Georgie Codd, author of 'Never Had a Dad' - Memoir writer discusses making people care, planning an adventure, and finding a father figure
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Georgie Codd is a writer of all-sorts. She's dabbled in fiction, written for publications, created the 'BookBound' literary festival, and now focuses on narrative non-fiction.
Her first book, 'We Swim to the Shark', came out in 2020, and followed Georgie’s quest to overcome her deepest fears by crossing the planet, learning to scuba dive, and attempting to swim with the largest fish in the world: an adult whale shark. She's followed it up with 'Never Had a Dad', which sees Georgie advertise for a father figure. It was inspired by a strange meeting with an older man on holiday with her mum. We talk about how she expanded on that idea, and how much she can plan and plot an adventure memoir.
You can hear about the differences in the process of fiction and narrative non-fiction, and how she decides what her next adventure should be. We chat about how she makes a reader care, being trained to write prose fiction, and how she works on the go whilst being easily distracted.
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| 0:00.0 | This week's episode of writer's routine is sponsored by Whale Cemetery, the new novel by Eli North. |
| 0:07.9 | It's the 12th installment in the DCI Finnegan, Yorkshire Crime Thriller series. |
| 0:14.0 | Fantastic novels, full of atmosphere, brooding, mysterious, a touch malevolent, all set in the harsh coastal town of Whitby. |
| 0:26.1 | This time, DCI Frank Finnegan hears whispers of old folklore mixed in with a deadly new underworld. |
| 0:33.6 | Finnegan must confront enemies bound by a brutal code of honour who know every alley, yard and tide of the area. |
| 0:42.6 | And Frank learns that some graves lie a lot deeper than others. |
| 0:47.6 | Eli North has published many books after dabbling in different genres and finally realized that his real writing love was staring |
| 0:57.0 | him in the face the whole time, crime fiction, and he jumped right in. If you're new to Eli's work, |
| 1:03.9 | well, there are 11 other books in the DCI Finnegan series for you to get involved with, and it's a |
| 1:09.9 | brilliant time to start reading. |
| 1:11.7 | Eli is British-born and Australian-based, and he's publishing an Australian crime series |
| 1:17.5 | filled with the trademark atmosphere later on this year. If you love L.J. Ross, J.D. Kirk, |
| 1:25.2 | and Joy Ellis, I think you'll really enjoy Eli's work. You can find the e-books |
| 1:30.6 | on Kindle. Paperbacks are available through Ingram Spark 2, and you can take a listen to the |
| 1:35.7 | audio books on all the major platforms, audibles, Spotify, everywhere like that. There's even a free |
| 1:41.5 | book for you to try out on Eli's website. So head over to |
| 1:45.3 | Eli Northcimefiction.com. Take a look around, see what you think, have a flick through the free |
| 1:51.5 | book, and then have a read of Whale Cemetery. It's the new novel by Eli North, which is sponsoring |
| 1:58.7 | the show this week. Take a look, Eli Northcr crimefiction.com, and we've got links in the podcast notes where |
| 2:05.5 | you're listening. |
| 2:14.8 | Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of writer's routine. This week, we're with Georgie |
| 2:20.5 | Codd. Georgie writes the type of stories that I grew up on. Narrative nonfiction with a fun |
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