The Guardian Books Podcast
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Podcasts:
Our series of poets choosing their favourite poem continues with Robin Robertson reading from David Jones's In Parenthesis
Our series of poets choosing their favourite poem continues with Robin Robertson reading from David Jones's In Parenthesis
Kate Summerscale talks about her prize-winning story of a bloody Victorian murder
We're on the trail of the best American crime writing, with Gillian Flynn, Joseph Wambaugh, Michael Koryta and Peter Messent
Are creative writing courses cultural powerhouses or an elaborate con? We drop in on a Birkbeck seminar, investigate the effects of teaching the craft of fiction and hear from Hugh Howey, who took a very different route to success
This week, women writers down the ages: from Jane Austen's most famous novel at 200, Sylvia Plath's at 50, and 2013's crop of prize winners
Claire Armitstead, Sarah Crown and The Bookseller's Benedicte Page bring us the books to look out for in 2013, and mathematician Daniel Tammet discusses the links between numbers and literature
Charles Dickens celebrated Christmas throughout his writing life. His autobiographical story 'A Christmas Tree' is 'almost Proustian', says Simon Callow
Ruth Rendell doesn't believe in ghosts, of course, but MR James's stories, like 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook', frighten her nonetheless
Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story 'At Hiruharama', says AS Byatt
Franz Kafka's story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is 'absurb, moving and timely', says Hanif Kureishi
Lucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in 'Notes from the House Spirits', says Jon McGregor
Hilary Mantel talks to John Mullan about her Man Booker prizewinning novels on the life of Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. She also answers questions from the audience at a special Book Club in the Drapers Hall in the City of London, on the site of Cromwell's former home
Colm Tóibín reads a short story inspired by Heart of Darkness, written while he was living in A Room For London, a model of Joseph Conrad's boat positioned on the roof of London's South Bank Centre
Forty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce's short story Eveline
