The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
World Service,·210 episodes
Acclaimed Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about his book A Death in the Family
07 Jan 2017,·49 mins
Margaret Drabble discusses her novel The Millstone.
03 Dec 2016,·49 mins
Boris Akunin and Dr Sarah Young discuss Dostoyevsky’s classic novel Crime and Punishment.
05 Nov 2016,·49 mins
Anne Enright discusses her Man Booker Prize winning novel The Gathering.
01 Oct 2016,·49 mins
DBC Pierre discusses his book Vernon God Little and answers questions from the audience
03 Sep 2016,·49 mins
Desai’s novel is a profoundly moving cross-continental saga that sweeps around the globe
06 Aug 2016,·49 mins
Juan Gabriel Vasquez discusses his novel The Sound of Things Falling.
02 Jul 2016,·49 mins
Tan Twan Eng discusses his novel The Garden of Evening Mists.
04 Jun 2016,·49 mins
Writers Claire Harman and Tracy Chevalier discuss Charlotte Bronte's classic Jane Eyre.
07 May 2016,·49 mins
Somali writer Nuruddin Farah will be discussing his novel Maps with Harriett Gilbert
02 Apr 2016,·49 mins
Judith Kerr will be talking about her novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
05 Mar 2016,·49 mins
Multiple award-winning Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom on his novel The Following Story
06 Feb 2016,·49 mins
Harriett Gilbert talks to Carlos Ruiz Zafon about his novel The Shadow of the Wind.
55 mins
Elizabeth Gilbert talks about her phenomenally successful novel Eat, Pray, Love
02 Jan 2016,·49 mins
Harriet Gilbert talks to Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela about her novel Minaret.
05 Dec 2015,·49 mins
Epic of contemporary love and marriage capturing the temptations and burdens of liberty
07 Nov 2015,·49 mins
A richly imagined historic tale of art, beauty,lust and greed in.1630s Amsterdam.
03 Oct 2015,·49 mins
Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov discusses his novel Death and the Penguin
05 Sep 2015,·49 mins
Jeanette Winterson discusses her novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
01 Aug 2015,·53 mins
Mark Haddon on his best-selling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
04 Jul 2015,·49 mins
Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra on his searing novel, The Swallows of Kabul
06 Jun 2015,·49 mins
Irish author Marian Keyes discusses her novel Rachel's Holiday
02 May 2015,·49 mins
Another chance to hear Guenter Grass discuss The Tin Drum
19 Apr 2015,·53 mins
A discussion recorded in the fabled Algonquin Hotel, New York
04 Apr 2015,·49 mins
Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Anne Tyler on her novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
08 Mar 2015,·49 mins
William Gibson discusses his influencial science fiction novel Neuromancer
08 Feb 2015,·49 mins
Daniel Kehlmann talks about his internationally acclaimed novel Measuring the World
04 Jan 2015,·49 mins
Marilynne Robinson on her novel Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
07 Dec 2014,·49 mins
Dutch writer Herman Koch on his bestselling novel The Dinner
02 Nov 2014,·49 mins
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in most successful crime novel debut ever
04 Oct 2014,·49 mins
