Books on Podcasts: Jojo Moyes on her latest novel, modern families and privacy

Host James Crawford spoke with Emma Healey on the Take Four Books podcast regarding Sweat (Keystone), a novel which follows Cassie that, after running away a relationship with her coercive companion Liam, makes a fast choice when he strolls right into the fitness center where she works. The unique partially checks out with fitness addiction, inspired by Healey’s own experience. “I had an actual bad birth experience that made something click in my head,” she tells Crawford. “I was hopeless to minimize my body in some way and make it harder and much less girly and so I started not eating and exercising … I lost a great deal of weight and got rather damaged … I trimmed myself down.” This was carried “extremely” right into Sweat. “Nearly whatever Liam makes Cassie do, or his motivations behind things he makes Cassie do, they are all variations of things in my head [at the time].

Jojo Moyes talked on the Waterstones podcast regarding her most recent novel We All Real-time Here (Penguin), which the writer defines as a “comedic book about a very untidy modern family and what happens when an added aspects goes down into the family members as a dilemma factor”. Moyes likewise featured on the Simon Mayo’s Publications of the Year podcast with hosts Matt and Simon. Talking on the treatment of ladies in the public round, Moyes stated: “You look on any kind of creating system, any females’s magazine, any type of paper column, and you will certainly see females putting their lives out their, their travails, their calamities, their achievements. Moyes created on this issue in a Substack article published in September 2024: “Have you ever before seen Lee Youngster or Ian McEwan compose an essay regarding some highly personal psychological injury?

Jojo Moyes spoke on the Waterstones podcast regarding her most recent unique All of us Online Here (Penguin), which the author refers to as a “comedic publication regarding an extremely untidy contemporary family and what happens when an added aspects goes down into the family members as a dilemma factor”. She added that “part of the book is about the presumptions we make regarding other people’s practices and how we do not actually have a hint what is going on”. It “actually is” a personality research study, specified Moyes.

Hannah MacDonald talked to Horses regarding her “launching of the moment”, The Musician, which adheres to a painter, an ambitious reporter and the painter’s niece in Provence, 1920. “I wanted the space in between what people see and how I might represent that in a novel,” Steeds says of the “colliding” point of views in the book. The Artist was chosen as one of The Bookseller’s Debuts of 2025: Quantity 1, described by fiction previewer Madeleine Feeny as a “strained psychodrama of women subversion and freedom discovering the legacy of battle, the unreliability of assumption and the surprise corners of art history”.

Moyes likewise included on the Simon Mayo’s Books of the Year podcast with hosts Matt and Simon. Speaking on the therapy of females in the public round, Moyes said: “You look on any type of creating platform, any kind of ladies’s publication, any newspaper column, and you will certainly see ladies putting their lives out their, their travails, their catastrophes, their achievements. Moyes wrote on this concern in a Substack post released in September 2024: “Have you ever seen Lee Youngster or Ian McEwan write an essay regarding some very individual emotional injury?