Podcast Episodes

Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan answers audience questions about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. It is a dazzling, exciting book, which p…

4 years, 4 months ago

Bryan Washington: Memorial

This month, in the next in our season celebrating The Exuberance of Youth, Harriett Gilbert and readers around the world talk to award-winning Americ…

4 years, 5 months ago

NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names

In the latest in World Book Club's season celebrating The Exuberance of Youth, Harriett Gilbert talks to Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo about he…

4 years, 6 months ago

Kiley Reid: Such a Fun Age

A remarkable debut from an exhilarating young new voice, Such a Fun Age is a big-hearted page-turner of a story about race and privilege, centring on…

4 years, 7 months ago

Isabel Allende: Eva Luna

In the second in our season celebrating The Exuberance of Youth in this centenary year of the BBC, Harriett Gilbert talks to world-famous Chilean wri…

4 years, 8 months ago

Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times

The first of our season of celebrating The Exuberance of Youth in this the centenary year of the BBC, World Book Club talks to Irish writer Naoise Do…

4 years, 9 months ago

Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch

Harriett Gilbert talks to the multi-award-winning Trinidadian-British author Monique Roffey about her enchanting novel The Mermaid of Black Conch, wh…

4 years, 10 months ago

Burhan Sönmez: Istanbul, Istanbul

Continuing our month-long season to celebrate the English PEN centenary, World Book Club talks to multi-award-winning Turkish-Kurdish writer and acti…

4 years, 11 months ago

Wole Soyinka

This month, to kick off a mini-season to celebrate a very special centenary World Book Club talks, for a second time, to the Nobel Prize-winning gian…

5 years ago

Maylis De Kerangal: Mend the Living

World Book Club this month talks to the award-winning French writer Maylis de Kerangal about her remarkable and haunting novel Mend the Living.

After …

5 years, 1 month ago