World Book Club
Summary: From Alice Walker to Chinua Achebe, the world's greatest authors discuss their best known novel. This monthly programme, presented by Harriett Gilbert, includes questions from BBC World Service listeners.
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Podcasts:
American Indian writer Jhumpa Lahiri talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about her short stories Unaccustomed Earth.
British writer Neil Gaiman, now living in the US, talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his bestselling novel American Gods.
Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif dicusses her novel The Map of Love with presenter Harriett Gilbert, a studio audience and readers from around the world.
Indian writer Amit Chaudhuri talks to Harriett Gilbert about his award winning novel The Immortals. Recorded at the Nehru Centre, London.
To coincide with the film release another chance to hear Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid talking about his bestselling novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist to a studio audience and listeners around the world.
Bestselling US writer Jay McInerney and Fitzgerald scholar Anne Margaret Daniel discuss The Great Gatsby with Harriett Gilbert and a World Book Club studio audience and listeneres all around the world.
John Grisham talks to Harriett Gilbert about his gripping debut novel A Time To Kill.
Sri Lankan writer Romesh Gunesekera discusses his novel Reef with presenter Harriett Gilbeert, a studio audience and listeners around the world.
David Mitchell talks to Harriett Gilbert, a studio audience and readers around the world about his bestselling novel Cloud Atlas which is also released as a feature film around the world.
Harriett Gilbert is joined by P D James, Moni Mohsin and Susannah Fullerton to celebrate 200 years of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice at the BBC Radio Theatre.
New Zealand wrtier CK Stead talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his novel My Name Was Judas
Bestselling cult US writer Paul Auster meets Harriett Gilbert and an audience at the Cheltenham Literary Festival in England to discuss his classic novel The New York Trilogy
Bestselling Spanish writer Javier Marias talks to Harriett Gilbert and an audience at The Spanish Cultural Institue in London about his haunting novel A Heart So White.
Bestselling US writer Jodi Picoult talks to Harriett Gilbert about her blockbuster novel My Sister's Keeper in the BBC Radio Theatre
Bestselling British author Jeanetter Winterson talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about coming of age novel Oranges are Not the Only Fruit.