Bookclub Episodes Episode guide
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Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson talks about her award-winning book the Illustrated Mum.
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Barbara VineÂ
Barbara Vine talks about her haunting novel A Dark Adapted Eye.
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William Dalrymple
Travel writer William Dalrymple talks about his book From the Holy Mountain.
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou talks about volume one of her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
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David Grossman
James Naughtie talks to David Grossman about his book See Under Love.
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Michael Frayn
James Naughtie and a studio audience meet Michael Frayn to talk about Headlong.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa talks about his novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
A group of readers, James Naughtie and Kazuo Ishiguro discuss The Remains of The Day.
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Rose Tremain
James Naughtie meets Rose Tremain to discuss her novel Music and Silence.
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J G Ballard
James Naughtie talks to J G Ballard about his classic war novel Empire of the Sun.
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Ian Rankin
James Naughtie talks to Ian Rankin about his books: Knots and Crosses and The Falls.
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Nick Hornby
James Naughtie and a studio audience meet novelist Nick Hornby to discuss About A Boy.
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Helen Dunmore
James Naughtie meets novelist Helen Dunmore to discuss her novel Talking to the Dead.
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Wendy Cope
James Naughtie looks at the work of Wendy Cope, one of Britain's most popular poets.
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Doris Lessing
James Naughtie talks to the Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing about The Grass is Singing.
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Martin Amis
Martin Amis discusses his acclaimed novel London Fields with James Naughtie.
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Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife
James Naughtie talks to Chinese-American writer Amy Tan about The Kitchen God's Wife.
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Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
Annie Proulx talks about her novel of life in far-flung Newfoundland, The Shipping News.
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James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia
James Naughtie and author James Ellroy discuss Ellroy's thriller noir, The Black Dahlia.
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Margaret Drabble
James Naughtie talks to Margaret Drabble about her novel The Witch of Exmoor.
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Joe Simpson
James Naughtie talks to mountaineer Joe Simpson about his book Touching the Void.
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Penelope Lively
James Naughtie talks to Penelope Lively about her Booker Prize winning novel Moon Tiger.
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Tony Parsons
Tony Parsons discusses his book Man and Boy, with the reading circle of HMP Coldingley.
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Graham Swift
James Naughtie meets Booker-prize winning novelist Graham Swift to talk about Waterland.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
James Naughtie discusses The Miller's Tale from The Canterbury Tales with Dr Ruth Evans.
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Ian McEwan - Enduring Love
Ian McEwan discusses his tale of stalking, science and psychology, ‘Enduring Love’.
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Joanna Trollope
Joanna Trollope talks about her novel Other People's Children.
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Anthony Beevor
James Naughtie and readers discuss Antony Beevor's Stalingrad with the author.
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Anita Desai
James Naughtie discusses the novel Fasting, Feasting with its author, Anita Desai.
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Susan Hill
James Naughtie discusses the novel In The Springtime Of The Year with author Susan Hill.