The Guardian Books Podcast

In the first of the stories from our summer short fiction special, David Nicholls reads 'Every Good Boy'

Tana French and Sophie Hannah talk about the varieties of crime fiction, and we look at the best summer reads for children and visit the Pop-Up festival for kids

Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair talk about the sea in literature and reveal plans for the Shorelines festival

The novelist discusses his Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Hours with Professor John Mullan

Amy Chua explains that she is not actually a 'tiger mother' and Julie Myerson discusses writing about her children and motherhood in her latest novel

Change is upon us in the books world. We review Faber's Waste Land iPad app, talk to children's editor Julia Eccleshare about JK Rowling's latest venture and consider a new subscription-based publishing model. Finally, Jon Ronson talks about the process of researching his book, The Psychopath Test

The novelist talks about how he was drawn back to his fictional alter ego Patrick Melrose to write Mother's Milk and answers questions from the audience

Stella Duffy, Paul Burston, Neil Bartlett and Max Schaefer talk about how much being gay matters to their work, and their readers

Publishers, academics, digital pioneers and writers assembled in Milan at the Book Tomorrow conference. Claire Armitstead went along to find out what the future holds for the printed word

How literature has engaged with the feminist movement, with Orange prize 2011 winner Téa Obreht, Granta editor John Freeman and writers Naomi Alderman and Ann Patchett

Two of the New Yorker's '20 best writers under 40' join us to talk about history, fable and the resurgence of the picaresque novel

In the first of a new series on how writers use fiction to make political cases, we focus on the Indian sub-continent, with Tahmima Anam, Mirza Waheed, Aatish Taseer and Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid talks to Professor John Mullan about his Booker-nominated novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist

As a new imprint dedicated to essays is launched, we ask what they are; and we discuss Rabindranath Tagore and the place of poetry in translation with poet Alice Oswald

Tim Radford and Peter Forbes talk about how their work combines subjects usually kept separate