Podcast Episodes

Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky World Book Club revisits Crime and Punishment in an edition recor…

5 years, 2 months ago

Jane Harper: The Dry

World Book Club this month talks to the world-renowned Australian author Jane Harper at her home in Melbourne, Australia, about her internationally g…

5 years, 3 months ago

Manu Joseph: Serious Men

Serious Men tells the intertwined stories of wily Ayyan Mani - who tries to pass off his son as a mathematical genius - and life at the Institute of …

5 years, 3 months ago

Louise Penny: Still Life

This month World Book Club talks to acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Penny about the very first in her astonishingly successful series of Inspector G…

5 years, 5 months ago

Robert Seethaler: A Whole Life

Spanning much of the twentieth century and told with an elegant simplicity which belies the harshness of the tale it tells, Robert Seethaler's A Whol…

5 years, 6 months ago

Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, Nervous Conditions is the com…

5 years, 7 months ago

Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island

This month World Book Club discusses Bill Bryson’s hugely acclaimed travelogue Notes from a Small Island with the author and his readers around the w…

5 years, 8 months ago

Sjón - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

On this month’s World Book Club, Icelandic literary superstar Sjón will be answering questions from readers around the world about his novel Moonston…

5 years, 9 months ago

Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing

A novel of breathtaking sweep revealing the devastating impact of slavery through history. This month World Book Club discusses the multi-prize-win…

5 years, 10 months ago

Yiyun Li: The Vagrants

Life or death choices in a bid to survive the horrors of 1970s Communist China

This month in the penultimate edition of a year celebrating the globe’…

5 years, 11 months ago