Podcast Episodes

Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales

This month World Book Club visits Paris, France to be guests of the iconic bookshop on the Left Bank of the River Seine, Shakespeare & Co. There Harr…

3 years, 7 months ago

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions

Driving too fast through Israel’s Negev desert in his SUV after a long day in the hospital, Dr Eitan Green accidentally hits a lone Eritrean man on t…

3 years, 8 months ago

Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North

A Passage North explores the impact of the vicious Sri Lankan civil war between Tamil and Sinhalese which tore Sri Lanka apart for two and a half dec…

3 years, 9 months ago

Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways

World Book Club travels to The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in England, as guests of The Off the Shelf Festival and talks to local prize-winning She…

3 years, 10 months ago

Tahmima Anam: A Golden Age

This month as World Book Club continues its year-long season celebrating the Exuberance of Youth it also celebrates the 20th anniversary of the progr…

3 years, 11 months ago

Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half

This month, in the next in our season celebrating The Exuberance of Youth, we talk to American writer Brit Bennett about her unputdownable novel, Th…

4 years ago

Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station

Next in the series exploring The Exuberance of Youth World Book Club talks to the award-winning American author Ben Lerner about his beguiling debut …

4 years, 1 month ago

Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing

In this year-long celebration of The Exuberance of Youth, World Book Club revisits the multi-prize-winning debut novel Homegoing by the acclaimed Gha…

4 years, 2 months ago

Mohsin Hamid: Exit West

In the season celebrating The Exuberance of Youth, World Book Club talks to Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid about his compelling novel, Exit West.

Short…

4 years, 3 months ago

World Book Cafe: Brooklyn

World Book Café, the programme where writers reveal the secrets of their home cities, goes to Brooklyn.

In a lively and engaging conversation from the…

4 years, 3 months ago