World Book Club Podcast
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Elif Batuman
Sat 5 Oct 2024
American writer Elif Batuman discusses her novel The Idiot with readers around the world.
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Ewald Arenz: Tasting Sunlight
Sat 7 Sep 2024
Ewald Arenz answers readers' questions about his bestselling novel Tasting Sunlight
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Women of the World: Edna O鈥橞rien
Sun 4 Aug 2024
Kim Chakanetsa in conversation with the acclaimed author Edna O鈥橞rien.
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Paul Auster: New York Trilogy
Sat 3 Aug 2024
Harriett Gilbert talks to Paul Auster about his New York Trilogy
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Edna O'Brien: The Country Girls
Thu 1 Aug 2024
A 2008 interview with the acclaimed Irish novelist, who died in July 2024 aged 93
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World Book Cafe: Toronto
Sat 13 Jul 2024
World Book Caf茅, the programme where writers reveal the secrets of their home cities
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Kevin Kwan: Crazy Rich Asians
Sat 6 Jul 2024
Kevin Kwan discusses his best-selling novel Crazy Rich Asians, with readers
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Miriam Toews: Women Talking
Sat 1 Jun 2024
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Percival Everett: The Trees
Sat 4 May 2024
A powerful satire of revenge and social justice in America
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Ann Patchett: The Dutch House
Sat 2 Mar 2024
A dark fairytale set in post war America tracing a family across the decades
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Madrid
Sat 10 Feb 2024
World Book Caf茅 heads to Madrid to talk to writers about a new boom in feminist fiction.
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Carlo Rovelli: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Sat 3 Feb 2024
A dazzling and mind-bending introduction to the wonders of modern physics
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Antonio Mu帽oz Molina: In the Night of Time
Sat 6 Jan 2024
Antonio Mu帽oz Molina answers questions on his novel In the Night of Time
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Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Sat 2 Dec 2023
Searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lankan civil war
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Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Sat 4 Nov 2023
A romantic comedy told across the barrier of language and culture
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Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Sat 7 Oct 2023
Two Jewish boys in 1939 New York invent an anti-Fascist comic book hero
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Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
Sat 2 Sep 2023
A magical and unusual love story about time and patience and loss
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Pilar Quintana: The Bitch
Sat 5 Aug 2023
Love, loss and violence on the remote Pacific coast of Colombia
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Sofi Oksanen: Purge
Sat 1 Jul 2023
A harrowing portrait of Estonia's recent history, seen through the lives of two women
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Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Sat 3 Jun 2023
Another chance to hear Judith Kerr talking about When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
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Curtis Sittenfeld: Prep
Sat 6 May 2023
Teen dream of boarding school turns out to be hotbed of adolescent angst and ambition
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Paul Theroux: Deep South
Sat 1 Apr 2023
Paul Theroux turns his unflinching gaze on an American South too often overlooked
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World Book Cafe: Paris
Sat 18 Mar 2023
Meet authors Mahir Guven, Blandine Rinkel, Laurent Petitmangin and Capucine Delattre
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Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales
Sat 4 Mar 2023
Marie Darrieussecq in Paris discussing her feminist satire of sex, power and corruption.
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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions
Sat 4 Feb 2023
A morally complex tale of guilt, survival, shame and desire in Israel.
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Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North
Sat 7 Jan 2023
A young Sri Lankan contemplates the horrifying aftermath of his country鈥檚 civil war
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Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways
Sat 3 Dec 2022
A group of young Indians desperately seek a better life for themselves in Sheffield.
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Tahmima Anam: A Golden Age
Sat 5 Nov 2022
Passion, revolution and heroism against the backdrop of Bangladeshi War of Independence
Ten Amazing Interviews
Favourite episodes of World Book Club, featuring Maya Angelou and Henning Mankell.
Crime Fiction
Henning Mankel, Patrica Cornwell, Jo Nesbo: stars of the genre discuss their craft.
Tales from History
From the tulip fields of 17th Century Amsterdam to the trenches of World War One.
