Bernardine Evaristo, Leïla Slimani, Fatima Bhutto, Hilary Mantel and others answer readers' questions and read from their books.
We discuss the prize-winning novel Homegoing with its acclaimed Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi
We talk to acclaimed Chinese author Yiyun Li about her harrowing debut novel The Vagrants
We discuss the novel How to Be Both with its acclaimed British author Ali Smith
Harriett Gilbert talks to the world-renowned American author Elizabeth Strout
Friendship, caring, nursing and anger in a short, fierce novel from Australia
A novel that offers an unforgettable insight into life in today’s multi-cultural Britain
A hypnotic tale of female sexuality set with the lush backdrop of southern Spain
The rise and fall of Cromwell, the most powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII
Five young Pakistani men and women try to live and love in a world on fire
An acclaimed French thriller which probes at the fault lines of gender, class and race
A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution
A speculative fiction imagining women and a new ‘power’ helps them take over the world