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Ann Cleeves - Raven Black

Ann Cleeves discusses her novel Raven Black with Harriett Gilbert and the WBC audience

• 49 mins

Héctor Abad - Oblivion

A tribute to the author's father who was murdered by Columbian paramilitaries in 1987

• 49 mins

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls talks about his internationally successful novel 'Us'.

• 49 mins

Jenny Erpenbeck - Visitation

The horrors of twentieth century Germany filtered through the beauty of one house

• 49 mins

Naomi Alderman - The Power

A speculative fiction imagining women and a new ‘power’ helps them take over the world

• 49 mins

Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory

A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution

• 49 mins

Leïla Slimani - Lullaby

An acclaimed French thriller which probes at the fault lines of gender, class and race

• 49 mins

Fatima Bhutto - The Shadow of the Crescent Moon

Five young Pakistani men and women try to live and love in a world on fire

• 49 mins

Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies

The rise and fall of Cromwell, the most powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII

• 49 mins

Deborah Levy - Hot Milk

A hypnotic tale of female sexuality set with the lush backdrop of southern Spain

• 49 mins

Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other

A novel that offers an unforgettable insight into life in today’s multi-cultural Britain

• 49 mins

Helen Garner: The Spare Room

Friendship, caring, nursing and anger in a short, fierce novel from Australia

• 49 mins

Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge

Harriett Gilbert talks to the world-renowned American author Elizabeth Strout

• 49 mins

Ali Smith: How to Be Both

We discuss the novel How to Be Both with its acclaimed British author Ali Smith

• 49 mins

Yiyun Li: The Vagrants

We talk to acclaimed Chinese author Yiyun Li about her harrowing debut novel The Vagrants

• 49 mins

Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing

We discuss the prize-winning novel Homegoing with its acclaimed Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi

• 49 mins

Sjón - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

Sjón answers questions from readers about his novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.

• 49 mins

Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island

Amusing and affectionate portrait of the island nation Bill Bryson proudly calls home

• 49 mins

Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions

Tsitsi Dangarembga talks about her coming-of-age novel Nervous Conditions

• 49 mins

Robert Seethaler: A Whole Life

A mesmerizing tale of the beauty and harshness of a lonely life in the mountains

• 49 mins

Louise Penny: Still Life

Award-winning murder mystery set in rural Quebec from Canada’s queen of crime-writing

• 49 mins

Manu Joseph: Serious Men

Manu Joseph discusses Serious Men, a satirical portrait of contemporary Indian society

• 49 mins

Jane Harper: The Dry

Australian author Jane Harper talks about her internationally garlanded thriller The Dry.

• 49 mins

Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Damnation and redemption in 19th Century St Petersburg

• 49 mins

Maylis De Kerangal: Mend the Living

Award-winning French writer Maylis de Kerangal talks about her novel Mend the Living

• 49 mins

Wole Soyinka

Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka discusses English PEN centenary and his new novel.

• 49 mins

Burhan Sönmez: Istanbul, Istanbul

A powerfully political and intensely personal story of modern Turkish life

• 49 mins

Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch

Harriett Gilbert talks to the award-winning Trinidadian-British author Monique Roffey

• 49 mins

Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times

Irish writer Naoise Dolan talks about her dazzling novel Exciting Times

• 49 mins

Isabel Allende: Eva Luna

In Eva Luna, an orphaned girl tells stories to survive mid-century South America

• 49 mins