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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.
Cormac McCarthy, Photographing Writers, Derek Owusu
Johny Pitts discusses the new novels from Cormac McCarthy.
Women subverting horror with Mariana Enríquez, Claire Kohda and Sophie White
Octavia Bright asks if there is a new wave of women authors turning to horror fiction.
Open Book: M.R. James
Kate Mosse explores the work of M.R. James, father of the modern English ghost story.
Looking back at 2022 and (re)discovering Bruno Schulz
Chris Power discusses a year in books and gets some seasonal recommendations.
Katherine Rundell and The Golden Mole
Katherine Rundell talks about The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasures.
Agatha Christie at Christmas
Johny Pitts explores the Queen of Crime's connection with the festive season
Katherine Mansfield
Exploring the writing of Katherine Mansfield a hundred years after her death.
Jane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens
Chris Power talks to Jane Smiley, Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens about fictionalising history.
Really Good, Actually
Monica Heisey talks about her debut novel, Really Good, Actually.
Dark Academia with Katy Hays, RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg. Plus Saba Sams' Book I'd Never Lend
Chris Power talks to Katy Hays, RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg about a ubiquitous new trend
Bret Easton Ellis
The author of American Psycho discusses his first novel in 13 years, The Shards.
Aleksandar Hemon, Roddy Doyle on Soul, and Dorothy Tse on Hong Kong
Chris Power talks to Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel The World and All That It Holds.
Tom Bullough on writing about the climate crisis, and Richard Wright's lost novel
Tom Bullough talks about his book Sarn Helen.
Margaret Atwood, Sam Selvon
Johny Pitts explores the work of two writers who have combined comedy with tragedy.
Eleanor Catton
Chris Power speaks to Eleanor Catton about her new novel, Birnam Wood.
