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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 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

Thu Jul 09 04:48:00 PDT 2009

American writer Lionel Shriver discusses her novel, We Need to Talk about Kevin. more

Thu Jun 04 07:00:00 PDT 2009

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. more

Thu Apr 30 11:32:00 PDT 2009

Renowned Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi discussed about her classic novel 'Woman at Point Zero' with Harriett Gilbert on... more

Fri Apr 03 12:27:00 PDT 2009

Harriett Gilbert talks to the Australian author Kate Grenville about her book, The Secret River. more

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