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Bookclub — 352 episodes
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
Anne Enright - The Gathering
Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death in the Family
David Baddiel talks about Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles
John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others
Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing
Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn
Jan Morris discusses her classic travel book Venice
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
William Trevor discusses his short story collection After Rain
Jo Nesbo talks about his book, The Snowman
Thomas Keneally discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark
Sarah Perry discusses her novel, The Essex Serpent
Muriel Spark discusses the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Patrick Gale - A Place Called Winter
Douglas Adams discusses The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Eimear McBride talks about her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
Colin Thubron - In Siberia
Clive James
Jennifer Egan discusses her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, A Visit from The Goon Squad.
Edward St Aubyn - Mother's Milk
Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Patrick McCabe discusses his novel The Butcher Boy
Anne Patchett talks to James Naughtie about her novel, Bel Canto.
James Naughtie talks to Deborah Levy
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways
Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Kamila Shamsie on Burnt Shadows
Barbara Trapido - The Travelling Hornplayer
John Lanchester - Capital
Jay McInerney - Bright Lights, Big City
Bookclub - Helen Macdonald on H is for Hawk
Bookclub - Don DeLillo on Underworld
Bookclub - Evie Wyld on After the Fire a Still, Small Voice
Bookclub - Maggie O'Farrell on The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Bookclub - Tony Harrison's poem 'v'
Bookclub with Javier Marias
Bookclub with Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
Bookclub with Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History
Bookclub with Kamila Shamsie on Burnt Shadows
Bookclub with Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Bookclub with Colum McCann - TransAtlantic
Bookclub with China Mieville - The City and the City
Tessa Hadley on Married Love
David Nicholls - One Day
David Nicholls - One Day
Bookclub with A M Homes - May We Be Forgiven
Bookclub with Jon McGregor - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Henry Marsh - Do No Harm
Hisham Matar - In the Country of Men
Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze
Wilbur Smith - When the Lion Feeds
Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander
Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Tim Winton - Dirt Music
Allan Massie - A Question of Loyalties
Sadie Jones - The Outcast
Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Emma Donoghue - Room
Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap
John Banville - The Sea
Disobedience - Naomi Alderman
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Lee Child - Killing Floor
Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France
Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari
Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever
Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife
Jim Crace - Quarantine
Poet Gillian Clarke - Ice
Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love
Andrew Miller on his Costa award-winning novel Pure
George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia
Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag
Sathnam Sanghera - The Boy with the Topknot
David Almond - Skellig
Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
Victoria Hislop - The Island
Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient
David Baddiel talks about Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl
Ross Raisin - God's Own Country
Anne Enright - The Gathering
Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
Art Spiegelman - Maus
Hunter Davies on The Beatles
Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture
Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice
William Fiennes - The Music Room
Nicole Krauss - The History of Love
Andrew O'Hagan - Be Near Me
Jennifer Johnston
Benjamin Zephaniah
Tim Butcher
Howard Jacobson
Sarah Hall - The Carhullan Army
Claire Tomalin (on Thomas Hardy)
Roddy Doyle
Yann Martel
Siri Hustvedt
Henning Mankell
Lynne Reid Banks
Orhan Pamuk
Jeanette Winterson
Douglas Coupland
Alexander McCall Smith
John Irving
Linda Grant
Gillian Slovo
Robert Macfarlane
CJ Sansom
Bernard MacLaverty
Kate Grenville
Xiaolu Guo
Andrew Motion
AL Kennedy
Bernard Cornwell
Oliver James
Amitav Ghosh
Fay Weldon
Michael Morpurgo
Gore Vidal - Point to Point Navigation
Colm Toibin
Asne Seierstad
Jan Morris
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Simon Armitage
William Hague
Sarah Dunant
Alice Sebold
Thomas Keneally
Barbara Kingsolver
James Robertson
Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City
Colin Dexter
Germaine Greer
David Mitchell
Jodi Picoult
Jonathan Coe
Alison Weir
Val McDermid
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
Salley Vickers
Lewis Wolpert
Jane Gardam
Matthew Kneale
Elmore Leonard
John Berendt
Lindsey Davis
Ali Smith
Malorie Blackman
Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
P J O'Rourke
George Macdonald Fraser
Joyce Carol Oates
Antonia Fraser
Hanif Kureishi
Alain-Fournier
Michael Dibdin
Oliver Sacks
Sue Townsend
Andrea Levy
Richard Ford
Stephen Fry
Bill Bryson
Zadie Smith
Carol Ann Duffy
Pat Barker
Will Self
Paul Auster - New York Trilogy
Muriel Spark
Terry Pratchett
Minette Walters
David Lodge
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Sarah Waters
Peter Carey
Sir John Mortimer
Peter Ackroyd
Esther Freud
Melvin Burgess
Edna O'Brien
Amanda Foreman
T. C. Boyle
Sally Beauman
P. D. James
Beryl Bainbridge
William Trevor
Salman Rushdie
Alan Bennett
Jilly Cooper
Jacqueline Wilson
Barbara Vine
William Dalrymple
Maya Angelou
David Grossman
Michael Frayn
Mario Vargas Llosa
Kazuo Ishiguro
Rose Tremain
J G Ballard
Ian Rankin
Nick Hornby
Helen Dunmore
Wendy Cope
Doris Lessing
Martin Amis
Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife
Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia
Margaret Drabble
Joe Simpson
Penelope Lively
Tony Parsons
Graham Swift
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ian McEwan - Enduring Love
Joanna Trollope
Anthony Beevor
Anita Desai
Susan Hill
Philip Pullman
Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
Carol Shields
Isabel Allende
Douglas Adams
Julian Barnes
Dava Sobel
Anne Michaels
Margaret Forster
J K Rowling
Kate Atkinson
David Guterson
Margaret Atwood
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
William Boyd
John Le Carré
Jane Smiley
A S Byatt
Andrew Davies/William Thackeray
Frank McCourt
Jung Chang
Louis de Bernières
Robert Harris
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Sebastian Faulks