The Guardian Books Podcast
Summary: Subscribe free to our weekly podcast, presented by editor of Guardian books Claire Armitstead, for author interviews, readings and discussions - plus a full recording of our monthly book club
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Podcasts:
A birthday special for Boz, as Claire Tomalin talks about her new biography of the great man, we visit the Dickens museum and leading writers pick their favourites of his novels
Follow Oliver Twist's walking route from Angel Islington to the courthouse of Mr Fang in the first of three audio tours marking the Books Season
Colin Thubron goes to Tibet, Mike Carter gets on his bike and Edward Docx finds a faraway location for his new novel
Cookery books from 400 years of history are demonstrated, with cakes to taste, by Penelope Vogler; and writing about 9/11
The novelist discusses The Line of Beauty with Professor John Mullan and takes questions from the audience
The Man Booker prize shortlist was announced this morning. Guardian head of books Claire Armitstead and guardian.co.uk/books editor Sarah Crown discuss the chosen six
A look at this year's longlisted books, and an interview with Juan Pablo Villalobos – the first author to earn a place on the longlist by readers' votes
We uncover the best new Scottish writing, and consider the question of national identity in fiction. And James Yorkston sings for us at the home of his admirer, Ian Rankin.
On the 10th anniversary of American Gods, Neil Gaiman meets the Guardian book club at the Edinburgh International Book festival
From the Arab spring to social media, we interrogate 21st-century revolution with Cory Doctorow, Siddhartha Deb, Annabelle Sreberny, Gholam Khiabany, and Angela Saini
A look at the darker side of the festival city, with Louise Welsh, Richard T Kelly and Kevin MacNeil
In our inaugural podcast from the Edinburgh international book festival, Sebastian Barry and Jackie Kay talk to us about the themes that power their work
AL Kennedy talks about the art of manipulation in her latest novel, The Blue Book, while we look ahead to the best of the Edinburgh international book festival
Is this the summer of the ebook? We debate how format influences our reading. Plus Joe Dunthorne and Ross Raisin join us to talk about following up on successful debut novels
We cast our eye over the Booker longlist, while historian Peter Englund talks about constructing an intimate history of the first world war
