![]() I was much more Black Books and she's very good at remembering everyone's name and suggesting… I was much more of a silent, sort of glowering presence I think in the shop. And I worked there up until I got pregnant, and then we got my friend Katia Wengraf to manage it, who is a brilliant bookseller, and is much better than I ever was actually. I wrote my first book there when it was a lot quieter we didn't quite have the footfall that we have today. And then I worked behind the till for about 10 years. Well, Ros Simpson opened the shop about 12 years ago now when there really wasn't all that much in Peckham, and she just opened this nice little shop and I happened to live down the road from it, and I sort of wandered in a bit sort of fecklessly one day and was like, “Have you got any work?” and she, she hired me - on the spot. ![]() In this episode - released to coincide with the day of its publication - Evie and Ben explore the The Bass Rock: they traverse its gothic landscape, touchstone themes and overlapping timeframes they also browse Evie's bookshop and, along the way, discuss everything in between - from the Me Too movement to tickling.Ī full transcript of this episode featuring Evie Wyld follows below:Įvie, thank you so much for hosting us here in your lovely home.Ĭan we talk initially though about Review, about the bookshop, where we'll head over to in a bit? I'm just curious how your involvement with the shop came about and the history of the place, etc. It is an epic, bracing novel, full of anger and heart - one that Max Porter has called a ‘triumph… haunting, masterful.’ She has also written a third novel, The Bass Rock. ![]() The Observer calls her ‘one of our most gifted novelists’.Įvie has now stepped back from the day-to-day of running Review but maintains a close involvement with the shop. “It seems like the perfect marriage, doesn’t it?” Evie says of the dual role of writer-bookseller, “but sadly you don’t absorb the books through your skin.”Īlthough something about her routine must have worked because the two novels that Evie wrote between serving customers and managing the store - After the Fire, A Still Small Voice and All the Birds, Singing - led to widespread acclaim and, in 2013, she was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. For several years, Evie Wyld combined writing fiction with running an independent bookshop - Review, in Peckham, South London.
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