Bookclub
Summary: James Naughtie and readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best known novels. Authors include: Douglas Adams, Alan Bennett, Alice Sebold and Maya Angelou.
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- Artist: BBC Radio 4
- Copyright: (C) BBC 2015
Podcasts:
Hilary Mantel discusses Bring Up the Bodies, her 2nd Man Booker Prize winning novel. With James Naughtie.
The celebrated travel writer Paul Theroux discusses Dark Star Safari. The book is his account of an overland journey from Cairo to Cape Town, which he made 35 years after first living as a volunteer teacher in Malawi in the early 60s.
Deborah Moggach discusses Tulip Fever - her story about art, love and greed in 17th century Holland. With James Naughtie.
Audrey Niffenegger talks to James Naughtie about her bestselling novel The Time Traveler's Wife, a love story about a man with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel.
Jim Crace discusses his Booker-shortlisted novel Quarantine with James Naughtie and a group of readers. Recorded at the Stratford-Upon-Avon Literary Festival.
Gillian Clarke discusses her poetry collection Ice with James Naughtie.
Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses her novel The Forty Rules of Love with James Naughtie.
Andrew Miller discusses his Costa prize winning novel Pure with James Naughtie. Set in pre-revolutionary Paris, the book is a gripping, earthy story about the clearing of a huge cemetery in the area now known as Les Halles.
Writer Hilary Spurling and BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Part of the Real George Orwell Season.
Ben Macintyre discusses Agent Zigzag with James Naughtie - his bestselling book on the true story of a professional criminal named Eddie Chapman, a successful British double agent who infiltrated the Nazi intelligence services during World War II.
Sathnam Sanghera discusses his memoir The Boy With The Topknot with James Naughtie.
David Almond discusses his children's novel Skellig with James Naughtie.
American writer Marilynne Robinson discusses her novel Gilead with James Naughtie.
Victoria Hislop discusses her bestselling novel The Island with James Naughtie.
Michael Ondaatje discusses his 1992 Booker prize-winning novel The English Patient with James Naughtie.
