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Back to SearchDeborah Moggach - Tulip Fever
This month World Book Club talks about the acclaimed international bestseller Tulip Fever with its British author Deborah Moggach. It's 1630s Amsterd…
11 years ago
Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov discusses his darkly comic novel Death and the Penguin with Harriett Gilbert, and responds to listeners' questions from around the worl…
11 years, 1 month ago
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is Jeanette Winterson's searing yet ultimately uplifting coming-out, coming-of-age tale, in which a young girl learns …
11 years, 2 months ago
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
British author Mark Haddon discusses his astonishingly successful novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Published in 45 languages …
11 years, 3 months ago
Yasmina Khadra - The Swallows of Kabul
The Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra discusses his novel, The Swallows of Kabul - a portrait of life under a tyrannical theocracy. Khadra is actually a…
11 years, 4 months ago
Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday
World Book Club talks life, sex, drugs, if not rock ‘n’ roll to chart-topping Irish writer Marian Keyes about her best-selling novel Rachel’s Holiday…
11 years, 5 months ago
Guenter Grass - The Tin Drum
On Monday, Guenter Grass, German Nobel literature prize-winner and author of The Tin Drum, died aged 87. Before his death he had been described as "t…
11 years, 5 months ago
JD Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye
Harriet Gilbert discusses JD Salinger's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye with a studio audience, including questions from BBC World Service liste…
11 years, 6 months ago
Anne Tyler
World Book Club visits the home of the Pulitzer-Prize winning author Anne Tyler, in the city of Baltimore. From her spare, elegant writing room Anne …
11 years, 7 months ago
William Gibson
This month World Book Club talks to cult American-Canadian writer William Gibson about his much garlanded novel that launched the cyberpunk generatio…
11 years, 8 months ago