World Book Club Podcast
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
Episodes to download
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Robert Seethaler: A Whole Life
Sat 3 Apr 2021
A mesmerizing tale of the beauty and harshness of a lonely life in the mountains
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Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions
Sun 7 Mar 2021
Tsitsi Dangarembga talks about her coming-of-age novel Nervous Conditions
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Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island
Sun 7 Feb 2021
Amusing and affectionate portrait of the island nation Bill Bryson proudly calls home
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Sj贸n - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
Sun 3 Jan 2021
Sj贸n answers questions from readers about his novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.
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Yaa Gyasi: 蜜芽传媒going
Sun 6 Dec 2020
We discuss the prize-winning novel 蜜芽传媒going with its acclaimed Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi
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Yiyun Li: The Vagrants
Sun 8 Nov 2020
We talk to acclaimed Chinese author Yiyun Li about her harrowing debut novel The Vagrants
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Ali Smith: How to Be Both
Sat 3 Oct 2020
We discuss the novel How to Be Both with its acclaimed British author Ali Smith
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Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge
Sat 5 Sep 2020
Harriett Gilbert talks to the world-renowned American author Elizabeth Strout
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Helen Garner: The Spare Room
Sat 1 Aug 2020
Friendship, caring, nursing and anger in a short, fierce novel from Australia
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Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other
Sat 4 Jul 2020
A novel that offers an unforgettable insight into life in today鈥檚 multi-cultural Britain
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Deborah Levy - Hot Milk
Sat 6 Jun 2020
A hypnotic tale of female sexuality set with the lush backdrop of southern Spain
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Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
Sat 2 May 2020
The rise and fall of Cromwell, the most powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII
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Fatima Bhutto - The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Sat 4 Apr 2020
Five young Pakistani men and women try to live and love in a world on fire
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Le茂la Slimani - Lullaby
Sun 8 Mar 2020
An acclaimed French thriller which probes at the fault lines of gender, class and race
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Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory
Sun 2 Feb 2020
A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution
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Naomi Alderman - The Power
Sun 5 Jan 2020
A speculative fiction imagining women and a new 鈥榩ower鈥� helps them take over the world
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Jenny Erpenbeck - Visitation
Sun 8 Dec 2019
The horrors of twentieth century Germany filtered through the beauty of one house
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David Nicholls - Us
Sun 3 Nov 2019
David Nicholls talks about his internationally successful novel 'Us'.
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H茅ctor Abad - Oblivion
Sun 6 Oct 2019
A tribute to the author's father who was murdered by Columbian paramilitaries in 1987
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Ann Cleeves - Raven Black
Sun 8 Sep 2019
Ann Cleeves discusses her novel Raven Black with Harriett Gilbert and the WBC audience
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Chigozie Obioma - The Fishermen
Sun 4 Aug 2019
Acclaimed Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma talks about his novel The Fishermen
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Andrea Levy - Small Island
Sun 7 Jul 2019
Another chance to hear Andrea Levy talking about her prize-winning novel Small Island.
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Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved
Sun 2 Jun 2019
Award-winning writer Siri Hustvedt discusses her novel What I Loved with the WBC audience.
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Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice
Sun 5 May 2019
Donna Leon discusses her celebrated novel Death at La Fenice.
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Tessa Hadley - The Past
Sun 7 Apr 2019
British author Tessa Hadley talks to Harriett Gilbert about her award-winning novel.
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Ng农g末 wa Thiong'o - A Grain of Wheat
Sat 9 Mar 2019
A special edition from Nairobi University's bustling bookshop, where Ngugi was a director.
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JoJo Moyes - Me Before You
Sun 3 Feb 2019
JoJo Moyes discusses her wildly popular novel Me Before You
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Lee Child - Killing Floor
Sun 6 Jan 2019
Leading thriller writer Lee Child discusses Killing Floor and its hero Jack Reacher
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Chan Koonchung - The Fat Years
Sun 2 Dec 2018
Chan Koonchung joins the World Book Club to discuss his dystopian novel The Fat Years
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Lijia Zhang: Lotus
Sun 4 Nov 2018
In Beijing discussing Lotus, about a migrant worker who ends up a prostitute in Shenzen
