All Episodes

Jessie Burton and Katy Hessel

Tanya Sweeney and Alex Kadis

Tobi Coventry and India-Rose Bower

Curtis Sittenfeld and Erin O White

Madeleine Gray and Alexandra Potter

Libby Page and Ellie Levenson

Peter James and Sophie Hannah

Tim Burgess and Tom Sheehan

Lisa Smith and Marcia Hutchinson

Joe Hill and Joe Abercrombie

Callie Hart and Saara El-Arifi

Xenobe Purvis and Gurnaik Johal

Wendy Erskine and Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin

JD Kirk and MW Craven

Irvine Welsh and John Niven

Harriet Evans and Laura Barnett

Holly Smale and Cally Beaton

David McCloskey and Paul Vidich

Wendy Holden and Jane Thynne

Linwood Barclay and CJ Tudor

Milly Johnson and Samuel Burr

Emilia Hart and Bridget Collins

Roisin O'Donnell and Chris McQueer

Ben Okri and Colum McCann

Nicci French

Emma Healey and Fiona Scarlett

James Kaplan and Paul Alexander

Ragnar Jonasson and Simon Kernick

Salena Godden and Hollie McNish

M.L. Rio and Kate Weinberg

Rachel Abbott and Hannah Lynn

Attica Locke and Nick Harkaway

Rumaan Alam and Tessa Hadley

Liane Moriarty and Bea Fitzgerald

Alan Hollinghurst and Rachel Kushner

Elif Shafak and Evie Wyld

Nicki Chapman and Simon Raymonde

Susie Dent and Louise Minchin (flawed characters and tricky scenes)

Mark Haddon and Clare Chambers (brain fog, short books and the importance of luck)

Sophie Elmhirst and Susan Smillie

Freya North and Matt Cain

Cat Doyle and Justin Somper

Andrew McMillan and Nathan Newman

Percival Everett and Andrew O'Hagan

Andrew Hunter Murray and Jonny Sweet

Kiley Reid and Caroline O'Donoghue

Jennie Godfrey and Susan Fletcher

Dermot O'Leary and Cressida Cowell

Heidi Amsinck and Marisa Haetzman (Danish delights and death)

Stig Abell and Jo Spain (Nothing beats Pride & Prejudice)

Catriona Ward and Mat Osman (Shelve Me!)

Poorna Bell and Eva Rice (what do you MEAN you haven't read it?)

Georgina Moore and Sophia Money-Coutts (Love, Landscapes and Language)

Jill Mansell and Lucy Diamond ('Riders', Rebels, Romcoms and wRiting)

Elly Griffiths and Jane Harper (wine tasting is research!)

Kirsty Logan and Laura Purcell (I didn't know I was up against the Moomins!)

Simon Fowler and Daniel Rachel (Is it a quail?)

Lindsey Kelk and Beth O'Leary (Well, if Marian Keyes says it's good...)

Sally Gardner and Jamie Costello (Look to the weather)

Ken Follett and Greg Mosse (Stand near to suspicious people and see what they do)

Anthony Marra and Wendy Erskine (Reading too many short stories in a row is like doing a line of shots)

Graham Norton and Dawn O'Porter (No offence, but you're not too clever for me...which I like!)

Kamila Shamsie and Tahmima Anam (Friendships, Fondness, Seinfeld and Bum Injections)

Jason Reynolds and Joseph Coelho (When the twist happens, it smacks you like a truck!)

Ricky Ross and Emma Forrest (Mansions, Mayhem, Movies and Memoirs)

Charlie Higson and Alex Michaelides (A man out of time, with a ratty old jumper)

Karin Slaughter and David Koepp (All stories appear to me as movies...)

Ardal O'Hanlon and Rev. Richard Coles (The perks of wearing a dog collar)

Jarvis Cocker and Baxter Dury (Proustian madeleines and TV meetings)

Ruth Ware and Gillian McAllister (Marian Keys could write the phone book and we'd all buy it!)

Tara M Stringfellow and Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Porches, Poems, Prose and Presidents)

Joanna Cannon and Carrie Hope Fletcher (Twitchy curtains and fantasy novels)

Kasim Ali and Okechukwu Nzelu (If a story gets rejected, I just put it in a draw and move on)

Harriet Tyce and Amy Mcculloch (I'm very partial to a penguin!)

Sarah Pinborough and Sarah Vaughan (We all need a bit of quirk!)

Ruth Ozeki and Cathy Rentzenbrink (Would you stare at your own face for three hours?)

Damon Galgut and Adrian Nathan West (Dogs, Diets and Death)

Marian Keyes and Nina Stibbe (I'd like to live in a cave, covered in fur)

Charlotte Mendelson and Liz Hyder (Ever been to Twatt?)

David Baldacci and Linwood Barclay (The wrong guy in the trunk)

Jo Browning Wroe and Miranda Cowley Heller (Handsome Hunks and HBO)

Monica Ali and Hafsa Zayyan

Ben Okri and Tice Cin (Open the champagne once you've finished)

John Gerard Fagan and Monika Radojevic (Poetry is power)

Robert Peston and Imran Mahmood (A fair bit of nobbling)

Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes (You don't want to ride my donkeys)

Georgia Pritchett and Casey Wilson (Tell it to the lamppost!)

Lucy Vine and Nicole Kennedy (Sex with rockstars in art galleries)

Sebastian Faulks and Richard Powers (Why are we such a weird species?)

Charles Yu and Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Stereotypes and Stigmas)

Kathryn Williams and Rosa Rankin-Gee (Tides, Tits and Zombies)

Olivia Laing and Howard Cunnell (Bodies and Beaches)

Alex Horne and Katy Wix (I'm not sure I was meant to tell you that)

Bella Mackie and Vera Kurian (Horror and Humour go hand in hand)

Joanne Harris and Sharon Bolton (Setting is such a powerful force)

Jeremy Vine and Fern Britton (The joy of making stuff up is...wonderful)

Jason Mott and Christine Smallwood (What do Dinosaurs and Werner Herzog have in common?) Book Podcast

Peter May and Peter Swanson (Don't bother with the sequel to Rosemary's Baby!) Book Podcast

Louise Nealon and Julie Ma (Haikus and High Jinx!) Book Podcast

Pam Ayres and Jane Smiley (Newts, Herons, Dogs, Horses and more!) Book Podcast

Musa Okwonga and Wyl Menmuir (Football is just like jazz) Book Podcast

Naomi Ishiguro and Sheena Patel (Poetry, Prose and Pandemics) Book Podcast

Emily M Danforth and Inga Vesper (I love Shirley Jackson, but is anyone actually reading the books?) Book Podcast

Lizzie Fry and Anna North (Westerns, Witches and Women) Book Podcast

Chris Brookmyre and Mick Herron (Is that you on the cover??)

Emma Stonex and Rebecca Watson (Loving, Living, Longing and Lighthouses!) Book Podcast

Simon Mayo and SJ Watson (If you're struggling at sixty thousand words, call Ian Rankin's wife) Book Podcast

Ryan Gattis and Gabriel Krauze (Fiction can often be truer to life than non-fiction) book podcast

Daisy Buchanan and Emma Jane Unsworth (burglary, sex, Woman's Hour and Simon Mayo)

Abigail Dean and Ashley Audrain (motherhood, lighthouses and good sex)

CJ Tudor and Will Dean (spooky, spacious and spirited!)

Michael Connelly and Clare Mackintosh (I think I'll set my next novel in LA)

Carys Bray and Sarah Franklin (Forests, Friendships and Fabulous books)

Emma Donoghue and Michael Crummey (I know you don't want to read this book)

Victoria Hislop and Lissa Evans (Older authors are like a ripe fruit, or a stinky cheese)

DBC Pierre and Sophie Mackintosh (I don't want to give my life to a corporation)

Ian Rankin and Steve Cavanagh (12 books a year and ferocious sex)

Oyinkan Braithwaite and Chris Whitaker (Ever been to Centre Parks?)

David Mitchell and Jasper Fforde (Off-The-Wall books and too many cooks)

Douglas Stuart and Jackie Kay (Most writers are a bit mad)

John Connolly and Sarah Moss (We think in eras, but we live in moments)

Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz (Americans don't understand "going for a slash in the woods")

Jeffery Deaver and Scott Turow (if you can't find time to write, you'll never be a writer)

Joe Abercrombie and Barney Norris (Not everyone likes to be shocked)

Holly Bourne and Harriet Walker (I like to challenge men in my books)

Paul Mendez and Naoise Dolan (In these strange times, we need slower reads)

Maggie O'Farrell and Tayari Jones (We all have our own relationship with Shakespeare)

Louise Candlish and Mark Edwards (The neighbours from hell)

Liz Moore and Sadie Jones (To Title or not To Title, that is the question)

Elizabeth Macneal and Stephen Chbosky (I got $20M to make a book advert)

Abi Dare and Jeanine Cummins (Could you be, the most beautiful covers in the world!?)

Casey Cep and Chris Power (Harper Lee lived with Hall & Oates

Candice Carty-Williams and Katy Brand (Grab your trumpet, you've pulled)

Brett Anderson and Lemn Sissay (Person V Persona)

Adele Parks and Lucy Foley (Don't steal the horn!)

Lisa Jewell and Catherine Steadman (I only know what I'm writing when I'm writing it)

Daisy Johnson and Kiran Milwood Hargrave (The best sex I've ever read)

Jim Bob and Luke Haines (It's better out than in)

Dorothy Koomson and Amanda Prowse (Leather Pyjamas at the ready!)

Tony Parsons and Charlotte Philby (We caned it quite hard in the 70s)

Taylor Jenkins Reid and Damian Barr (Sorry for giving you the horn)

Ben Aaronovitch and James Swallow (My characters just never shut up!)

Helen Lederer and Shazia Mirza (You can be successful, just don't copy me)

Gregg Hurwitz and Robert Goddard (Bats and Rats)

Douglas Kennedy and John Lanchester (There are five rules for writing a novel...and nobody knows what they are)

Tracey Thorn and Hannah Beckerman (Suburbia and Safety)

Leila Slimani and Stacey Halls (We are all shocking inside)

David Tennant and Christian Brassington (You've never seen Home Alone???)

Barbara Taylor Bradford and Sophie Hannah (An archive? That's just a load of tat...)

Sarah Winman and Tim Winton (Writing is a young persons game)

Sarah Perry and Patrick Gale (People love being scared, it's very close to sex!)

Cecelia Ahern and Murray Lachlan Young (Are we on another planet!?)

Adam Kay and John Cooper Clarke (This Is Going To Hurt...)

Paddy Ashdown and Bernard Cornwell (If you don't love poetry, you should give up on life!)

Matt Haig and Bryony Gordon (From mental health to running to Police Academy!)

Erin Kelly and Sabine Durrant (Taking time off of social media? You must be mad!)

Louise Doherty and Araminta Hall (Women are still portrayed badly in fiction!)

Kate Mosse and SJ Parris (Literary prizes and jet-lag, now there's a combo!)

Mark Billingham and David Hepworth (It's about to get very geeky!)

Donal Ryan and Imogen Hermes Gower (What's the point of no carb diets?)

Jess Kidd and Simon Wore (I'm funny how? I mean funny like I'm a clown?)

Kit de Waal and Ned Beauman (The golden age of cinema)

John Niven and Viv Groskop (Is a school reunion ever a good idea?)

Lionel Shriver and Tracy Chevalier (Jazz drummers can often ruin dinner!)

Paula Hawkins and John Boyne (How do you follow Girl On The Train?)