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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

Kiley Reid: Such a Fun Age

A carefully observed study of class and race, and biting portrait of white urban affluence

• 49 mins

NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names

Ten-year-old Darling from Zimbabwe has a choice: it's down or out

• 49 mins

Bryan Washington: Memorial

A portrait of an edgy gay relationship seen from both men’s point of view.

• 49 mins

Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan answers audience questions about A Visit from the Goon Squad

• 49 mins

World Book Cafe: Brooklyn

World Book Café, where writers reveal the secrets of their home cities, goes to Brooklyn.

• 49 mins

Mohsin Hamid: Exit West

Mohsin Hamid's profound meditation on love, hope and the psychology of exile

• 49 mins

Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing

The devastating legacy of slavery confronted through one family through the generations

• 49 mins

Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station

Searingly funny coming-of-age novel set in Madrid

• 49 mins

Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half

American writer Brit Bennett talks about her unputdownable novel, The Vanishing Half.

• 49 mins

Tahmima Anam: A Golden Age

Passion, revolution and heroism against the backdrop of Bangladeshi War of Independence

• 49 mins

Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways

A group of young Indians desperately seek a better life for themselves in Sheffield.

• 49 mins