Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new book The Standing Chandelier.

• 28 mins

Literary Christmas Gifts

Literary Christmas gifts and crowd-funded publishing.

• 28 mins

David Walliams

David Walliams on his life as a children's writer.

• 28 mins

Dystopian fiction

Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss dystopian novels.

• 28 mins

A celebration of Muriel Spark

A celebration of Muriel Spark who was born in 1918.

• 28 mins

Leila Slimani

Mariella Frostrup talks to French-Moroccan novelist Leila Slimani.

• 28 mins

Dirk Kurbjuweit

Mariella Frostrup talks to German writer Dirk Kurbjuweit.

• 28 mins

Literary Love and Romance

For Valentine's Day, a special programme devoted to love.

• 28 mins

Jane Harper

Australian crime writer Jane Harper discusses her new thriller Force of Nature.

• 28 mins

25/02/2018

Prize-winning short story writer Jessie Greengrass on her debut novel, Sight.

• 28 mins

11/03/2018

Literary critic James Wood talks to Mariella Frostrup about his novel Upstate.

• 28 mins

Joseph Knox

Joseph Knox talks to Mariella Frostrup about his follow-up to his successful debut Sirens.

• 28 mins

Uzodinma Iweala

Uzodinma Iweala on his new novel Speak No Evil.

• 28 mins

Diana Evans

Diana Evans talks to Mariella Frostrup about her third novel, Ordinary People.

• 28 mins

Jennifer Clement

Jennifer Clement on her new novel, Gun Love.

• 28 mins

Carys Davies

Carys Davies, acclaimed for her short stories, talks about her debut novel, West.

• 28 mins

Crime writer John Harvey, The best characters in fiction

John Harvey on the latest in his Charlie Resnick series, Body and Soul.

• 28 mins

Manu Joseph

Bestselling Indian novelist Manu Joseph talks to Mariella Frostrup.

• 28 mins

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz on Ian Fleming.

• 28 mins

Fiona Kidman

Dame Fiona Kidman talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new book, All Day at the Movies.

• 28 mins

Cressida Connolly, Posthumous short stories, Iraqi postcard

Cressida Connolly talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel After the Party.

• 28 mins

Michael Ondaatje, Nell Dunn

Man Booker-winning Michael Ondaatje talks to Mariella Frostrup.

• 28 mins

Ceridwen Dovey, Lebanese writers Nada Awar Jarrar and Hanan al-Shaykh

Hanan al-Shaykh talks to Mariella Frostrup.

• 28 mins

AM Homes, NHS in fiction, Tommy Orange

AM Homes on her new short story collection.

• 28 mins

Michael Donkor, Jackie Kay on Audre Lorde

Michael Donkor discusses his debut novel Hold.

• 28 mins

Daisy Johnson, The literary appeal of the Fens, Book festival etiquette

Daisy Johnson talks to Mariella Frostrup about her debut novel Everything Under.

• 28 mins

Islands in Fiction

A special programme exploring the appeal of islands as a setting for fiction.

• 28 mins

Claire Fuller, Neil Gaiman, Iranian fiction

Claire Fuller discusses the appeal of setting a novel in a crumbling country house.

• 28 mins

Literary Criticism

A special edition exploring book criticism and why it matters.

• 28 mins

Richard Powers and Nature Writing

Alex Clark talks to Richard Powers about his new novel, The Overstory.

• 28 mins