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Writing and editing a Book of the Year: Monique Roffey and Jeremy Poynting

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Art under tyranny: Ai Weiwei

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2021 Booker Prize Winner: Damon Galgut

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Delving into the art world. Julian Barnes and Celia Paul: Cape in Conversation

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Small towns, long memories: Bernice McFadden

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Feminist Greek myths? Charlotte Higgins

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Kamila Shamsie and Sunjeev Sahota: Authorship and Writing Histories

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Alison Bechdel and Anne Enright: Cape in Conversation

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How to fix our world: Ed Miliband

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Letters to Camondo: Edmund de Waal

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The Power of Queer Reading: Amrou Al-Kadhi and Naoise Dolan

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Debut Writers: Jo Hamya & Anna Glendenning

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Cape in Conversation: Katie Kitamura and Salman Rushdie

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Double Blind: Edward St Aubyn & Benedict Cumberbatch

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Cape in Conversation: Rachel Kushner & Ottessa Moshfegh

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First Person Singular: Haruki Murakami

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Symbiosis and Psychedelics ᛫ Edward St Aubyn & Merlin Sheldrake

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What environmental legacy will we leave? ᛫ Minouche Shafik

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New Writers ᛫ Pip Williams & Megan Nolan

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What can we gain from James Baldwin today? ᛫ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

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Some Body to Love? ᛫ Alexandra Heminsley

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What have I learned? ᛫ Kamala Harris

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Feminist Fairy Tales? ᛫ Malorie Blackman, Kamala Shamsie, Rebecca Solnit and Jeanette Winterson

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Special episode: 'Home' ᛫ Black Ballad & Diana Evans

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Nurses and the courage to care ᛫ Christie Watson

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Norwegian Wood ᛫ Haruki Murakami

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Voices of the Windrush Generation ᛫ Colin Grant

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Discovering the amazing world of fungi ᛫ Merlin Sheldrake

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A people who took & a people taken ᛫ Tommy Orange

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Growing up gay & Muslim ᛫ Mohsin Zaidi

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The WW2 masterpiece you need to read ᛫ Robert Chandler

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Celebrating women in translation ᛫ Tiffany Tsao & Elisabeth Jaquette

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Three women at the Bass Rock ᛫ Evie Wyld

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Booksellers in a Pandemic · Burley Fisher Books

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How to be an Antiracist ᛫ Ibram X. Kendi

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Home is a work of art ᛫ Shelley Klein

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Hello, I'm scared of... crime books! ᛫ Ruth & Ryan

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What Have I Done? ᛫ Laura Dockrill

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Who saw COVID-19 coming? ᛫ David Quammen

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Finding connection in solitude ᛫ Margaret Atwood & Mark Haddon

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Starting before the beginning ᛫ Francesca Segal

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In the shadow of mothers ᛫ Anne Enright

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Confronting 'madness' ᛫ A K Benjamin

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New Year, New Authors ᛫ Deepa Anappara & An Yu

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Hello, I'm scared of... poetry! ᛫ Mia & Lily

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A year of reading ᛫ 2019 wrap up

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Inside Libraries at Christmas ᛫ Liverpool & Crawley

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Why you should read Japanese Classics ᛫ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan & Polly Barton

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The history we don't hear about ᛫ Colin Grant

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Three women, one untold history ᛫ Jung Chang

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Couch to 5k... for orgasms ᛫ Lisa Williams and Anniki Sommerville

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Gilead is here ᛫ Shocking real facts behind The Handmaid's Tale

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The Testaments Book Club ᛫ Atwood's new novel discussed by Helen Lewis, Sanne Vliegenthart, Bookseller Jessica and Leena Norms

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My mother and other missing persons ᛫ Laura Cumming

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Why you must read Iris Murdoch ᛫ The Second Shelf

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The Next Monsters ᛫ Jeanette Winterson and Daisy Johnson

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Virginia Woolf in love ᛫ Chanya Button

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Living wild and meeting yourself ᛫ Marc Hamer

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Nine strangers and a natural catastrophe ᛫ Richard Powers

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The joy of a doorstop novel ᛫ Isabella Hammad & Namwali Serpell

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Growing Up in Britain’s Poorest Towns ᛫ Kerry Hudson

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Writing trauma and #MeToo ᛫ Rosie Price

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We're just ordinary people ᛫ Diana Evans

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Should we be polite to Siri? ᛫ Ian McEwan

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Come with us to London Book Fair... Ian McEwan, Stefan Hertmans, Intan Paramaditha and Caryl Phillips

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Acting like yourself ᛫ Zawe Ashton

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Reinventing Motherhood ᛫ Helen Sedgwick

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Is Brexit Sexist? ᛫ Caroline Criado Perez

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The future is Icelandic ᛫ Leena Norms

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A Bookworm's Paradise: Iceland ᛫ Leena Norms

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Talking about kindness ᛫ Christie Watson

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Who was Colette? ᛫ Elizabeth Karlsen

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A little bit of HELP ᛫ Simon Amstell

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Art, but Happy ᛫ Rajeev Balasubramanyam

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Glamorous True Story of the Rebel Tailor ᛫ Lance Richardson

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Books to gift this Christmas - as requested by you ᛫ Chloe, Leena & Hattie

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Christmas, but Tudor ᛫ Alison Weir & Siobhan Clarke

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Christmas, but Icelandic ᛫ Leena Norms

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How to write a good novel ᛫ Liz & Beth

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Childhood ᛫ Michael Morpurgo

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After #MeToo ᛫ Helena Kennedy

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Sheila Heti & Motherhood ᛫ Leena, Charlotte and Ana

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Saving the libraries ᛫ Eric Klinenberg

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Translating Murakami ᛫ Ted Goossen

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Banned Books Week...

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Does a book make a good film? ᛫ Mostly Lit

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Wolves & Working Class Writers ᛫ Carmen Marcus

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The truth about Gypsies ᛫ Damian Le Bas

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How do you rewrite the story of a people? ᛫ Tommy Orange

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Writing about sex ᛫ Dolly Alderton & Kristen Roupenian

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The book chooses you ᛫ Irvine Welsh

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Starting a feminist book club ᛫ Jean Menzies

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Mothers and mythologies ᛫ Daisy Johnson

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Getting published & committing to your story ᛫ Fatima Farheen Mirza

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Sarah Jessica Parker ᛫ On loving books, finding voices and A Place for Us

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Around the World in Vintage Books

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Trump, Obama, speech writing and hope for the future ᛫ Ben Rhodes

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Coming of age in a war zone ᛫ Gaël Faye

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Women's prisons & the politics of guilty ᛫ Rachel Kushner

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Stealing the Master's ideas ᛫ Henry James