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Working Class Writing

Open Book considers the rich heritage and bright future of working class writing.

• 28 mins

Bernardine Evaristo, Victorian showmen in fiction, Graeme Simsion, Faber at 90

Bernardine Evaristo discusses her polyphonic new novel Girl, Woman, Other

• 28 mins

Ben Smith and Julia Blackburn on Doggerland; Ghana's literary scene; Rosie Price

Writers Ben Smith and Julia Blackburn discuss their books about Doggerland.

• 28 mins

Mia Couto and Way茅tu Moore, Mr B's Bookshop, Claire Alexander

Mia Couto and Way茅tu Moore discuss two new African novels exploring colonialism and myth.

• 28 mins

Pajtim Statovci, Gerald Murnane discussed, Roxane Gay's favourite book, Benjamin Dreyer

Pajtim Statovci discusses his novel Crossing and we explore the work of Gerald Murnane

• 28 mins

Carolina Setterwall, Re-reading and what it offers, Shadowplay reviewed, Ahmad Danny Ramadan

Carolina Setterwall discusses her debut novel and we explore the pleasures of re-reading

• 28 mins

Kevin Barry on his new novel, and we discuss queer nature writing

Irish writer Kevin Barry, plus Philip Hoare and Mike Parker on queer nature writing.

• 28 mins

Will Eaves on Alan Turing; The Moon in Fiction and Poetry; Afrofuturism

Will Eaves discusses Murmur, his award-winning novel about Alan Turing.

• 28 mins

Iris Murdoch Special

On the centenary of her birth, Open Book celebrates the novels of Iris Murdoch.

• 28 mins

Ocean Vuong, Bauhaus novels, Sudan literary postcard

Award-winning poet Ocean Vuong discusses his debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.

• 28 mins

David Nicholls, Ghost writing, Elizabeth Hardwick

David Nicholls discusses his latest novel Sweet Sorrow.

• 28 mins

Colm T贸ib铆n on Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, Mary Beth Keane, the best novels of 1979

Colm T贸ib铆n on Wilde, Yeats and Joyce's fraught relationships with their fathers

• 28 mins

Benjamin Myers, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Valeria Luiselli

Benjamin Myers discusses his latest novel The Offing.

• 28 mins

What are young people writing and reading?

A special edition of Open Book recorded at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

• 28 mins

Deborah Levy, therapists in fiction, India's richest literary prize, Lorca's symbolism

Deborah Levy discusses her bestselling new novel The Man Who Saw Everything.

• 28 mins

Robert Harris

Robert Harris discusses his new novel The Second Sleep and reflects on 30 years of writing

• 28 mins

Ann Patchett, Jia Tolentino and USA book picks

A special American-themed edition with Ann Patchett and rising star Jia Tolentino.

• 28 mins

Dana Czapnik, Black Death novels, Imani Perry on Corregidora

Dana Czapnik discusses her debut novel The Falconer.

• 28 mins

Emma Donoghue, Spy Fiction, Harper Lee's Unpublished Novel

Emma Donoghue discusses her new novel Akin, plus a discussion of the best fiction spies

• 28 mins

Literary Norwich Special

A visit to Norwich, England's first Unesco City of Literature

• 28 mins

Andrew Michael Hurley, best novels of 1995, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Andrew Michael Hurley talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel Starve Acre.

• 28 mins

Kathy O'Shaughnessy, George Eliot, Literary Magazines and Jason Reynolds

Kathy O'Shaughnessy on her novel about George Eliot and Literary Magazines discussed

• 28 mins

Ben Lerner, Ian Rankin, Auto Fiction

Elizabeth Day talks to Ben Lerner about his novel The Topeka School

• 28 mins

Lee Child

Lee Child, Pat Barker, Hanne 脴rstavik.

• 28 mins

2019 Books, Andr茅 Aciman and David Bowie

Books of 2019, Andr茅 Aciman, Bowie's Books

• 28 mins

Benjamin Markovits, PG Wodehouse, Family rows in novels and child prodigies

Benjamin Markovits on his novel Christmas in Austin.

• 28 mins

Highlights of 2019

Highlights of 2019; Ali Smith, Bernadine Evaristo, Robert Harris, Ann Patchett, Max Porter

• 28 mins

Graham Greene Special

Louise Doughty, Lawrence Osborne and Peter James on the great 20th century master of plot

• 28 mins

100 Novels That Shaped Our World

100 Novels That Shaped Our World: Identity

• 28 mins

Deepa Anappara, Helen Fielding on Hemingway, Rob Doyle and Finnish literature

Journalist turned novelist Deepa Anapara on her debut set in contemporary India

• 28 mins