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Toni Morrison - Beloved
Harriett Gilbert talks to author Toni Morrison about her book Beloved.
Ten Amazing Interviews
Favourite episodes of World Book Club, featuring Maya Angelou and Henning Mankell.
Crime Fiction
Henning Mankel, Patrica Cornwell, Jo Nesbo: stars of the genre discuss their craft.
Childhood Narrators Collection
From JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye to Irving Welsh's Trainspotting.
Tales from History
From the tulip fields of 17th Century Amsterdam to the trenches of World War One.
Lee Child: 'With Jack Reacher, I closed my eyes and wrote'
Killing Floor is the first of the Jack Reacher novels. Lee Child reads its beginning
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson: an introduction
Does the chance to live her life repeatedly free our heroine up to fulfill her destiny?
World Book Club
From Alice Walker to Chinua Achebe, the world's greatest authors discuss their best known novel. This monthly programme, presented by Harriett Gilbert, includes questions from BBC World Service listeners.
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Bestselling Scottish writer Janice Galloway discusses her contemporary classic The Trick is to Keep Breathing with presenter Harriett Gilbert and an audience in a special edition recorded on location at BBC Pacific Quay at The 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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Wole Soyinka
Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka discusses English PEN centenary and his new novel.
Jane Harper: The Dry
Australian author Jane Harper talks about her internationally garlanded thriller The Dry.
Kiley Reid
A carefully observed study of class and race, and biting portrait of white urban affluence
Wole Soyinka
Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka discusses English PEN centenary and his new novel.
Jane Harper: The Dry
Australian author Jane Harper talks about her internationally garlanded thriller The Dry.
Sjón - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
Sjón answers questions from readers about his novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.
Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing
We discuss the prize-winning novel Homegoing with its acclaimed Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi
What is the book Homegoing about?
This month World Book Club discusses the multi-prize-winning debut novel Homegoing with its acclaimed Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi and her fans around the world. The story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a white slave-trader, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents...
Where is Jane Harper's book The Dry set?
7/7/2021. World Book Club this month talks to the world-renowned Australian author Jane Harper at her home in Melbourne, Australia, about her internationally garlanded thriller, The Dry. Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, tensions in a small town community become unbearable when the Hadler family are found brutally murdered.
Who wrote Lullaby?
Leïla Slimani - Lullaby. 3/7/2020. French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani joins Harriett Gilbert in the Radio Theatre at the BBC and readers from around the world to talk about her novel Lullaby, the devastating story of a nanny, Louise, who kills two children in her care.