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Books and Authors

This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. Open Book talks to authors about their work. In A G

Episodes

Total: 925

This Podcast Has Moved

2025/5/13

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Former Eastenders and present-day Archers actor Lucy Speed, and comedian Sarah Mills talk about book

Actor Nina Sosanya and prize winning poet and writer Joelle Taylor talk favourite books with Harriet

Crypto, childhood and a very personal history of the world: writers Sara Collins and Oliver Burkeman

WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD by Benjamin Labatut (translated by Adrian Nathan West), chosen

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig, chosen by Julia Bradbury A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, chosen by

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, translated by John E. Woods, chosen by Iszi Law

A Good Read: Nicci French

2025/2/10

The writing duo known as Nicci French choose favourite books

A PRIMATE'S MEMOIR (Love, Death and Baboons) by Robert Sapolsky, chosen by Professor Ben Garrod SOLD

TOKYO EXPRESS by Seichō Matsumoto, translated by Jesse Kirkwood, chosen by Sir Ian Blatchford THE LE

The Power author Naomi Alderman, and Nigerian writer Abi Dare discuss favourite books. Naomi chooses

EDUCATED by Tara Westover, chosen by Jenny Kleeman THE WREN, THE WREN by Anne Enright, chosen by Har

Nihal has chosen Amma, the debut novel by Sri Lankan writer Saraid de Silva, which he compares to me

THE COUNTRY OF OTHERS by Leïla Slimani, chosen by Tatty Macleod THE MAN WHO ATE EVERYTHING by Jeffre

Books to Read and Re-Read

2024/10/27

In this final edition of Open Book, Johny Pitts and Chris Power celebrate some of the outstanding no

REASONS TO STAY ALIVE by Matt Haig, chosen by Ali Woods ELENA KNOWS by Claudia Piñeiro, chosen by Fe

The two writers choose favourite books. Recorded at the Edinburgh Book Festival

At the Edinburgh International Book Festival the two authors discuss favourite books

Alan Hollinghurst

2024/9/29

Alan Hollinghurst speaks to Chris Power about his new novel, Our Evenings.

Rachel Kushner

2024/9/22

Rachel Kushner on her Booker Prize shortlisted novel, Creation Lake and Sarah Moss.