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World Book Club invites the globe’s great authors to discuss their best known novel. This monthly programme, presented by Harriett Gilbert, includes questions by World Service listeners. Primary Format : Books Language : Unknown Also Listed as: State/Province : ENG Country : United Kingdom Region : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of World Book Club Podcasts Methings.com listings of World Book Club Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

WBC: Witi Ihimaera Maori novelist Witi Ihimaera discusses his haunting novel The Whale Rider with presenter Harriett Gilbert and an audience at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Penelope Lively Acclaimed British writer Penelope Lively discusses her Booker Prize-winning novel Moon Tiger with Harriett Gilbert, a studio audience and listeners around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: David Grossman Acclaimed Israeli writer David Grossman talks to presenter Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about prize-winning novel To the End of the Land. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Lionel Shriver - Repeat Lionel Shriver talks to Harriett Gilbert and a group of readers in and out of the studio about her controversial novel We Need to Talk about Kevin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Hisham Matar Libyan writer Hisham Matar talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his chilling novel 'In the Country of Men'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Colm Toibin Award-winning writer Colm Toibin talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his haunting novel Brooklyn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Henning Mankell Internationally acclaimed Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell discusses his bestselling thriller Faceless Killers with Harriett Gilbert and an audience in St Mary Magdeleine Church in Woodstock, England Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Val McDermid Acclaimed crime writer Val McDermid talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about her bestselling thriller A Place of Execution. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: PJ O'Rourke American satirist PJ O'Rourke discusses his book Eat the Rich with presenter Harriett Gilbert, a studio audience and listeners from around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Bernhard Schlink Acclaimed German writer Bernhard Schlink talks to Harriett Gilbert and an audience at the Cheltenham Literary Festival about his celebrated novel The Reader Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Damon Galgut Bestselling South African writer Damon Galgut talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Good Doctor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Kamila Shamsie Celebrated Anglo-Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie talks to Harriett Gilbert and an audience of readers at The Drill Hall Theatre in London about her award-winning novel Burnt Shadows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Barbara Kingsolver Celebrated American writer Barbara Kingsolver talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about her bestselling novel The Poisonwood Bible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Carlos Ruiz Zafon talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his bestseller The Shadow of the Wind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: David Mitchell David Mitchell talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his multiple prize-winning bestseller Cloud Atlas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Richard Ford Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Ford talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his bestselling novel The Sportswriter Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: JMG LeClezio French Nobel Laureate JMG LeClezio talks to Harriett Gilbert and a small studio audience about his novel Desert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: John Boyne Set during World War II, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which has sold an astonishing 5 million copies worldwide, tells the story of Bruno, the nine-year-old son of the commandant of a concentration camp. Devastated at leaving his old life behind in Berlin, the novel charts Bruno’s forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence, a friendship which has startling and far-reaching consequences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Andrea Levy Winner of the UK's Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, the Orange Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Small Island is a heart-warming and thought-provoking tale of love, friendship and immigration set in London during and after World War II. It focuses on the diaspora of Jamaican immigrants, who, escaping economic hardship on their own "small island," move to England, the Mother Country, for which the men have fought during World War II. Told through the intertwining stories of three v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Kiran Desai Indian writer Kiran Desai discusses her internationally best-selling work, The Inheritance of Loss. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: James Ellroy The great crime novelist James Ellroy discusses the first of three part trilogy about the American underworld, American Tabloid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Alaa Al-Aswaany Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswaany discusses his best-selling novel, The Yacoubian Building, a moving study of politics and power in downtown Cairo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC:Gunter Grass World famous German writer Gunter Grass talks about his controversial masterpiece, The Tin Drum, on World Book Club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Lionel Shriver American writer Lionel Shriver discusses her novel, We Need to Talk about Kevin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Nawal El Sadaawi Renowned Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi discusses her classic novel Woman at Point Zero with Harriett Gilbert on World Book Club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Kate Grenville Harriett Gilbert talks to the Australian author Kate Grenville about her book, The Secret River. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Moshin Hamid Harriett Gilbert talks to Mohsin Hamid about his novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: David Guterson Harriett Gilbert talks to David Guterson, in front of an invited audience, about his bestselling courtroom thriller Snow Falling on Cedars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Toni Morrison In front of an audience at the South Bank Arts Centre, London, Harriett Gilbert talks to Toni Morrison about her prize-winning book Beloved. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Derek Walcott Harriett Gilbert talks to Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott about his epic poem Omeros, which explores ancient themes of displacement and exile in a modern Caribbean setting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Alice Walker Harriett Gilbert talks to iconic African American writer Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Color Purple'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Annie Proulx American writer Annie Proulx talks about her prize-winning novel 'The Shipping News' and her short story 'Brokeback Mountain'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: David Lodge Harriett Gilbert talks to one of Britain's most popular comic writers David Lodge, about his prize-winning novel Nice Work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Chinua Achebe To mark the 50th anniversary of the first publication of the acclaimed African novel ‘Things Fall Apart’, we are repeating the memorable World Book Club with bestselling Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: John Irving American author John Irving discusses his bestselling novel 'The World According to Garp', the tragicomic lifestory of the author TS Garp. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Khaled Hosseini Bestselling writer Khaled Hosseini discusses The Kite Runner, his first novel set in Afghanistan, which has sold 15 million copies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Sebastian Faulks Best-selling English writer Sebastian Faulks talks about his heart-rending novel of love and war, Birdsong. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Jane Smiley Best-selling American author Jane Smiley discusses A Thousand Acres, her ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear transposed onto an Iowan farmstead, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Patricia Cornwell American crime writer Patricia Cornwell talks about Post Mortem, the first novel in her celebrated Kay Scarpetta series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Edna O'Brien Irish writer Edna O'Brien discusses The Country Girls, her novel about adolescence set in 1950's Ireland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Umberto Eco Italian author Umberto Eco discusses his novel 'The Name of the Rose', set in a 14th century Franciscan monastery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Sara Paretsky American crime writer Sara Paretsky talks to Harriett Gilbert about her detective novel 'Indemnity Only'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Michael Ondaatje A special fifth-anniversary edition of the World Book Club with the Sri Lankan-born, Canadian author Michael Ondaatje who discusses his best-loved novel'The English Patient'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WBC: Armistead Maupin Harriett Gilbert talks to American author Armistead Maupin about his novel Tales of the City. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website