The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
World Service,·196 episodes
05 Apr 2025,·49 mins
Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her second novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation
01 Mar 2025,·58 mins
Novelist Meg Rosoff answers questions about one of her best-loved novels, How I Live Now
01 Feb 2025,·49 mins
World Book Café heads to Oslo to Europe’s largest Literature House
25 Jan 2025,·49 mins
Norwegian crime writer Anne Holt discusses her novel 1,222
04 Jan 2025,·49 mins
Douglas Stuart talks about his Booker Prize winning novel Shuggie Bain
07 Dec 2024,·49 mins
02 Nov 2024,·48 mins
American writer Elif Batuman discusses her novel The Idiot with readers around the world.
05 Oct 2024,·49 mins
Ewald Arenz answers readers' questions about his bestselling novel Tasting Sunlight
07 Sep 2024,·49 mins
Kim Chakanetsa in conversation with the acclaimed author Edna O’Brien.
04 Aug 2024,·26 mins
Harriett Gilbert talks to Paul Auster about his New York Trilogy
03 Aug 2024,·49 mins
A 2008 interview with the acclaimed Irish novelist, who died in July 2024 aged 93
01 Aug 2024,·26 mins
World Book Café, the programme where writers reveal the secrets of their home cities
13 Jul 2024,·48 mins
Kevin Kwan discusses his best-selling novel Crazy Rich Asians, with readers
06 Jul 2024,·49 mins
01 Jun 2024,·48 mins
A powerful satire of revenge and social justice in America
04 May 2024,·49 mins
Charlotte Wood discusses her novel, The Weekend
06 Apr 2024,·49 mins
A dark fairytale set in post war America tracing a family across the decades
02 Mar 2024,·49 mins
World Book Café heads to Madrid to talk to writers about a new boom in feminist fiction.
10 Feb 2024,·48 mins
A dazzling and mind-bending introduction to the wonders of modern physics
03 Feb 2024,·49 mins
Antonio Muñoz Molina answers questions on his novel In the Night of Time
06 Jan 2024,·49 mins
Searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lankan civil war
02 Dec 2023,·49 mins
A romantic comedy told across the barrier of language and culture
04 Nov 2023,·50 mins
Two Jewish boys in 1939 New York invent an anti-Fascist comic book hero
07 Oct 2023,·49 mins
A magical and unusual love story about time and patience and loss
02 Sep 2023,·49 mins
Love, loss and violence on the remote Pacific coast of Colombia
05 Aug 2023,·49 mins
A harrowing portrait of Estonia's recent history, seen through the lives of two women
01 Jul 2023,·50 mins
Another chance to hear Judith Kerr talking about When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
03 Jun 2023,·50 mins
Teen dream of boarding school turns out to be hotbed of adolescent angst and ambition
06 May 2023,·49 mins
Paul Theroux turns his unflinching gaze on an American South too often overlooked
01 Apr 2023,·49 mins
