interview

Paul Morland, author of Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers recommends some fantastic books! Read interview

Farhan Samanani, author of How To Live With Each Other: An Anthropologist's Notes on Sharing a Divided World recommends some excellent books!
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Mark Henry, author of In Fact: An Optimist's Guide to Ireland at 100 recommends a group of great books! Read interview

Rob Percival, author of The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat recommends a fascinating group of books! Read interview

Arik Kershenbaum, author of The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves recommends some brilliant books! Read interview

Rebecca Nesbit, author of Tickets for the Ark: What we should conserve and why in this age of extinctions recommends a fantastic group of books! Read interview

Matt Winning, author of Hot Mess: What on earth can we do about climate change? recommends a brilliant set of books! Read interview

Karla Starr, co-author of Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers recommends some superb books! Read interview

Nina Kraus, author of Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World recommends a fantastic range of books! Read interview

Eric Lonergan, co-author of Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster recommends some brilliant books! Read interview

Tessa West, author of Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them recommends a fantastic set of books! Read interview

Jake Ryan, author of Crypto Asset Investing in the Age of Autonomy: The Complete Handbook to Building Wealth in the Next Digital Revolution recommends a brilliant group of books! Read interview

Aja Barber, author of Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change recommends an important set of books!Read interview

David Damrosch, author of Around the World in 80 Books recommends a fantastic list of books!Read interview

Sally Coulthard, author of A Short History of the World According to Sheep recommends a great list of books!Read interview

Steve Hamm, author of The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action recommends a great list of books!Read interview

Katherine Puddifoot, author of How Stereotypes Deceive Us recommends an intriguing set of books!Read interview

Amit, Debby, Michael, Anne, Rae, Alice & Seb tell us what books would make great gifts this year!Read interview

Ian, Linda, Leidy, Susanne, Katy, & Peter tell us what books would make great gifts this year!Read interview

Emily, Tristan, Tim, Tom, Angela, & Niamh tell us what books would make great gifts this year!Read interview

Mark, Sue, Joanne, Susannah, Manchán & Wade tell us what books would make great gifts this year!Read interview

Jessica Nordell, author of The End of Bias: A Beginning : The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias recommends a fantastic group of books!Read interview

Laura Dodsworth, author of A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic recommends some great books!Read interview

Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. recommends a fascinating selection of books!Read interview

Simon Mundy, author of Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis recommends a brilliant set of books!Read interview

Helen Pilcher, author of Small Inventions that Made a Big Difference recommends a great selection of books!Read interview

Lucy Jane Santos, author of Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium recommends a wonderful bunch of books!Read interview

David Howe, author of Extraction to Extinction: Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources recommends a great set of books!Read interview

Michael E. Mann, author of The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet recommends some fantastic books!Read interview

Pedro Gomes, author of Friday is the New Saturday: How a Four-Day Working Week Will Save the Economy recommends some fascinating books!Read interview

Talya Miron-Shatz, author of Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health recommends some great books!Read interview

Alice Bell, author of Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis recommends an important list of books!Read interview

Rae Nudson, author of All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian recommends a brilliant set of books!Read interview

Gian Volpicelli, author of Cryptocurrency (WIRED guides) : How Digital Money Could Transform Finance recommends a fantastic list of books!Read interview

John Kampfner, author of Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country recommends a fascinating set of books!Read interview

James P. Mahon, author of Through Irish Eyes recommends some interesting books!Read interview

Anne Karpf, author of How Women Can Save The Planet recommends a great set of books!Read interview

Michael Spitzer, author of The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth recommends a great set of books!Read interview

Pete Davis, author of Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing recommends some fantastic books!Read interview

Debby Irving, author of Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race recommends an amazing group of books!Read interview

Amit Katwala, author of Quantum Computing (WIRED GUIDES): How It Works and How It Could Change the World recommends a fascinating set of books!Read interview

Peter T. Coleman, author of The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization recommends a great collection of books! Read interview

Erica Dhawan, author of Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance recommends an excellent range of books! Read interview

Katy Milkman, author of How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be recommends a fascinating set of books! Read interview

Susanne Foitzik, author of Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors recommends some interesting books!Read interview

Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of Your Turn: How to Be an Adult recommends some brilliant books!Read interview

Leidy Klotz, author of Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less recommends some great books!Read interview

Linda Yueh, author of The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today recommends some brilliant books!Read interview

Angela Saini, author of Superior: The Return of Race Science recommends some intruiging books!Read interview

Ian Leslie, author of Conflicted : Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together recommends some fascinating books!Read interview

Helen Gordon, author of Notes from Deep Time : A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds recommends a brilliant bunch of books!Read interview

Kim Scott, author of Just Work : Get it Done, Fast and Fair recommends a great range of non-fiction and fiction books!Read interview

Tom Bergin, author of Free Lunch Thinking: How Economics Ruins the Economy recommends a fascinating group of books!Read interview

Kel Galavan, author of Mindful Money: More Money, More Freedom, More Happiness recommends a great set of books!Read interview

Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers (U.S. Title: The Data Detective), recommends an exciting selection of books!Read interview

Gavin Esler, author of How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations, recommends a fantastic range of books!Read interview

Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs, recommends a interesting set of books!Read interview

Georgie Codd, author of We Swim to the Shark, recommends a great range of books!Read interview

Interview: Emily Kenway, author of The Truth About Modern Slavery, recommends a great range of books!Read interview

Interview: Tara Swart, author of The Source: Open Your Mind, Change Your Life recommends some fantastic books!Read interview

Interview: Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of Interior States: Essays recommends some fantastic books!Read interview

Interview: Imogen Dall, author of Burnout Survival Kit: Instant relief from modern work recommends a great selection books!Read interview

Interview: Niamh Fitzpatrick, author of Tell Me The Truth About Loss: A Psychologist’s Personal Story of Loss, Grief and Finding Hope recommends some important books!Read interview

Interview: Wade Graham, author of Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World shares a great range of books!Read interview

Amanda, Jenny, Howard, A. Kendra, & Tim tell me what books they want for Christmas! View list

Marc, Clare, Fiona, Allison and Grace tell me what books they want for Christmas! View list

Interview: Manchán Magan, author of Thirty-Two Words for Field : Lost Words of the Irish Landscape shares a fantastic list of books!Read interview

Interview: Susannah McFarlane, author of Fairytales for Feisty Girls shares her favourite books!Read interview

Interview: Seb Falk, author of The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery recommends a great range of history books!Read interview

Interview: Joanne McNeil, author of Lurking: How a Person Became a User recommends a fantastic selection of books!Read interview

Interview: Mary McAleese, author of Here’s the Story: A Memoir shares her favourite books!Read interview

Interview: Sue Black, author of Written in Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind recommends a lovely list of books!Read interview

Interview: Mark Blyth, co-author of Angrynomics recommends an intriguing list of books!Read interview

Interview: Sara Hendren, author of What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World recommends a super list of books!Read interview

Interview: Simon Barnes, author of Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible recommends a super list of books!Read interview

Interview: Tim Gregory, author of Meteorite: The Stones From Outer Space That Made Our World shares a great list of books!Read interview

Interview: James Ball, author of The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us recommends a great selection of books!Read interview

Interview: A. Kendra Greene, author of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See : Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland recommends some fascinating books!Read interview

Interview: Miek Zwamborn, author of The Seaweed Collector's Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail recommends some inspirational books!Read interview

Interview: Howard Means, author of Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming recommends a fantastic set of books this week!Read interview

Interview: Jenny Kleeman, author of Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death recommends some great books!Read interview

Interview: Matt Alt, author of Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World shares a wide range of great books!Read interview

Interview: Elizabeth Stokoe, author of Talk : The Science of Conversation picks some great books!Read interview

Interview: Amanda Ellison, author of Splitting: The Inside Story on Headaches presents some super interesting books!Read interview

Interview: Adam Hart, author of Unfit for Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World this week recommends some interesting reads!Read interview

Interview: Tom Gauld, author of Department of Mind-Blowing Theories : Science Cartoons this week recommends some interesting reads!Read interview

Interview: Jane Davidson, author of #futuregen : Lessons from a Small Country recommends some important reads this week!Read interview

Interview: Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics recommends some heavy hitters this week!Read interview

Interview: Pragya Agarwal, author of Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias recommends a fascinating range of books!Read interview

Interview: Clodagh Finn, author of Through Her Eyes: A New History of Ireland in 21 Women, recommends some fascinating books!Read interview

Interview: Sara Baume, author of Handiwork, recommends a diverse set of books!Read interview

Interview: Jodie Cook, author of Stop Acting Like You're Going To Live Forever, recommends a wide range of great books!Read interview

Interview: Owen Davey, author of Obsessive About Octopuses, recommends some top class books!Read interview

Interview: Ben Mercer, author of Fringes: Life on the Edge of Professional Rugby, recommends some top class books!Read interview

Interview: Kathleen Draper, co-author of Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis, shares some great insights!Read interview

Interview: Gill Hasson, author of Mindfulness: Be Mindful. Live in the Moment, provides some fascinating interview answers!Read interview

Interview: Ken O'Sullivan, author of Stories From The Deep, tells us about some intriguing books!Read interview

Interview: Luke O'Neill, author of The Great Irish Science Book, recommends some great books!Read interview

Interview: Nikki Weston, author of Safe Hands: Recover Your Well-being Through Creativity and Play, recommends some interesting books!Read interview

Interview: Siobhán Murray, author of The Burnout Solution, share with us her favourite books!Read interview

Interview: Grace Tierney, author of How to Get Your Name in the Dictionary, tells us about some very interesting books!Read interview

Interview with Allison Keating, author of The Secret Lives of Adults, gives us some super book recommendations!Read interview

Interview: James Hendicott, author of CONIFA: Football For The Forgotten, recommends some very interesting books!Read interview

Interview: Fiona Brennan, author of The Positive Habit, recommends some great positive books! Read interview

Interview: Faye Hayden, author of Bedtime Stories for Mothers and Others, recommends her favourite smart thinking books! Read interview

Interview: Brendan Kelly, author of The Doctor Who Sat for a Year, talks to me about his favourite smart thinking books! Read interview

Interview: Clare O'Dea, author of The Naked Irish, talks to me about some great books! Read interview

Marc Mc Menamin, author of Codebreaker, recommends a spectrum of smart thinking books! Read interview

Úna-Minh Kavanagh, author of Anseo, tells me about her smart thinking book picks! Read interview

Brian O'Connell, author of The Personals, talks about some of his favourite books! Read interview