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Bookclub — 350 episodes

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1

Kirstin Innes

2

Nicola Barker

3

Dorothy Koomson

4

Alan Cumming on Alasdair Gray's Lanark

5

Sarah Bernstein

6

Rónán Hession

7

Emma Thompson: Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

8

Hallie Rubenhold

9

John Niven

10

Paula Hawkins

11

Kit de Waal

12

Tom Holland

13

Joanne Harris: Chocolat

14

Natalie Haynes

15

Michel Faber

16

Christopher Brookmyre

17

Sara Collins

18

Richard Osman

19

Alan Warner: Morvern Callar

20

Carys Davies: The Mission House

21

Susanna Clarke: Piranesi

22

Ken Follett: A Column of Fire

23

Ayobami Adebayo

24

Marlon James: A Brief History of Seven Killings

25

Lucy Caldwell: These Days

26

Nicholas Shakespeare: Six Minutes in May

27

Clare Chambers: Small Pleasures

28

Ann Cleeves: Hidden Depths

29

Graeme Macrae Burnet: His Bloody Project

30

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, with Elly Griffiths

31

Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart

32

Katherine Heiny: Standard Deviation

33

Bernardine Evaristo: Mr Loverman

34

Denise Mina: The Long Drop

35

Mick Herron: Slow Horses

36

Julian Barnes: Arthur and George

37

Mary Lawson: Crow Lake

38

Sarah Winman: Tin Man

39

Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mists

40

Nadifa Mohamed: The Fortune Men

41

Cal Flyn: Islands of Abandonment

42

Ross King: Brunelleschi's Dome

43

AJ Pearce: Dear Mrs Bird

44

Juan Gabriel Vasquez: The Sound of Things Falling

45

Curtis Sittenfeld: American Wife

46

Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies

47

Kathleen Jamie: Selected Poems

48

Kevin Barry

49

John Preston: The Dig

50

Diana Evans

51

Nick Harkaway

52

Karen Joy Fowler

53

Sarah Moss

54

Stacey Halls

55

Abir Mukherjee

56

Rachel Joyce: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

57

Maja Lunde - The History of Bees

58

Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See

59

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

60

Tahmima Anam - A Golden Age

61

Francis Spufford - Golden Hill

62

Melissa Harrison - All Among the Barley

63

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

64

Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow

65

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

66

Tana French - The Wych Elm

67

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

68

David Vann - Legend of a Suicide

69

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

70

Joseph O'Connor - Star of the Sea

71

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister, The Serial Killer

72

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

73

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

74

Scott Turow - Presumed Innocent

75

Max Porter - Lanny

76

Rebecca Solnit - The Faraway Nearby

77

Jenny Offill – Dept. of Speculation

78

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

79

James Meek - The People's Act of Love

80

Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus

81

Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station

82

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

83

Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad

84

Aminatta Forna - The Memory of Love

85

Owen Sheers - I Saw A Man

86

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

87

David Szalay - All That Man Is

88

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

89

Richard Holmes - The Age of Wonder

90

Simon Mawer - Tightrope

91

Alice Oswald - Falling Awake

92

Jessie Burton - The Miniaturist

93

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

94

Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings

95

Historian Antonia Fraser discuss her book The Gunpowder Plot

96

Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney

97

Anne Enright - The Gathering

98

Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death in the Family

99

David Baddiel talks about Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

100

Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles

101

John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany.

102

Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others

103

Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing

104

Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn

105

Jan Morris discusses her classic travel book Venice

106

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

107

William Trevor discusses his short story collection After Rain

108

Jo Nesbo talks about his book, The Snowman

109

Thomas Keneally discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark

110

Sarah Perry discusses her novel, The Essex Serpent

111

Muriel Spark discusses the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

112

Patrick Gale - A Place Called Winter

113

Douglas Adams discusses The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

114

Eimear McBride talks about her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

115

Colin Thubron - In Siberia

116

Clive James

117

Jennifer Egan discusses her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, A Visit from The Goon Squad.

118

Edward St Aubyn - Mother's Milk

119

Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

120

Patrick McCabe discusses his novel The Butcher Boy

121

Anne Patchett talks to James Naughtie about her novel, Bel Canto.

122

James Naughtie talks to Deborah Levy

123

Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

124

Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways

125

Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

126

Kamila Shamsie on Burnt Shadows

127

Barbara Trapido - The Travelling Hornplayer

128

John Lanchester - Capital

129

Jay McInerney - Bright Lights, Big City

130

Bookclub - Helen Macdonald on H is for Hawk

131

Bookclub - Don DeLillo on Underworld

132

Bookclub - Evie Wyld on After the Fire a Still, Small Voice

133

Bookclub - Maggie O'Farrell on The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

134

Bookclub - Tony Harrison's poem 'v'

135

Bookclub with Javier Marias

136

Bookclub with Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

137

Bookclub with Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History

138

Bookclub with Kamila Shamsie on Burnt Shadows

139

Bookclub with Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North

140

Bookclub with Colum McCann - TransAtlantic

141

Bookclub with China Mieville - The City and the City

142

Tessa Hadley on Married Love

143

David Nicholls - One Day

144

David Nicholls - One Day

145

Bookclub with A M Homes - May We Be Forgiven

146

Bookclub with Jon McGregor - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

147

Henry Marsh - Do No Harm

148

Hisham Matar - In the Country of Men

149

Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze

150

Wilbur Smith - When the Lion Feeds

151

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

152

Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

153

Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander

154

Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your Father?

155

Tim Winton - Dirt Music

156

Allan Massie - A Question of Loyalties

157

Sadie Jones - The Outcast

158

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

159

Emma Donoghue - Room

160

Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap

161

John Banville - The Sea

162

Disobedience - Naomi Alderman

163

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

164

Donna Tartt - The Secret History

165

Lee Child - Killing Floor

166

Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France

167

Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari

168

Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever

169

Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife

170

Jim Crace - Quarantine

171

Poet Gillian Clarke - Ice

172

Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love

173

Andrew Miller on his Costa award-winning novel Pure

174

George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia

175

Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag

176

Sathnam Sanghera - The Boy with the Topknot

177

David Almond - Skellig

178

Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

179

Victoria Hislop - The Island

180

Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient

181

David Baddiel talks about Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

182

Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl

183

Ross Raisin - God's Own Country

184

Anne Enright - The Gathering

185

Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty

186

Art Spiegelman - Maus

187

Hunter Davies on The Beatles

188

Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture

189

Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory

190

Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

191

Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist

192

Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice

193

William Fiennes - The Music Room

194

Nicole Krauss - The History of Love

195

Andrew O'Hagan - Be Near Me

196

Jennifer Johnston

197

Benjamin Zephaniah

198

Tim Butcher

199

Howard Jacobson

200

Sarah Hall - The Carhullan Army

201

Claire Tomalin (on Thomas Hardy)

202

Roddy Doyle

203

Yann Martel

204

Siri Hustvedt

205

Henning Mankell

206

Lynne Reid Banks

207

Orhan Pamuk

208

Jeanette Winterson

209

Douglas Coupland

210

Alexander McCall Smith

211

John Irving

212

Linda Grant

213

Gillian Slovo

214

Robert Macfarlane

215

CJ Sansom

216

Bernard MacLaverty

217

Kate Grenville

218

Xiaolu Guo

219

Andrew Motion

220

AL Kennedy

221

Bernard Cornwell

222

Oliver James

223

Amitav Ghosh

224

Fay Weldon

225

Michael Morpurgo

226

Gore Vidal - Point to Point Navigation

227

Colm Toibin

228

Asne Seierstad

229

Jan Morris

230

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

231

Simon Armitage

232

William Hague

233

Sarah Dunant

234

Alice Sebold

235

Thomas Keneally

236

Barbara Kingsolver

237

James Robertson

238

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

239

Colin Dexter

240

Germaine Greer

241

David Mitchell

242

Jodi Picoult

243

Jonathan Coe

244

Alison Weir

245

Val McDermid

246

Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections

247

Salley Vickers

248

Lewis Wolpert

249

Jane Gardam

250

Matthew Kneale

251

Elmore Leonard

252

John Berendt

253

Lindsey Davis

254

Ali Smith

255

Malorie Blackman

256

Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin

257

P J O'Rourke

258

George Macdonald Fraser

259

Joyce Carol Oates

260

Antonia Fraser

261

Hanif Kureishi

262

Alain-Fournier

263

Michael Dibdin

264

Oliver Sacks

265

Sue Townsend

266

Andrea Levy

267

Richard Ford

268

Stephen Fry

269

Bill Bryson

270

Zadie Smith

271

Carol Ann Duffy

272

Pat Barker

273

Will Self

274

Paul Auster - New York Trilogy

275

Muriel Spark

276

Terry Pratchett

277

Minette Walters

278

David Lodge

279

Elizabeth Jane Howard

280

Sarah Waters

281

Peter Carey

282

Sir John Mortimer

283

Peter Ackroyd

284

Esther Freud

285

Melvin Burgess

286

Edna O'Brien

287

Amanda Foreman

288

T. C. Boyle

289

Sally Beauman

290

P. D. James

291

Beryl Bainbridge

292

William Trevor

293

Salman Rushdie

294

Alan Bennett

295

Jilly Cooper

296

Jacqueline Wilson

297

Barbara Vine

298

William Dalrymple

299

Maya Angelou

300

David Grossman

301

Michael Frayn

302

Mario Vargas Llosa

303

Kazuo Ishiguro

304

Rose Tremain

305

J G Ballard

306

Ian Rankin

307

Nick Hornby

308

Helen Dunmore

309

Wendy Cope

310

Doris Lessing

311

Martin Amis

312

Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife

313

Annie Proulx - The Shipping News

314

James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia

315

Margaret Drabble

316

Joe Simpson

317

Penelope Lively

318

Tony Parsons

319

Graham Swift

320

Geoffrey Chaucer

321

Ian McEwan - Enduring Love

322

Joanna Trollope

323

Anthony Beevor

324

Anita Desai

325

Susan Hill

326

Philip Pullman

327

Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain

328

Carol Shields

329

Isabel Allende

330

Douglas Adams

331

Julian Barnes

332

Dava Sobel

333

Anne Michaels

334

Margaret Forster

335

J K Rowling

336

Kate Atkinson

337

David Guterson

338

Margaret Atwood

339

Joseph Heller - Catch-22

340

William Boyd

341

John Le Carré

342

Jane Smiley

343

A S Byatt

344

Andrew Davies/William Thackeray

345

Frank McCourt

346

Jung Chang

347

Louis de Bernières

348

Robert Harris

349

Toni Morrison - Beloved

350

Sebastian Faulks