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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

Claire Keegan talks to Chris Power about her new book, Small Things Like These.

Comedian and writer Liam Williams and musician Kate Stables pick their favourite books.

The artist Kaffe Fassett and musician Andy Summers ex The Police choose books they love

JJ Bola, David Damrosch and Rob Doyle plus Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Taskeen Ahmed

Friends, sisters and serial killers all feature in the book choices for this week. Writer and stand-

The ghost stories of Edith Wharton and Lustre by Raven Leilani are the guests' choices

Patricia Highsmith, Robin McLean, Courttia Newland

The NHS palliative care doctor and author Rachel Clarke (Breathtaking, Dear Life) and the barrister

Friendship in Fiction: a special programme from London Literature Festival

Writers Musa Okwonga (One of Them, Striking Out) and Sophie Heawood (The Hungover Games) share their

Elizabeth Day talks to Sarah Hall about her latest novel, Burntcoat

Two poets and writers choose books that they love.

Lauren Groff

2021/10/17

Johny Pitts talks to Lauren Groff about her novel Matrix.

A Good Read

2021/10/12

Two guests discuss books they love this week on a science theme

Jonathan Franzen, Amitav Ghosh, Nina Mingya Powles

Pianist and broadcaster Neil Brand actor/comedian Tiff Stevenson choose books they love

Rabih Alameddine, English PEN at 100 with Philippe Sands and Elif Shafak, Editors' Pick

Malorie Blackman talks to Johny Pitts about Endgame

Elizabeth Day talks to Colson Whitehead in a special feature length interview.