The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions:

1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On?

2. Best Book You've Ever Read On Holiday?

Here are Dorothy Koomson's Answers which include the one holiday that led her to emigrate. She also reveals how many books she can burn through on a fortnight away and her Holiday Read is a blockbuster by the late, great Sophie Kinsella.

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions:

1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On?

2. Best Book You've Ever Read on Holiday?

Here are Ardal O' Hanlon's answers... Now with added Howler Monkey...! His full Ep is also available here, just scroll down.

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions:

1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On?

2. Best Book You've Ever Read on Holiday?

Here are Michael Connelly's answers. His full Ep is also available here, just scroll down.

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes, give you writers’ answers to two very simple questions:

1. Best holiday you’ve ever been on?

2. Best book you’ve ever read on holiday?

Here’s Lynda La Plante’s answers. Her full Ep is available here too, just scroll down.

We end Season 1 with a genuine National Treasure.

Lorraine Kelly has been on British television for over 40 years. Two years ago, she published her debut novel, The Island Swimmer and now she's back with the follow up, The Island Secret.

In this interview Lorraine talks about her writing process; how she resented her brother appearing in her family as a little girl and the time the Daily Mail accused her of not having a proper Scottish accent !!

Your life can only be enhanced by an hour with Lorraine.

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Chris Brookmyre is the multi-award winning author of 31 books, spanning an incredible thirty year career. He’s back with a follow up to his debut: Quite Ugly One Morning, which is called Quite Ugly One Evening.

In this wide ranging interview we talk about confected anger on the Internet; Views overtaking News; and how Chris learnt the guitar in later life to allow him to play alongside Val McDermid, Mark Billingham, Luca Veste, Doug Johnstone and Stuart Neville in the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers.

Chris is a brilliant writer and a lovely interviewee and as well as checking out Quite Ugly One Evening, you should also read The Cracked Mirror, Chris’ previous novel which is mind blowingly good. What a pleasure it was to spend an hour in his company. Enjoy.

The Brilliant Heidi Perks is the Sunday Times Bestselling Author who brought you, Now You See Her.

She’s back with a page turner of a locked room thriller, called It Ends Here, which Phil really loved. In this chat you can hear about Heidi’s beginnings in marketing; why it took five years for her to get a publishing deal; how she’s scrapped endings of books on police advice, and why Mr Perks is grateful for a shout out on this podcast…!

Phil really loved meeting Heidi for the first time. They even played table tennis together after the show! See the Books on the Beach Instagram channel for the footage!

You’ll love this Ep. If you’ve ever wanted to write your own book, it’s super insightful.

Phil did Abir Mukherjee’s first national broadcast interview a decade ago for his debut, A Rising Man. Since then, Abir’s won the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year, the British Book Awards Crime & Thriller Novel of the Year, the CWA Dagger for best Historical Novel, and much much more.

In this Episode, we get Abir’s views on India; his Jeffrey Archer impression (!) and we learn his family’s Indian pet name for him. His new book The Pinnacle is also out today and is his funniest book to date. Enjoy!