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