Madhumita Murgia’s (Madhumita Murgia) book “Code Dependent” has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for non-fiction. In our latest episode she tells us how the book balances her “techno-optimism” with realism about the industry’s money and power.

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You don’t have to wine and dine your sources to get the best scoops.

But as the Financial Times’s AI editor Madhumita Murgia (@madhumita29) tells us, you should talk to a wide range of people, regularly, and see what patterns you can find in what they tell you.

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Thanks Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd for having me on for a wide-ranging conversation on the impacts of AI, my motivations and reporting on big tech. Your podcast guests were an inspiration when I first started writing my book!

This interview with Nicholas Shakespeare on how much Le Carre lifted from Ian Fleming is brilliant alwaystakenotes.com/episodes/182-n… Always Take Notes

#FromTheArchive : Australian nature writer Rebecca Giggs talks about the beached whale that inspired her to write her first book, making science accessible in the pages of @theatlantic and @grantamag and the dark art of disaster forecasting.

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Nicholas Shakespeare (Nicholas Shakespeare) may be a biographer but, as a novelist, he avoids fictionalising real lives. Why? Because he doesn’t want to know the ending before he’s written it.

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Ian Fleming helped set up an intelligence-gathering commando unit during WW2. When Nicholas Shakespeare (Nicholas Shakespeare) came to write his biography, he interviewed the unit’s last surviving commander and realised this is where James Bond originated.

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NEW EPISODE: Novelist and biographer Nicholas Shakespeare (Nicholas Shakespeare) speaks to Simon and Rachel about his international childhood, his strangely prescient third novel and wondering if he’d ever decode Ian Fleming while he wrote his biography.

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#FromTheArchive : Emily Hayward Whitlock, head of the book-to-film department at Artists Partnership, tells us which books excite her and how much control authors really have over the screenplay, casting and production of their work.

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Call it the “Running Up That Hill” effect…

In our latest episode, co-founder of Oneworld Publications Juliet Mabey (@Jule9) explains how TikTok can help sales of backlist titles soar.

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Three authors from the independent publisher Oneworld Publications have now won The Booker Prizes. In our latest episode we ask the company's co-founder Juliet Mabey (@Jule9) whether it’s possible to predict the Booker.

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NEW EPISODE: Co-founder and publisher Oneworld Publications Juliet Mabey (@Jule9) speaks to Simon and Rachel about three of her authors winning The Booker Prizes, the power of #BookTok and why she always invites authors to have tea with the whole Oneworld team.

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#FromTheArchive : Sian Meades-Williams (Sian Meades-Williams) writer and founder of the “Freelance Writing Jobs” newsletter, speaks candidly with Simon and Rachel about her highs and lows as a freelancer, from financial disaster to hosting her own awards show.

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Have your characters ever behaved in ways you didn’t expect? It might be because you haven’t spoken to them yet. That’s why dialogue is so important to crime novelist Jo Nesbø.

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The art of landing a good punchline and revealing whodunnit at the end of a novel are more closely related than you might think, as bestselling crime novelist Jo Nesbø tells us in our latest episode.

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NEW EPISODE: Bestselling crime novelist Jo Nesbø tells Simon and Rachel about coming to writing after being in Norwegian rock band “Di Derre”, the similarities between jokes and crime fiction and why a writer can lie in bed and call it work.

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#FromTheArchive : @thebookerprizes winning novelist @marlonjameswriter speaks to Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd about the life lessons found in comic books, how his students inspire him and why he believes it can be good to lose sleep over a novel.

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Jhumpa Lahiri grew up speaking Bengali at home and English at school, but as an adult it was Italian that she fell in love with. In our latest interview the novelist and short-story writer tells us about writing in another language.

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