Guardian.co.uk: The Guardian Books Podcast
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Guardian Books podcast: Science, religion and the...
Geneticist Steve Jones considers the Bible as a science book, while magician turned historian of psychology Peter Lamont demystifies the paranormalClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Memoirs of fathers and mothers
Guardian books podcast: Novelist Bernadine Evaristo investigates how Maya Angelou's portrayal of her mother has changed in seven books spanning fifty years, Emma Brockes uncovers terrible secrets in her maternal family history, and anthologist Andre Gerard explains why they should all be called 'matremoirs'Claire ArmitsteadEmma BrockesTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Mark Haddon on The Curious...
Mark Haddon talks to the Guardian Review book club about the crossover bestseller which launched his career, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeMark HaddonJohn MullanClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Michael Rosen follows Emil to...
Michael Rosen goes to Berlin on the trail of Erich Kästner's boy sleuth from the children's classic Emil and the Detectives. Plus, Swiss German writer Rolf Dobelli explains The Art of Thinking ClearlyClaire ArmitsteadKate ConnollyMichael RosenMadeleine BuntingTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: London Book Fair and Granta's...
Claire Armitstead tours this year's London Book Fair to find what's selling and what is on its way, and we look at Granta's list of the Best Young British NovelistsClaire ArmitsteadNaomi AldermanAlex ClarkRichard LeaTim MabyLindesay Irvine
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Books podcast offer: The Guardian Audio Edition
A selection of our best journalism across science, culture and sport in audio form
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Guardian Books podcast: Colm Tibn on The Testament of...
Colm Tibn reads from his reimagining of the life of the mother of Christ, The Testament of Mary, and answers questions from the Guardian Review Book ClubColm TibnJohn MullanTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Literature on the couch
We examine what makes us who we are, with Andrew Solomon, Greg Bellow and Stephen GroszClaire ArmitsteadLindesay IrvineTim MabySusie Grimshaw
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Guardian Books podcast: Literature in translation and...
We expand our horizons with the publisher Christopher MacLehose, the French novelist Philippe Claudel and the launch of a series of short stories from writers around the world inspired by waterRichard LeaJohn VidalTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Australian writing at the...
A special edition from Writers' week at the Adelaide festival, uncovering lost Australian classics, new Aboriginal literature and the best young poetsClaire ArmitsteadJohn CraceTim Maby
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Guardian Books poetry podcast: Jackie Kay reads Edwin...
Jackie Kay rounds off our series of poets choosing their favourite poems with verses from Edwin Morgan's Love and a LifeJackie KayTim Maby
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Guardian Books poetry podcast: David Harsent reads...
David Harsent reads three short poems by the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos, in his own translationsDavid HarsentTim Maby
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Guardian Books poetry podcast: John Burnside reads...
Today John Burnside chooses The Retrieval System by Maxine Kumin, a look at doubling mirrored in its intricate rhyme schemeJohn BurnsideTim Maby
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Guardian Books poetry podcast: Alice Oswald reads There...
Alice Oswald rounds off the first week in our series of poets choosing their favourite poem with a reading of a nursery rhyme, There Was a Man of Double DeedAlice OswaldTim Maby
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Guardian Books poetry podcast: Simon Armitage reads Ted...
One Yorkshire poet reads another as Simon Armitage continues our series of poets choosing their favourite verses with Ted Hughes's Full Moon and Little FriedaSimon ArmitageTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Carol Ann Duffy's Love Poems for...
The poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, reads from her collection Love Poems at a special Valentine's Day edition of the Guardian Book ClubClaire ArmitsteadCarol Ann DuffyJohn MullanTim Maby
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Guardian book club podcast: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Kate Summerscale talks about her prize-winning story of a bloody Victorian murderClaire ArmitsteadJohn MullanTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Crime fiction with Joseph...
We're on the trail of the best American crime writing, with Gillian Flynn, Joseph Wambaugh, Michael Koryta and Peter MessentClaire ArmitsteadPeter MessentAlison FloodTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Creative writing courses and...
Are creative writing courses cultural powerhouses or an elaborate con? We drop in on a Birkbeck seminar, investigate the effects of teaching the craft of fiction and hear from Hugh Howey, who took a very different route to successClaire ArmitsteadToby LittJulia BellRichard LeaTim MabyAlison Flood
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Guardian Books podcast: Women writers - Austen, Plath,...
This week, women writers down the ages: from Jane Austen's most famous novel at 200, Sylvia Plath's at 50, and 2013's crop of prize winnersClaire ArmitsteadFrancesca SegalSarah ChurchwellTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: the books of 2013 and Daniel...
Claire Armitstead, Sarah Crown and The Bookseller's Benedicte Page bring us the books to look out for in 2013, and mathematician Daniel Tammet discusses the links between numbers and literatureClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownBenedicte PageTim Maby
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Simon Callow reads 'The Christmas Tree' by Charles...
Charles Dickens celebrated Christmas throughout his writing life. His autobiographical story 'A Christmas Tree' is 'almost Proustian', says Simon CallowVivienne PerryPhil MaynardSimon CallowLisa Allardice
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Ruth Rendell reads 'Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook' by MR...
Ruth Rendell doesn't believe in ghosts, of course, but MR James's stories, like 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook', frighten her nonethelessLisa AllardiceVivienne PerryBen Kape
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Guardian Books podcast: Hilary Mantel on Wolf Hall and...
Hilary Mantel talks to John Mullan about her Man Booker prizewinning novels on the life of Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. She also answers questions from the audience at a special Book Club in the Drapers Hall in the City of London, on the site of Cromwell's former homeHilary MantelJohn MullanTim Maby
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Guardian Artangel Books podcast: Colm Tibn in A Room For...
Colm Tibn reads a short story inspired by Heart of Darkness, written while he was living in A Room For London, a model of Joseph Conrad's boat positioned on the roof of London's South Bank CentreClaire ArmitsteadColm TibnTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Winter, kitchen technology and...
Ice from Adam Gopnik, fire from Bee Wilson and a hymn of praise to the pleasures of handwriting in our Books podcast seasonal specialClaire ArmitsteadBee WilsonJohn O'ConnellPhilip HensherIan SansomRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Philip Pullman on Grimm Tales
Philip Pullman reads from his new book of Grimm Tales and talks to John Mullan at the Guardian book clubPhilip PullmanJohn MullanTim MabyClaire Armitstead
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Guardian Artangel Books podcast: Adonis in A Room for...
During his week in A Room For London - a model boat on the roof of London's Queen Elizabeth Hall - Syrian poet Adonis talks to Nicholas Wroe about poetry, politics and London's literary greatsNicholas WroeTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Kevin Powers wins Guardian first...
Kevin Powers, an American ex-soldier and poet, has won the Guardian first book award with The Yellow Birds. It's a novel about fighting, and surviving, the war in IraqClaire ArmitsteadLisa AllardiceTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Humour and Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's daughter Nanette rediscovers her father's funny side, and the creator of Bleak Expectations turns the radio hit into a novelClaire ArmitsteadAlex HamiltonJohn CraceTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: graphic novels, with Robert and...
The artists Robert and Aline Crumb talk about Drawn Together, a book of 40 years-worth of strips they've been producing about themselves; plus, this year's Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story winnerClaire ArmitsteadRachel CookeTim Maby
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Guardian book club: Rose Tremain on Restoration
Rose Tremain tells how she began writing Restoration to restore the reputation of historical fictionRose TremainJohn MullanClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Hospital stories with Thomas...
Thomas Keneally tells how he found a novel in a stash of nurses' journals, Sarah Wise on the ghosts of Victorian mental health and Brooke Magnanti on the Wellcome prize for medicine in literatureClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownBrooke MagnantiTim Maby
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Books podcast: Biography lives on - from David Foster...
There's a huge appetite for reading biographies, and thousands are written each year. But is it still a relevant kind of writing? Three authors tell us their Life storiesClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Maps from Ptolemy to Google
We chart how maps have transformed the way we look at the world with Simon Garfield and Jerry BrottonClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Hilary Mantel wins second Booker...
Hilary Mantel has taken the Man Booker prize for an historic second time with Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to her 2009 winner on the life of Thomas Cromwell, Wolf HallClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownAlex ClarkStuart KellyTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Pete Townshend, Neil Young and...
We harvest the best of this year's crop of celebrity memoirs, including rock'n'roll legends Pete Townshend and Neil Young, and hear from Forward-winning poet Jorie GrahamClaire ArmitsteadCaspar Llewellyn SmithTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Crime fiction with Agatha...
We investigate a waspish essay on crime writing from Agatha Christie, Attica Locke considers race and history in the American south and Tanya Byrne tells us about young readers who are turning to crimeClaire ArmitsteadRichard LeaAttica LockeLaura WilsonTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Moby-Dick Big Read and Robert...
David Cameron and Tilda Swinton are among the readers of a new online version of Moby Dick; poet and novelist Robert Graves' last years on Mallorca are recalled by his great nephew Simon GoughClaire ArmitsteadSam JordisonRichard LeaSarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Artangel books podcast: Teju Cole
Teju Cole, the latest writer to take up residence in A Room for London, remembers a dinner with the great grouchy outsider VS NaipaulClaire ArmitsteadTeju ColeTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: JB Priestley and Javier Maras
As JB Priestley's classic, English Journey, is republished, the comedian Roy Hudd and Priestley's son Tom celebrate his legacy, while the Spanish novelist Javier Maras tells us what it's like to become a classicClaire ArmitsteadRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Man Booker prize shortlist 2012
Claire Armitstead reviews the Man Booker shortlist with reporter Alison Flood and arts correspondent Mark BrownClaire ArmitsteadMark BrownAlison FloodTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Zadie Smith and James Meek
Zadie Smith tells us how her latest novel, NW, made the return journey to north London, while James Meek investigates the science of TolstoyClaire ArmitsteadZadie SmithJames MeekLisa AllardiceTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Guardian first book award...
We discuss the longlist for the 2012 Guardian first book award, which mixes fiction and nonfiction with a poetry collection chosen by our readersClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownLisa Allardice
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Guardian children's books podcast: Margo Lanagan and...
This month's teen book club authors Margo Lanagan and Melvin Burgess read from and discuss their books Tender Morsels and Doing It, recorded at the Edinburgh books festivalFind out more about the teen book club with Melvin Burgess and Margo LanaganMichelle Pauli
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Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: Jonathan...
In the last of our Edinburgh podcasts, we look at the myths behind sharia law and the invasion of Afghanistan, while Carlos Gamerro examines the hold the Falkland Islands still exert on the Argentinian psycheRichard LeaIain ChambersJonathan Steele
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Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: Junot...
Dominican American writer Junot Diaz explores matters of the heart in masculine culture, Irish novelist Claire Kilroy explains why she set her new new novel against the mounting international debt crisis, and Paul Durcan hymns the crusty glories of the Irish loafRichard LeaIain Chambers
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Edinburgh International Book festival podcast:...
Fifty years after the explosive International Writers Conference was held in Edinburgh, contemporary writes have gathered to revisit the themes their predecessors considered in 1962Claire ArmitsteadRichard LeaIain Chambers
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Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: Kirsty...
Kirsty Gunn tells Charlotte Higgins how her new book The Big Music is structured like a piece of traditional bagpipe music. Kevin Barry tells Claire Armitstead that his short stories, while written in remote County Sligo, are based on his wide travelsClaire ArmitsteadCharlotte HigginsTim Maby
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Guardian Edinburgh Book Festival podcast: Pat Barker...
Pat Barker, author of the first world war novel Regeneration, which became a trilogy of the same name, comes to a special session of the Guardian Book Club at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She talks to Professor John Mullan.Claire ArmitsteadJohn MullanTim Maby
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Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: the Edwin...
Five poets shortlisted for the annual Edwin Morgan Poetry prize read their entries at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, then we tell you the winnerClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Edinburgh Books Festival podcast: Translation...
Translator David Bellos and author James Geary debate the challenge of metaphor, while novelists Anjali Joseph and Nikita Lalwani discuss writing about foreign countriesClaire ArmitsteadCharlotte HigginsTim Maby
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Edinburgh International Book festival podcast:...
Should historical fiction be romantic, or politically accurate? Gillian Slovo and Hilary Mantel discuss their latest books, on Thomas Cromwell and Gordon of Khartoum. Elsewhere, Richard Holloway considers the problem of certainty in religionClaire ArmitsteadGillian SlovoRichard HollowayTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Ned Beauman and Alasdair Gray at...
In our podcast from day four of the festival, Booker longlisted author Ned Beauman muses on The Teleportation Accident and Alasdair Gray considers the independence vote for ScotlandClaire ArmitsteadNed BeaumanTim Maby
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Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: Nell...
In our podcast from day three of the festival, Nell Freudenberger talks about her novel The Newlyweds, and Jess Richards and Sjon discuss islands in literature, and Michael Sandel considers Paul Ryan's place on the US presidential campaignSarah CrownXan BrooksMichael SandelTim Maby
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Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: war...
Simon Mawer and Michle Roberts discuss their books set in occupied France, Louise Welsh moves from Glasgow to Berlin and Maajid Nawaz tells of how he moved from Muslim militancy to starting a movement for democratic IslamSarah CrownXan BrooksLouise WelshCharlotte HigginsTim Maby
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Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: Andrew...
Frank Cottrell-Boyce on his new Chitty Chitty Bang Bang story, Andrew Motion on his follow-up to Treasure Island - Silver - and Paul Mason on what he now thinks about the revolutionary movements across the world: on the first day of Edinburgh Book Festival.Frank Cottrell BoyceSarah CrownAndrew MotionPaul MasonTim Maby
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Guardian Artangel Books podcast: Alain Mabanckou in A...
The Congolese-born novelist is the latest writer to take up residency in A Room for London atop the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank. Listen to the thoughts inspired by his stayRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Summer reading
We round up this summer's hottest books to pack in your suitcase – or download on to your e-reader – with the Booker-longlisted Deborah Levy and Twitter hit Keith RidgwaySarah CrownDeborah LevyRichard LeaTim Maby
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Gore Vidal on politics and patriotism: Guardian Books...
Gore Vidal, who died yesterday, made his last visit to the UK in 2008, during the run-up to the US election. He appeared at the Hay Festival, and spoke to Claire Armitstead about his views on Obama's prospects for victory, and what it would take to make him proud to be an AmericanClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Writers as readers
Every writer is first a reader – a solitary experience which Siri Hustvedt addresses head on in her latest collection of essays. Ben Lerner tells us about the books which inspired his debut novel, and we hear from The Bookshop BandSarah CrownSiri Hustvedt (contributor)Richard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Olympic literature
Get set for the London Olympics with a stack of books to put your literary life into training including fiction from Alexander MacLeod and Ben FountainClaire ArmitsteadAndy BullTim Maby
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Landscape and literature podcast: Robert MacFarlane in...
Robert Macfarlane kicks off our three-part series about literature and landscape. He takes Madeleine Bunting to the mysterious landscape of Orford Ness, a decommissioned nuclear testing site now owned by the National TrustMadeleine BuntingFrancesca PanettaRobert Macfarlane
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Guardian Books podcast: The pursuit of happiness
Is positive thinking the route to happiness? Oliver Burkeman and Jules Evans make the case for looking on the dark side, while the narrator of Joanna Kavenna's latest novel takes off in search of a new way of livingClaire ArmitsteadOliver BurkemanRichard LeaJoanna KavennaTim Maby
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Guardian Artangel books podcast: Michael Ondaatje
The Booker-winning novelist is the sixth 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 stayMaev KennedyTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Minority language literature
What riches are to be found in the lesser-known languages of Europe? We talk to Clive Boutle and Paul Gubbins about the pleasures of publishing on the edge, and welcome the poet Gillan Clarke, who is headlining a festival of poetry and music in both Welsh and EnglishSarah CrownClaire ArmitsteadGillian ClarkeTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Fiction that pushes at the...
Can graphic design help novelists tell stories fit for a visual age, or is the future of fiction to be found in traditional narrative?Claire ArmitsteadAdam ThirlwellRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Latin American novels and poetry
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 Mrquez and Vargas Llosa, and what next for the continent's poets?Sarah CrownFiona SampsonRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Book Club podcast: Michael Frayn discusses Spies
Michael Frayn discusses his 2002 coming-of-age novel Spies with John Mullan in front of a live audience at the Guardian book clubMichael FraynJohn MullanPhil MaynardBen Kape
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Barry Unsworth on his last novel The Quality of Mercy
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 HungerSarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: The future – dystopia or utopia?
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 wrongClaire ArmitsteadNick HarkawaySimon IngsRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast extra: Madeline Miller on her...
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 nextSarah CrownPeter Sale
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Guardian Books podcast: Philosophical nonsense
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 TollboothClaire ArmitsteadMichael RosenTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Marilynne Robinson talks about...
Marilynne Robinson discusses writing about families and religion her Pulitzer prizewinning novel, Gilead, and why she agrees with Obama on the subject of gay marriageMarilynne RobinsonJohn MullanTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Writers and the British landscape
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 IslesSarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Literature which disrupts reality
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 zoneClaire ArmitsteadRichard LeaSarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast special: Jane Rogers wins Arthur...
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 CrownSarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Dracula's literary legacy
One hundred years after the death of Bram Stoker, we lift the lid on the literary legacy of his most famous creation: Count DraculaClaire ArmitsteadKim NewmanTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Fathers in literature
We investigate fathers and sons with Karl Ove Knausgaard and Noah HawleyClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Should China be the focus of the...
The 'market focus' of this year's London Book Fair has prompted English PEN to hold a conference to discuss writers' freedoms. We hear from that conference, from correspondent Tania Branigan in Beijing and Jonathan FenbyClaire ArmitsteadRichard LeaTania BraniganJonathan FenbyTim Maby
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Guardian Artangel books podcast: Sven Lindqvist at the...
The great Swedish historian Sven Linqvist spent his 80th birthday in A Room for London on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank. Listen to the thoughts inspired by his stayClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Love and poetry with Fiona Shaw
The sound of love will echo around the British Isles this summer, as tents spring up on remote beaches in a series of installations called Peace Camp. The actor Fiona Shaw launched the project with performances of readers' favourite love poems at the Guardian Open WeekendFiona ShawClaire ArmitsteadChris MoranTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Andrew Motion and Anthony...
Andrew Motion and Anthony Horowitz discuss the pleasures and pitfalls of picking up the baton from Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan DoyleClaire ArmitsteadAndrew MotionSarah CrownXan BrooksTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Helen Simpson reads a short...
In our final short story podcast for Mother's Day, Helen Simpson reads Early One Morning, from her collection ConstitutionalTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Colm Toibin reads a short story...
In the third of our Mother's Day short story podcasts, Colm Toibin reads "Song" from his collection Mothers and Sons, which tells of a chance meeting in a pub in County Clare between a long-estranged mother and her sonColm TibnTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Sarah Churchwell reads a story...
In the second of our Mother's Day short story podcasts, Sarah Churchwell reads Lorrie Moore's characteristically sharp and heartbreaking How to Talk to Your Mother: a series of notes from a daughter to a mother going backwards in time from 1982 to 1939 Sarah ChurchwellTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Tessa Hadley reads a short story...
In honour of Mother's Day, we're airing a special series of podcasts featuring four short stories about motherhood. For the first, Tessa Hadley reads 'Coming Home' by Elizabeth BowenTessa HadleyTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: John Lanchester and Paul Mason...
Novelist-turned-economist John Lanchester and Newsnight journalist-turned-fiction-writer Paul Mason explain how the two genres overlapClaire ArmitsteadLindesay IrvinePaul MasonJohn LanchesterEwan MorrisonTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Jeanette Winterson in A Room for...
Jeanette Winterson has spent four days in A Room for London on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank. Listen to her read the essay she's written about her experienceClaire ArmitsteadJeanette WintersonTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Debut novels
First novels are bursting forth like spring flowers: Justin Torres and Patrick Flanery talk about theirs, while publishers Selina Walker and Leah Woodburn discuss how to make a first book a successSarah CrownRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian books podcast: Anne Frank
More than half a century after the death of Anne Frank, Shalom Auslander, Nathan Englander and Naomi Alderman discuss how Jewish writers are still struggling with victimhoodClaire ArmitsteadSimon BarnardNaomi AldermanNathan Englander
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Guardian Books podcast: Historical fiction
Kate Grenville, Clare Clark, and Hilary Mantel recount their experiences with a genre acquiring more and more critical cloutClaire ArmitsteadClare ClarkKate GrenvilleSarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Lawrence Durrell at 100
On the 100th anniversary of Durrell's birth, Jan Morris considers his work and Joanna Hodgkin discusses his life and her new biographyClaire ArmitsteadJan MorrisSam JordisonTim Maby
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The Guardian Dickens walk five: Charles Dickens...
Follow a tour around the house where Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth 200 years agoJon HenleyVeronica HorwellIain ChambersMichael Tait
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Guardian Books podcast: Haunting stories
Helen Dunmore on writing a ghost story for the revenant house of Hammer to publish as a book and then to filmClaire ArmitsteadLindesay IrvineTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Juan Gabriel Vsquez at A Room...
Juan Gabriel Vsquez, the Colombian novelist, the first occupant of A Room for London - shares his thoughts from on top of the South Bank Centre over the ThamesClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Reading the Arab spring
A year after the Egyptian uprising, we look at the literature coming out of the region; and Craig Thompson talks about his graphic novel Habibi, in which Islam meets ChristianityClaire ArmitsteadRichard LeaIan BlackCraig ThompsonTim MabyAhdaf Soueif
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Guardian Books podcast: Andrew Miller wins Costa book of...
Andrew Miller reads from and discusses his novel Pure, his which has won this year's Costa book of the year prize, and we listen in to last night's award ceremonyAndrew Miller (novelist)Claire ArmitsteadLindesay IrvineTim MabySarah Crown
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Guardian Books podcast: Chad Harbach and Andrew Miller
Chad Harbach discusses his debut novel The Art of Fielding; we wonder about the Great American Novel and talk to Costa novel of the year winner Andrew MillerClaire ArmitsteadAndrew Miller (novelist)Andy BullSarah CrownXan BrooksLindesay IrvineTim Maby
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Guardian books podcast: John Burnside wins TS Eliot...
John Burnside, who has won the TS Eliot prize for 2011 for Black Cat Bone, reads from the collection and talks to Claire ArmitsteadJohn BurnsideClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Travel writing – pole to equator
Noo Saro-Wiwa on Nigeria, and Sara Wheeler on the fascination of the planet's polesClaire ArmitsteadIsabel ChoatSarah CrownTim Maby
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The Guardian books podcast: Science fiction now and...
Novelists Alastair Reynolds, Lauren Beukes, Michael Moorcock and Jeff Noon talk about the state of SFClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownDamien G Walter
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Guardian Book Club: Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens...
Guardian Book Club podcast: Claire Tomalin, author of the latest biography of Charles Dickens, talks to John Mullan about A Christmas CarolJohn MullanClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Celebrity books for Christmas
Terry Jones talks about why he's taken his collection of short stories to a small publisher, Russell Potter tells us the inspiration for his tale of a learned pig and John Harris rounds up the best and worst of this year's celebrity memoirsClaire ArmitsteadJohn HarrisTerry JonesRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: 2011 in fiction
The authors of some of the year's most acclaimed books – Ali Smith, Patrick Ness and Sarah Hall – join us as we look back on some highlights of the yearClaire ArmitsteadSarah HallAli SmithPatrick NessRichard LeaAlex ClarkTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Money
Novelists Justin Cartwright, Alex Preston and Barry Unsworth talk about stories of capitalismSarah CrownTim Maby
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Dickens audio tour: David Copperfield
Follow a walking route around key sites from the London of David Copperfield, Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novelJon HenleyIain Chambers
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Guardian Books podcast: Africa and post-post-colonialism
We explore a new generation of writing from the continent with Binyavanga Wainaina and Brian ChikwavaClaire ArmitsteadRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian books podcast: Armistice Day
A special programme to mark Armistice Day. Michael Morpurgo on why the first world war is the symbol of all wars, Louisa Young on her novel of the western front and Andrew Motion on war poetryClaire ArmitsteadMichael MorpurgoAndrew MotionLouisa YoungTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Rhetoric and the Iliad
We examine the contemporary obsession with Homer's Iliad, and chart the course of rhetoric through the agesClaire ArmitsteadRichard LeaCharlotte Higgins
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Guardian Books podcast: The family in literature
Authors Gerard Woodward, Kevin Wilson and Stephan Solzhenitsyn discuss the role of the family in literatureRichard LeaSarah Crown
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Guardian Books podcast: Christmas books with Nile...
Self-styled Freak Nile Rodgers tells his life story and how he became leader of the disco band Chic; Noel Fielding of the Mighty Boosh brings out a picture book; and Vanessa Thorpe discusses books for ChristmasClaire ArmitsteadLindesay IrvineVanessa ThorpeTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Barnes wins Booker
Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Booker prize with his slim novel, A Sense of an Ending. Claire Armitstead asks critic Alex Clark and editor of the Guardian Review Lisa Allardice for their reactionsClaire ArmitsteadLisa AllardiceAlex ClarkTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: First novels with Erin...
Should writers rely on inspiration or training? We visit a Guardian masterclass and discuss the issue with first-time authors Erin Morgenstern, SJ Watson and Jacques StraussClaire ArmitsteadLindesay IrvineRoss RaisinTim Maby
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Charles Frazier meets the Guardian book club – podcast
The novelist discusses the personal and political history which fed into Cold MountainJohn MullanClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Poetry and prizes
John Burnside wins the Forward prize with Black Cat Bone, but wants to talk about pink-footed geese, Fiachra Gibbons finds English poets performing in Paris, while Lavinia Greenlaw takes poetry to St PancrasSarah CrownLavinia GreenlawFiachra GibbonsTim MabyRichard LeaJohn BurnsideLindesay IrvineClaire Armitstead
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Guardian Books podcast: Cybercrime and Russia's mafia...
Misha Glenny explores new forms of globalised crime, Luke Harding recounts his hair-raising experiences as a reporter in Russia, and Anna Funder treads the boundary between fiction and history in her new novelClaire ArmitsteadLuke HardingMisha GlennySarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Dickens turns 200
A birthday special for Boz, as Claire Tomalin talks about her new biography of the great man, we visit the Dickens museum and leading writers pick their favourites of his novelsClaire ArmitsteadClaire TomalinTim Maby
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The Guardian Dickens audio tours: Oliver Twist
Follow Oliver Twist's walking route from Angel Islington to the courthouse of Mr Fang in the first of three audio tours marking the Books SeasonJon HenleyIain Chambers
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Guardian Books podcast: Travel writing
Colin Thubron goes to Tibet, Mike Carter gets on his bike and Edward Docx finds a faraway location for his new novelClaire ArmitsteadVeronica HorwellMike CarterTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Cookery books and 9/11 stories
Cookery books from 400 years of history are demonstrated, with cakes to taste, by Penelope Vogler; and writing about 9/11Claire ArmitsteadRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: 2011 Booker shortlist
The Man Booker prize shortlist was announced this morning. Guardian head of books Claire Armitstead and guardian.co.uk/books editor Sarah Crown discuss the chosen sixClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian books podcast: First Book Award and Francisco...
A look at this year's longlisted books, and an interview with Juan Pablo Villalobos – the first author to earn a place on the longlist by readers' votesClaire ArmitsteadIain ChambersXan Brooks
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Guardian Books Podcast: New Scottish writing
We uncover the best new Scottish writing, and consider the question of national identity in fiction. And James Yorkston sings for us at the home of his admirer, Ian Rankin.Claire ArmitsteadIain ChambersIan RankinAndrew O'HaganCharlotte Higgins
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Guardian book club podcast: Neil Gaiman
On the 10th anniversary of American Gods, Neil Gaiman meets the Guardian book club at the Edinburgh International Book festival
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Guardian books podcast: Revolution for the modern world
From the Arab spring to social media, we interrogate 21st-century revolution with Cory Doctorow, Siddhartha Deb, Annabelle Sreberny, Gholam Khiabany, and Angela SainiClaire ArmitsteadFrancesca PanettaSarah Crown
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Guardian books podcast: Gothic Edinburgh
A look at the darker side of the festival city, with Louise Welsh, Richard T Kelly and Kevin MacNeilSarah CrownIain ChambersLouise WelshXan Brooks
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Jackie Kay and Sebastian Barry: Identity and struggle
In our inaugural podcast from the Edinburgh international book festival, Sebastian Barry and Jackie Kay talk to us about the themes that power their workSarah Crown
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Guardian books podcast: AL Kennedy and the Edinburgh...
AL Kennedy talks about the art of manipulation in her latest novel, The Blue Book, while we look ahead to the best of the Edinburgh international book festivalSarah CrownIain ChambersAL Kennedy
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Guardian books podcast: Joe Dunthorne, Ross Raisin, and...
Is this the summer of the ebook? We debate how format influences our reading. Plus Joe Dunthorne and Ross Raisin join us to talk about following up on successful debut novelsSarah CrownIain ChambersRichard LeaChris MoranJoe DunthorneRoss Raisin
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Guardian books podcast: Booker longlist and novelistic...
We cast our eye over the Booker longlist, while historian Peter Englund talks about constructing an intimate history of the first world warClaire ArmitsteadIain ChambersAlex Clark
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David Nicholls reads 'Every Good Boy'
In the first of the stories from our summer short fiction special, David Nicholls reads 'Every Good Boy'David Nicholls
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Guardian books podcast: Crime fiction and children's...
Tana French and Sophie Hannah talk about the varieties of crime fiction, and we look at the best summer reads for children and visit the Pop-Up festival for kidsClaire ArmitsteadIain ChambersJulia EccleshareMichelle Pauli
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Guardian books podcast: Water words
Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair talk about the sea in literature and reveal plans for the Shorelines festivalClaire ArmitsteadIain ChambersIain SinclairRichard LeaLindesay Irvine
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Michael Cunningham meets the Guardian book club – podcast
The novelist discusses his Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Hours with Professor John MullanJohn MullanClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian books podcast: Amy Chua and Julie Myerson
Amy Chua explains that she is not actually a 'tiger mother' and Julie Myerson discusses writing about her children and motherhood in her latest novelClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownJulie MyersonSimon HattenstoneTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: new literary directions, and Jon...
Change is upon us in the books world. We review Faber's Waste Land iPad app, talk to children's editor Julia Eccleshare about JK Rowling's latest venture and consider a new subscription-based publishing model. Finally, Jon Ronson talks about the process of researching his book, The Psychopath TestClaire ArmitsteadJulia EccleshareJon RonsonSarah CrownLindesay IrvineTim Maby
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Edward St Aubyn meets the Guardian book club – podcast
The novelist talks about how he was drawn back to his fictional alter ego Patrick Melrose to write Mother's Milk and answers questions from the audienceJohn MullanTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Glad to be a gay writer?
Stella Duffy, Paul Burston, Neil Bartlett and Max Schaefer talk about how much being gay matters to their work, and their readersClaire ArmitsteadRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Do books have a future?
Publishers, academics, digital pioneers and writers assembled in Milan at the Book Tomorrow conference. Claire Armitstead went along to find out what the future holds for the printed wordClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Feminism in literature
How literature has engaged with the feminist movement, with Orange prize 2011 winner Ta Obreht, Granta editor John Freeman and writers Naomi Alderman and Ann PatchettSarah CrownJohn FreemanNaomi AldermanTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Ta Obreht and David Bezmozgis
Two of the New Yorker's '20 best writers under 40' join us to talk about history, fable and the resurgence of the picaresque novelClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownChris Elliott
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Guardian Books podcast: Politics in India, Bangladesh...
In the first of a new series on how writers use fiction to make political cases, we focus on the Indian sub-continent, with Tahmima Anam, Mirza Waheed, Aatish Taseer and Mohsin HamidClaire ArmitsteadTahmima AnamRichard LeaTim MabyRandeep Ramesh
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Guardian Review Book Club: Mohsin Hamid on The Reluctant...
Mohsin Hamid talks to Professor John Mullan about his Booker-nominated novel The Reluctant FundamentalistJohn MullanTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Essays and translating Tagore
As a new imprint dedicated to essays is launched, we ask what they are; and we discuss Rabindranath Tagore and the place of poetry in translation with poet Alice OswaldClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Arts and science, one culture
Tim Radford and Peter Forbes talk about how their work combines subjects usually kept separateClaire ArmitsteadTim RadfordRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian books podcast: Anne Enright and Edward St Aubyn
Anne Enright discusses her latest novel The Forgotten Waltz and Edward St Aubyn introduces the final book in his Melrose seriesClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Cricket classics and The Bicycle...
Anthony Bateman, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Cricket, discusses the history and literature of the game with Guardian cricket writer Andy Bull; meanwhile Bella Bathurst, author of The Bicycle Book, goes riding with Claire ArmitsteadClaire ArmitsteadAndy BullBella BathurstTim MabyRichard Lea
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Guardian Books podcast: Jennifer Egan and Easter reading...
Jennifer Egan talks about the book which won her the Pulitzer, David Lodge considers HG Wells and we recommend the best Easter reading for childrenSarah CrownClaire ArmitsteadMichelle Pauli
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Guardian Books podcast: Orange prize, Oil stories, and...
Emma Henderson on her Orange prize shortlisting, introducing our new Oil stories series and listening to Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love StoryClaire ArmitsteadLindesay Irvine
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Guardian Books podcast: Polish literature and Russian...
Claire Armitstead finds Yuri Gagarin still inspiring writers in Russia, guest of honour at next week's London Book Fair, while James Hopkin goes to Krakow in search of Poland's literary soulClaire ArmitsteadLuke HardingJames HopkinTim MabyLindesay Irvine
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Jonathan Coe meets the Guardian book club - podcast
Jonathan Coe talks to Professor John Mullan at the Guardian Book Club about his novel, What a Carve Up! and takes questions from the audienceClaire ArmitsteadJohn Mullan
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Guardian Books podcast: Spanish literature and leaving a...
Giles Tremlett goes in search of the home of Spanish literary culture, while the Hungarian poet George Szirtes explains why he writes in EnglishClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownGiles TremlettGeorge SzirtesTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: French literature
Fiachra Gibbons reports from a festival of French books in Paris, where he finds an unlikely youth icon in Stphane Hessel, while the Guardian's Jon Henley examines the myths and mysteries of French literatureClaire ArmitsteadFiachra GibbonsJon HenleySarah CrownTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Books in Germany and an...
Helen Pidd in Berlin finds out what Germans are reading, you tell us your favourite German books, Simon Winder explores the roots of German culture – and Carol Birch talks about her latest novel, Jamrach's MenagerieClaire ArmitsteadHelen PiddRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Heroines and feminists
In International Women's week we look at the true heroines of literature, from Rosa Luxemburg to Georgia's 12th-century queen TamarSarah CrownKira CochraneMeg ClothierTim MabyClaire Armitstead
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Guardian Books Podcast: Imagining Libya with Hisham...
The novelist Hisham Matar, whose father was imprisoned in Libya over 20 years ago talks about the perils of mixing fact and fiction, while Frank Cottrell Boyce boards a train at Liverpool Lime Street to celebrate World Book DayClaire ArmitsteadHelen CarterFrank Cottrell BoyceLindesay IrvineTim MabyRichard Lea
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Guardian Books podcast: Memory and truth
Can writers ever grasp the truth? The biographer Anne Perkins delves into Barbara Castle's archives and Richard Lloyd Parry tells us about the difficulties in resolving the murder of Lucie BlackmanGeoff DyerClaire ArmitsteadAnne PerkinsCharlotte Higgins
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Guardian Books podcast: Lonely hearts ads and children's...
In Valentine's week we discuss a history of lonely hearts ads, and as half-term arrives, there's a colourful new exhibition on war stories for children at the Imperial War MuseumClaire ArmitsteadMairead O'ConnorLindesay IrvineTim MabyRichard Lea
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Guardian Books podcast: Writing and illness
A look at literature in the sickroom, with Sarah Manguso, Robert McCrum, and a report on how reading itself might help recoveryClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownRobert McCrumRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Life, death and literary critics
John Gray, Philip Ball and Alok Jha on the science and philosophy of life and death; and Paul Bailey on his new novel dealing with last things. We also ask if lit crit is obsolete in the age of social mediaClaire ArmitsteadRichard LeaRobert McCrumAlok JhaLindesay IrvineTim Maby
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Guardian book club podcast: Andrea Levy
The writer explains how Small Island was driven by a wish to write about her parents' experience as immigrants, and that of the white British who met themJohn MullanClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Rock memoirs with Kristin Hersh
Kristin Hersh discusses her memoir of music and madness, and plays some tunes; Richard Williams reveals he has letters from John Lennon and we hear the poets who won the Costa and TS Eliot prizesClaire ArmitsteadRichard WilliamsLindesay IrvineTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Remembering Robert Burns and WG...
The Guardian's Scotland correspondent Severin Carrell joins the country's new national poet, Liz Lochhead, at the opening of a museum devoted to Robert Burns, and the filmmaker Grant Gee discusses the challenges of living up to WG Sebald's vision with Stuart JeffriesClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownStuart JeffriesTim Maby
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Reading the world with Wole Soyinka, Kishwar Desai and...
Kishwar Desai and Jason Wallace talk about the books that have won them Costa prizes this year; and Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka explains why he's giving up political campaigningClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownTim MabyJason Burke
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Sue Townsend meets the Guardian book club
The author of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 and eight subsequent books about him, talks to Professor John Mullan at the monthly Guardian book clubJohn MullanTim Maby
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Finding enlightenment in Mind, Body and Spirit
Will the new year bring a new you? Oliver Burkeman offers Help! among the self-help shelves, while John Sutherland tells John Crace about the literary criticism you can't live withoutClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownLindesay IrvineOliver BurkemanJohn SutherlandJohn CraceTim Maby
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The 2010 Costa book awards
The Guardian books team discuss the winners of the five category awards, and place their bets on who will be the overall winner later this monthClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownJulia EccleshareTim Maby
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A merry and foul-mouthed Christmas
This week we have carols from Carol Ann Duffy, books of the year from Guardian writers and – if all this is just too much clean fun – an interview with the professor of slang, Jonathon GreenClaire ArmitsteadLisa AllardiceLindesay Irvine
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Children's books for Christmas, with Michael Rosen and...
Children's editor Julia Eccleshare recommends books for Christmas, Andy Stanton reads the latest Mr Gum and Michael Rosen discusses the true meaning of BabarClaire ArmitsteadJulia EccleshareMichelle PauliTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Garrison Keillor sings his...
The Guardian books team tell you what's going to be published in 2011, including a new novel by Roddy Doyle, another tome from Noam Chomsky on US hegemony and Garrison Keillor's new book of sonnets - which he sings!Claire ArmitsteadSarah CrownBenedicte PageRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Review of the Year 2010
Howard Jacobson on comedy, Simon Armitage reads a poem, Simon Callow on actors' theatre, Will Self on himself, China Mieville on weird writing and Edmund de Waal on netsukeChina MivilleClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownTim Maby
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Philip Pullman reads 'The Beauties' by Anton Chekhov
Philip Pullman opens our podcast series of authors reading their favourite short stories with Chekhov's 'masterpiece of minimalism', 'The Beauties'Philip PullmanLisa AllardiceFrancesca PanettaIain ChambersPascal Wyse
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Julian Barnes reads Homage To Switzerland by Ernest...
Julian Barnes chooses a quiet, sly, funny story from an author deeply out of fashionJulian BarnesLisa AllardicePascal Wyse
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Colm Tibn reads Music at Annahullian by Eugene McCabe
Colm Tibn delights in the hidden landscapes and hidden lives revealed in Eugene McCabe's Music at AnnahullianLisa AllardiceFrancesca PanettaIain ChambersPascal Wyse
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Ali Smith reads A Conversation With My Father by Grace...
Ali Smith reads a 'breathtaking, breathgiving' look at an argument between an elderly father and his writer daughterAli SmithIain ChambersPascal WyseLisa Allardice
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Margaret Drabble reads 'The Doll's House' by Katherine...
Margaret Drabble reads Katherine Mansfield's 'memorable, painful' The Doll's House – the first adult short story she ever readFor more podcasts, including Philip Pullman reading Chekhov and William Boyd reading JG Ballard, visit the Guardian short stories podcast page. To nominate your own favourite short story, join the discussion on our open threadLisa AllardiceFrancesca PanettaIain ChambersPascal Wyse
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Helen Simpson reads 'The Kitchen Child' by Angela Carter
In the last of our 12 tales for Christmas, Helen Simpson reads Angela Carter's 'triumphant comedy', 'The Kitchen Child' For more podcasts, including Philip Pullman reading Chekhov and Helen Dunmore reading Frank O'Connor, visit the Guardian short stories podcast page. To nominate your own favourite short story, join the discussion on our open threadLisa AllardiceFrancesca PanettaIain ChambersPascal Wyse
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Anne Enright reads 'Fat' by Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver's 'Fat' is simple but deadly, says Anne EnrightLisa AllardiceFrancesca PanettaIain ChambersPascal Wyse
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William Boyd reads 'My Dream of Flying to Wake Island'...
William Boyd reads a characteristic JG Ballard story, dominated by image and symbol rather than character and narrative, 'My Dream of Flying to Wake Island'Francesca PanettaLisa AllardiceIain Chambers
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Jeanette Winterson reads The Night Driver by Italo...
Jeanette Winterson reads a story of two lovers falling out in the distant era 'b4 mobile phones'Jeanette WintersonPascal Wyse
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Helen Dunmore reads 'My Oedipus Complex' by Frank...
Helen Dunmore reads 'My Oedipus Complex', Frank O'Connor's "poignant, flowing" story of a boy whose father has returned from the warLisa AllardiceFrancesca PanettaIain ChambersPascal Wyse
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Rose Tremain reads 'Extra' by Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li's short story 'Extra' bursts into life from the first sentence, says Rose TremainFrancesca PanettaLisa AllardiceIain ChambersPascal Wyse
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Tessa Hadley reads 'The Jungle' by Elizabeth Bowen
Tessa Hadley reads a story from one of her 'writing family', Elizabeth Bowen's 'The Jungle'
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Guardian Books podcast: Alan Bennett and Romantic Moderns
Simon Hattenstone gets a rare interview with Alan Bennett and Alexandra Harris tells us how her doctoral thesis became the winner of the Guardian first book awardClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Russell Hoban meets the Guardian book club
The author of Riddley Walker explains to Professor John Mullan how following the 'hobo journeys' of his mind led him to his troubling vision of the futureJohn MullanTim Maby
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Meet the authors on the 2010 Guardian first book award...
In the week that the winner of the Guardian first book award is announced, we catch up with all five authors on the 2010 shortlistClaire ArmitsteadTim MabyRichard LeaHadley Freeman
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Questions of science and literature
Is science fiction the only way of grappling with the modern world? Can literary fiction ever be true to contemporary life? Should we try to root out error, or celebrate being wrong? And can you make a novel out of only questions?Claire ArmitsteadSimon IngsRichard LeaTim Maby
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Latin America at the checkpoint
As violence mounts in Mexico, Ed Vulliamy and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera assess the prospects for Latin America, while Hadley Freeman talks to Guardian first book award shortlisted author Maile ChapmanClaire ArmitsteadEd VulliamyTim Maby
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Modernism and the modern world with Lloyd Jones and...
Lloyd Jones talks about hand-me-down storytelling in the novel featured in our inaugural Twitter book chat, Hand Me Down World, and first book award shortlisted author Alexandra Harris goes to Cookham in pursuit of Stanley SpencerClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Alasdair Gray and Nadifa Mohamed on writing outside the...
We meet Nadifa Mohamed, shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, and forge a literary canon for the 21st century. Plus Alasdair Gray looks back on a life lived with words and picturesClaire ArmitsteadRichard LeaTim Maby
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Guardian first book award: The shortlist
We hear from Ned Beauman, shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, and the readers' judging panel who helped put him there. There's also a competition in which you, too, can be a winnerClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownTim Maby
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The formula for good science writing
Tracy Chevalier, a judge of the Royal Society science book of the year, joins us to discuss the genre's secrets, and Martin Wainwright visits DH Lawrence countryTracy ChevalierClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownScott Cawley
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Jonathan Franzen meets the Guardian book club
The novelist explains to Professor John Mullan why the third person is a wonderful thing and how 'a tour-de-force impulse' led him to turn five short novels into The CorrectionsJohn MullanClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Butterflies, weeds and revolution with Patrick Barkham,...
We follow Richard Mabey on a country walk with Patrick Barkham, and Tony Juniper joins the heir to the throne to call for revolutionClaire ArmitsteadTony JuniperPatrick BarkhamTim Maby
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Guardian Books podcast: Howard Jacobson wins the Booker...
Claire Armitstead, Guardian literary editor, Sarah Crown, editor of guardian.co.uk/books, and Benedicte Page of the Bookseller discuss Howard Jacobson's victory at this year's Man Booker prize with his novel, The Finkler QuestionClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownBenedicte PageTim Maby
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Prizes and poetry with Michelle Paver, Seamus Heaney and...
We talk to Michelle Paver, winner of the Guardian children's fiction prize, examine Ted Hughes's newly-discovered poem on the death of Sylvia Plath, and celebrate Seamus Heaney's Forward prize and Mario Vargas Llosa's NobelClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownMichelle PauliTim Maby
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Guardian Books Podcast: Political books with Polly...
In the midst of party conference season, Polly Toynbee and Will Hutton talk to Claire Armitstead about their new books, and how literary festivals are better venues for campaigning than political meetings. With Julian Glover, Francis Beckett and Sarah Crown in the studio.Claire ArmitsteadPolly ToynbeeWill HuttonJulian GloverFrancis BeckettSarah CrownTim Maby
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Howard Jacobson meets the Guardian book club
The Booker-shortlisted author talks about his novel Kalooki Nights to John Mullan at the Guardian book club in ManchesterJohn MullanClaire ArmitsteadTim Maby
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Will Self and Martin Amis on appearing in their own books
Adam Thirlwell, Will Self and Martin Amis discuss fictional characters bearing their authors' namesClaire ArmitsteadSarah CrownAdam ThirlwellRichard LeaTim Maby
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