World Book Club Episodes Episode guide
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Jackie Kay: Trumpet
This month World Book Club talks to Scottish poet Laureate Jackie Kay
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Agatha Christie
Sophie Hannah and James Prichard discuss Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
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Richard Flanagan: Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan talks about his Man Booker Prize-winning novel
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Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst talks about his Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Line of Beauty.
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Jane Gardam - Old Filth
Jane Gardam discusses her novel Old Filth with the World Book Club audience
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Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
World Book Club talks to author Sebastian Barry about his novel The Secret Scripture.
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Delphine de Vigan - No and Me
French writer Delphine de Vigan discusses her prize-winning novel No and Me.
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Tim Winton - Cloudstreet
Tim Winton discusses his novel Cloudstreet with the World Book Club audience.
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Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel
British author Jeffrey Archer discusses his novel Kane and Abel.
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Derek Walcott - Omeros
Another chance to hear Nobel laureate Derek Walcott discuss his epic poem Omeros.
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Robert Harris - Imperium
Robert Harris discusses the first of his Roman trilogy, Imperium.
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Jo毛l Dicker - The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
Swiss writer Jo毛l Dicker talks about his novel The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair.
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Laura Restrepo - Delirium
Colombian author Laura Restrepo discusses her novel Delirium in Cartagena.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death in the Family
Acclaimed Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about his book A Death in the Family
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Margaret Drabble - The Millstone
Margaret Drabble discusses her novel The Millstone.
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Crime and Punishment
Boris Akunin and Dr Sarah Young discuss Dostoyevsky鈥檚 classic novel Crime and Punishment.
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Anne Enright - The Gathering
Anne Enright discusses her Man Booker Prize winning novel The Gathering.
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DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre discusses his book Vernon God Little and answers questions from the audience
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Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
Desai鈥檚 novel is a profoundly moving cross-continental saga that sweeps around the globe
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Juan Gabriel Vasquez - The Sound of Things Falling
Juan Gabriel Vasquez discusses his novel The Sound of Things Falling.
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Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng discusses his novel The Garden of Evening Mists.
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Charlotte Bront毛 - Jane Eyre
Writers Claire Harman and Tracy Chevalier discuss Charlotte Bronte's classic Jane Eyre.
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Nuruddin Farah - Maps
Somali writer Nuruddin Farah will be discussing his novel Maps with Harriett Gilbert
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Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Judith Kerr will be talking about her novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
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Cees Nooteboom - The Following Story
Multiple award-winning Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom on his novel The Following Story
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Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert talks about her phenomenally successful novel Eat, Pray, Love
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Leila Aboulela - Minaret
Harriet Gilbert talks to Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela about her novel Minaret.
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Jonathan Franzen - Freedom
Epic of contemporary love and marriage capturing the temptations and burdens of liberty
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Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever
A richly imagined historic tale of art, beauty,lust and greed in.1630s Amsterdam.
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Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin
Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov discusses his novel Death and the Penguin