World Book Club Podcast
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
Episodes to download
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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
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Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
Sat 1 Oct 2022
American writer Brit Bennett talks about her unputdownable novel, The Vanishing Half.
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Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station
Sat 3 Sep 2022
Searingly funny coming-of-age novel set in Madrid
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Yaa Gyasi: 蜜芽传媒going
Sat 6 Aug 2022
The devastating legacy of slavery confronted through one family through the generations
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Mohsin Hamid: Exit West
Sat 2 Jul 2022
Mohsin Hamid's profound meditation on love, hope and the psychology of exile
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World Book Cafe: Brooklyn
Sat 18 Jun 2022
World Book Caf茅, where writers reveal the secrets of their home cities, goes to Brooklyn.
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Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Sat 4 Jun 2022
Jennifer Egan answers audience questions about A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Bryan Washington: Memorial
Sat 7 May 2022
A portrait of an edgy gay relationship seen from both men鈥檚 point of view.
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NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names
Sat 2 Apr 2022
Ten-year-old Darling from Zimbabwe has a choice: it's down or out
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Kiley Reid: Such a Fun Age
Sat 5 Mar 2022
A carefully observed study of class and race, and biting portrait of white urban affluence
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Isabel Allende: Eva Luna
Sat 5 Feb 2022
In Eva Luna, an orphaned girl tells stories to survive mid-century South America
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Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times
New Year's Day 2022
Irish writer Naoise Dolan talks about her dazzling novel Exciting Times
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Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch
Sat 4 Dec 2021
Harriett Gilbert talks to the award-winning Trinidadian-British author Monique Roffey
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Burhan S枚nmez: Istanbul, Istanbul
Sat 6 Nov 2021
A powerfully political and intensely personal story of modern Turkish life
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Wole Soyinka
Sat 2 Oct 2021
Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka discusses English PEN centenary and his new novel.
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Maylis De Kerangal: Mend the Living
Sat 4 Sep 2021
Award-winning French writer Maylis de Kerangal talks about her novel Mend the Living
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Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sat 7 Aug 2021
Damnation and redemption in 19th Century St Petersburg
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Jane Harper: The Dry
Sat 3 Jul 2021
Australian author Jane Harper talks about her internationally garlanded thriller The Dry.
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Manu Joseph: Serious Men
Sat 5 Jun 2021
Manu Joseph discusses Serious Men, a satirical portrait of contemporary Indian society
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Louise Penny: Still Life
Sat 1 May 2021
Award-winning murder mystery set in rural Quebec from Canada鈥檚 queen of crime-writing
