The last column in my extended run in the Sunday Times Magazine! This one shouts out love for the Notting Hill Carnival.
Chicken love. It’s a thing Read about the latest household additions in my Sunday Times column here.
Want read my honest thoughts about marriage to a husband 13 years my senior? I share them in my Sunday Times Magazine column of 16th August here.
My 9th August Sunday Times Magazine column about the joy of staycations is here.
Read my Sunday Times Magazine column of 2nd August to discover how I acquired my first home.
Here’s a chance to listen again to my Badass Women’s Hour Talk Radio interview. We talked about my Sunday Times columns and much more – good fun on a Saturday night! Listen to the start of the 8pm-8.30pm slot.
I had great fun chatting to Bill Buckley of BBC Berkshire once again. This time we talked about my new novel LUCKY, coming May 2021 as well as my Sunday Times Magazine column. Listen here (from 8:20, after Pulp):
Would you like to see the recommendations I made for Good Housekeeping’s Big Summer Book Day on 26th July? Watch the vid!
My latest Sunday Times Magazine column, from 26th July, is here. It’s a surprising story featuring a helicopter….
Here’s my second Sunday Times Magazine column, this one all about dogs.
My first Sunday Times Magazine column appeared on 12th July. Read it here.
Had fun chatting to Muddy Stilettos Bucks & Oxon about some of my favourite haunts: read about some favourite places here.
What a joy to talk to Jenni Murray of once again, this time all about Darling and why it is the debut I just had to write… (starts 31:10)
Wonderful that Darling has been chosen as a top debut by LoveReadingUK
I was delighted to be interviewed, in depth, by Christopher Swann of FOBL – of which I am the Ambassador – for their inaugural online author talk. He asked some fascinating questions… Author Talk
Delighted to have been asked to contribute to the Writers Rebel website, a vital new space to discuss the Climate Emergency. Read my contirbution and others including Zadie Smith, Margarett Attwood Jonathan Franzen here
It’s official! Darling is one of the 2019 Booker winner’s Top 3 Lockdown Reads, as cited to BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour! Thank you, Bernardine Evaristo…
Great to be back talking to Bill Buckley about my reading picks for BBC Berskhire Book Club (17th March). Listen
Thank you, Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo, for including me on the list of top 20 woc writers. Happy International Women’s Day to all!
I recently chatted to one of my favourite bookish innovators, Molly Masters of Books That Matter. We discuss banned books including ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Beloved’. As for the silencing of women: on this topic we were anything but silent… The podcast is
Loved talking to about how a spot of wild swimming can encourage us to love our precious rivers. Starts from 36:08
The first of 2020…. and we discussed some corkers, including my picks My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell, All In Her Head by Nikki Smith and Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri. Love them – here’s why: http://bit.ly/BookClubJan14
It was a privilege to discuss some of today’s BBC Berkshire Book Club picks… including the stunning joint Booker winner from Bernardine Evaristo!
We are all, surely, passionate about the climate crisis – so come and rebel with us! Join the crowds in Trafalgar Square for Writers Rebel: 5pm – 9pm on Friday 11th October. I’ll be onstage, reading as one of 40 writers, including Ali Smith, Naomi Alderman and Simon Schama.
Back on BBC Berkshire Book Club, this time chatting about must-reads from Mike Gayle, Baroness Susan Greenfield and Amrou Al-Kadhi (aka Glamrou). Starts at 1:07:37 here
Ohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07m0zcqur BBC Berkshire Book Club chat was fun on Tuesday 27th August, taking in some stellar fiction and non-fiction picks. Listen here from 1:08:05
BBC Woman’s Hour made my day by inviting me to talk to Jenni Murray and anxious listener Wanja Kimani about embracing life in the countryside as a woman of colour. It went by in a flash! I could have talked for far longer about the joys, challenges, micro-aggressions and rewards of my past 22 years in rural Oxfordshire, but here’s the small taster that is my Woman’s Hour debut! (Starts at 9:43…)
Thanks to BBC Berkshire for inviting me to chat through some zeitgeisty picks for the Book Club on Tuesday 13th August. Listen here from 1:07:16
The Guardian Weekend and the fantastic photographer, Dominick Tyler, are owed my thanks for one of the most inspiring features I’ve ever taken part in. It appears in the Guardian Weekend on Saturday 10th August. Here’s the online Guardian Weekend Wet and Wild feature
BBC News UK filmed me talking a little about my experiences in the countryside as a black British woman… and walking our dog! It appeared online and on TV on BBC South Today on 31st July. Watch here: http://bit.ly/RachelBBCNews
BBC Radio invited me to do four live radio interviews for some of the African and Caribbean shows discussing the recent BBC programme ‘Who Should Get to Stay in the UK?’. Listen here:
BBC Nottingham (starts at 41:07) – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07cq51r
BBC WM / Birmingham (starts at 1:23:09) – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07d3cww
BBC Oxford invited me for a live chat with Kat Orman on her 12th June daytime show. We covered a host of topics including some key themes explored in Darling such as identity and belonging, my writing life and inspirations. Listen to us here.
BBC Berkshire’s Bridgitte Tetteh welcomed me back to talk about the realities of life outside of London for members of the black community, as explored in that day’s Sunday Times. Listen to our chat, which aired on 9th June, from 11:02 here.
The Sunday Times Magazine (9th June) features my article about being black, British and living in rural Britain. Read it here.
BBC Berkshire, and in particular Bill Buckley, thank you once again for hosting me, alongside the lovely Jenny Quintana, for the Book Club on 14th May. Listen from around 1:03:20 here.
Hatchards certainly knows how to throw a party! Such a memorable evening at the Authors of the Year Reception on 2nd May. For pics of this and other literary events (usually with a glass of something delicious in my hand, I cannot lie), please sign up to my Facebook page, Rachel Edwards Author Official, or follow me on Twitter or Instagram.