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World Book Club Episodes

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    Margaret Drabble - The Millstone

    Margaret Drabble discusses her novel The Millstone.

  2. Crime and Punishment

    Boris Akunin and Dr Sarah Young discuss Dostoyevsky鈥檚 classic novel Crime and Punishment.

  3. Anne Enright - The Gathering

    Anne Enright discusses her Man Booker Prize winning novel The Gathering.

  4. DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little

    DBC Pierre discusses his book Vernon God Little and answers questions from the audience

  5. Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss

    Desai鈥檚 novel is a profoundly moving cross-continental saga that sweeps around the globe

  6. Juan Gabriel Vasquez - The Sound of Things Falling

    Juan Gabriel Vasquez discusses his novel The Sound of Things Falling.

  7. Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists

    Tan Twan Eng discusses his novel The Garden of Evening Mists.

  8. Charlotte Bront毛 - Jane Eyre

    Writers Claire Harman and Tracy Chevalier discuss Charlotte Bronte's classic Jane Eyre.

  9. Nuruddin Farah - Maps

    Somali writer Nuruddin Farah will be discussing his novel Maps with Harriett Gilbert

  10. Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

    Judith Kerr will be talking about her novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

  11. Cees Nooteboom - The Following Story

    Multiple award-winning Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom on his novel The Following Story

  12. Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love

    Elizabeth Gilbert talks about her phenomenally successful novel Eat, Pray, Love

  13. Leila Aboulela - Minaret

    Harriet Gilbert talks to Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela about her novel Minaret.

  14. Jonathan Franzen - Freedom

    Epic of contemporary love and marriage capturing the temptations and burdens of liberty

  15. Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever

    A richly imagined historic tale of art, beauty,lust and greed in.1630s Amsterdam.

  16. Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin

    Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov discusses his novel Death and the Penguin

  17. Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    Jeanette Winterson discusses her novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

  18. Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

    Mark Haddon on his best-selling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

  19. Yasmina Khadra - The Swallows of Kabul

    Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra on his searing novel, The Swallows of Kabul

  20. Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

    Irish author Marian Keyes discusses her novel Rachel's Holiday

  21. Guenter Grass - The Tin Drum

    Another chance to hear Guenter Grass discuss The Tin Drum

  22. JD Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye

    A discussion recorded in the fabled Algonquin Hotel, New York

  23. Anne Tyler

    Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Anne Tyler on her novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

  24. William Gibson

    William Gibson discusses his influencial science fiction novel Neuromancer

  25. Daniel Kehlmann

    Daniel Kehlmann talks about his internationally acclaimed novel Measuring the World

  26. Marilynne Robinson

    Marilynne Robinson on her novel Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

  27. Herman Koch

    Dutch writer Herman Koch on his bestselling novel The Dinner

  28. Kathy Reichs - Deja Dead

    Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in most successful crime novel debut ever

  29. Pat Barker - Regeneration

    The author discusses the psychological impact of World War I

  30. Janice Galloway

    Award-winning writer Janice Galloway on her novel The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

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