World Book Club

World Book Club

World Book Club invites the globe’s great authors to discuss their best known novel. This monthly programme, presented by Harriett Gilbert, includes questions by World Service listeners.

Sat Jul 03 12:06:00 PDT 2010

Carlos Ruiz Zafon talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his bestseller The Shadow of the Wind. more

Sat Jun 05 12:06:00 PDT 2010

David Mitchell talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his multiple prize-winning bestseller Cloud Atlas. more

Sat May 01 12:07:00 PDT 2010

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Ford talks to Harriett Gilbert and a studio audience about his bestselling novel The... more

Sat Apr 03 12:06:00 PDT 2010

French Nobel Laureate JMG LeClezio talks to Harriett Gilbert and a small studio audience about his novel Desert. more

Sat Mar 06 12:06:00 PST 2010

Set during World War II, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which has sold an astonishing 5 million copies worldwide, tells t... more

Sat Feb 06 12:06:00 PST 2010

Winner of the UK's Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, the Orange Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Small Island is ... more

Sat Jan 02 12:06:00 PST 2010

Indian writer Kiran Desai discusses her internationally best-selling work, The Inheritance of Loss. more

Sat Dec 05 12:06:00 PST 2009

The great crime novelist James Ellroy discusses the first of three part trilogy about the American underworld, American Ta... more

Sat Nov 07 12:06:00 PST 2009

Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswaany discusses his best-selling novel, The Yacoubian Building, a moving study of politics and p... more

Sat Oct 03 12:06:00 PDT 2009

World famous German writer Gunter Grass talks about his controversial masterpiece, The Tin Drum, on World Book Club. more

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