Books and Authors

A Good Read: Stephen Fry and Alan Davies discuss dystopian visions, childhood traumas and tips for writers.

Fredrick Backman, Outriders and writing to music

Open Book - Orhan Pamuk on A Strangeness in my Mind

Open Book - Benjamin Markovits; Milan Kundera; Mario Vargas Llosa; Harper Lee

John Steinbeck

Andy McNab and George the Poet

Celeste Ng

Open Book - Jeremy Gavron, Kate Grenville and Eugene Vodolazkin

Colm Tóibín on Wilde, Yeates and Joyce, Mary Beth Keane, the best novels of 1979

Agatha Christie at Christmas

Open Book - Elizabeth Strout on My Name is Lucy Barton

Open Book: Children's Literature and Oxford

Maggie O'Farrell on her new novel, Hamnet

Kamila Shamsie and Jeffrey Archer

A Good Read 31 October 2017: Jenny Colgan & Steven Camden (Polarbear)

40 years In Patagonia, Nathan Englander and Sandi Toksvig's new children's novel

A Good Read: India Knight and Alvin Hall

Sebastian Barry, Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood

Lee Childs on his latest book, Past Tense

Dolly Alderton and Clare Mackintosh