Charlotte Wood: The Weekend
Charlotte Wood discusses her novel, The Weekend
- 49 mins
- 06 Apr 2024
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World Book Club
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
Episodes (180 Available)
Ann Patchett: The Dutch HouseA dark fairytale set in post war America tracing a family across the decades
- 49 mins
- 02 Mar 2024
MadridWorld Book Café heads to Madrid to talk to writers about a new boom in feminist fiction.
- 48 mins
- 10 Feb 2024
Carlo Rovelli: Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsA dazzling and mind-bending introduction to the wonders of modern physics
- 49 mins
- 03 Feb 2024
Antonio Muñoz Molina: In the Night of TimeAntonio Muñoz Molina answers questions on his novel In the Night of Time
- 49 mins
- 06 Jan 2024
Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaSearing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lankan civil war
- 49 mins
- 02 Dec 2023
Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for LoversA romantic comedy told across the barrier of language and culture
- 50 mins
- 04 Nov 2023
Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayTwo Jewish boys in 1939 New York invent an anti-Fascist comic book hero
- 49 mins
- 07 Oct 2023
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's WifeA magical and unusual love story about time and patience and loss
- 49 mins
- 02 Sep 2023
Pilar Quintana: The BitchLove, loss and violence on the remote Pacific coast of Colombia
- 49 mins
- 05 Aug 2023
Sofi Oksanen: PurgeA harrowing portrait of Estonia's recent history, seen through the lives of two women
- 50 mins
- 01 Jul 2023
Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink RabbitAnother chance to hear Judith Kerr talking about When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
- 50 mins
- 03 Jun 2023
Curtis Sittenfeld: PrepTeen dream of boarding school turns out to be hotbed of adolescent angst and ambition
- 49 mins
- 06 May 2023
Paul Theroux: Deep SouthPaul Theroux turns his unflinching gaze on an American South too often overlooked
- 49 mins
- 01 Apr 2023
World Book Cafe: ParisMeet authors Mahir Guven, Blandine Rinkel, Laurent Petitmangin and Capucine Delattre
- 49 mins
- 18 Mar 2023
Marie Darrieussecq: Pig TalesMarie Darrieussecq in Paris discussing her feminist satire of sex, power and corruption.
- 49 mins
- 04 Mar 2023
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking LionsA morally complex tale of guilt, survival, shame and desire in Israel.
- 49 mins
- 04 Feb 2023
Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage NorthA young Sri Lankan contemplates the horrifying aftermath of his country’s civil war
- 49 mins
- 07 Jan 2023
Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the RunawaysA group of young Indians desperately seek a better life for themselves in Sheffield.
- 49 mins
- 03 Dec 2022
Tahmima Anam: A Golden AgePassion, revolution and heroism against the backdrop of Bangladeshi War of Independence
- 49 mins
- 05 Nov 2022
