All Episodes

Daniel Mason

Irvine Welsh

Janice Hallett

Anne Sebba

Kirstin Innes

Nicola Barker

Dorothy Koomson

Alan Cumming on Alasdair Gray's Lanark

Sarah Bernstein

Rónán Hession

Emma Thompson: Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

Hallie Rubenhold

John Niven

Paula Hawkins

Kit de Waal

Tom Holland

Joanne Harris: Chocolat

Natalie Haynes

Michel Faber

Christopher Brookmyre

Sara Collins

Richard Osman

Alan Warner: Morvern Callar

Carys Davies: The Mission House

Susanna Clarke: Piranesi

Ken Follett: A Column of Fire

Ayobami Adebayo

Marlon James: A Brief History of Seven Killings

Lucy Caldwell: These Days

Nicholas Shakespeare: Six Minutes in May

Clare Chambers: Small Pleasures

Ann Cleeves: Hidden Depths

Graeme Macrae Burnet: His Bloody Project

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, with Elly Griffiths

Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart

Katherine Heiny: Standard Deviation

Bernardine Evaristo: Mr Loverman

Denise Mina: The Long Drop

Mick Herron: Slow Horses

Julian Barnes: Arthur and George

Mary Lawson: Crow Lake

Sarah Winman: Tin Man

Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mists

Nadifa Mohamed: The Fortune Men

Cal Flyn: Islands of Abandonment

Ross King: Brunelleschi's Dome

AJ Pearce: Dear Mrs Bird

Juan Gabriel Vasquez: The Sound of Things Falling

Curtis Sittenfeld: American Wife

Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies

Kathleen Jamie: Selected Poems

Kevin Barry

John Preston: The Dig

Diana Evans

Nick Harkaway

Karen Joy Fowler

Sarah Moss

Stacey Halls

Abir Mukherjee

Rachel Joyce: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Maja Lunde - The History of Bees

Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Tahmima Anam - A Golden Age

Francis Spufford - Golden Hill

Melissa Harrison - All Among the Barley

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow

Kei Miller - The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion

Tana French - The Wych Elm

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

David Vann - Legend of a Suicide

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Joseph O'Connor - Star of the Sea

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister, The Serial Killer

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Scott Turow - Presumed Innocent

Max Porter - Lanny

Rebecca Solnit - The Faraway Nearby

Jenny Offill – Dept. of Speculation

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

James Meek - The People's Act of Love

Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus

Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad

Aminatta Forna - The Memory of Love

Owen Sheers - I Saw A Man

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

David Szalay - All That Man Is

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Richard Holmes - The Age of Wonder

Simon Mawer - Tightrope

Alice Oswald - Falling Awake

Jessie Burton - The Miniaturist

Poet Simon Armitage on his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings

Historian Antonia Fraser discuss her book The Gunpowder Plot

Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney