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 author John Irving discusses his bestselling novel 'The World According to Garp', the tragicomic lifestory of the author TS Garp.
Bestselling writer Khaled Hosseini discusses The Kite Runner, his first novel set in Afghanistan, which has sold 15 million copies.
Best-selling English writer Sebastian Faulks talks about his heart-rending novel of love and war, Birdsong.
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.
American crime writer Patricia Cornwell talks about Post Mortem, the first novel in her celebrated Kay Scarpetta series.
Irish writer Edna O'Brien discusses The Country Girls, her novel about adolescence set in 1950's Ireland.
Italian author Umberto Eco discusses his novel 'The Name of the Rose', set in a 14th century Franciscan monastery.
American crime writer Sara Paretsky talks to Harriett Gilbert about her detective novel 'Indemnity Only'.
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'.
Harriett Gilbert talks to American author Armistead Maupin about his novel Tales of the City.
The World Book Club discuss Thomas Keneally's novel Schindler's Ark. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
Richard Dawkins answers questions from an audience and sent in by BBC listeners about his international best-seller, The Selfish Gene. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
Wole Soyinka talks about his memoirs Ake: The Years of Childhood. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert
World Book club with author Mario Vargas Llosa.
Author Irvine Welsh talks about his internationally best-selling novel Trainspotting and If You Liked School, You'll Love Work. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
