Books and Authors Episodes Episode guide
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Zadie Smith
Elizabeth Day talks to the novelist Zadie Smith about her new novel, The Fraud.
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Mariella is joined by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, who discusses her acclaimed debut...
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Year of the Women Writers
In a special programme Ellah Allfrey, Sally Gardner, Sarah Hall, Lennie Goodings and...
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Yasmin Khan & David Mitchell
Travel and food writer Yasmin Khan and novelist David Mitchell talk books.
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Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi's debut novel 成人快手going is already one of the most talked about debuts of 2017.
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Writing Nature
Writing Nature
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Writing From Wales, a special programme recorded at Cardiff Library
Open Book with Mariella Frostrup, recorded at Cardiff Central Library
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Writers' memoirs, the libraries of Timbuktu and George Eliot
Richard Beard and Bella Pollen discuss their memoirs and a discussion on George Eliot.
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Writers Helen Garner and Charlotte Wood and the history of audio books
An original Jane Eyre manuscript published in a new edition and a story from Chris Cleave
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Woman in Black, debut novels, Kate Williams
Mariella talks to Susan Hill about her bestselling Woman in Black; she hears how to a...
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William Boyd
William Boyd discusses his new novel, The Romantics.
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Will Self, dead lovers and comic novels
Mariella talks to writer Will Self about cuts to UK libraries. Novelists Joseph and of...
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Will Eaves on Alan Turing; The Moon in Fiction and Poetry; Afrofuturism
Will Eaves discusses Murmur, his award-winning novel about Alan Turing
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Whitney Scharer, Fashion in fiction, Novels by Iraq War veterans
Whitney Scharer discusses her novel about the love affair between Lee Miller and Man Ray.
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When We Were Birds and Tayari Jones on Toni Morrison's only short story, Recitatif.
Johny Pitts talks to author Ayanna Lloyd Banwo about her debut novel, When We Were Birds.
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What Makes a Jewish Book; Colm T贸ib铆n on Natalia Ginzburg; Censorship in Kuwait
What Makes a Jewish Book; Colm T贸ib铆n on Natalia Ginzburg; Censorship in Kuwait
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What are young people writing and reading?
A special edition of Open Book from the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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Victoria Hislop, Asian writers, Roslund and Hellstrom
Mariella Frostrup talks to Victoria Hislop about her latest novel, The Thread, a saga...
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Uzodinma Iweala on his new book 'Speak No Evil'
Crime writers Abir Mukherjee Val McDermid and Graeme Macrae Burnet on a tour of Kolkata.
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Tragicomic Writing - Paul Murray talks to Alex Clark about his latest tragicomedy novel, The Bee Sting
Tragicomic Writing with Paul Murray plus guests Josie Long, Katherine Heiny & Jen Beagin
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Tony Parsons 18th Century Satire and Readable Books
Tony Parsons opts for The Virgin Soldiers in the search for Open Book's Funniest Book...
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Tommy Wieringa, Flemish and Dutch literature, Fashion in fiction, Stewart Lee on Ithell Colquhoun
Mariella talks to Tommy Wieringa about his book A Beautiful Young Wife
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Tom Bullough on writing about the climate crisis, and Richard Wright's lost novel
Tom Bullough on writing about the climate crisis, and Richard Wright's lost novel
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Time and Time Travel with Emily St. John Mandel, Carlo Rovelli and Audrey Niffenegger
Johny Pitts discusses time with three writers who have explored it in very different ways
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Tim Winton
Tim Winton on his new book The Boy Behind The Curtain 鈥� Notes from an Australian Life
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Thomas Keneally, Meike Ziervogel and pet peeves in books
Thomas Keneally discusses his latest novel, Crimes of the Father
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The Year in Fiction
Chris Power shares some of the highlights of the year on Open Book.
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The Tale of A Tale of Two Cities
With a scholar and an actor, Frances Fyfield visits London's Victoria and Albert to of...
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The novels of PD James; Akwaeke Emezi
Johny Pitts looks at the life and work of crime novelist P D James
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The Joy of Dickens
Johny Pitts and guests explore the dazzling brilliance of Charles Dickens
