World Book Club

The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.

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Charlotte Wood: The Weekend
Charlotte Wood discusses her novel, The Weekend
06 Apr 2024,49 mins
Ann Patchett: The Dutch House
A dark fairytale set in post war America tracing a family across the decades
02 Mar 2024,49 mins
Madrid
World Book Café heads to Madrid to talk to writers about a new boom in feminist fiction.
10 Feb 2024,48 mins
Carlo Rovelli: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
A dazzling and mind-bending introduction to the wonders of modern physics
03 Feb 2024,49 mins
Antonio Muñoz Molina: In the Night of Time
Antonio Muñoz Molina answers questions on his novel In the Night of Time
06 Jan 2024,49 mins
Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lankan civil war
02 Dec 2023,49 mins
Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
A romantic comedy told across the barrier of language and culture
04 Nov 2023,50 mins
Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Two Jewish boys in 1939 New York invent an anti-Fascist comic book hero
07 Oct 2023,49 mins
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
A magical and unusual love story about time and patience and loss
02 Sep 2023,49 mins
Pilar Quintana: The Bitch
Love, loss and violence on the remote Pacific coast of Colombia
05 Aug 2023,49 mins
Sofi Oksanen: Purge
A harrowing portrait of Estonia's recent history, seen through the lives of two women
01 Jul 2023,50 mins
Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Another chance to hear Judith Kerr talking about When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
03 Jun 2023,50 mins
Curtis Sittenfeld: Prep
Teen dream of boarding school turns out to be hotbed of adolescent angst and ambition
06 May 2023,49 mins
Paul Theroux: Deep South
Paul Theroux turns his unflinching gaze on an American South too often overlooked
01 Apr 2023,49 mins
World Book Cafe: Paris
Meet authors Mahir Guven, Blandine Rinkel, Laurent Petitmangin and Capucine Delattre
18 Mar 2023,49 mins
Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales
Marie Darrieussecq in Paris discussing her feminist satire of sex, power and corruption.
04 Mar 2023,49 mins
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions
A morally complex tale of guilt, survival, shame and desire in Israel.
04 Feb 2023,49 mins
Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North
A young Sri Lankan contemplates the horrifying aftermath of his country’s civil war
07 Jan 2023,49 mins
Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways
A group of young Indians desperately seek a better life for themselves in Sheffield.
03 Dec 2022,49 mins
Tahmima Anam: A Golden Age
Passion, revolution and heroism against the backdrop of Bangladeshi War of Independence
05 Nov 2022,49 mins
Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
American writer Brit Bennett talks about her unputdownable novel, The Vanishing Half.
01 Oct 2022,49 mins
Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station
Searingly funny coming-of-age novel set in Madrid
03 Sep 2022,49 mins
Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing
The devastating legacy of slavery confronted through one family through the generations
06 Aug 2022,49 mins
Mohsin Hamid: Exit West
Mohsin Hamid's profound meditation on love, hope and the psychology of exile
02 Jul 2022,49 mins
World Book Cafe: Brooklyn
World Book Café, where writers reveal the secrets of their home cities, goes to Brooklyn.
18 Jun 2022,49 mins
Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan answers audience questions about A Visit from the Goon Squad
04 Jun 2022,49 mins
Bryan Washington: Memorial
A portrait of an edgy gay relationship seen from both men’s point of view.
07 May 2022,49 mins
NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names
Ten-year-old Darling from Zimbabwe has a choice: it's down or out
02 Apr 2022,49 mins
Kiley Reid: Such a Fun Age
A carefully observed study of class and race, and biting portrait of white urban affluence
05 Mar 2022,49 mins
Isabel Allende: Eva Luna
In Eva Luna, an orphaned girl tells stories to survive mid-century South America
05 Feb 2022,49 mins