World Book Club Episodes Available now

Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
The rise and fall of Cromwell, the most powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII

Fatima Bhutto - The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Five young Pakistani men and women try to live and love in a world on fire

Leïla Slimani - Lullaby
An acclaimed French thriller which probes at the fault lines of gender, class and race

Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory
A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution

Naomi Alderman - The Power
A speculative fiction imagining women and a new ‘power’ helps them take over the world

Jenny Erpenbeck - Visitation
The horrors of twentieth century Germany filtered through the beauty of one house

David Nicholls - Us
David Nicholls talks about his internationally successful novel 'Us'.

Héctor Abad - Oblivion
A tribute to the author's father who was murdered by Columbian paramilitaries in 1987

Ann Cleeves - Raven Black
Ann Cleeves discusses her novel Raven Black with Harriett Gilbert and the WBC audience

Chigozie Obioma - The Fishermen
Acclaimed Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma talks about his novel The Fishermen