Atticus Lish, Jean Rhys, Maggie Shipstead

Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish about his new novel The War for Gloria.

• 28 mins

Benjamin Myers

Johny Pitts talks to Benjamin Myers about his new book, The Perfect Golden Circle.

• 28 mins

Elif Batuman

Johny Pitts speaks to Elif Batuman about her new novel, Either/Or

• 28 mins

Time and Time Travel with Emily St. John Mandel, Carlo Rovelli and Audrey Niffenegger

Johny Pitts discusses time with three writers who have explored it in very different ways.

• 28 mins

Revisiting the 1990s

Chris Power explores fiction set in the 1990s.

• 28 mins

Sheffield

Johny Pitts returns to his home city to explore Sheffield's literary landscapes.

• 28 mins

Summer Reading and Benjamin Wood

Chris Power talks to Benjamin Wood about his novel The Young Accomplice.

• 28 mins

Tess Gunty on The Rabbit Hutch; Jackie Kay on the writing of Jamaica Kincaid

Johny Pitts talks to Tess Gunty about The Rabbit Hutch.

• 28 mins

The Ethics of Writing Crime

Chris Power looks at the ethical questions authors confront when writing about crime.

• 28 mins

Ross Raisin

Octavia Bright talks to Ross Raisin about his new book, A Hunger.

• 28 mins

Mary Renault's Greek Myths

Octavia Bright discusses Mary Renault's The King Must Die.

• 28 mins

Alex Clark on novels - past, present and future - about summer and change

Alex Clark on novels - past, present and future - about summer and change.

• 28 mins

Ian McEwan

Chris Power talks to Ian McEwan about his new book, Lessons.

• 28 mins

Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy

Johny Pitts talks to Maggie O'Farrell about her new book, The Marriage Portrait.

• 28 mins

Orhan Pamuk

Johny Pitts talks to Orhan Pamuk about his new book, Nights of Plague.

• 28 mins

Celeste Ng; Grief and modern masculinity with Bobby Palmer and Michael Pedersen; Rediscovering 20th century classic Baron Bagge

Octavia Bright speaks to Celeste Ng about her new book, Our Missing Hearts.

• 28 mins

William Boyd and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

Chris Power speaks to William Boyd about his new novel, The Romantic.

• 28 mins

Writing Nature

How writers capture our natural world.

• 28 mins

Colm Tóibín essays, and revisiting Shirley Hazzard

Chris Power talks to Colm Tóibín about illness, the myth of Ireland and banned books.

• 28 mins

Barbara Kingsolver, plus the 'Social Novel' with John Lanchester and Ayisha Malik

Johny Pitts talks to Barbara Kingsolver about her Dickens-inspired book Demon Copperhead.

• 28 mins

Cormac McCarthy, Photographing Writers, Derek Owusu

Johny Pitts discusses the new novels from Cormac McCarthy.

• 28 mins

Women subverting horror with Mariana Enríquez, Claire Kohda and Sophie White

Octavia Bright asks if there is a new wave of women authors turning to horror fiction.

• 28 mins

Open Book: M.R. James

Kate Mosse explores the work of M.R. James, father of the modern English ghost story.

• 20 mins

Looking back at 2022 and (re)discovering Bruno Schulz

Chris Power discusses a year in books and gets some seasonal recommendations.

• 28 mins

Katherine Rundell and The Golden Mole

Katherine Rundell talks about The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasures.

• 28 mins

Agatha Christie at Christmas

Johny Pitts explores the Queen of Crime's connection with the festive season

• 28 mins

Katherine Mansfield

Exploring the writing of Katherine Mansfield a hundred years after her death.

• 28 mins

Jane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens

Chris Power talks to Jane Smiley, Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens about fictionalising history.

• 28 mins

Really Good, Actually

Monica Heisey talks about her debut novel, Really Good, Actually.

• 28 mins

Dark Academia with Katy Hays, RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg. Plus Saba Sams' Book I'd Never Lend

Chris Power talks to Katy Hays, RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg about a ubiquitous new trend

• 28 mins

Bret Easton Ellis

The author of American Psycho discusses his first novel in 13 years, The Shards.

• 28 mins

Aleksandar Hemon, Roddy Doyle on Soul, and Dorothy Tse on Hong Kong

Chris Power talks to Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel The World and All That It Holds.

• 28 mins

Tom Bullough on writing about the climate crisis, and Richard Wright's lost novel

Tom Bullough talks about his book Sarn Helen.

• 28 mins

Margaret Atwood, Sam Selvon

Johny Pitts explores the work of two writers who have combined comedy with tragedy.

• 28 mins

Eleanor Catton

Chris Power speaks to Eleanor Catton about her new novel, Birnam Wood.

• 28 mins

Javier Marías

Chris Power talks about the writing of Javier Marías.

• 28 mins

Contemporary Indian Writing in the spotlight

Octavia Bright explores the exciting new literary voices coming from India.

• 28 mins

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

Octavia Bright explores Granta's once in a decade list of new writing talent.

• 28 mins

Stephen Buoro

Johny Pitts talks to the debut novelist about The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa.

• 28 mins

Deborah Levy, Miranda France and Kate Morton

Deborah Levy talks about her new novel, August Blue.

• 28 mins

Linda Grant

Linda Grant talks to Alex Clark about her novel The Story of the Forest

• 28 mins

Guy Gunaratne, plus Literary Thefts with Rebecca Kuang and Andrew Lipstein

Johny Pitts talks to Guy Gunaratne about their new book Mister, Mister.

• 28 mins

Leila Slimani, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Kalaf Epalanga

Johny Pitts talks to Leila Slimani about her new novel Watch Us Dance.

• 28 mins

Tragicomic Writing

Alex Clark explores tragicomic writing with Paul Murray, Katherine Heiny and Josie Long.

• 28 mins

Jenny Erpenbeck

Jenny Erpenbeck talks to Octavia Bright about her novel Kairos.

• 28 mins

Richard Ford

Richard Ford talks to Alex Clark about his latest novel, Be Mine.

• 28 mins

Megan Nolan, plus crime summer reading recommendations from Vaseem Khan, Laura Wilson and Val McDermid

Johny Pitts speaks to Megan Nolan about her new novel, Ordinary Human Failings.

• 28 mins

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Day celebrates the centenary year of the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard.

• 28 mins

Birmingham

Johny Pitts makes a literary pilgrimage to the UK's second city

• 28 mins

Ann Patchett, plus Magical Historical Fiction with SJ Parris and Laura Shepherd-Robinson

Octavia Bright talks to Ann Patchett about her new novel, Tom Lake

• 28 mins

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen speaks to Johny Pitts about her new book, The Wolf Hunt.

• 28 mins

George Orwell Now

Chris Power surveys Orwell's complex legacy with Anna Funder, Adam Biles and Sandra Newman

• 28 mins

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith talks to Elizabeth Day about her new historical novel, The Fraud.

• 28 mins

Ben Lerner and Anne Enright on poetry and fiction

Johny Pitts explores poetry and fiction with Anne Enright and Ben Lerner.

• 28 mins

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, plus Judith Kerr's centenary with Nicolette Jones and Oliver Jeffers

Johny Pitts talks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her new book for children.

• 28 mins

Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis, literary conclusions.

• 28 mins

Daniel Mason

Chris Power speaks to Daniel Mason about his new novel, North Woods.

• 28 mins

Karl Ove Knausgård

Chris Power speaks to Karl Ove Knausgård about his new book, The Wolves of Eternity.

• 28 mins

AI and the Novel

Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts discuss AI and the novel.

• 28 mins

Teju Cole

Chris Power speaks to Teju Cole about his new novel, Tremor.

• 28 mins

Femi Kayode

Crime writer Femi Kayode joins Johny Pitts.

• 28 mins

Alexis Wright

Australian writer Alexis Wright, on new novel Praiseworthy

• 28 mins

Ron Rash

Ron Rash and AL Kennedy, with presenter Johny Pitts.

• 28 mins

Janice Hallett

Janice Hallett on her book The Christmas Appeal. Plus literary gems to put under the tree.

• 28 mins

The Year in Fiction

Chris Power looks back at some of our highlights from 2023.

• 26 mins

Endings and New Beginnings

Chris Power is joined by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Aminatta Forna and Lucy Caldwell.

• 28 mins

Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar talks to Chris Power about his new novel, My Friends.

• 28 mins

Gerald Murnane

In a rare radio interview, the Australian writer Gerald Murnane talks to Chris Power.

• 28 mins

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham speaks to Johny Pitts about his new novel, Day.

• 28 mins

Madeleine Grey

Madeleine Grey speaks to Johny Pitts about her novel, Green Dot.

• 28 mins

Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti on her new experimental book, Alphabetical Diaries.

• 28 mins

Kate Davies

Kate Davies talks to Chris Power.

• 28 mins

Daphne du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier: Double Exposure

• 28 mins

Jonathan Buckley, Lit Crit and David Baddiel

Alex Clark speaks to Jonathan Buckley about his novel Tell.

• 28 mins

Carys Davies

Johny Pitts talks to Carys Davies about her new novel, Clear.

• 28 mins

Andrew O'Hagan and Helen Garner

Alex Clark talks to Andrew O'Hagan about his new novel, Caledonian Road.

• 28 mins

Percival Everett

Percival Everett talks about his new novel, James, a retelling of Huckleberry Finn.

• 28 mins

Sinéad Gleeson

Sinéad Gleeson talks to Octavia Bright about her new novel, Hagstone.

• 28 mins