World Book Club Podcast
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
Episodes to download
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Jane Harper
Sat 3 Jul 2021
Australian author Jane Harper talks about her internationally garlanded thriller The Dry.
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Manu Joseph: Serious Men
Sat 5 Jun 2021
Manu Joseph discusses Serious Men, a satirical portrait of contemporary Indian society
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Louise Penny: Still Life
Sat 1 May 2021
Award-winning murder mystery set in rural Quebec from Canada’s queen of crime-writing
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Robert Seethaler: A Whole Life
Sat 3 Apr 2021
A mesmerizing tale of the beauty and harshness of a lonely life in the mountains
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Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions
Sun 7 Mar 2021
Tsitsi Dangarembga talks about her coming-of-age novel Nervous Conditions
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Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island
Sun 7 Feb 2021
Amusing and affectionate portrait of the island nation Bill Bryson proudly calls home
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Sjón - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
Sun 3 Jan 2021
Sjón answers questions from readers about his novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.
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Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing
Sun 6 Dec 2020
We discuss the prize-winning novel Homegoing with its acclaimed Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi
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Yiyun Li: The Vagrants
Sun 8 Nov 2020
We talk to acclaimed Chinese author Yiyun Li about her harrowing debut novel The Vagrants
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Ali Smith: How to Be Both
Sat 3 Oct 2020
We discuss the novel How to Be Both with its acclaimed British author Ali Smith
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Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge
Sat 5 Sep 2020
Harriett Gilbert talks to the world-renowned American author Elizabeth Strout
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Helen Garner: The Spare Room
Sat 1 Aug 2020
Friendship, caring, nursing and anger in a short, fierce novel from Australia
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Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other
Sat 4 Jul 2020
A novel that offers an unforgettable insight into life in today’s multi-cultural Britain
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Deborah Levy - Hot Milk
Sat 6 Jun 2020
A hypnotic tale of female sexuality set with the lush backdrop of southern Spain
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Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
Sat 2 May 2020
The rise and fall of Cromwell, the most powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII
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Fatima Bhutto - The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Sat 4 Apr 2020
Five young Pakistani men and women try to live and love in a world on fire
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Leïla Slimani - Lullaby
Sun 8 Mar 2020
An acclaimed French thriller which probes at the fault lines of gender, class and race
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Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory
Sun 2 Feb 2020
A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution
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Naomi Alderman - The Power
Sun 5 Jan 2020
A speculative fiction imagining women and a new ‘power’ helps them take over the world
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Jenny Erpenbeck - Visitation
Sun 8 Dec 2019
The horrors of twentieth century Germany filtered through the beauty of one house
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David Nicholls - Us
Sun 3 Nov 2019
David Nicholls talks about his internationally successful novel 'Us'.
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Héctor Abad - Oblivion
Sun 6 Oct 2019
A tribute to the author's father who was murdered by Columbian paramilitaries in 1987
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Ann Cleeves - Raven Black
Sun 8 Sep 2019
Ann Cleeves discusses her novel Raven Black with Harriett Gilbert and the WBC audience
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Chigozie Obioma - The Fishermen
Sun 4 Aug 2019
Acclaimed Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma talks about his novel The Fishermen
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Andrea Levy - Small Island
Sun 7 Jul 2019
Another chance to hear Andrea Levy talking about her prize-winning novel Small Island.
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Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved
Sun 2 Jun 2019
Award-winning writer Siri Hustvedt discusses her novel What I Loved with the WBC audience.
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Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice
Sun 5 May 2019
Donna Leon discusses her celebrated novel Death at La Fenice.
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Tessa Hadley - The Past
Sun 7 Apr 2019
British author Tessa Hadley talks to Harriett Gilbert about her award-winning novel.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - A Grain of Wheat
Sat 9 Mar 2019
A special edition from Nairobi University's bustling bookshop, where Ngugi was a director.
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JoJo Moyes - Me Before You
Sun 3 Feb 2019
JoJo Moyes discusses her wildly popular novel Me Before You
Coming up: Maylis de Kerangal
In August Maylis de Kerangal will be talking about her novel Mend the Living.
Ten Amazing Interviews
Favourite episodes of World Book Club, featuring Maya Angelou and Henning Mankell.
Crime Fiction
Henning Mankel, Patrica Cornwell, Jo Nesbo: stars of the genre discuss their craft.
Tales from History
From the tulip fields of 17th Century Amsterdam to the trenches of World War One.
