Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times.

Today Jonathan spends about thirty minutes talking to Dave Hutchinson about reading and writing during the Great and Terrible Pause, the novels of Len Deighton, an unexpected follow-up to The Fractured Europe Sequence, a brand new Fractured Europe novelette "Nightingale Floors" (from Ian Whates's forthcoming anthology London Centric: Future Tales of London), and much more.

Books mentioned include:

The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man by Dave Hutchinson

The Fractured Europe Sequence by Dave Hutchinson

The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy by Hilary Mantel

The Martian by Andy Weir

The Bernard Samson Series by Len Deighton