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Contemporary Indian Writing in the spotlight
Octavia Bright explores the exciting new literary voices coming from India.
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Javier Mar铆as
Chris Power talks about the writing of Javier Mar铆as.
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Eleanor Catton
Chris Power speaks to Eleanor Catton about her new novel, Birnam Wood.
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Margaret Atwood, Sam Selvon
Johny Pitts explores the work of two writers who have combined comedy with tragedy.
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Tom Bullough on writing about the climate crisis, and Richard Wright's lost novel
Tom Bullough talks about his book Sarn Helen.
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Aleksandar Hemon, Roddy Doyle on Soul, and Dorothy Tse on Hong Kong
Chris Power talks to Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel The World and All That It Holds.
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Bret Easton Ellis
The author of American Psycho discusses his first novel in 13 years, The Shards.
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Dark Academia with Katy Hays, RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg. Plus Saba Sams' Book I'd Never Lend
Chris Power talks to Katy Hays, RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg about a ubiquitous new trend
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Really Good, Actually
Monica Heisey talks about her debut novel, Really Good, Actually.
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Jane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens
Chris Power talks to Jane Smiley, Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens about fictionalising history.
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Katherine Mansfield
Exploring the writing of Katherine Mansfield a hundred years after her death.
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Agatha Christie at Christmas
Johny Pitts explores the Queen of Crime's connection with the festive season
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Katherine Rundell and The Golden Mole
Katherine Rundell talks about The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasures.
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Looking back at 2022 and (re)discovering Bruno Schulz
Chris Power discusses a year in books and gets some seasonal recommendations.
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Women subverting horror with Mariana Enr铆quez, Claire Kohda and Sophie White
Octavia Bright asks if there is a new wave of women authors turning to horror fiction.
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Cormac McCarthy, Photographing Writers, Derek Owusu
Johny Pitts discusses the new novels from Cormac McCarthy.
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Barbara Kingsolver, plus the 'Social Novel' with John Lanchester and Ayisha Malik
Johny Pitts talks to Barbara Kingsolver about her Dickens-inspired book Demon Copperhead.
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Colm T贸ib铆n essays, and revisiting Shirley Hazzard
Chris Power talks to Colm T贸ib铆n about illness, the myth of Ireland and banned books.
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Writing Nature
How writers capture our natural world.
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William Boyd and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities
Chris Power speaks to William Boyd about his new novel, The Romantic.
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Celeste Ng; Grief and modern masculinity with Bobby Palmer and Michael Pedersen; Rediscovering 20th century classic Baron Bagge
Octavia Bright speaks to Celeste Ng about her new book, Our Missing Hearts.
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Orhan Pamuk
Johny Pitts talks to Orhan Pamuk about his new book, Nights of Plague.
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Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy
Johny Pitts talks to Maggie O'Farrell about her new book, The Marriage Portrait.
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Ian McEwan
Chris Power talks to Ian McEwan about his new book, Lessons.
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Alex Clark on novels - past, present and future - about summer and change
Alex Clark on novels - past, present and future - about summer and change.
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Mary Renault's Greek Myths
Octavia Bright discusses Mary Renault's The King Must Die.
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Ross Raisin
Octavia Bright talks to Ross Raisin about his new book, A Hunger.
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The Ethics of Writing Crime
Chris Power looks at the ethical questions authors confront when writing about crime.
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Tess Gunty on The Rabbit Hutch; Jackie Kay on the writing of Jamaica Kincaid
Johny Pitts talks to Tess Gunty about The Rabbit Hutch.
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Summer Reading and Benjamin Wood
Chris Power talks to Benjamin Wood about his novel The Young Accomplice.
