Podcast Episodes

Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love

This month we’re talking to one of Turkey’s foremost writers Elif Shafak.

She’s answering your questions about her bestselling novel The Forty Rules …

12 years, 7 months ago

Christos Tsiolkas

World Book Club talks to the chronicler of 21st Century urban Australia Christos Tsiolkas. He talks to Harriett Gilbert about his controversial, awar…

12 years, 8 months ago

Pat Barker

This month World Book Club is in a reflective mood as we mark the beginning of the centenary commemorations for World War One by inviting multi-award…

12 years, 9 months ago

Brian Aldiss

Prize-winning author Brian Aldiss, the grand old man of British science fiction writing, talks about his 1964 classic sci-fi novel Greybeard.

Set dec…

12 years, 10 months ago

Albert Camus - The Outsider

One hundred years after his birth this month’s World Book Club, will be discussing Albert Camus' seminal novel The Outsider with his acclaimed biogra…

12 years, 11 months ago

Jhumpa Lahiri

This month a chance to hear Pulitzer Prize winning Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri, whose new novel The Lowland has just been shortlisted for th…

13 years ago

Neil Gaiman

Harriett Gilbert talks to the bestselling author Neil Gaiman, voted by listeners as the 'most wanted' guest for the programme.

Neil is a British w…

13 years, 1 month ago

Ahdaf Soueif - The Map of Love

At this crucial moment in Egypt’s story, this month’s World Book Club talks to one of the country’s great writers, Ahdaf Soueif, about her internatio…

13 years, 2 months ago

Amit Chaudhuri

World Book Club’s Harriett Gilbert talks to the acclaimed Indian writer Amit Chaudhuri, in front of a multi-national audience and listeners around th…

13 years, 3 months ago

Mohsin Hamid

With the current global release of the film of Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid’s much garlanded novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, another chance to h…

13 years, 4 months ago