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Oct 19, 2026
Jacke WilsonHOST
Okay, joining me now is Simon Wroe, who is an award-winning author, journalist, and former chef.
Jacke WilsonHOST
His debut novel, Chop Chop, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, and won a Betty Trask Award.
Jacke WilsonHOST
He's here today to discuss the history and evolution of ghost stories and how they inspired his new novel, Ghost Month.
Jacke WilsonHOST
Simon Wroe, welcome to the History of Literature.
Francis SpuffordGUEST
I won my prizes for my first novel, which sounds very young and apprentice-y, but I was 50 when I dared to write my first novel.
Francis SpuffordGUEST
I'd been a non-fiction writer before that, and my book, Golden Hill, won the Costa First Novel Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, and something else which is embarrassing me, I can't now remember, but it was a kind of miraculous summer which settled... once and for all in my head my own doubts about whether switching to novels had been a good idea apparently it was a good idea you
Tim AllenHOST
know what that's almost an ego that's an emmy a tony an oscar a bafta all in one summer how brilliant
Francis SpuffordGUEST
it was it was an amazing summer it became slightly embarrassing towards the end not that i refused any of them
Barbara PetersHOST
And she's been translated into umpteen languages and still writing, which I think is marvelous.
Barbara PetersHOST
You've also been, I'm trying to read this in the blind here, um, you've been a judge for the Whitbread Prize, the Orange Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the Primadonna Prize, and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science.
Barbara PetersHOST
And this is, I love this, as well as the Fragrance Foundation Awards for perfume-
Joanne HarrisGUEST
[laughs] Yes