The Hello and welcome to Backstit. Today you find us huddle

on the East Coast of England staring out across the marshes beyond the sluices, dikes and mounds towards the

low leaden line of the river.

The evening mist is beginning to gather round our feet and a raw wind is blowing in from the sea.

I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher on bound, the platform where readers crowd fund the books

they really want to read. I was hoping for a chop house. Frankly we didn't get a

shop house never mind. I'm Andy Miller author of the year of reading dangerously.

Joining us today are the writer Will Atkins. Hello?

Hello.

His first book The Moore was shortlisted for the Thwaite Swainwright Prize and whose second

the immeasurable world journeys in desert places,

won the Stanford-Dolman Travel Book of the Year, this year.

And both books were published by Faber.

William is a former editorial director of McMillan,

and his journalism has appeared in The Guardian and Granta. He is joined by.

You haven't been back listed regular.

Lisa Evans.

Turn it up like a bad penny.

Here she is. She's a writer. She's a producer, she's a director, she's the author of three children's books and five novels including most recently the wonderful old baggage published by Double Day and a book we can now happily call a Times

number one bestseller. How is it? Do you come here in a limo?

Everything's different. Everything.

She previously appeared on episodes 1,

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