Podcast Episodes

Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now

Novelist Meg Rosoff joins Harriett Gilbert to answer listeners' questions about one of her best-loved novels, How I Live Now.

It is the story of Daisy…

1 year, 8 months ago

World Book Café: Oslo

World Book Café heads to Oslo to Europe’s largest Literature House to find out if Norway is the best place in the world to be a writer?

Octavia Brigh…

1 year, 8 months ago

Anne Holt: 1,222

A special programme from the largest public literature house in Europe, Litteraturhuset in Oslo. Harriett Gilbert is joined by one of Scandinavia’s m…

1 year, 9 months ago

Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain

The Scottish-American writer Douglas Stuart talks about his Booker Prize winning Shuggie Bain. The powerful, heartbreaking story of a young boy's lov…

1 year, 10 months ago

Kate Mosse: Labyrinth

Ahead of its 20th anniversary early next year, the author Kate Mosse talks to Harriett Gilbert and readers from around the world, about her globally …

1 year, 11 months ago

Elif Batuman

In this month’s edition of BBC World Book Club bestselling American writer Elif Batuman discusses her acclaimed debut novel. ‘The Idiot’ follows Seli…

2 years ago

Ewald Arenz: Tasting Sunlight

German author Ewald Arenz answers readers' questions about his bestselling novel Tasting Sunlight. It’s the moving story of Liss, a reclusive woman w…

2 years, 1 month ago

Women of the World: Edna O’Brien

In one of the last broadcast interviews, the acclaimed Irish author Edna O’Brien, who died aged 93 in July 2024, is in conversation with Kim Chakanet…

2 years, 2 months ago

Paul Auster: New York Trilogy

Another chance to hear Harriett Gilbert talking to bestselling American writer Paul Auster, who died earlier this year on 30 April 2024.

Paul Auster …

2 years, 2 months ago

Edna O'Brien: The Country Girls

Following the death of the Irish author Edna O’Brien in July 2024, another chance to hear a 2008 World Book Club episode in which she talked to Harri…

2 years, 2 months ago