Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics
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Read along with us - a list of books discussed in each programme
Johny Pitts talks to Caleb Azumah Nelson about his debut novel, Open Water.
Claire Fuller and Karla Neblett discuss their novels Unsettled Ground and King of Rabbits.
Elizabeth Day speaks to Damon Galgut about his Booker Award winning novel, The Promise.
Johny Pitts asks how novelists and publishers are responding to environmental crisis.
Elizabeth Day talks to Anuk Arudpragasam about Booker shortlisted novel A Passage North
Johny Pitts talks to Booker Prize winning novelist Richard Flanagan.
Johny Pitts speaks to the author of Matrix
Jonathan Franzen talks to Elizabeth Day about his novel Crossroads.
Johny Pitts talks to Rabih Alameddine about his new novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope
Johny Pitts talks to the Noughts & Crosses author about her latest, Endgame
Elizabeth Day talks to Colson Whitehead in a feature length interview about Harlem Shuffle
Johny Pitts explores the 20s with Alison MacLeod, Bill Goldstein, James Clammer & Jo Hamya
Johny Pitts talks to David Grossman.
Chris Power speaks to Leïla Slimani about her new book, The Country of Others.
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Ruth Ozeki chooses The Riverside Shakespeare as the book she would Never Lend.
Richard Beard explains how time is used across fiction and the use of the future tense.
Richard Beard explains how time is used across fiction and the use of the present tense.
Richard Beard explains how time is used across fiction and the use of the past tense.
