The Book Club

Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry t

Episodes

Total: 408

David Baddiel: My Family

2024/7/31

My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the writer and comedian David Baddiel, talking about hi

Neil Jordan: Amnesiac

2024/7/24

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the writer and film director Neil Jordan, who joins me

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Roger McGough, whose new The Collected Poems: 1959-2024

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Michael Nott, author of the new biography Thom Gunn: A

Kathleen Jamie: Cairn

2024/7/3

In her new book Cairn, the Scots poet Kathleen Jamie sets a capstone of sorts on her trilogy of shor

My guest for this week's Book Club is the journalist and author Åsne Seierstad. She tells me about h

My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Mark Bostridge. In his new book In Pursuit of Love: The

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Marlon James, who ten years ago published his Booker Pr

In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is the Booker Prize winning novelist Richard Flanagan, ta

The legacy of Franz Kafka

2024/5/29

June 3rd marks the centenary of Franz Kafka's death. To talk about this great writer's peculiar styl

Conn Iggulden: Nero

2024/5/22

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Conn Iggulden, probably the best selling author of hist

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! On this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by Olivia Laing t

Jackie Kay: May Day

2024/5/8

This week, my guest on the Book Club podcast is the poet Jackie Kay, whose magnificent new book May

On this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by Ariane Bankes, whose mother Celia was one of the grea

Kathryn Hughes: Catland

2024/4/24

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the author and historian Kathryn Hughes, whose new book

Percival Everett: James

2024/4/17

On this week’s Book Club podcast I’m joined by Percival Everett, who has followed up his Booker-shor

In this week’s Book Club podcast my guest is Dorian Lynskey. In his new book Everything Must Go, Dor

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the investigative reporter Annie Jacobsen, whose hair-r

In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the Pulitzer prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen,

My guest in this week's Book Club is Joel Morris, an award-winning comedy writer whose credits run f