World Book Club Episodes Available now

Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times
Irish writer Naoise Dolan talks about her dazzling novel Exciting Times

Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch
Harriett Gilbert talks to the award-winning Trinidadian-British author Monique Roffey

Burhan Sönmez: Istanbul, Istanbul
A powerfully political and intensely personal story of modern Turkish life

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

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

Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Damnation and redemption in 19th Century St Petersburg

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

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

Louise Penny: Still Life
Award-winning murder mystery set in rural Quebec from Canada’s queen of crime-writing

Robert Seethaler: A Whole Life
A mesmerizing tale of the beauty and harshness of a lonely life in the mountains