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World Book Club Episodes

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    Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch

    Harriett Gilbert talks to the award-winning Trinidadian-British author Monique Roffey

  2. Burhan Sönmez: Istanbul, Istanbul

    A powerfully political and intensely personal story of modern Turkish life

  3. Wole Soyinka

    Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka discusses English PEN centenary and his new novel.

  4. Maylis De Kerangal: Mend the Living

    Award-winning French writer Maylis de Kerangal talks about her novel Mend the Living

  5. Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Damnation and redemption in 19th Century St Petersburg

  6. Jane Harper: The Dry

    Australian author Jane Harper talks about her internationally garlanded thriller The Dry.

  7. Manu Joseph: Serious Men

    Manu Joseph discusses Serious Men, a satirical portrait of contemporary Indian society

  8. Louise Penny: Still Life

    Award-winning murder mystery set in rural Quebec from Canada’s queen of crime-writing

  9. Robert Seethaler: A Whole Life

    A mesmerizing tale of the beauty and harshness of a lonely life in the mountains

  10. Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions

    Tsitsi Dangarembga talks about her coming-of-age novel Nervous Conditions

  11. Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island

    Amusing and affectionate portrait of the island nation Bill Bryson proudly calls home

  12. Sjón - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

    Sjón answers questions from readers about his novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.

  13. Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing

    We discuss the prize-winning novel Homegoing with its acclaimed Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi

  14. Yiyun Li: The Vagrants

    We talk to acclaimed Chinese author Yiyun Li about her harrowing debut novel The Vagrants

  15. Ali Smith: How to Be Both

    We discuss the novel How to Be Both with its acclaimed British author Ali Smith

  16. Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge

    Harriett Gilbert talks to the world-renowned American author Elizabeth Strout

  17. Helen Garner: The Spare Room

    Friendship, caring, nursing and anger in a short, fierce novel from Australia

  18. Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other

    A novel that offers an unforgettable insight into life in today’s multi-cultural Britain

  19. Deborah Levy - Hot Milk

    A hypnotic tale of female sexuality set with the lush backdrop of southern Spain

  20. Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies

    The rise and fall of Cromwell, the most powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII

  21. Fatima Bhutto - The Shadow of the Crescent Moon

    Five young Pakistani men and women try to live and love in a world on fire

  22. Leïla Slimani - Lullaby

    An acclaimed French thriller which probes at the fault lines of gender, class and race

  23. Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory

    A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution

  24. Naomi Alderman - The Power

    A speculative fiction imagining women and a new ‘power’ helps them take over the world

  25. Jenny Erpenbeck - Visitation

    The horrors of twentieth century Germany filtered through the beauty of one house

  26. David Nicholls - Us

    David Nicholls talks about his internationally successful novel 'Us'.

  27. Héctor Abad - Oblivion

    A tribute to the author's father who was murdered by Columbian paramilitaries in 1987

  28. Ann Cleeves - Raven Black

    Ann Cleeves discusses her novel Raven Black with Harriett Gilbert and the WBC audience

  29. Chigozie Obioma - The Fishermen

    Acclaimed Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma talks about his novel The Fishermen

  30. Andrea Levy - Small Island

    Another chance to hear Andrea Levy talking about her prize-winning novel Small Island.

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