World Book Club Podcast
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain
Sat 7 Dec 2024
Douglas Stuart talks about his Booker Prize winning novel Shuggie Bain
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Elif Batuman
Sat 5 Oct 2024
American writer Elif Batuman discusses her novel The Idiot with readers around the world.
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Ewald Arenz: Tasting Sunlight
Sat 7 Sep 2024
Ewald Arenz answers readers' questions about his bestselling novel Tasting Sunlight
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Women of the World: Edna O’Brien
Sun 4 Aug 2024
Kim Chakanetsa in conversation with the acclaimed author Edna O’Brien.
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Paul Auster: New York Trilogy
Sat 3 Aug 2024
Harriett Gilbert talks to Paul Auster about his New York Trilogy
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Edna O'Brien: The Country Girls
Thu 1 Aug 2024
A 2008 interview with the acclaimed Irish novelist, who died in July 2024 aged 93
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World Book Cafe: Toronto
Sat 13 Jul 2024
World Book CafΓ©, the programme where writers reveal the secrets of their home cities
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Kevin Kwan: Crazy Rich Asians
Sat 6 Jul 2024
Kevin Kwan discusses his best-selling novel Crazy Rich Asians, with readers
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Miriam Toews: Women Talking
Sat 1 Jun 2024
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Percival Everett: The Trees
Sat 4 May 2024
A powerful satire of revenge and social justice in America
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Ann Patchett: The Dutch House
Sat 2 Mar 2024
A dark fairytale set in post war America tracing a family across the decades
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Madrid
Sat 10 Feb 2024
World Book CafΓ© 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
Sat 3 Feb 2024
A dazzling and mind-bending introduction to the wonders of modern physics
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Antonio MuΓ±oz Molina: In the Night of Time
Sat 6 Jan 2024
Antonio MuΓ±oz Molina answers questions on his novel In the Night of Time
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Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Sat 2 Dec 2023
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
Sat 4 Nov 2023
A romantic comedy told across the barrier of language and culture
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Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Sat 7 Oct 2023
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
Sat 2 Sep 2023
A magical and unusual love story about time and patience and loss
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Pilar Quintana: The Bitch
Sat 5 Aug 2023
Love, loss and violence on the remote Pacific coast of Colombia
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Sofi Oksanen: Purge
Sat 1 Jul 2023
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
Sat 3 Jun 2023
Another chance to hear Judith Kerr talking about When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
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Curtis Sittenfeld: Prep
Sat 6 May 2023
Teen dream of boarding school turns out to be hotbed of adolescent angst and ambition
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Paul Theroux: Deep South
Sat 1 Apr 2023
Paul Theroux turns his unflinching gaze on an American South too often overlooked
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World Book Cafe: Paris
Sat 18 Mar 2023
Meet authors Mahir Guven, Blandine Rinkel, Laurent Petitmangin and Capucine Delattre
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Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales
Sat 4 Mar 2023
Marie Darrieussecq in Paris discussing her feminist satire of sex, power and corruption.
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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions
Sat 4 Feb 2023
A morally complex tale of guilt, survival, shame and desire in Israel.
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Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North
Sat 7 Jan 2023
A young Sri Lankan contemplates the horrifying aftermath of his country’s civil war
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Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways
Sat 3 Dec 2022
A group of young Indians desperately seek a better life for themselves in Sheffield.
Ten Amazing Interviews
Favourite episodes of World Book Club, featuring Maya Angelou and Henning Mankell.
Crime Fiction
Henning Mankel, Patrica Cornwell, Jo Nesbo: stars of the genre discuss their craft.
Tales from History
From the tulip fields of 17th Century Amsterdam to the trenches of World War One.
