Jonathan Lethem; Sylvia Townsend Warner; Edna O'Brien

Chris Power talks to Jonathan Lethem.

• 28 mins

The Joy of Dickens

The joy of Dickens: an exploration of his literary inventiveness and use of language.

• 28 mins

Reading in 2020

In a year many would rather forget, Sara Collins asks what are the books worth remembering

• 28 mins

Bryan Washington, Natalie Haynes, Trauma in fiction with Rebecca Watson and Peter Ho Davies

Chris Power talks to Bryan Washington about his debut novel, Memorial.

• 28 mins

Raven Leilani

Elizabeth Day talks to debut writer Raven Leilani.

• 28 mins

Kate Mosse, Books on TV, Writing in prisons

Elizabeth Day talks to Kate Mosse about her new book The City of Tears.

• 28 mins

Richard Flanagan; How To Read Well; Editor's Tip

Johny Pitts talks to Booker Prize winning novelist Richard Flanagan.

• 28 mins

Ethan Hawke and Francis Spufford

Elizabeth Day talks to actor Ethan Hawke about his new novel.

• 28 mins

Caleb Azumah Nelson, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Black Britain: Writing Back

Johny Pitts talks to Caleb Azumah Nelson about Open Water, his hotly anticipated debut.

• 28 mins

Mary Lawson

Elizabeth Day talks to Mary Lawson

• 28 mins

Viet Thanh Nguyen; Lanark at 40; Costume and Power

Elizabeth Day talks to Pulitzer Prize winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen about The Committed

• 28 mins

Fiona Mozley, Jane Smiley, American working class novels with Jess Walter and Kristin Hannah

Elizabeth Day talks to Fiona Mozley about her second novel, Hot Stew.

• 28 mins

Claire Fuller & Karla Neblett; Elizabeth Bowen; Katherine Heiny

Claire Fuller and Karla Neblett discuss their novels Unsettled Ground and King of Rabbits.

• 28 mins

Spring Special: Bookshops Reopen, Naomi Ishiguro, Clearing out books

Johny Pitts visits his local bookshop and talks to Naomi Ishiguro about her debut novel.

• 28 mins

Chris Power; Online Dating in Fiction; Postcard from Delhi

Chris Power talks about A Lonely Man

• 28 mins

Jon McGregor; Chester Himes; Editors Tip

Johny Pitts talks to Jon McGregor about Lean Fall Stand.

• 28 mins

Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri talks to Elizabeth Day.

• 28 mins

Hollie McNish, Modern American Short Stories, Twins

Hollie McNish talks about her new book Slug and other things I've been told to hate.

• 28 mins

New Irish Writing, Book Dedications, Mary Gaitskill on Madame Bovary

Elizabeth Day talks to Lisa McInerney and Lucy Caldwell

• 28 mins

Tech startups in fiction; Editor's Tip; sensitivity reading.

Tech startups, and representing deafness in fiction.

• 28 mins

Jonathan Lee, Reinvention novels with Natasha Brown and Anna Glendenning, Computer Games & fiction

Chris Power speaks to Jonathan Lee about his new novel, The Great Mistake

• 28 mins

Zakiya Dalila Harris

Elizabeth Day talks to Zakiya Dalila Harris about her debut novel, The Other Black Girl.

• 28 mins

Damon Galgut

Elizabeth Day speaks to Damon Galgut about his Booker shortlisted novel, The Promise.

• 28 mins

Japanese fiction; Vendela Vida

As the Tokyo Olympics approach, a look at some of the best novels coming out of Japan.

• 28 mins

Miranda Cowley Heller and Summer reading round up

Chris Power speaks to Miranda Cowley Heller about her debut The Paper Palace.

• 28 mins

Anuk Arudpragasam

Elizabeth Day talks to Anuk Arudpragasam about Booker-longlisted novel A Passage North

• 28 mins

Jean Hanff Korelitz, Georgette Heyer, Marilynne Robinson

Chris Power talks to Jean Hanff Korelitz about her new book The Plot

• 28 mins

Leïla Slimani, Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work 20 years on with Kate Mosse and Laura Dockrill, Richard Beard

Chris Power speaks to Leïla Slimani about her new book, The Country of Others.

• 28 mins

David Grossman, Richard Beard, The Sea Library

Johny Pitts talks to David Grossman.

• 28 mins

Making it new? Literature of the Twenties Special

Johny Pitts explores the 20s with Alison MacLeod, Bill Goldstein, James Clammer & Jo Hamya

• 28 mins

Colson Whitehead

Elizabeth Day talks to Colson Whitehead in a feature length interview about Harlem Shuffle

• 28 mins

Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman talks to Johny Pitts about Endgame

• 28 mins

Rabih Alameddine, English PEN at 100 with Philippe Sands and Elif Shafak, Editors' Pick

Johny Pitts speaks to Rabih Alameddine about his new novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope

• 28 mins

Jonathan Franzen, Amitav Ghosh, Nina Mingya Powles

Jonathan Franzen talks to Elizabeth Day about his novel Crossroads.

• 28 mins

Lauren Groff

Johny Pitts speaks to Lauren Groff.

• 28 mins

Sarah Hall

Elizabeth Day talks to Sarah Hall about her latest novel, Burntcoat.

• 28 mins

Friendship in Fiction: a special programme from London Literature Festival

Elizabeth and Johny present a special programme from LLF on literary friendship.

• 28 mins

The diaries of Patricia Highsmith; Contemporary views of the American West

Chris Power talks to Stella Duffy and Anna Von Planta about Patricia Highsmith's diaries

• 28 mins

Teaching teenagers with J J Bola; cutting the environmental footprint of books

JJ Bola speaks to Johny Pitts about his new novel, The Selfless Act of Breathing.

• 28 mins

Love, relationships, and road trips with Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout talks to Elizabeth Day about her new novel, Oh William!

• 28 mins

Behind locked doors with Claire Keegan; Alan Cumming's book he would never lend

Claire Keegan talks to Chris Power about her new book, Small Things Like These.

• 28 mins

Twelve days of Christmas with Laura Barnett, A literary postcard from Moscow; Best of 2021's non-fiction

Laura Barnett on her novel Gifts, and recommended non-fiction books of 2021.

• 28 mins

Open Book's highlights for 2021

Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts look back at the highlights of their first year at the helm.

• 28 mins

Life in a parallel New York with Hanya Yanagihara: Book highlights for Spring 2022

Hanya Yanagihara speaks to Chris Power about her new book, To Paradise.

• 28 mins

Open Book's guide to Ulysses

A guide to reading James Joyce's Ulysses from those who understand it best

• 28 mins

Free Love, Richard Beard on Time, Bookshops as Social Spaces

Elizabeth Day speaks to Tessa Hadley about her new novel, Free Love.

• 28 mins

Gary Shteyngart's tragicomedy set in lockdown; A new collection exploring South Asian identity

Johny Pitts speaks to author Gary Shteyngart about his new novel, Our Country Friends.

• 28 mins

The ‘new boom’ of feminist Spanish-language literature

We meet the new wave of Spanish and Latin American writers who are breaking with the past.

• 28 mins

A love story from Trinidad; Toni Morrison's only short story

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo talks to Johny Pitts about her debut novel, When We Were Birds

• 28 mins

The Power of Language: Audrey Magee, short stories from Afghanistan and India

Elizabeth Day talks to Audrey Magee about her latest novel The Colony.

• 28 mins

A life in books with Marlon James

Elizabeth Day talks to Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James.

• 28 mins

Karen Joy Fowler on the infamous Booth family, Michel the Giant, Lisa Taddeo on Fever Dream

Johny Pitts talks to Karen Joy Fowler about the infamous Booth family

• 28 mins

Here Again Now, Readers guide to Gogol, Lessons in Chemistry

Elizabeth Day talks to Okechukwu Nzelu about his novel Here Again Now.

• 28 mins

Belfast in the Blitz

Two historic novels about Belfast, literary spinsters, and dissident Russian writers.

• 28 mins

Forbidden love with Douglas Stuart; Oxford’s influence on interwar writers

Elizabeth Day talks to Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart about his new novel, Young Mungo

• 28 mins

Julian Barnes; How Words Get Good; Bangkok Postcard

Julian Barnes talks to Elizabeth Day about his new novel Elizabeth Finch.

• 28 mins

About A Son; Book Banning; The Water Statues

David Whitehouse on his creative non-fiction work About a Son.

• 28 mins

Neurodiversity

Johny Pitts and guests discuss neurodiversity in contemporary fiction.

• 28 mins

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