
World Book Club invites the globe’s great authors to discuss their best known novel. This monthly programme, presented by Harriett Gilbert, includes questions by World Service listeners.
Sat, 4 Feb 12
Duration:
54 mins
On the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens Harriett Gilbert talks to Simon Callow and Claire Tomalin in London and guests around the world about Dickens and perhaps his greatest work Great Expectations
Sat, 7 Jan 12
Duration:
53 mins
Maori novelist Witi Ihimaera discusses his haunting novel The Whale Rider with presenter Harriett Gilbert and an audience at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
Sat, 3 Dec 11
Duration:
53 mins
Acclaimed British writer Penelope Lively discusses her Booker Prize-winning novel Moon Tiger with Harriett Gilbert, a studio audience and listeners around the world.
Sat, 5 Nov 11
Duration:
53 mins
Acclaimed Israeli writer David Grossman talks to presenter Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about prize-winning novel To the End of the Land.
Sat, 1 Oct 11
Duration:
53 mins
Lionel Shriver talks to Harriett Gilbert and a group of readers in and out of the studio about her controversial novel We Need to Talk about Kevin.
Sat, 3 Sep 11
Duration:
53 mins
Libyan writer Hisham Matar talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his chilling novel 'In the Country of Men'.
Sat, 6 Aug 11
Duration:
53 mins
Award-winning writer Colm Toibin talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his haunting novel Brooklyn.
Sat, 2 Jul 11
Duration:
53 mins
Internationally acclaimed Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell discusses his bestselling thriller Faceless Killers with Harriett Gilbert and an audience in St Mary Magdeleine Church in Woodstock, England
Sat, 4 Jun 11
Duration:
53 mins
Acclaimed crime writer Val McDermid talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about her bestselling thriller A Place of Execution.
Sat, 7 May 11
Duration:
53 mins
Boris Akunin talks to Harriett Gilbert, a studio audience and listeners around the world about his bestselling crime novel The Winter Queen
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