Bookclub Episodes Episode guide
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Jennifer Johnston
James Naughtie talks to Jennifer Johnston about her novel The Gingerbread Woman.
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Benjamin Zephaniah
James Naughtie talks to Benjamin Zephaniah about his novel for young adults Refugee Boy.
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Tim Butcher
James Naughtie talks to Tim Butcher about his bestselling book Blood River.
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Howard Jacobson
James Naughtie talks to Howard Jacobson about his comic novel The Mighty Walzer.
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Sarah Hall - The Carhullan Army
James Naughtie talks to Sarah Hall about her novel The Carhullan Army.
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Claire Tomalin (on Thomas Hardy)
James Naughtie talks to Claire Tomalin about her biography of Thomas Hardy.
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Roddy Doyle
Irish writer Roddy Doyle joins James Naughtie to discuss his novel Paddy Clarke HA HA HA.
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Yann Martel
James Naughtie talks to Yann Martel about Life of Pi.
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Siri Hustvedt
James Naughtie talks to Siri Hustvedt about her novel What I Loved.
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Henning Mankell
James Naughtie talks to Henning Mankell about Sidetracked, a Kurt Wallander novel.
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Lynne Reid Banks
James Naughtie talks to Lynne Reid Banks about her novel The L-Shaped Room.
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Orhan Pamuk
James Naughtie talks to Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk about his novel My Name is Red.
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Jeanette Winterson
James Naughtie talks to Jeanette Winterson about Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
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Douglas Coupland
James Naughtie and readers talk to Douglas Coupland about his 1991 cult novel Generation X
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Clive James
James Naughtie and readers talk to Clive James about the first volume of his autobiography
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Alexander McCall Smith
James Naughtie talks to Alexander McCall Smith about his novel 44 Scotland Street.
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John Irving
James Naughtie and readers talk to John Irving about his novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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Linda Grant
James Naughtie talks to Linda Grant about her novel, When I Lived in Modern Times.
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Gillian Slovo
James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her novel Red Dust.
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Robert Macfarlane
James Naughtie talks to travel writer Robert Macfarlane about his book The Wild Places.
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CJ Sansom
James Naughtie and readers talk to bestselling writer CJ Sansom about Dissolution.
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Bernard MacLaverty
James Naughtie and readers meet Northern Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty.
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Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville talks to James Naughtie about her novel The Secret River.
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Xiaolu Guo
James Naughtie and readers meet Chinese author Xiaolu Guo.
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Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion talks to James Naughtie about his 10 years as Poet Laureate.
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AL Kennedy
James Naughtie talks to the author and part-time stand-up comedian AL Kennedy.
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Bernard Cornwell
James Naughtie talks to the novelist Bernard Cornwell.
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Oliver James
James Naughtie talks to the psychologist Oliver James about 'affluenza'.
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Amitav Ghosh
James Naughtie talks to the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.
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Fay Weldon
James Naughtie talks to Fay Weldon about her novel The Cloning of Joanna May.
