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Yiyun Li: The Vagrants

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

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Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing

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

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Sjón - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

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

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Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island

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

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Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions

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

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Robert Seethaler: A Whole Life

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

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Louise Penny: Still Life

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

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Manu Joseph: Serious Men

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

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Jane Harper: The Dry

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

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Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Damnation and redemption in 19th Century St Petersburg

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Maylis De Kerangal: Mend the Living

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

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Wole Soyinka

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

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Burhan Sönmez: Istanbul, Istanbul

A powerfully political and intensely personal story of modern Turkish life

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Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch

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

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Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times

Irish writer Naoise Dolan talks about her dazzling novel Exciting Times

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Isabel Allende: Eva Luna

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

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Kiley Reid: Such a Fun Age

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

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NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names

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

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Bryan Washington: Memorial

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

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Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad

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

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World Book Cafe: Brooklyn

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

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Mohsin Hamid: Exit West

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

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Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing

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

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Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station

Searingly funny coming-of-age novel set in Madrid

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Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half

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

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Tahmima Anam: A Golden Age

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

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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.

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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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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions

A morally complex tale of guilt, survival, shame and desire in Israel.

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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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