{"podcast":{"title":"John Sandoe Books","slug":"john-sandoe-books-94113","podcast_index_feed_id":94113,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/johnsandoe/feed.xml","website_url":"https://johnsandoe.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6618903/square_new.png","author":"John Sandoe Books","episode_count":91,"summary":"'Quite simply the best bookshop anyone could wish for' - Edna O'Brien. Independent bookshop (est. in 1957) Chelsea, London.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T06:17:01.878620+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-sandoe-books-94113"},"episode":{"title":"Rupert Thomson: How to Make a Bomb","slug":"rupert-thomson-how-to-make-a-bomb","published_at":"2024-08-23T10:32:32+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-sandoe-books-94113/rupert-thomson-how-to-make-a-bomb","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-sandoe-books-94113","url":"https://johnsandoe.podbean.com/e/rupert-thomson-on-how-to-make-a-bomb-a-novel/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/58eqpd2razraufpt/Rupert_Thomsonaezgs.mp3","summary":"Rupert Thomson has attracted the kind of critical acclaim which would flatter any rockstar, let alone writer. He's been compared to Dickens, Kafka and Grace Jones; The Insult was chosen by David Bowie as one of his 100 favourite novels of all time; and his first novel, Dreams of Leaving - one of the earliest books to be published by Bloomsbury soon after it was established in 1986 - found fans in everyone from the drummer of Souxsie and the Banshees to the New Statesman, who said, “When someone writes as well as Thomson does, it's a wonder other people bother”. His latest book is called How to Make a Bomb (or Dartmouth Park in its American edition). It's a heady, swirling novel about a writer's psychic collapse which begins in Norway and takes him to Cadiz and Crete. There are shades of John Fowles's The Magus to it: acute, sensitive, eerie but compulsively readable. Interviewed and edited by Magnus Rena","meta_description":"Rupert Thomson has attracted the kind of critical acclaim which would flatter any rockstar, let alone writer. He's been compared to Dickens, Kafka and Gra…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2121,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/john-sandoe-books-94113/episodes/rupert-thomson-how-to-make-a-bomb/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-sandoe-books-94113/rupert-thomson-how-to-make-a-bomb.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}