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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

Here Again Now, Readers Guide to Gogol, Lessons in Chemistry

The actor and the thriller writer chat about books with Harriett Gilbert.

Karen Joy Fowler on the infamous Booth family, Michel the Giant and Lisa Taddeo

The comedian and the writer talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

Marlon James

2022/3/13

A life in books with Marlon James

The actor and the writer debate books with Harriett Gilbert

Katie Thistleton and Suzannah Lipscomb bring their favourite books to the table.

Open Book

2022/2/27

Elizabeth Day talks to Audrey Magee about her latest novel The Colony

CHVRCHES frontwoman Lauren Mayberry and comedian Rob Deering share their favourite books.

Johny Pitts talks to Trinidadian author Ayanna Lloyd Banwo about her debut novel When We Were Birds.

The natural world, leadership styles aboard a submarine and sibling rivalry in Scotland.

The ‘new boom’ of feminist Spanish-language literature.

Writers Katherine Rundell and Nathan Filer bring their favourite books to the table.

The gardener and broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh and the Yorkshire shepherdess choose books

Gary Shteyngart's tragic comedy set in lockdown, Richard Beard on Time, East Side Voices

Tessa Hadley

2022/1/23

Tessa Hadley, Richard Beard on Time and two pioneering female book sellers.

Open Book explores the enduring legacy of James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Hanya Yanagihara

2022/1/9

Hanya Yanagihara speaks to Chris Power about her new book, To Paradise.

Highlights 2021

2021/12/26

Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts look back at highlights of their first year at Open Book.

Laura Barnett, Moscow Postcard, Non- Fiction 2021