World Book Club Episodes Episode guide
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Anne Holt
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart talks about his Booker Prize winning novel Shuggie Bain
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Kate Mosse: Labyrinth
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Elif Batuman
American writer Elif Batuman discusses her novel The Idiot with readers around the world.
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Ewald Arenz: Tasting Sunlight
Ewald Arenz answers readers' questions about his bestselling novel Tasting Sunlight
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Paul Auster: New York Trilogy
Harriett Gilbert talks to Paul Auster about his New York Trilogy
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Edna O'Brien: The Country Girls
A 2008 interview with the acclaimed Irish novelist, who died in July 2024 aged 93
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World Book Cafe: Toronto
World Book CafΓ©, the programme where writers reveal the secrets of their home cities
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Kevin Kwan: Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan discusses his best-selling novel Crazy Rich Asians, with readers
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Miriam Toews: Women Talking
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Percival Everett: The Trees
A powerful satire of revenge and social justice in America
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Charlotte Wood: The Weekend
Charlotte Wood discusses her novel, The Weekend
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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 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
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
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
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’s 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.
