The Guardian Books Podcast

The death of Carlos Fuentes sounded the end of the Latin American Boom. But who are the South American writers following in the footsteps of Márquez and Vargas Llosa, and what next for the continent's poets?

Michael Frayn discusses his 2002 coming-of-age novel Spies with John Mullan in front of a live audience at the Guardian book club

Maya Jasanoff talks to Maev Kennedy about staying in the Room for London on the top of the South Bank Centre and reads her essay about the experience

In an interview recorded last year, Barry Unsworth reads from and discusses his last novel, The Quality of Mercy, in which he returned to the story of his Booker-winning Sacred Hunger

Will our future be happy? Will we control our technology or will it control us? Writers Nick Harkaway and Simon Ings warn that we should not accept everything on offer. Ben Marcus's new dystopian novel imagines what might happen if it all goes wrong

Madeline Miller was the surprise winner of the 2012 Orange prize last night, beating the odds to scoop the award with her debut novel of the Greek age of heroes, The Song of Achilles. She talks to Sarah Crown about what prompted her to tackle one of the west's foundation myths - and why she'll be turning to the Odyssey next

We investigate the rich seam of royalty in British literature, and examine Englishness through the lens of folk song, with Steve Roud and the singer Rachel Unthank

Two hundred years after the birth of Edward Lear, Michael Rosen celebrates his literary legacy, while we return to another classic of children's philosophy, Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth

Marilynne Robinson discusses writing about families and religion her Pulitzer prizewinning novel, Gilead, and why she agrees with Obama on the subject of gay marriage

As the British Library exhibition Writing Britain opens, curators Jamie Andrews and Tanya Kirk guide us through the imaginative territories writers have carved out from these British Isles

Can realism match up to the reality of the modern world? We chart the different directions chosen by writers Jeet Thayil and Etgar Keret as they push fiction out of the comfort zone

Jane Rogers has won this year's Arthur C Clarke award for The Testament of Jessie Lamb, her first foray into science fiction. She talks to Sarah Crown

The novelist and essayist is the fourth writer to take up residency in A Room for London on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank. Listen to the thoughts inspired by his stay

One hundred years after the death of Bram Stoker, we lift the lid on the literary legacy of his most famous creation: Count Dracula

We investigate fathers and sons with Karl Ove Knausgaard and Noah Hawley