Podcast Episodes

World Book Cafe: Toronto

Toronto is a bustling city on Lake Ontario which is growing at an astonishing rate. Almost a third of Torontonians have arrived in the last decade an…

2 years, 2 months ago

Kevin Kwan: Crazy Rich Asians

Kevin Kwan discusses his internationally best-selling novel, Crazy Rich Asians, with readers from around the world.

Chinese-American academic Rachel …

2 years, 3 months ago

Miriam Toews: Women Talking

In Miriam Toews’s novel, Women Talking, the women of a remote Mennonite colony are hold secret meetings to talk about the crimes of the men who they …

2 years, 4 months ago

Percival Everett: The Trees

Percival Everett will be discussing his Booker-shortlisted novel The Trees. This powerful and fiercely funny satire centring on revenge and racial ju…

2 years, 5 months ago

Charlotte Wood: The Weekend

Award-winning Australian novelist Charlotte Wood joins Harriett Gilbert to answer questions from readers around the world about her novel, The Weeken…

2 years, 6 months ago

Ann Patchett: The Dutch House

Multi award-winning novelist Ann Patchett will be discussing The Dutch House.

A dark modern fairytale set against the very real world of post-WWII P…

2 years, 7 months ago

Madrid

World Book Café heads to Madrid to talk to writers about a new boom in feminist fiction. A few month after the resignation of President of the Spanis…

2 years, 7 months ago

Carlo Rovelli: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Presenter Harriett Gilbert and readers around the world talk to acclaimed Italian physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli about his runaway bestseller Sev…

2 years, 8 months ago

Antonio Muñoz Molina: In the Night of Time

Antonio Muñoz Molina answers questions from around the world on his novel In the Night of Time. The panoramic portrait of Spain on the brink of civil…

2 years, 9 months ago

Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Harriett Gilbert and readers around the globe talk to acclaimed Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka about his Booker Prize-winning novel The Seven …

2 years, 10 months ago