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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: 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