Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - A Grain of Wheat

A special edition from Nairobi University's bustling bookshop, where Ngugi was a director.

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Tessa Hadley - The Past

British author Tessa Hadley talks to Harriett Gilbert about her award-winning novel.

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Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice

Donna Leon discusses her celebrated novel Death at La Fenice.

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Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Award-winning writer Siri Hustvedt discusses her novel What I Loved with the WBC audience.

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Andrea Levy - Small Island

Another chance to hear Andrea Levy talking about her prize-winning novel Small Island.

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Chigozie Obioma - The Fishermen

Acclaimed Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma talks about his novel The Fishermen

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Ann Cleeves - Raven Black

Ann Cleeves discusses her novel Raven Black with Harriett Gilbert and the WBC audience

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Héctor Abad - Oblivion

A tribute to the author's father who was murdered by Columbian paramilitaries in 1987

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David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls talks about his internationally successful novel 'Us'.

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Jenny Erpenbeck - Visitation

The horrors of twentieth century Germany filtered through the beauty of one house

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Naomi Alderman - The Power

A speculative fiction imagining women and a new ‘power’ helps them take over the world

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Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory

A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution

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Leïla Slimani - Lullaby

An acclaimed French thriller which probes at the fault lines of gender, class and race

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Fatima Bhutto - The Shadow of the Crescent Moon

Five young Pakistani men and women try to live and love in a world on fire

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Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies

The rise and fall of Cromwell, the most powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII

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Deborah Levy - Hot Milk

A hypnotic tale of female sexuality set with the lush backdrop of southern Spain

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Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other

A novel that offers an unforgettable insight into life in today’s multi-cultural Britain

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Helen Garner: The Spare Room

Friendship, caring, nursing and anger in a short, fierce novel from Australia

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Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge

Harriett Gilbert talks to the world-renowned American author Elizabeth Strout

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Ali Smith: How to Be Both

We discuss the novel How to Be Both with its acclaimed British author Ali Smith

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Yiyun Li: The Vagrants

We talk to acclaimed Chinese author Yiyun Li about her harrowing debut novel The Vagrants

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Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing

We discuss the prize-winning novel Homegoing with its acclaimed Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi

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Sjón - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was

Sjón answers questions from readers about his novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.

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Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island

Amusing and affectionate portrait of the island nation Bill Bryson proudly calls home

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Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions

Tsitsi Dangarembga talks about her coming-of-age novel Nervous Conditions

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Robert Seethaler: A Whole Life

A mesmerizing tale of the beauty and harshness of a lonely life in the mountains

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Louise Penny: Still Life

Award-winning murder mystery set in rural Quebec from Canada’s queen of crime-writing

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Manu Joseph: Serious Men

Manu Joseph discusses Serious Men, a satirical portrait of contemporary Indian society

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Jane Harper: The Dry

Australian author Jane Harper talks about her internationally garlanded thriller The Dry.

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Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Damnation and redemption in 19th Century St Petersburg

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