Podcasts
Stay in touch with the bookshop through The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director Adam Biles the show features conversations with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded live from the bookshop.
See It, Say It, Sorted: Jonathan Coe’s Genre-Bending Novel
08 January 2026
In this episode, Adam Biles welcomes Jonathan Coe to Shakespeare and Company in Paris for a rich, funny, and wide-ranging conversation about Coe’s genre-bending novel The Proof of My Innocence...
Books Matter More Than Ever: A Conversation with Ian Patterson
25 December 2025
In this episode of the Shakespeare and Company Podcast, Adam Biles speaks with poet, translator and critic Ian Patterson about Books: A Manifesto, his passionate defence of reading in all...
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, with Ian Leslie
11 December 2025
In this live conversation at Shakespeare & Company in Paris, Adam Biles speaks with writer Ian Leslie about John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, Leslie’s acclaimed exploration of...
When Stories Fall Apart: Miriam Robinson on Love, Loss, and Truth
27 November 2025
In this intimate conversation recorded at Shakespeare and Company, novelist Miriam Robinson joins Adam Biles to discuss her remarkable debut, And Notre Dame Is Burning. Together, they explore the novel’s...
Margo Berdeshevsky reads from It Is Still Beautiful to Hear the Heart Beat
17 November 2025
Poet Margo Berdeshevsky joined us for a magical evening of readings from her scintillating new collection It Is Still Beautiful To Hear The Heart Beat....
Why We Write, Why We Live, with Miriam Toews
13 November 2025
Trigger warning: This is a tender, funny, and hopeful conversation, that inevitably touches on the subjects of suicide and depression. Please be advised before listening. In this moving and intimate...
How France Lost Its Way, with Andrew Hussey
16 October 2025
In this episode recorded live at Shakespeare and Company, historian and cultural critic Andrew Hussey joins Adam Biles to discuss his powerful new book, Fractured France: A Journey Through a...
Philippe Sands: Pinochet, Walter Rauff, and the Shadows of History
02 October 2025
This week Adam Biles speaks with international lawyer and acclaimed author Philippe Sands about his latest book, 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia...
