Nick Harkaway Q&A

Simon Mayo's Books of the Year

Bauer Media

Arts, Books

4.9 • 994 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling author Nick Harkaway joins Simon and Matt for our Q&A episode. He talks about books and authors he loves, his writing process, adaptations of his father's (John Le Carre) work, and who he would invite to his fantasy dinner party. We also surprise Nick with a question from previous Books Of The Year guest, David McCloskey!

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0:00.0	All right, Matt.
0:01.3	Hello, Simon.
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0:23.8	is that it makes hiring so easy because everything is in one place.
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0:57.3	Need to hire?
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1:20.1	Hello and welcome. It's our bonus Q&A episode for Books of the Year from your friends right here at Books of the Year, which is a podcast featuring authors.
1:30.9	And this time we have Nick Harkaway here doing a Q&A. If you haven't, by any chance, heard our previous conversation about his new novel,
1:33.1	Carlos Joyce, then you might want to spool back because I think that should be heard first, probably.
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