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Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar talks to Chris Power about his new novel, My Friends.
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Endings and New Beginnings
Chris Power is joined by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Aminatta Forna and Lucy Caldwell.
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The Year in Fiction
Chris Power looks back at some of our highlights from 2023.
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Janice Hallett
Janice Hallett on her book The Christmas Appeal. Plus literary gems to put under the tree.
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Ron Rash
Ron Rash and AL Kennedy, with presenter Johny Pitts.
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Alexis Wright
Australian writer Alexis Wright, on new novel Praiseworthy
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Femi Kayode
Crime writer Femi Kayode joins Johny Pitts.
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Teju Cole
Chris Power speaks to Teju Cole about his new novel, Tremor.
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AI and the Novel
Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts discuss AI and the Novel.
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Karl Ove Knausg氓rd
Chris Power speaks to Karl Ove Knausg氓rd about his new book, The Wolves of Eternity.
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Daniel Mason
Chris Power speaks to Daniel Mason about his new novel, North Woods.
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Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis, literary conclusions.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, plus Judith Kerr's centenary with Nicolette Jones and Oliver Jeffers
Johny Pitts talks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her new book for children.
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Ben Lerner and Anne Enright on poetry and fiction
Johny Pitts explores poetry and fiction with Anne Enright and Ben Lerner.
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith talks to Elizabeth Day about her new historical novel, The Fraud.
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George Orwell Now
Chris Power surveys Orwell's complex legacy with Anna Funder, Adam Biles and Sandra Newman
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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen speaks to Johny Pitts about her new book, The Wolf Hunt.
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Ann Patchett, plus Magical Historical Fiction with SJ Parris and Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Octavia Bright talks to Ann Patchett about her new novel, Tom Lake
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Birmingham
Johny Pitts makes a literary pilgrimage to the UK's second city
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
Elizabeth Day celebrates the centenary year of the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard.
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Megan Nolan, plus crime summer reading recommendations from Vaseem Khan, Laura Wilson and Val McDermid
Johny Pitts speaks to Megan Nolan about her new novel, Ordinary Human Failings.
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Richard Ford
Richard Ford talks to Alex Clark about his latest novel, Be Mine.
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Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck talks to Octavia Bright about her novel Kairos.
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Tragicomic Writing
Alex Clark explores tragicomic writing with Paul Murray, Katherine Heiny and Josie Long.
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Leila Slimani, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Kalaf Epalanga
Johny Pitts talks to Leila Slimani about her new novel Watch Us Dance.
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Guy Gunaratne, plus Literary Thefts with Rebecca Kuang and Andrew Lipstein
Johny Pitts talks to Guy Gunaratne about their new book Mister, Mister.
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Linda Grant
Linda Grant talks to Alex Clark about her novel The Story of the Forest
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Deborah Levy, Miranda France and Kate Morton
Deborah Levy talks about her new novel, August Blue.
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Stephen Buoro
Johny Pitts talks to the debut novelist about The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa.
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Best of Young British Novelists 2023
Octavia Bright explores Granta's once in a decade list of new writing talent.