The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
World Service,·210 episodes
Irish writer Naoise Dolan talks about her dazzling novel Exciting Times
01 Jan 2022,·49 mins
Harriett Gilbert talks to the award-winning Trinidadian-British author Monique Roffey
04 Dec 2021,·49 mins
A powerfully political and intensely personal story of modern Turkish life
06 Nov 2021,·49 mins
Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka discusses English PEN centenary and his new novel.
02 Oct 2021,·49 mins
Award-winning French writer Maylis de Kerangal talks about her novel Mend the Living
04 Sep 2021,·49 mins
Damnation and redemption in 19th Century St Petersburg
07 Aug 2021,·49 mins
Australian author Jane Harper talks about her internationally garlanded thriller The Dry.
03 Jul 2021,·49 mins
Manu Joseph discusses Serious Men, a satirical portrait of contemporary Indian society
05 Jun 2021,·49 mins
Award-winning murder mystery set in rural Quebec from Canada’s queen of crime-writing
01 May 2021,·49 mins
A mesmerizing tale of the beauty and harshness of a lonely life in the mountains
03 Apr 2021,·49 mins
Tsitsi Dangarembga talks about her coming-of-age novel Nervous Conditions
07 Mar 2021,·49 mins
Amusing and affectionate portrait of the island nation Bill Bryson proudly calls home
07 Feb 2021,·49 mins
Sjón answers questions from readers about his novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.
03 Jan 2021,·49 mins
We discuss the prize-winning novel Homegoing with its acclaimed Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi
06 Dec 2020,·49 mins
We talk to acclaimed Chinese author Yiyun Li about her harrowing debut novel The Vagrants
08 Nov 2020,·49 mins
We discuss the novel How to Be Both with its acclaimed British author Ali Smith
03 Oct 2020,·49 mins
Harriett Gilbert talks to the world-renowned American author Elizabeth Strout
05 Sep 2020,·49 mins
Friendship, caring, nursing and anger in a short, fierce novel from Australia
01 Aug 2020,·49 mins
A novel that offers an unforgettable insight into life in today’s multi-cultural Britain
04 Jul 2020,·49 mins
A hypnotic tale of female sexuality set with the lush backdrop of southern Spain
06 Jun 2020,·49 mins
The rise and fall of Cromwell, the most powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII
02 May 2020,·49 mins
Five young Pakistani men and women try to live and love in a world on fire
04 Apr 2020,·49 mins
An acclaimed French thriller which probes at the fault lines of gender, class and race
08 Mar 2020,·49 mins
A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution
02 Feb 2020,·49 mins
A speculative fiction imagining women and a new ‘power’ helps them take over the world
05 Jan 2020,·49 mins
The horrors of twentieth century Germany filtered through the beauty of one house
08 Dec 2019,·49 mins
David Nicholls talks about his internationally successful novel 'Us'.
03 Nov 2019,·49 mins
A tribute to the author's father who was murdered by Columbian paramilitaries in 1987
06 Oct 2019,·49 mins
Ann Cleeves discusses her novel Raven Black with Harriett Gilbert and the WBC audience
08 Sep 2019,·49 mins
Acclaimed Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma talks about his novel The Fishermen
04 Aug 2019,·49 mins
