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The ‘new boom’ of feminist Spanish-language literature
We meet the new wave of Spanish and Latin American writers who are breaking with the past.
A love story from Trinidad; Toni Morrison's only short story
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo talks to Johny Pitts about her debut novel, When We Were Birds
The Power of Language: Audrey Magee, short stories from Afghanistan and India
Elizabeth Day talks to Audrey Magee about her latest novel The Colony.
A life in books with Marlon James
Elizabeth Day talks to Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James.
Karen Joy Fowler on the infamous Booth family, Michel the Giant, Lisa Taddeo on Fever Dream
Johny Pitts talks to Karen Joy Fowler about the infamous Booth family
Here Again Now, Readers guide to Gogol, Lessons in Chemistry
Elizabeth Day talks to Okechukwu Nzelu about his novel Here Again Now.
Belfast in the Blitz
Two historic novels about Belfast, literary spinsters, and dissident Russian writers.
Forbidden love with Douglas Stuart; Oxford’s influence on interwar writers
Elizabeth Day talks to Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart about his new novel, Young Mungo
Julian Barnes; How Words Get Good; Bangkok Postcard
Julian Barnes talks to Elizabeth Day about his new novel Elizabeth Finch.
About A Son; Book Banning; The Water Statues
David Whitehouse on his creative non-fiction work About a Son.
Neurodiversity
Johny Pitts and guests discuss neurodiversity in contemporary fiction.
Atticus Lish, Jean Rhys, Maggie Shipstead
Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish about his new novel The War for Gloria.
Benjamin Myers
Johny Pitts talks to Benjamin Myers about his new book, The Perfect Golden Circle.
Elif Batuman
Johny Pitts speaks to Elif Batuman about her new novel, Either/Or
Time and Time Travel with Emily St. John Mandel, Carlo Rovelli and Audrey Niffenegger
Johny Pitts discusses time with three writers who have explored it in very different ways.
Revisiting the 1990s
Chris Power explores fiction set in the 1990s.
Sheffield
Johny Pitts returns to his home city to explore Sheffield's literary landscapes.
Summer Reading and Benjamin Wood
Chris Power talks to Benjamin Wood about his novel The Young Accomplice.
Tess Gunty on The Rabbit Hutch; Jackie Kay on the writing of Jamaica Kincaid
Johny Pitts talks to Tess Gunty about The Rabbit Hutch.
The Ethics of Writing Crime
Chris Power looks at the ethical questions authors confront when writing about crime.
Ross Raisin
Octavia Bright talks to Ross Raisin about his new book, A Hunger.
Mary Renault's Greek Myths
Octavia Bright discusses Mary Renault's The King Must Die.
Alex Clark on novels - past, present and future - about summer and change
Alex Clark on novels - past, present and future - about summer and change.
Ian McEwan
Chris Power talks to Ian McEwan about his new book, Lessons.
Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy
Johny Pitts talks to Maggie O'Farrell about her new book, The Marriage Portrait.
Orhan Pamuk
Johny Pitts talks to Orhan Pamuk about his new book, Nights of Plague.
Celeste Ng; Grief and modern masculinity with Bobby Palmer and Michael Pedersen; Rediscovering 20th century classic Baron Bagge
Octavia Bright speaks to Celeste Ng about her new book, Our Missing Hearts.
William Boyd and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities
Chris Power speaks to William Boyd about his new novel, The Romantic.
Writing Nature
How writers capture our natural world.
Colm Tóibín essays, and revisiting Shirley Hazzard
Chris Power talks to Colm Tóibín about illness, the myth of Ireland and banned books.
Barbara Kingsolver, plus the 'Social Novel' with John Lanchester and Ayisha Malik
Johny Pitts talks to Barbara Kingsolver about her Dickens-inspired book Demon Copperhead.
