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World Book Club Episodes

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    Paul Theroux: Deep South

    Paul Theroux turns his unflinching gaze on an American South too often overlooked

  2. World Book Cafe: Paris

    Meet authors Mahir Guven, Blandine Rinkel, Laurent Petitmangin and Capucine Delattre

  3. Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales

    Marie Darrieussecq in Paris discussing her feminist satire of sex, power and corruption.

  4. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions

    A morally complex tale of guilt, survival, shame and desire in Israel.

  5. Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North

    A young Sri Lankan contemplates the horrifying aftermath of his country鈥檚 civil war

  6. Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways

    A group of young Indians desperately seek a better life for themselves in Sheffield.

  7. Tahmima Anam: A Golden Age

    Passion, revolution and heroism against the backdrop of Bangladeshi War of Independence

  8. Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half

    American writer Brit Bennett talks about her unputdownable novel, The Vanishing Half.

  9. Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station

    Searingly funny coming-of-age novel set in Madrid

  10. Yaa Gyasi: 蜜芽传媒going

    The devastating legacy of slavery confronted through one family through the generations

  11. Mohsin Hamid: Exit West

    Mohsin Hamid's profound meditation on love, hope and the psychology of exile

  12. World Book Cafe: Brooklyn

    World Book Caf茅, the programme where writers reveal the secrets of their home cities

  13. Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad

    Jennifer Egan answers audience questions about A Visit from the Goon Squad

  14. Bryan Washington: Memorial

    A portrait of an edgy gay relationship seen from both men鈥檚 point of view.

  15. NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names

    Ten-year-old Darling from Zimbabwe has a choice: it's down or out

  16. Kiley Reid: Such a Fun Age

    A carefully observed study of class and race, and biting portrait of white urban affluence

  17. Isabel Allende: Eva Luna

    In Eva Luna, an orphaned girl tells stories to survive mid-century South America

  18. Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times

    Irish writer Naoise Dolan talks about her dazzling novel Exciting Times

  19. Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch

    Harriett Gilbert talks to the award-winning Trinidadian-British author Monique Roffey

  20. Burhan S枚nmez: Istanbul, Istanbul

    A powerfully political and intensely personal story of modern Turkish life

  21. Wole Soyinka

    Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka discusses English PEN centenary and his new novel.

  22. Maylis De Kerangal: Mend the Living

    Award-winning French writer Maylis de Kerangal talks about her novel Mend the Living

  23. Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Damnation and redemption in 19th Century St Petersburg

  24. Jane Harper: The Dry

    Australian author Jane Harper talks about her internationally garlanded thriller The Dry.

  25. Manu Joseph: Serious Men

    Manu Joseph discusses Serious Men, a satirical portrait of contemporary Indian society

  26. Louise Penny: Still Life

    Award-winning murder mystery set in rural Quebec from Canada鈥檚 queen of crime-writing

  27. Robert Seethaler: A Whole Life

    A mesmerizing tale of the beauty and harshness of a lonely life in the mountains

  28. Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions

    Tsitsi Dangarembga talks about her coming-of-age novel Nervous Conditions

  29. Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island

    Amusing and affectionate portrait of the island nation Bill Bryson proudly calls home

  30. Sj贸n - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

    Sj贸n answers questions from readers about his novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.

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