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:
The great crime novelist James Ellroy discusses the first of three part trilogy about the American underworld, American Tabloid.
Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswaany discusses his best-selling novel, The Yacoubian Building, a moving study of politics and power in downtown Cairo.
World famous German writer Gunter Grass talks about his controversial masterpiece, The Tin Drum, on World Book Club.
American writer Lionel Shriver discusses her novel, We Need to Talk about Kevin.
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her novel Half of a Yellow Sun.
Renowned Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi discusses her classic novel Woman at Point Zero with Harriett Gilbert on World Book Club.
Harriett Gilbert talks to the Australian author Kate Grenville about her book, The Secret River.
Harriett Gilbert talks to Mohsin Hamid about his novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Harriett Gilbert talks to David Guterson, in front of an invited audience, about his bestselling courtroom thriller Snow Falling on Cedars.
In front of an audience at the South Bank Arts Centre, London, Harriett Gilbert talks to Toni Morrison about her prize-winning book Beloved.
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.
Harriett Gilbert talks to iconic African American writer Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Color Purple'.
American writer Annie Proulx talks about her prize-winning novel 'The Shipping News' and her short story 'Brokeback Mountain'.
Harriett Gilbert talks to one of Britain's most popular comic writers David Lodge, about his prize-winning novel Nice Work.
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.
