World Book Club Podcast
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Ann Patchett: The Dutch House
Sat 2 Mar 2024
A dark fairytale set in post war America tracing a family across the decades
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Madrid
Sat 10 Feb 2024
World Book Café heads to Madrid to talk to writers about a new boom in feminist fiction.
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Carlo Rovelli: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Sat 3 Feb 2024
A dazzling and mind-bending introduction to the wonders of modern physics
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Antonio Muñoz Molina: In the Night of Time
Sat 6 Jan 2024
Antonio Muñoz Molina answers questions on his novel In the Night of Time
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Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Sat 2 Dec 2023
Searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lankan civil war
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Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Sat 4 Nov 2023
A romantic comedy told across the barrier of language and culture
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Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Sat 7 Oct 2023
Two Jewish boys in 1939 New York invent an anti-Fascist comic book hero
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Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
Sat 2 Sep 2023
A magical and unusual love story about time and patience and loss
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Pilar Quintana: The Bitch
Sat 5 Aug 2023
Love, loss and violence on the remote Pacific coast of Colombia
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Sofi Oksanen: Purge
Sat 1 Jul 2023
A harrowing portrait of Estonia's recent history, seen through the lives of two women
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Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Sat 3 Jun 2023
Another chance to hear Judith Kerr talking about When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
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Curtis Sittenfeld: Prep
Sat 6 May 2023
Teen dream of boarding school turns out to be hotbed of adolescent angst and ambition
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Paul Theroux: Deep South
Sat 1 Apr 2023
Paul Theroux turns his unflinching gaze on an American South too often overlooked
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World Book Cafe: Paris
Sat 18 Mar 2023
Meet authors Mahir Guven, Blandine Rinkel, Laurent Petitmangin and Capucine Delattre
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Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales
Sat 4 Mar 2023
Marie Darrieussecq in Paris discussing her feminist satire of sex, power and corruption.
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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions
Sat 4 Feb 2023
A morally complex tale of guilt, survival, shame and desire in Israel.
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Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North
Sat 7 Jan 2023
A young Sri Lankan contemplates the horrifying aftermath of his country’s civil war
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Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways
Sat 3 Dec 2022
A group of young Indians desperately seek a better life for themselves in Sheffield.
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Tahmima Anam: A Golden Age
Sat 5 Nov 2022
Passion, revolution and heroism against the backdrop of Bangladeshi War of Independence
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Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half
Sat 1 Oct 2022
American writer Brit Bennett talks about her unputdownable novel, The Vanishing Half.
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Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station
Sat 3 Sep 2022
Searingly funny coming-of-age novel set in Madrid
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Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing
Sat 6 Aug 2022
The devastating legacy of slavery confronted through one family through the generations
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Mohsin Hamid: Exit West
Sat 2 Jul 2022
Mohsin Hamid's profound meditation on love, hope and the psychology of exile
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World Book Cafe: Brooklyn
Sat 18 Jun 2022
World Book Café, where writers reveal the secrets of their home cities, goes to Brooklyn.
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Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad
Sat 4 Jun 2022
Jennifer Egan answers audience questions about A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Bryan Washington: Memorial
Sat 7 May 2022
A portrait of an edgy gay relationship seen from both men’s point of view.
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NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names
Sat 2 Apr 2022
Ten-year-old Darling from Zimbabwe has a choice: it's down or out
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Kiley Reid: Such a Fun Age
Sat 5 Mar 2022
A carefully observed study of class and race, and biting portrait of white urban affluence
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Isabel Allende: Eva Luna
Sat 5 Feb 2022
In Eva Luna, an orphaned girl tells stories to survive mid-century South America
Next recording: Percival Everett
Percival Everett will be discussing his Booker-shortlisted novel The Trees
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.
