The Guardian Books Podcast

Guardian books podcast: Novelist Bernadine Evaristo investigates how Maya Angelou's portrayal of her mother has changed in seven books spanning fifty years, Emma Brockes uncovers terrible secrets in her maternal family history, and anthologist Andre Gerard explains why they should all be called 'matremoirs'

Mark Haddon talks to the Guardian Review book club about the crossover bestseller which launched his career, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Michael Rosen goes to Berlin on the trail of Erich Kästner's boy sleuth from the children's classic Emil and the Detectives. Plus, Swiss German writer Rolf Dobelli explains The Art of Thinking Clearly

Claire Armitstead tours this year's London Book Fair to find what's selling and what is on its way, and we look at Granta's list of the Best Young British Novelists

A selection of our best journalism across science, culture and sport in audio form

Colm Tóibín reads from his reimagining of the life of the mother of Christ, The Testament of Mary, and answers questions from the Guardian Review Book Club

Jackie Kay pays tribute to the late Chinua Achebe, and Mohsin Hamid and Jim Crace join us to talk about their new political novels

Richard Ford talks to John Mullan and the Guardian Review book club about the novel which made his name, The Sportswriter

We examine what makes us who we are, with Andrew Solomon, Greg Bellow and Stephen Grosz

We expand our horizons with the publisher Christopher MacLehose, the French novelist Philippe Claudel and the launch of a series of short stories from writers around the world inspired by water

Draw up a chair and celebrate St Patrick's Day with readings from WB Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey and Liam O'Flaherty

A special edition from Writers' week at the Adelaide festival, uncovering lost Australian classics, new Aboriginal literature and the best young poets

Jackie Kay rounds off our series of poets choosing their favourite poems with verses from Edwin Morgan's Love and a Life

David Harsent reads three short poems by the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos, in his own translations

Today John Burnside chooses The Retrieval System by Maxine Kumin, a look at doubling mirrored in its intricate rhyme scheme