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 Aug 9, 2018
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This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. Open Book talks to authors about their work. In A Good Read Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite books.


Episode Date
Open Book - Sunjeev Sahota
Apr 28, 2024
Open Book - Sinéad Gleeson
Apr 21, 2024
Open Book - Percival Everett
Apr 14, 2024
Open Book - Andrew O'Hagan and Helen Garner
Apr 03, 2024
A Good Read - Carol Morley and Will Hislop
Mar 26, 2024
Open Book: Carys Davies, Annie Ernaux
Mar 24, 2024
Open Book - Jonathan Buckley, Lit Crit and David Baddiel
Mar 21, 2024
A Good Read: Christopher Eccleston and Lindsey Hilsum
Mar 19, 2024
A Good Read - Katy Hessel and Amy Blakemore
Mar 12, 2024
Open Book - Daphne du Maurier
Mar 10, 2024
A Good Read: Andrew McMillan and Kathryn Williams
Mar 05, 2024
A Good Read Paterson Joseph and Richard Coles
Feb 28, 2024
Kate Davies
Feb 25, 2024
A Good Read: Anjana Vasan and Anne-Marie Imafidon
Feb 20, 2024
Sheila Heti
Feb 18, 2024
A Good Read: Joe Talbot and Nancy Medina
Feb 13, 2024
Madeleine Gray
Feb 11, 2024
A Good Read: Rachel Brown-Finnis and Anna Bogutskaya
Feb 06, 2024
A Good Read: Ian Rankin & Colin MacIntyre
Jan 30, 2024
Michael Cunningham
Jan 28, 2024
Gerald Murnane
Jan 21, 2024
Hisham Matar
Jan 14, 2024
Endings and New Beginnings
Dec 31, 2023
The Year in Fiction
Dec 25, 2023
Janice Hallett
Dec 17, 2023
Ron Rash
Dec 14, 2023
A Good Read: Chantal Joffe and Séamas O'Reilly
Nov 28, 2023
Alexis Wright
Nov 26, 2023
A Good Read: Janet Ellis & Jason Arday
Nov 21, 2023
Femi Kayode
Nov 19, 2023
A Good Read: India Knight and Emma Dabiri
Nov 14, 2023
Teju Cole
Nov 12, 2023
A Good Read Nigel Kennedy and Clare Perkins
Nov 07, 2023
A Good Read Cressida Cowell & Romy Gill
Oct 31, 2023
AI and the Novel
Oct 29, 2023
A Good Read: Anneka Rice and Maureen Freely
Oct 24, 2023
Karl Ove Knausgård
Oct 22, 2023
A Good Read: Cornelia Parker and Jeremy Lee
Oct 17, 2023
Daniel Mason
Oct 15, 2023
A Good Read: Rhys Stephenson and Esther Manito
Oct 10, 2023
Lydia Davis
Oct 08, 2023
A Good Read Vaseem Khan and Lucy Winkett
Oct 03, 2023
Ben Lerner and Anne Enright on poetry and fiction
Sep 17, 2023
Zadie Smith
Sep 10, 2023
George Orwell Now
Aug 27, 2023
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen speaks to Johny Pitts about her new book, The Wolf Hunt
Aug 20, 2023
Ann Patchett, plus Magical Historical Fiction with S. J. Parris and Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Aug 13, 2023
Johny Pitts explores Birmingham's literary heritage and contemporary writing scene.
Jul 30, 2023
A Good Read: Olivia Laing and Charlie Porter
Jul 25, 2023
Elizabeth Day celebrates the centenary year of the writer Elizabeth Jane Howard
Jul 23, 2023
A Good Read
Jul 18, 2023
A Good Read
Jul 18, 2023
Megan Nolan, plus crime summer reading recommendations from Vaseem Khan, Laura Wilson and Val McDermid
Jul 16, 2023
Richard Ford talks to Alex Clark about his latest novel, Be Mine - a father and son road trip across America.
Jul 09, 2023
A Good Read: Andi Osho and Nikita Gill
Jul 04, 2023
A Good Read: Merlin Sheldrake and Jo Marchant
Jun 27, 2023
Jenny Erpenbeck talks about her novel Kairos and discuses Siblings by Brigitte Reimann with translator Lucy Jones.
Jun 25, 2023
A Good Read: Hal Cruttenden and Daisy Buchanan
Jun 20, 2023
Tragicomic Writing - Paul Murray talks to Alex Clark about his latest tragicomedy novel, The Bee Sting
Jun 18, 2023
A Good Read: Zing Tsjeng and Yomi Ṣode
Jun 13, 2023
Leila Slimani, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Kalaf Epalanga
Jun 11, 2023
A Good Read: Gill Hornby and Paul Burston
Jun 06, 2023
Guy Gunaratne, plus Literary Thefts with Rebecca Kuang and Andrew Lipstein
May 28, 2023
Linda Grant talks to Alex Clark about her novel The Story of the Forest
May 21, 2023
Deborah Levy, Miranda France and Kate Morton
May 15, 2023
Stephen Buoro
Apr 30, 2023
Marlon James
Apr 23, 2023
Best of Young British Novelists 2023
Apr 16, 2023
Contemporary Indian Writing in the spotlight
Apr 09, 2023
A Good Read: Donna Leon and Margaret Heffernan
Mar 28, 2023
Javier Marías
Mar 26, 2023
A Good Read: Katherine May and Liz Berry
Mar 21, 2023
Eleanor Catton
Mar 19, 2023
A Good Read: Sophie Raworth and Patrick Ness
Mar 14, 2023
Margaret Atwood and Sam Selvon
Mar 12, 2023
A Good Read: Janet Street-Porter and Felicity Ward
Mar 07, 2023
A Good Read: Philippa Perry and Anil Seth
Feb 28, 2023
Tom Bullough on writing about the climate crisis, and Richard Wright's lost novel
Feb 26, 2023
A Good Read: James Marriott and Jude Rogers
Feb 21, 2023
Aleksandar Hemon, Roddy Doyle on Soul, and Dorothy Tse on Hong Kong
Feb 19, 2023
A Good Read: Kate Bryan and Mark Steel
Feb 17, 2023
Bret Easton Ellis
Feb 12, 2023
A Good Read
Feb 07, 2023
A Good Read
Jan 31, 2023
Dark Academia with Katy Hays, RF Kuang and Kate Weinberg. Plus Saba Sams' Book I'd Never Lend
Jan 29, 2023
Really Good, Actually
Jan 22, 2023
Jane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens
Jan 15, 2023
Katherine Mansfield
Jan 08, 2023
Agatha Christie at Christmas
Dec 26, 2022
Katherine Rundell
Dec 18, 2022
Looking back at 2022 and (re)discovering Bruno Schulz Open Book
Dec 12, 2022
A Good Read: Frank Turner and Ellie Gibson
Nov 29, 2022
Mariana Enríquez
Nov 27, 2022
A Good Read: Shaparak Khorsandi and Anne Hegerty
Nov 22, 2022
Cormac McCarthy, The Writers, Derek Owusu
Nov 20, 2022
A Good Read: Philippa Forrester and Dwayne Fields
Nov 15, 2022
Barbara Kingsolver, plus the "Social Novel" with John Lanchester and Ayisha Malik
Nov 13, 2022
A Good Read: Heidi Regan & Neil Delamere
Nov 08, 2022
A Good Read: Ria Lina & Otegha Uwagba
Nov 01, 2022
Colm Tóibín essays, Revisiting Shirley Hazzard
Oct 30, 2022
A Good Read: Patience Agbabi and Andy Miller
Oct 25, 2022
Writing Nature
Oct 23, 2022
A Good Read: Damian Barr and Ben Fergusson
Oct 18, 2022
William Boyd
Oct 16, 2022
A Good Read: John Wilson and Chloe Petts
Oct 11, 2022
Celeste Ng
Oct 09, 2022
A Good Read: Duncan Campbell and Mark Hokinson
Oct 04, 2022
Orhan Pamuk
Sep 29, 2022
Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy
Sep 18, 2022
Ian McEwan
Sep 11, 2022
Alex Clark on novels - past, present and future - about summer and change
Aug 28, 2022
Mary Renault's Greek Myths
Aug 21, 2022
Ross Raisin
Aug 14, 2022
The Ethics of Writing Crime
Jul 31, 2022
A Good Read: Salena Godden & Rob Biddulph
Jul 26, 2022
Tess Gunty on The Rabbit Hutch; Jackie Kay on the writing of Jamaica Kincaid
Jul 24, 2022
A Good Read: Melanie Reid & Andrew Cotter
Jul 19, 2022
Summer Reading and Benjamin Wood
Jul 17, 2022
A Good Read: Sophie Hannah & Viv Groskop
Jul 12, 2022
Johny Pitts returns to his home city to explore Sheffield's literary landscapes
Jul 10, 2022
A Good Read: Petroc Trelawny & Stuart MacBride
Jul 05, 2022
A Good Read
Jun 29, 2022
Revisiting the 1990s
Jun 26, 2022
A Good Read: Rob Newman & Sarfraz Manzoor
Jun 21, 2022
Time and Time Travel with Emily St. John Mandel, Carlo Rovelli and Audrey Niffenegger
Jun 19, 2022
A Good Read: Dreda Say Mitchell & Emma Gannon
Jun 14, 2022
Elif Batuman and Book Influencers
Jun 12, 2022
A Good Read
Jun 07, 2022
Johny Pitts talks to Benjamin Myers about his new book, The Perfect Golden Circle.
May 29, 2022
Atticus Lish, Jean Rhys, Maggie Shipstead
May 22, 2022
Neurodiversity
May 15, 2022
About A Son; Book Banning; The Water Statues
May 08, 2022
Julian Barnes; How Words Get Good; Bangkok Postcard
Apr 24, 2022
Forbidden love with Douglas Stuart; Oxford’s influence on interwar writers
Apr 17, 2022
Belfast in the Blitz
Apr 11, 2022
A Good Read Julie Hesmondalgh and Elaine C Smith
Mar 30, 2022
A Good Read Julie Hesmondalgh and Elaine C Smith
Mar 30, 2022
Here Again Now, Readers Guide to Gogol, Lessons in Chemistry
Mar 27, 2022
A Good Read: Joanna Scanlan and Sabine Durrant
Mar 22, 2022
Karen Joy Fowler on the infamous Booth family, Michel the Giant, Lisa Taddeo on Fever Dream
Mar 20, 2022
A Good Read: Jessica Fostekew and Molly Naylor
Mar 15, 2022
Marlon James
Mar 13, 2022
A Good Read: Alistair Petrie and Alex Wheatle
Mar 08, 2022
A Good Read: Katie Thistleton and Suzannah Lipscomb
Mar 01, 2022
Open Book
Feb 27, 2022
A Good Read: Lauren Mayberry and Rob Deering
Feb 22, 2022
When We Were Birds and Tayari Jones on Toni Morrison's only short story, Recitatif.
Feb 20, 2022
A Good Read - Gillian Burke and Dee Caffari
Feb 15, 2022
The ‘new boom’ of feminist Spanish-language literature.
Feb 13, 2022
A Good Read: Katherine Rundell and Nathan Filer
Feb 08, 2022
A Good Read: Alan Titchmarsh and Amanda Owen
Feb 01, 2022
Gary Shteyngart's tragic comedy set in lockdown, Richard Beard on Time, East Side Voices
Jan 30, 2022
Tessa Hadley
Jan 23, 2022
Chris Power and guests explore the enduring legacy of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Jan 16, 2022
Hanya Yanagihara
Jan 09, 2022
Highlights 2021
Dec 26, 2021
Laura Barnett, Moscow Postcard, Non- Fiction 2021
Dec 19, 2021
Chris Power enjoys a rare new book from Irish author Claire Keegan
Dec 12, 2021
A Good Read: Liam Williams and Kate Stables
Nov 30, 2021
Elizabeth Strout discusses her new novel, Oh William! which revisits the characters of her Lucy Barton series.
Nov 28, 2021
A Good Read Kaffe Fassett and Andy Summers
Nov 23, 2021
JJ Bola, David Damrosch and Rob Doyle, plus Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Taskeen Ahmed
Nov 21, 2021
A Good Read: Athena Kugblenu and Pope Lonergan
Nov 16, 2021
A Good Read Muriel Gray and Leah Davies
Nov 15, 2021
Patricia Highsmith, Robin McLean, Courttia Newland
Nov 14, 2021
A Good Read: Dr Rachel Clarke and Mohsin Zaidi
Nov 02, 2021
Friendship in Fiction: a special programme from London Literature Festival
Oct 31, 2021
Friendship in Fiction: a special programme from London Literature Festival
Oct 31, 2021
A Good Read: Musa Okwonga & Sophie Heawood
Oct 26, 2021
Elizabeth Day talks to Sarah Hall about her latest novel, Burntcoat
Oct 24, 2021
A Good Read Mona Arshi and Malaika Kegode
Oct 19, 2021
Lauren Groff
Oct 17, 2021
A Good Read
Oct 12, 2021
Jonathan Franzen, Amitav Ghosh, Nina Mingya Powles
Oct 10, 2021
A Good Read Neil Brand and Tiff Stevenson
Oct 05, 2021
Rabih Alameddine, English PEN at 100 with Philippe Sands and Elif Shafak, Editors' Pick
Sep 26, 2021
Malorie Blackman talks to Johny Pitts about Endgame
Sep 19, 2021
Elizabeth Day talks to Colson Whitehead
Sep 12, 2021
Making it new? Literature of the Twenties Special
Aug 29, 2021
David Grossman, Richard Beard, The Sea Library
Aug 22, 2021
Leïla Slimani, Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work 20 years on with Kate Mosse and Laura Dockrill, Richard Beard
Aug 15, 2021
Jean Hanff Korelitz, Georgette Heyer, Marilynne Robinson
Aug 08, 2021
A Good Read: Poppy Jay and Catherine Johnson
Aug 03, 2021
Elizabeth Day talks to Anuk Arudpragasam about his new novel, A Passage North
Jul 25, 2021
A Good Read: Vanessa Redgrave & Eileen Atkins
Jul 20, 2021
Miranda Cowley Heller and Summer reading round up
Jul 18, 2021
Japanese fiction; Vendela Vida
Jul 11, 2021
A Good Read Lloyd Cole and Francis Macdonald
Jul 07, 2021
A Good Read Yanis Varoufakis and Patrick McGrath
Jun 29, 2021
Elizabeth Day speaks to Damon Galgut about his new novel, The Promise.
Jun 27, 2021
A Good Read: Janey Godley and Mel Hudson
Jun 24, 2021
Elizabeth Day talks to Zakiya Dalila Harris about her debut novel, The Other Black Girl
Jun 20, 2021
Jason Watkins & Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Jun 15, 2021
Chris Power speaks to Jonathan Lee about his new novel, The Great Mistake
Jun 13, 2021
A Good Read: Vick Hope & Isy Suttie
Jun 08, 2021
Tech startups in fiction; Editor's tip; Sensitivity reading
May 30, 2021
New Irish Writing, Book Dedications, Mary Gaitskill on Madame Bovary
May 23, 2021
Hollie McNish, Modern American Short Stories, Twins
May 16, 2021
Jhumpa Lahiri
May 09, 2021
Jon McGregor; Chester Himes; Editors Tip
Apr 25, 2021
Chris Power; Online Dating in Fiction; Postcard from Delhi
Apr 18, 2021
Spring Special: Bookshops Reopen, Naomi Ishiguro, Clearing out books
Apr 11, 2021
A Good Read: Bryony Gordon & Hollie McNish
Mar 30, 2021
Claire Fuller & Karla Neblett; Elizabeth Bowen; Katherine Heiny
Mar 28, 2021
A Good Read: Adjoa Andoh & Andy Day
Mar 23, 2021
Elizabeth Day talks to Fiona Mozley about her second novel, Hot Stew.
Mar 21, 2021
A Good Read: Greg James & Bella Mackie
Mar 17, 2021
Elizabeth Day talks to Pulitzer Prize winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen about The Committed
Mar 14, 2021
A Good Read: Jane Hill & Derek Owusu
Mar 09, 2021
A Good Read: Twayna Mayne & Simon Savidge
Mar 02, 2021
Elizabeth Day talks to Mary Lawson
Feb 28, 2021
A Good Read:Amrou AL-Kadhi & Peter Bazalgette
Feb 23, 2021
Johny Pitts talks to Caleb Azumah Nelson about Open Water, his hotly anticipated debut
Feb 21, 2021
A Good Read: Tobias Menzies & Gytha Lodge
Feb 16, 2021
Elizabeth Day talks to actor Ethan Hawke about his new novel.
Feb 14, 2021
A Good Read: Tuppence Middleton & Matthew Shribman
Feb 09, 2021
A Good Read: Helen Mort & Mo Omar
Feb 02, 2021
Richard Flanagan; How To Read Well; Editor's Tip
Jan 31, 2021
Kate Mosse, Books on TV, Writing in prisons
Jan 24, 2021
Elizabeth Day talks to debut writer Raven Leilani.
Jan 17, 2021
Bryan Washington
Jan 10, 2021
Reading in 2020
Dec 27, 2020
The Joy of Dickens
Dec 20, 2020
Jonathan Lethem; Sylvia Townsend Warner; Edna O'Brien
Dec 13, 2020
A Good Read: Clive Myrie & Boyd Tonkin
Dec 01, 2020
Jenny Erpenbeck, Margaret Atwood on a classic dystopia, Paintings in fiction
Nov 29, 2020
A Good Read: Alexander McCall Smith & Prof Lucie Green
Nov 24, 2020
Climate Change Special
Nov 22, 2020
A Good Read:Vanessa Kisuule & Jonathon Porritt
Nov 16, 2020
Jonathan Coe, Radical Fairy Tales, Alex Wheatle
Nov 15, 2020
Yasmin Khan & David Mitchell
Nov 10, 2020
Rumaan Alam, Words and Photography, Bookshop.org
Nov 08, 2020
Arabella Weir & Deborah Levy
Nov 03, 2020
Jonathan Safran Foer & Daliso Chaponda
Oct 27, 2020
Hilary Mantel, Lee Child and Andrew Grant, Editors Pick
Oct 25, 2020
Mark Radcliffe & Patricia Cumper
Oct 20, 2020
Armando Iannucci and John Mullan on Dickens; John Lanchester; new Black British writing
Oct 18, 2020
Johny Pitts & Charlotte Proudman
Oct 13, 2020
Jennifer Makumbi, New Dutch Writing, Barbara Kingsolver and Wild Swimming in literature
Oct 11, 2020
Ruth Jones & Dominic Cooke
Oct 06, 2020
Martin Amis
Sep 27, 2020
Rose Tremain; Science in Fiction
Sep 20, 2020
Donal Ryan, Libraries in Fiction, Campus Novels
Sep 13, 2020
Richard Powers and Nature Writing
Aug 30, 2020
Sara Collins speaks to author and academic Sarah Moss
Aug 23, 2020
The novels of PD James; Akwaeke Emezi
Aug 16, 2020
Carys Davies
Aug 09, 2020
A Good Read: Nicholas Lezard & Gwyneth Williams
Jul 28, 2020
Kate Grenville, Beryl Bainbridge, Narrative Voices
Jul 26, 2020
A Good Read: Lissa Evans & Sarah Keyworth
Jul 21, 2020
Elizabeth Day talks to Eley Williams about her new book, The Liar's Dictionary.
Jul 19, 2020
A Good Read: Fiona Shaw & Nichola Coughlan
Jul 14, 2020
Charlotte Wood, Travel Writing, Narrative Voice
Jul 12, 2020
A Good Read: Nina Sosanya & David Nicholls
Jul 07, 2020
A Good Read: Laurie Anderson and Stuart Maconie talk about books they love with Harriett Gilbert
Jun 30, 2020
Alex Clark speaks to Elizabeth Wetmore about her book Valentine
Jun 28, 2020
A Good Read: Val McDermid and Martha Lane Fox talk about books they love with Harriett Gilbert
Jun 23, 2020
Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Orlando King, Authors and Critics
Jun 21, 2020
A Good Read: Pippa Haywood & Felicity Montagu
Jun 16, 2020
Andrés Neuman, William Boyd on WW2 Novels, Singlit with Elaine Chiew
Jun 14, 2020
A Good Read: Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie Carter
Jun 09, 2020
Paul Mendez, Class & Society novels, Thomas Keneally on Dickens
May 31, 2020
Paul Mendez, Class & Society novels, Thomas Keneally on Dickens
May 31, 2020
Daniel Mason, Pride and Prejudice, Bob Geldof
May 24, 2020
Curtis Sittenfeld on her new book, Rodham
May 17, 2020
Tayari Jones, Jane Eyre, John Freeman
May 10, 2020
Garth Greenwell
Apr 26, 2020
Ingrid Persaud, Short Fiction, Patricia Grace
Apr 19, 2020
Evie Wyld, Louise Doughty on Ghostly Narrators, Polly Samson and Leonard Cohen's Hydra
Apr 12, 2020
A Good Read: Nazir Afzal and Maggie Gee
Apr 03, 2020
Maggie O'Farrell on her new novel, Hamnet
Mar 29, 2020
A Good Read: Helen Lederer & Angela Barnes
Mar 24, 2020
Petina Gappah on her new book, Out of Darkness, Shining Light
Mar 22, 2020
A Good Read:Sharleen Spiteri & Hugh Dennis
Mar 17, 2020
Christos Tsiolkas, Mothers and Daughters in fiction, Nairobi books
Mar 15, 2020
Henry Normal & Bobby Seagull
Mar 10, 2020
Kiley Reid on her debut novel, Such a Fun Age
Mar 08, 2020
Neil Forsyth & Neil Oliver
Mar 03, 2020
Richard Harrington & Njambi McGrath
Feb 25, 2020
Colum McCann
Feb 23, 2020
Gail Honeyman & Mavis Cheek
Feb 18, 2020
Isabel Allende
Feb 16, 2020
Sarah Phelps & Dane Baptiste
Feb 11, 2020
100 Novels; Love and Romance with Marian Keyes, David Nicholls, Sara Collins
Feb 09, 2020
A Good Read: Syima Aslam & Stig Abell
Feb 04, 2020
A Good Read: Nick Hornby & Carlo Rovelli
Jan 28, 2020
Jeanine Cummins on American Dirt, and forgotten classic The Street with Tayari Jones
Jan 26, 2020
Deepa Anappara on her debut novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Jan 19, 2020
100 Novels That Shaped Our World: Identity
Jan 12, 2020
Graham Greene special
Dec 29, 2019
Highlights of 2019
Dec 22, 2019
Benjamin Markovits, PG Wodehouse, Family rows in novels and child prodigies
Dec 15, 2019
2019 books, André Aciman and David Bowie
Dec 08, 2019
Russell Kane & Sarah Perry
Nov 26, 2019
Lee Child on his first book of non-fiction, The Hero
Nov 24, 2019
Nemone Metaxas and Raymond Antrobus
Nov 19, 2019
Ben Lerner, Women's auto fiction and Ian Rankin
Nov 17, 2019
Damian Le Bas & Amy Liptrott
Nov 13, 2019
Kathy O'Shaughnessy, George Eliot, Literary Magazines and Jason Reynolds
Nov 10, 2019
Stewart Lee & Dave Haslam
Nov 05, 2019
Lisa Jewell & Aditya Chakrabortty
Oct 30, 2019
John Gordon Sinclair and Kerry Ellis
Oct 29, 2019
Andrew Michael Hurley, best novels of 1995, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Oct 27, 2019
Literary Norwich Special
Oct 20, 2019
Poorna Bell and Tony Law
Oct 15, 2019
Emma Donoghue, Spy Fiction, Harper Lee's Unpublished True Crime Novel
Oct 13, 2019
Edith Bowman and Harry Baker
Oct 08, 2019
Colin Greenwood and Joanne McNally
Oct 01, 2019
Dana Czapnik, Black Death novels, Imani Perry on Corregidora by Gayl Jones.
Sep 29, 2019
A special American-themed edition with Ann Patchett and rising star Jia Tolentino.
Sep 22, 2019
Robert Harris
Sep 15, 2019
Deborah Levy, therapists in fiction, India's richest literary prize, Lorca's symbolism
Sep 08, 2019
What are young people writing and reading?
Aug 25, 2019
Benjamin Myers, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Valeria Luiselli
Aug 18, 2019
Colm Tóibín on Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, Mary Beth Keane, the best novels of 1979
Aug 11, 2019
David Nicholls discusses his latest novel Sweet Sorrow
Jul 28, 2019
A Good Read: Pam Hogg and Mark Billingham talk favourite books
Jul 23, 2019
Open Book: Ocean Vuong; Bauhaus novels; Sudan literary postcard
Jul 21, 2019
A Good Read: Dolly Alderton and Clare Mackintosh talk favourite books
Jul 16, 2019
On the centenary of her birth Open Book celebrates the novels of Iris Murdoch
Jul 14, 2019
A Good Read: Dom Joly and Kate Hamer talk favourite books
Jul 09, 2019
A Good Read: Mathew Baynton and Aasmah Mir talk favourite books
Jul 02, 2019
Will Eaves on Alan Turing; The Moon in Fiction and Poetry; Afrofuturism
Jun 30, 2019
A Good Read: Nicci Gerrard and Gary Younge talk favourite books
Jun 25, 2019
Open Book: Kevin Barry, queer nature writing, turning podcasts into books
Jun 23, 2019
A Good Read: Cathy Newman and Jeffery Deaver talk favourite books
Jun 18, 2019
Open Book: Carolina Setterwall, Re-reading and what it offers, Shadowplay reviewed, Ahmad Danny Ramadan
Jun 16, 2019
A Good Read: Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Hannah Peel talk favourite books
Jun 12, 2019
Pajtim Statovci, Gerald Murnane discussed, Roxane Gay's favourite book, Benjamin Dreyer
Jun 09, 2019
A Good Read: Stephen Morris and Pippa Evans talk favourite books
Jun 04, 2019
Mia Couto and Wayétu Moore, Mr B's Bookshop, Claire Alexander
May 26, 2019
Ben Smith and Julia Blackburn on Doggerland; Ghana's literary scene; Rosie Price
May 19, 2019
Open Book: Bernardine Evaristo, Victorian showmen in fiction, Graeme Simsion, Faber at 90
May 12, 2019
Open Book considers the rich heritage and bright future of working class writing
Apr 28, 2019
Ali Smith, Easter Eggs in fiction and Cate Blanchett's books to live by
Apr 21, 2019
Damian Barr on his novel, You Will Be Safe Here and Candice Carty Williams' debut, Queenie
Apr 14, 2019
Open Book: Taylor Jenkins Reid, Older Characters in Fiction, Baseball books
Mar 31, 2019
A Good Read: Nicola Walker and Sarah Ann Kennedy talk favourite books
Mar 26, 2019
Siri Hustvedt, Witches in Fiction, British Library's Erotica Collection
Mar 24, 2019
A Good Read: Martin Rowson and Ayesha Hazarika talk favourite books
Mar 19, 2019
Max Porter, Folk resurgence in literature, Angie Thomas on Hip Hop
Mar 17, 2019
A Good Read: Russell Tovey and Sarah Hadland talk favourite books
Mar 12, 2019
What Makes a Jewish Book; Colm Tóibín on Natalia Ginzburg; Censorship in Kuwait
Mar 10, 2019
A Good Read: Lemn Sissay and Mick Herron talk favourite books
Mar 05, 2019
A Good Read: Kate Bottley and Ken Cheng talk favourite books
Feb 26, 2019
Whitney Scharer, Fashion in fiction, Novels by Iraq War veterans
Feb 24, 2019
A Good Read: Tracey Thorn and Maggie O' Farrell talk favourite books
Feb 19, 2019
Niklas Natt Och Dag on his debut novel, The Wolf and the Watchman
Feb 17, 2019
A Good Read: Lucy Porter and Frank Cottrell-Boyce talk favourite books
Feb 12, 2019
Kristen Roupenian, Javier Cercas, Quakers in fiction
Feb 12, 2019
A Good Read: Brett Westwood and Kamal Ahmed talk favourite books
Feb 05, 2019
A Good Read: Scarlett Curtis and Catherine Bohart talk favourite books
Jan 29, 2019
Chloe Aridjis, Adam Foulds and Leo Benedictus on fictional stalkers, Gay's the Word Bookshop at 40
Jan 27, 2019
Caribbean Writing with Claire Adam, Jamaica Kincaid and Jacob Ross
Jan 20, 2019
Oyinkan Braithwaite, Books as clutter, Kafka's legacy, True crime in fiction
Jan 13, 2019
John Steinbeck
Jan 02, 2019
Festive short stories, Hangovers in fiction, Christmas novels, Book choices for 2019
Dec 23, 2018
Joyce Carol Oates, Wind in the Willows and Orphans in literature
Dec 19, 2018
Donald S Murray, Lyrics and poetry, publishing in Iceland and Greenland
Dec 09, 2018
A Good Read: Gráinne Maguire and John Higgs talk favourite books
Nov 27, 2018
Lee Child on his latest book, Past Tense
Nov 25, 2018
A Good Read: George the Poet and Andy McNab talk favourite books
Nov 20, 2018
Barbara Kingsolver on her new novel, Unsheltered.
Nov 19, 2018
Open Book: Barbara Kingsolver, Northern Irish writing, India’s gay fiction
Nov 18, 2018
A Good Read: Kamila Shamsie and Jeffrey Archer talk favourite books
Nov 13, 2018
Open Book: Fiction following the Armistice; Beowulf reimagined; James Daunt
Nov 11, 2018
A Good Read: Katie Derham and Matt Haig talk favourite books
Nov 06, 2018
A Good Read: Sindhu Vee and Phil Wang talk favourite books
Oct 30, 2018
Open Book: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Minette Walters
Oct 28, 2018
A Good Read: Liz Carr and Kate Williams talk favourite books
Oct 23, 2018
Open Book: Liane Moriarty
Oct 21, 2018
A Good Read: Ben Miller and Danny Wallace talk favourite books
Oct 16, 2018
Open Book: Hector Abad, Horror fiction
Oct 14, 2018
A Good Read: Grace Dent and Sian Harries talk favourite books
Oct 09, 2018
A Good Read: Nikesh Shukla and Leone Ross talk favourite books
Oct 02, 2018
Mariella and guests Sebastian Faulks, Lisa McInerney, Chibundu Onuzo and Kamila Shamsie celebrate 20 years of Open Book
Sep 30, 2018
Open Book: Gail Jones, 1930's crime stories and the Tower of London's Ravens
Sep 25, 2018
Open Book: Gail Jones, 1930s' crime fiction, Marlowe and Holmes revisited
Sep 23, 2018
Open Book: Lavinia Greenlaw, Venezuelan literature, audio books and graphic novels
Sep 16, 2018
Open Book: John Boyne discusses his new novel, A Ladder to the Sky
Sep 09, 2018
Open Book: Richard Powers and nature writing
Aug 28, 2018
Open Book: Literary Criticism
Aug 19, 2018
Open Book: Claire Fuller, Neil Gaiman and literature in Iran
Aug 13, 2018
Open Book: Daisy Johnson on her debut novel, Everything Under
Aug 02, 2018
Open Book: Islands in fiction
Aug 02, 2018
A Good Read: Anne-Marie Duff and Louise O'Neill
Jul 24, 2018
Open Book: Daisy Johnson on her debut novel, Everything Under
Jul 22, 2018
A Good Read: Samira Ahmed and Elis James
Jul 17, 2018
Open Book: Michael Donker on his novel, Hold and poet Jackie Kay on the work of Audre Lorde
Jul 15, 2018
A Good Read: Isy Suttie and Lolly Adefope talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert
Jul 10, 2018
Open Book: A M Homes on her new short story collection Days of Awe
Jul 09, 2018
A Good Read: Loyd Grossman & Skin
Jul 03, 2018
A Good Read: Juno Dawson & Pandora Sykes
Jun 26, 2018
Exploring the lives of Beiruti women and Ceridwen Dovey
Jun 24, 2018
A Good Read: Tony Parsons and Olly Mann talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert
Jun 19, 2018
Michael Ondaatje on his new novel, Warlight.
Jun 17, 2018
A Good Read: Adam Kay and Farrah Jarral talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert
Jun 12, 2018
Cressida Connolly on her new book After the Party
Jun 10, 2018
A Good Read: Robert Webb and Hugo Rifkind
Jun 05, 2018
Fiona Kidman, children's non fiction and celebrating 30 years of the Lambda Literary Award
May 27, 2018
Anthony Horowitz on his new James Bond novel
May 20, 2018
Crime writer John Harvey on his new book Body and Soul
Apr 29, 2018
Carys Davies on her new novel, West and the work of Octavia Butler
Apr 22, 2018
Jennifer Clement on her latest novel, the London Book fair and Tony Parsons on the book he'd never lend.
Apr 15, 2018
Diana Evans, the fictional lives of painters and bringing books to life on stage
Apr 08, 2018
A Good Read: Phill Jupitus and Robin Ince
Mar 27, 2018
Uzodinma Iweala on his new book 'Speak No Evil'
Mar 27, 2018
A Good Read: Bernardine Evaristo and Jolyon Rubinstein share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert
Mar 20, 2018
Joseph Knox and Stella Duffy on Ngaio Marsh
Mar 18, 2018
A Good Read: Nina Stibbe and Kit de Waal talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert
Mar 13, 2018
James Wood, childhood reading and Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
Mar 11, 2018
A Good Read: Joanna Trollope and Sabrina Mahfouz
Mar 06, 2018
A Good Read: Diana Henry and Mark Miodownik on their favourite books
Feb 27, 2018
Jessie Greengrass on her new novel, Sight and what the suffragettes read in prison
Feb 25, 2018
A Good Read: Sathnam Sanghera and Hadley Freeman talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert
Feb 20, 2018
Jane Harper on her new book Force of Nature
Feb 18, 2018
A Good Read: Steph McGovern and Jayde Adams on being publicly shamed, getting back into reading and the late Carrie Fisher.
Feb 13, 2018
Julian Barnes and other literary love stories
Feb 11, 2018
A Good Read: Ruby Tandoh and Jake Yapp on favourite books by René Goscinny, Nora Ephron and Ian McEwan
Feb 06, 2018
A Good Read: Stephen Fry and Alan Davies discuss dystopian visions, childhood traumas and tips for writers.
Jan 30, 2018
Dirk Kurbjuweit discusses his new book, The Fear and Nicola Sturgeon's favourite reads
Jan 28, 2018
Leila Slimane on her book Lullaby and translating Turkish and Russian literature
Jan 21, 2018
Celebrating Muriel Spark and writing about post traumatic stress
Jan 14, 2018
Dystopian Fiction
Dec 31, 2017
David Walliams talks to Mariella Frostrup
Dec 28, 2017
Christmas literary gifts and Hunter Davies on his late wife, Margaret Forster and her diaries.
Dec 17, 2017
Lionel Shriver and celebrating the 100th birthday of Finland
Dec 10, 2017
A Good Read 28 November 2017: Nish Kumar and Katy Brand
Nov 28, 2017
The Great American Novel and the merits of reading aloud
Nov 26, 2017
A Good Read 21 November 2017: Alexei Sayle and Meg Rosoff
Nov 21, 2017
Jennifer Egan
Nov 19, 2017
A Good Read 14 November 2017: Jon McGregor and Cathy Rentzenbrink
Nov 14, 2017
Celeste Ng
Nov 12, 2017
A Good Read 7 November 2017: Rick Edwards & George Lamb
Nov 07, 2017
A Good Read 31 October 2017: Jenny Colgan & Steven Camden (Polarbear)
Oct 31, 2017
Graeme Macrae Burnet on his 'fiction within a fiction', The Accident on the A35
Oct 29, 2017
A Good Read 24 October 2017: Alice Lowe and Andrew Hunter Murray
Oct 24, 2017
40 years In Patagonia, Nathan Englander and Sandi Toksvig's new children's novel
Oct 22, 2017
A Good Read 17 October 2017: Owen Jones & Georgia LA
Oct 17, 2017
Omar El Akkad's new novel American War and Nordic short stories
Oct 15, 2017
A Good Read 10 October 2017: Jonathan Harvey & Sally Lindsay
Oct 10, 2017
Alan Hollinghurst on his new novel, The Sparsholt Affair.
Oct 08, 2017
A Good Read 3 October 2017: Toby Young & Sarah Vine
Oct 05, 2017
Clare Messud on The Burning Girl and theatrical memoirs
Sep 24, 2017
Helen Sedgwick, the York Writer's Festival and up and coming writers from Australia
Sep 17, 2017
Daryl Gregory and the importance of John Donne's love poems
Sep 10, 2017
Revisiting Greek myths with Kamila Shamsie and David Vann
Aug 27, 2017
Preti Taneja and Mohammed Hanif discuss the 70th anniversary of Partition and Peter Stamm's new novel, To the Back of Beyond
Aug 20, 2017
Fredrick Backman, Outriders and writing to music
Aug 13, 2017
The Chalke Valley History Festival
Jul 30, 2017
A Good Read 25 July 2017: John Niven & Sali Hughes
Jul 25, 2017
Fiona Melrose, transgender characters in fiction and the book Susan Hill would never end
Jul 23, 2017
Elizabeth Day, Patrick Ness and the Bradford Literary Festival
Jul 16, 2017
A Good Read 11 July 2017: Stacey Dooley & Gaia Vince
Jul 11, 2017
Matt Haig, Val McDermid and a postcard from Argentina
Jul 09, 2017
A Good Read 4 July 2017: Kathy Burke & Tom Allen
Jul 04, 2017
A Good Read 27 June 2017: Bill Paterson & Tom Chatfield
Jun 27, 2017
Mark Haddon on Virginia Woolf and Ruth Ware discusses her new novel, The Lying Game
Jun 25, 2017
A Good Read 20 June 2017: Verity Sharp & Matthew Syed
Jun 20, 2017
Thomas Keneally, Meike Ziervogel and pet peeves in books
Jun 18, 2017
A Good Read 13 June 2017: Nathan Caton & Adam Rutherford
Jun 13, 2017
A Good Read 6 June 2017 Ed Byrne & Hardeep Singh Kohli
Jun 09, 2017
Tim Winton
May 28, 2017
Gail Honeyman and Nell Stevens
May 21, 2017
Writers' memoirs, the libraries of Timbuktu and George Eliot
May 14, 2017
Paula Hawkins and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Apr 30, 2017
Lisa McInerney, regional writing and a postcard from Cuba
Apr 23, 2017
Luiza Sauma and Easter reading
Apr 16, 2017
Open Book:Jon McGregor
Apr 10, 2017
A Good Read 28 March 2017: Will Self & Rachel Johnson
Mar 28, 2017
Balli Kaur Jaswal, Alison Macleod and Ra Page
Mar 26, 2017
A Good Read 21 March 2017: Chris & Xand Van Tulleken
Mar 21, 2017
George Saunders discusses his new book Lincoln in the Bardo
Mar 19, 2017
A Good Read 14 March 2017: Harriet Harman & Pete Paphides
Mar 14, 2017
Helen Dunmore and Fiona Kidman on the Book I'd Never Lend
Mar 12, 2017
A Good Read 7 March 2017: Tony Robinson & Andi Oliver
Mar 07, 2017
A Good Read 28 February 2017: Craig Brown & Pippa Evans
Feb 28, 2017
Mohsin Hamid, North Korean literature and Editor's Pick
Feb 26, 2017
A Good Read 21 February: Murray Lachlan Young & Deborah Frances-Wood
Feb 21, 2017
Dorthe Nors, Nadiya Hussain, age gap relationships and vampires
Feb 19, 2017
A Good Read 14 February 2017: Lionel Shriver & Mae Martin
Feb 14, 2017
Joanna Trollope, literature from the Mid West and African romance fiction.
Feb 12, 2017
A Good Read 7 February 2017: Victor Adebowale & Rachel Unthank
Feb 07, 2017
A Good Read 31 January 2017: Alan Carr & Melanie Sykes
Jan 31, 2017
Yaa Gyasi
Jan 29, 2017
Tessa Hadley, Female Friendships and the Russian Revolution
Jan 22, 2017
James Lasdun, Crime Fiction for 2017 and book bestsellers
Jan 15, 2017
Literary Postcards
Jan 11, 2017
Nadeem Aslam, book translating and unhappy books which make us happy
Jan 08, 2017
Shirley Jackson and a literary round-up for 2016
Dec 18, 2016
Henrietta Rose-Innes and Terry Waite
Dec 11, 2016
Jay McInerney
Dec 04, 2016
A Good Read 29 November 2016: John Bird & John Timpson
Nov 29, 2016
Writers Helen Garner and Charlotte Wood and the history of audio books
Nov 27, 2016
A Good Read 22 November 2016: Charles Moore & Nadifa Mohamed
Nov 22, 2016
David Grossman and Steve McCurry
Nov 20, 2016
A Good Read 15 November 2016: Michael Grade & Gia Milinovich
Nov 15, 2016
Margaret Drabble Louis de Bernieres and a passion for islands
Nov 13, 2016
A Good Read 8 November 2016: Sally Phillips & Julia Donaldson
Nov 08, 2016
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nov 06, 2016
A Good Read 1 November: Terry Christian & Dr Kevin Fong
Nov 01, 2016
Quentin Blake, Emma Chichester Clark and Brit Bennett
Oct 30, 2016
A Good Read 25 October 2016: Cariad Lloyd & Mike Bullen
Oct 25, 2016
Sebastian Barry, Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood
Oct 23, 2016
A Good Read 18 October 2016: Sebastian Faulks & Sarfraz Manzoor
Oct 18, 2016
Graham Norton; Close Reading Henry James; Michelle Paver on the Himalayas.
Oct 16, 2016
A Good Read 11 October 2016: Bidisha & Gillian Reynolds
Oct 11, 2016
Tommy Wieringa, Flemish and Dutch literature, Fashion in fiction, Stewart Lee on Ithell Colquhoun
Oct 09, 2016
A Good Read 4 October 2016: Ann Widdecombe & Vince Cable
Oct 04, 2016
Open Book - Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs on Sex and Death
Sep 25, 2016
Open Book with Donal Ryan
Sep 18, 2016
Open Book on Jonathan Safran Foer
Sep 12, 2016
Open Book in Edinburgh - Crime Writing with Val McDermid, Abir Mukherjee and Lucy Ribchester
Aug 28, 2016
Open Book at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Aug 21, 2016
Open Book with Colin Thubron
Aug 14, 2016
Open Book - Reading Europe
Jul 31, 2016
Open Book - Evelyn Waugh, DBC Pierre, a literary postcard from Sweden
Jul 28, 2016
A Good Read 26 July 2016: Christopher Biggins & Jenny Eclair
Jul 26, 2016
A Good Read 19 July 2016: Lloyd Langford & Francesca Simon
Jul 19, 2016
Open Book - Awesome Authors: Children's Literature with Frank Cottrell Boyce and Bali Rai
Jul 17, 2016
A Good Read 12 July 2016: Joann Fletcher & Damian Barr
Jul 12, 2016
Writing From Wales, a special programme recorded at Cardiff Library
Jul 10, 2016
A Good Read 5 July 2016: Alex Jones & Victoria Hislop
Jul 05, 2016
A Good Read 28 June 2016: Martin Lewis & Tanita Tikaram
Jun 28, 2016
Open Book - Ruth Gilligan, Vietnam novels, Kenneth Baker
Jun 26, 2016
A Good Read 21 June 2016: David Nutt and Philippa Perry
Jun 21, 2016
Annie Proulx on her new novel Barkskins; Close Reading of Toni Morrison's Beloved
Jun 19, 2016
A Good Read 14 June 2016: Robert "Judge" Rinder & Stella Duffy
Jun 14, 2016
Open Book - Historical Fiction, Icelandic writer Sjon
Jun 12, 2016
A Good Read 7th June 2016: Trevor McDonald & Jon Snow
Jun 07, 2016
Colombian literary superstar Juan Gabriel Vasquez, new stories by Radclyffe Hall, creative non-fiction from African writers
May 29, 2016
Open Book with Kit de Waal
May 22, 2016
Open Book with Alan Cartwright on Iron Towns
May 15, 2016
Open Book with Alan Cartwright on Iron Towns
May 15, 2016
Open Book with Allan Ahlberg
May 08, 2016
Open Book with Allan Ahlberg
May 08, 2016
David Szalay on All That Man Is
Apr 24, 2016
Open Book - Barney Norris on Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
Apr 17, 2016
Open Book - Kate Tempest on The Bricks that Built the Houses
Apr 10, 2016
A Good Read 29 March 2016
Mar 29, 2016
Open Book - Reader, I Married Him - Stories inspired by Jane Eyre
Mar 27, 2016
A Good Read 22 March 2016
Mar 22, 2016
Open Book - Ayelet Gundar-Goshen on Waking Lions
Mar 20, 2016
A Good Read 15 March 2016
Mar 15, 2016
Open Book - Javier Marias on Thus Bad Begins
Mar 13, 2016
A Good Read 8 March 2016
Mar 08, 2016
A Good Read 1 March 2016
Mar 01, 2016
Open Book - Graham Swift on Mothering Sunday
Feb 28, 2016
A Good Read 23 February 2016
Feb 23, 2016
Open Book - Meg Rosoff on Jonathan Unleashed
Feb 21, 2016
A Good Read 16 February 2016
Feb 16, 2016
A Good Read 16 February 2016
Feb 16, 2016
Open Book - Elizabeth Strout on My Name is Lucy Barton
Feb 14, 2016
A Good Read 9 February 2016
Feb 09, 2016
A Good Read 2 February 2016
Feb 02, 2016
Open Book - Patrick Flanery on I Am No One
Jan 31, 2016
Open Book - Gail Jones on A Guide to Berlin
Jan 24, 2016
Open Book - Janice Y K Lee on The Expatriates
Jan 17, 2016
Open Book - Francesca Kay on The Long Room; Twins in Literature
Jan 10, 2016
Open Book - Look Back at the Year in Books
Dec 27, 2015
Open Book - Samuel Bjork
Dec 20, 2015
Open Book - Tom Drury
Dec 13, 2015
A Good Read 8 December 2015
Dec 01, 2015
A Good Read 24 November 2015
Nov 24, 2015
Open Book - William Boyd on Sweet Caress
Nov 22, 2015
A Good Read 17 November 2015
Nov 17, 2015
Open Book - Edna O'Brien on The Little Red Chairs
Nov 15, 2015
A Good Read 10 November 2015
Nov 10, 2015
Open Book - Jeremy Gavron, Kate Grenville and Eugene Vodolazkin
Nov 08, 2015
A Good Read 3 November 2015
Nov 03, 2015
A Good Read 20 October 2015
Oct 28, 2015
A Good Read 27 October 2015
Oct 27, 2015
Open Book - Adam Sisman on his biography of John Le Carre
Oct 25, 2015
Open Book - Jonathan Lee on High Dive
Oct 18, 2015
A Good Read 13 October 2015
Oct 14, 2015
Open Book - Andrew Michael Hurley and British Gothic
Oct 11, 2015
A Good Read 6 October 2015
Oct 06, 2015
Open Book - Orhan Pamuk on A Strangeness in my Mind
Sep 27, 2015
A Good Read 27 July 2015
Sep 23, 2015
Open Book - Bill Clegg on Did You Ever Have a Family?
Sep 20, 2015
Open Book - John Banville on The Blue Guitar
Sep 13, 2015
Bookclub: David Nicholls talks about his novel One Day
Sep 06, 2015
Open Book Special - Pat Barker
Aug 30, 2015
Open Book - a literary expedition to the coast
Aug 23, 2015
Open Book - Leila Aboulela
Aug 16, 2015
Open Book Special: Why We Read
Aug 10, 2015
Open Book - Petina Gappah
Aug 09, 2015
Open Book - Virginia Baily and Jacqueline Wilson
Jul 26, 2015
A Good Read 21 July 2015
Jul 21, 2015
Open Book - Judy Blume
Jul 19, 2015
Open Book - Sean Michaels; Rachel Johnson and Michelle Miller
Jul 12, 2015
A Good Read 7 July 2015
Jul 08, 2015
A Good Read 30 June 2015
Jun 30, 2015
Open Book - Benjamin Markovits; Milan Kundera; Mario Vargas Llosa; Harper Lee
Jun 28, 2015
A Good Read 23 June 2015
Jun 23, 2015
Open Book - Sunjeev Sahota
Jun 21, 2015
A Good Read Miranda Sawyer & Tom Robinson 9 June
Jun 18, 2015
A Good Read Helen Baxendale & Helen Cross 16 June 2015
Jun 16, 2015
Laura Barnett on Open Book with Mariella Frostrup
Jun 14, 2015
Ryan Gattis on his new novel All Involved
May 24, 2015
Open Book: Julian Barnes on Keeping An Eye Open
May 17, 2015
Open Book: Anne Enright on The Green Road
May 10, 2015
Open Book: Caryl Phillips on The Lost Child
Apr 26, 2015
Open Book: Mexican Literature
Apr 19, 2015
Open Book: Christopher Bollen on Orient
Apr 12, 2015
A Good Read Ian Rankin & Joe Boyd
Mar 31, 2015
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Mar 29, 2015
A Good Read Chris Frayling & Abi Morgan
Mar 24, 2015
Chigozie Obioma
Mar 22, 2015
A Good Read Claire Skinner & Louise Welsh
Mar 17, 2015
Children's Literature
Mar 15, 2015
A Good Read Rebecca Front & Laura Dockrill
Mar 10, 2015
Robert Macfarlane
Mar 08, 2015
A Good Read Anita Rani & Katharine Whitehorn
Mar 03, 2015
A Good Read Josie Long & Romesh Ranganathan
Feb 24, 2015
Open Book: Rabih Alameddine on An Unnecessary Woman
Feb 22, 2015
A Good Read John Sergeant & Helen Lewis
Feb 17, 2015
Anne Tyler on her new novel A Spool of Blue Thread
Feb 15, 2015
A Good Read Susie Dent & Janice Langley
Feb 10, 2015
Open Book: SJ Watson, Elif Shafak, and literary love
Feb 08, 2015
A Good Read Maureen Lipman & Frankie Boyle
Feb 03, 2015
Open Book: Quite a Good Time to be Born - David Lodge
Jan 25, 2015
Open Book: Emma Hooper - Etta + Otto + Russell + James
Jan 18, 2015
Open Book: Ben Lerner on 10:04
Jan 11, 2015
Open Book: Sir Richard Eyre - 5 of the Best
Dec 28, 2014
Open Book: Christmas Writings
Dec 21, 2014
Open Book: BJ Novak - The Book With No Pictures
Dec 14, 2014
A Good Read Sean Lock & Roisin Conaty
Dec 02, 2014
Open Book: Mal Peet on The Murdstone Trilogy
Nov 30, 2014
A Good Read Dawn O'Porter & Graham Fellows
Nov 25, 2014
Open Book: Mirza Waheed on The Book of Golden Leaves
Nov 23, 2014
A Good Read Doon Mackichan & Jack Monroe
Nov 18, 2014
Open Book: Marilynne Robinson on Lila
Nov 16, 2014
A Good Read Roy Foster & Andrew Roberts
Nov 11, 2014
Open Book: Jane Smiley; Africa 39
Nov 09, 2014
A Good Read: Eliza Manningham-Buller and Elif Shafak
Nov 04, 2014
A Good Read Janet Street Porter & Martina Cole
Oct 28, 2014
Open Book: Sports Writing
Oct 26, 2014
A Good Read: Adam Hills & Steven Pinker
Oct 21, 2014
Open Book: Amanda Coe and Catalan Literature
Oct 19, 2014
A Good Read: Sheila Hancock & Cosmo Landesman
Oct 14, 2014
Open Book: Colm Toibin
Oct 12, 2014
A Good Read: Jeremy Paxman & Mary Beard
Oct 07, 2014
Open Book: The Brethren and Steven Pinker
Sep 28, 2014
Open Book: Esther Freud on Mr Mac and Me
Sep 21, 2014
Open Book: Ali Smith on How to Be Both
Sep 14, 2014
Open Book: Ian McEwan and Amy Bloom
Aug 31, 2014
Open Book: London Literary Scene
Aug 24, 2014
Open Book: Ross Raisin on the Yorkshire Moors
Aug 17, 2014
Open Book: John Banville on the Dublin of the 1950s
Aug 10, 2014
A Good Read: Ade Adepitan & Dominic Holland
Jul 29, 2014
Open Book: Jessie Burton on The Miniaturist
Jul 28, 2014
Open Book: Tom Campbell and Nikesh Shukla
Jul 24, 2014
A Good Read: Monica Ali and Shami Chakrabarti
Jul 21, 2014
15 07 14: A Good Read: Julian Rhind-Tutt & Steve Oram
Jul 15, 2014
Open Book: Richard Flanagan on his new novel
Jul 13, 2014
A Good Read:Al Murray & Tarek Osman
Jul 08, 2014
Open Book: Children's Literature and Oxford
Jul 03, 2014
A Good Read: Edwina Currie and Nicholas Le Prevost
Jul 01, 2014
A Good Read: India Knight and Alvin Hall
Jun 24, 2014
Open Book: Sandra Newman on her new novel
Jun 22, 2014
A Good Read: Fay Weldon & Hans Ulrich Obrist
Jun 17, 2014
Open Book: Javier Cercas on Outlaws
Jun 15, 2014
A Good Read: Roger Michell and Aminatta Forna
Jun 10, 2014
Open Book: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jun 08, 2014
A Good Read: Aasmah Mir & Pete Brown
Jun 03, 2014
Open Book: Nick Harkaway and Ned Beauman
May 25, 2014
Open Book: Joseph O'Connor on The Thrill of it All
May 18, 2014
Open Book: Tony Parsons on why he's turned to crime
May 11, 2014
Open Book: Sadie Jones; Peter Buwalda; Will Self
Apr 27, 2014
Open Book: Kamila Shamsie; young feminist writing
Apr 20, 2014
Open Book: Niall Williams and Armistead Maupin
Apr 13, 2014
Open Book: Damon Galgut on Arctic Summer
Mar 30, 2014
A Good Read: Kathy Lette and Annie Mac
Mar 25, 2014
Anita Shreve, Rebecca Mead, Middlemarch
Mar 23, 2014
A Good Read: Julie Burchill and Fred MacAulay
Mar 18, 2014
Open Book: Mary Lawson on her new novel Road Ends
Mar 16, 2014
A Good Read: Lorraine Kelly and Romesh Gunesekera
Mar 11, 2014
Open Book: Tobias Hill on his new book What Was Promised
Mar 09, 2014
A Good Read: Dame Penelope Lively and Will Smith
Mar 04, 2014
A Good Read: Andrew Maxwell and Kamila Shamsie
Feb 25, 2014
Open Book: Sally Beauman on her new novel The Visitors
Feb 23, 2014
A Good Read: Richard Herring and Tracy Ann Oberman
Feb 18, 2014
Open Book: Ben Watt and Mike Nicol
Feb 16, 2014
A Good Read: Daniel Finkelstein & Jill Paton Walsh
Feb 11, 2014
Open Book: Adam Foulds on his latest novel In the Wolf's Mouth
Feb 09, 2014
A Good Read: Mervyn King and Arabella Weir
Feb 04, 2014
Open Book: Deborah Levy and Bulgarian fiction
Jan 30, 2014
Open Book: Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson
Jan 19, 2014
Open Book: Carlos Acosta and Victoria Hislop
Jan 12, 2014
Children's Laureate Special
Dec 29, 2013
Year of the Women Writers
Dec 22, 2013
Open Book: Jill Paton Walsh; John Freeman; Kate Mosse
Dec 15, 2013
Open Book: Norse Myths; Penelope Lively; Suzanne Berne
Dec 08, 2013
A Good Read: Fern Britton and Katherine Grainger
Dec 03, 2013
A Good Read: Mark Ravenhill and Nihal Arthanayake
Nov 26, 2013
Open Book: Bernard MacLaverty on a literary life
Nov 24, 2013
Open Book: Scott Turow on new novel Identical
Nov 21, 2013
A Good Read: Michael Dobbs and Katie Puckrik
Nov 19, 2013
A Good Read: Kate Silverton and Johnnie Walker
Nov 12, 2013
Margaret Drabble and Sebastian Faulks
Nov 10, 2013
A Good Read: John Inverdale and Rachel Cook
Nov 05, 2013
A Good Read: Eve Pollard and Julie Bindel
Oct 29, 2013
Open Book: Justin Cartwright on his novel Lion Heart
Oct 27, 2013
A Good Read: Brendan O'Neill and Gabriel Gbadamosi
Oct 22, 2013
Open Book: Conn Iggulden, Autumn in Literature
Oct 20, 2013
A Good Read: Arlene Phillips and Jocelyn Jee Esien
Oct 15, 2013
Open Book: Philip Pullman and Jung Chang
Oct 13, 2013
A Good Read: Alex Polizzi and Peter Robinson
Oct 08, 2013
Open Book: Sathnam Sanghera - Marriage Material
Sep 29, 2013
Open Book: Victoria Hislop on editing The Story
Sep 22, 2013
Open Book: Jo Nesbo on his thriller Police
Sep 15, 2013
Open Book: Jhumpa Lahiri on The Lowland
Sep 13, 2013
Open Book: Glenn Patterson on Belfast
Aug 25, 2013
Cornwall with Patrick Gale
Aug 18, 2013
Open Book: The Lake District with Sarah Hall
Aug 11, 2013
A Good Read: Lynne Truss and Diran Adebayo
Jul 30, 2013
Open Book: Grace McCleen on The Professor of Poetry
Jul 28, 2013
A Good Read: Meera Syal and Stephen Grosz
Jul 23, 2013
A Good Read: Ricky Ross and Tom Heap
Jul 22, 2013
Open Book: Rilla Askew on Kind of Kin
Jul 21, 2013
Open Book: Denise Mina on The Red Road
Jul 19, 2013
A Good Read: Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Richard Osman
Jul 09, 2013
A Good Read: Owen Jones and Sarah Hall
Jul 02, 2013
Open Book: Evie Wyld on All the Birds, Singing
Jun 30, 2013
A Good Read: Colin Murray and Bob Mills
Jun 25, 2013
Open Book: Neil Gaiman
Jun 23, 2013
A Good Read: Kerry Shale and Antonia Quirke
Jun 18, 2013
Open Book: Louise Doughty on Apple Tree Yard
Jun 16, 2013
A Good Read: Vanessa Feltz and Elvis McGonagall
Jun 11, 2013
Open Book: Mark Billingham on The Dying Hours
Jun 09, 2013
A Good Read: Terry Deary and Shappi Khorsandi 4th June
Jun 04, 2013
Open Book: Colum McCann; Mental health and fiction
May 26, 2013
Open Book: Louise Erdrich; F Scott Fitzgerald
May 21, 2013
Open Book: Tessa Hadley, Cory Doctorow and Ian Rankin
May 12, 2013
Open Book: Sir Walter Scott special from The Royal Opera House
Apr 28, 2013
Open Book: Harlan Coben, Rodge Glass & London Book Fair
Apr 21, 2013
Open Book: Gillian Cross, Taiye Selasi and novels behind operas
Apr 14, 2013
Open Book: Patrick Ness, Literature and Spring
Mar 31, 2013
A Good Read: Gervase Phinn and Moni Mohsin
Mar 26, 2013
Open Book: Aminatta Forna, the Russian literary scene and 150 years of The Water-Babies
Mar 24, 2013
A Good Read: Konnie Huq and Pat Kane
Mar 19, 2013
Open Book: Kate Atkinson, classic and modern Western novels
Mar 15, 2013
A Good Read: Robert Peston and Bernardine Evaristo
Mar 12, 2013
Open Book: A L Kennedy, JM Coetzee Readers' Guide
Mar 10, 2013
A Good Read: Daljit Nagra and Susan Jeffreys
Mar 05, 2013
A Good Read: Alistair Appleton and Simon Baron-Cohen
Feb 26, 2013
Open Book: Maggie O'Farrell, obesity in fiction & WH Smith
Feb 24, 2013
A Good Read: Francis Spufford and Sarah Moss
Feb 19, 2013
Open Book: David Baddiel & Naomi Alderman and Jim Crace
Feb 17, 2013
A Good Read: Meg Rosoff and Sara Pascoe.
Feb 12, 2013
Open Book: The Bell Jar, Christopher Brookmyre & original fiction
Feb 10, 2013
A Good Read: Miles Jupp & Barb Jungr
Feb 05, 2013
Open Book: Australian classics, literary neuroscience, Robert Hudson
Jan 27, 2013
Open Book: Chinese Literature, Eleanor Updale and debut novels
Jan 20, 2013
Open Book: Pride and Prejudice - 200th Anniversary Special
Jan 13, 2013
Open Book: Literary trends of 2012
Dec 30, 2012
Open Book: Colin Firth shares his 5 of the best books
Dec 23, 2012
Open Book: Barbara Kingsolver, David Foster Wallace, Raffles
Dec 14, 2012
Open Book: India Knight, M C Beaton & library reads
Dec 09, 2012
A Good Read: Frances O'Grady and Ruth Richardson
Nov 27, 2012
Open Book: Children's literature special
Nov 25, 2012
A Good Read: Michelle Paver and Ben Goldacre
Nov 20, 2012
Open Book: Rachel Johnson, prequels & sequels, Dashiell Hammett
Nov 18, 2012
A Good Read: Peter White and Heydon Prowse
Nov 13, 2012
Open Book: Jeremy Bowen & Arab writers, Michael Jacobs
Nov 11, 2012
A Good Read: Neil Pearson and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
Nov 06, 2012
A Good Read: Peter Hitchens and John Finnemore
Oct 30, 2012
Open Book: Dawn French, bibliomania and Britain re-imagined
Oct 28, 2012
A Good Read: Justin Webb and Frances Fyfield
Oct 23, 2012
Open Book: A.M. Homes, and life behind the embassy door
Oct 21, 2012
A Good Read: Sir Michael Darrington and Terri Duhon
Oct 16, 2012
Open Book: Michael Chabon, Biographies & Dickens' anniversary
Oct 14, 2012
A Good Read: Ed Douglas and Andy Cave
Oct 09, 2012
A Good Read: Val McDermid and Alex Horne
Oct 02, 2012
Open Book: Edna O'Brien and the pain and pleasure of writing a novel
Sep 30, 2012
Open Book: A.N. Wilson, European literature and Writing Britain
Sep 23, 2012
Open Book: Will Self, A Clockwork Orange, Lawrence Norfolk
Sep 16, 2012
Open Book: Zadie Smith
Sep 09, 2012
Open Book: Tartan Noir Special
Aug 26, 2012
Open Book: Pat Barker, questions never to ask an author
Aug 19, 2012
Open Book: Russell Kane on James Bond and audio books
Aug 12, 2012
Christopher Buckley and Anthony Cheetham
Jul 29, 2012
A Good Read: Kevin Maguire, Lucy Mangan
Jul 24, 2012
Open Book: Paul Theroux special
Jul 20, 2012
A Good Read: Tim Coates, John Plowman
Jul 17, 2012
Open Book: Ben Fountain, Siri Hustvedt, internet book sales
Jul 15, 2012
A Good Read 10 July 12: Alison Graham, Sophi Tranchell
Jul 10, 2012
Open Book: Michael Palin, funerals in literature, Alice Day
Jul 08, 2012
A Good Read: Rob Hopkins, Helen Castor
Jul 03, 2012
A Good Read: Constance Briscoe, Angela Saini
Jun 26, 2012
Open Book: Chick lit, The Woman Reader and Writing Britain
Jun 24, 2012
A Good Read: Ian Marchant, Larry Lamb
Jun 19, 2012
Open Book: Literary London Special
Jun 17, 2012
A Good Read: Michele Hanson, Roger Highfield
Jun 12, 2012
Open Book: Lionel Shriver, Mrs Bridge and Reading like a Writer
Jun 10, 2012
A Good Read: Maggie Aderin-Pocock, William Orbit
Jun 05, 2012
A Good Read: Steve Backshall, Geraldine Bedell
May 29, 2012
Open Book: David Hewson, Commonwealth Writers, Helen Simpson
May 27, 2012
Orlando Figes - Just Send Me Word
May 20, 2012
Open Book
May 13, 2012
Ross Raisin
May 06, 2012
Open Book: Russell Kane, Writing Britain, Updating Classics
Apr 29, 2012
Open Book: Timothy Mo, Stasi files and the London Book Fair
Apr 22, 2012
Open Book: Elif Shafak, children's books
Apr 15, 2012
Open Book: Sir Ronald Harwood on the books that influenced him
Apr 08, 2012
A Good Read: Isy Suttie, Beverley Humphreys
Mar 27, 2012
Open Book
Mar 27, 2012
A Good Read: Frances Barber, Grace Dent
Mar 20, 2012
Mariella Frostrup looks at the career and life of Dodie Smith
Mar 19, 2012
A Good Read: Neil McCormick, Chris Lintott
Mar 13, 2012
Open Book
Mar 11, 2012
A Good Read: Deborah Meaden, Eliza Carthy
Mar 06, 2012
A Good Read: Brian Sewell, Wendy Cope
Feb 28, 2012
Mariella Frostrup talks to John Lanchester
Feb 26, 2012
A Good Read: Martin Stephen, Augustus Casely-Hayford
Feb 21, 2012
Open Book: Short Stories
Feb 19, 2012
A Good Read: Eleanor Updale, Andrea Oliver
Feb 14, 2012
Open Book: William Boyd
Feb 12, 2012
A Good Read: Bonnie Greer, Simon Brett
Feb 07, 2012
Horror fiction with Helen Dunmore; plus students in literature
Jan 29, 2012
Woman in Black, debut novels, Kate Williams
Jan 22, 2012
Gillian Slovo, Ben Kane, Amazon Publishing
Jan 15, 2012
Sue Townsend, online publishing, Samantha Harvey
Jan 08, 2012
The Tale of A Tale of Two Cities
Dec 29, 2011
Funniest Book
Dec 24, 2011
Open Book: Mini History of Comic Writing - P G Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh
Dec 18, 2011
Open Book: Jo Brand on Open Book's funniest book, Roy Hattersley on Charles Dickens
Dec 11, 2011
A Good Read: Lucy Worsley, Barbara Stocking
Nov 29, 2011
Tony Parsons 18th Century Satire and Readable Books
Nov 27, 2011
A Good Read: Rachel Johnson, Martin Kelner
Nov 22, 2011
Open Book: Comic writing continued, Sarah Hall
Nov 20, 2011
A Good Read: Nerina Pallot and Peter Molyneux
Nov 15, 2011
Penelope Lively, Terry Jones, John Sessions
Nov 13, 2011
A Good Read: David Morrissey, Trevor Phillips
Nov 08, 2011
A Good Read: Stephanie Flanders, Roisin McAuley
Nov 01, 2011
Victoria Hislop, Asian writers, Roslund and Hellstrom
Oct 30, 2011
A Good Read: 25 Oct 11: Christopher Frayling, Nikki Bedi
Oct 25, 2011
Mariella Frostrup with Margaret Atwood, Helen Simpson and Hari Kunzru
Oct 23, 2011
A Good Read: 18 Oct 11: Rick Stein, Michael Dobbs
Oct 18, 2011
Mariella Frostrup with Ian Rankin and Don McCullin
Oct 16, 2011
A Good Read: 11 Oct 11: Mary Beard, Bidisha -Chelt
Oct 11, 2011
Rober Harris talks to Mariella Frostrup
Oct 09, 2011
A Good Read: 04 Oct 11: Michael Morpurgo, Sara Maitland
Oct 04, 2011
Open Book: Catch 22 50th anniversary and writers-in-residence
Sep 25, 2011
Open Book: Charles Frazier, travel writing and magic realism
Sep 18, 2011
Open Book: Meg Rosoff and Christopher Hope
Sep 11, 2011
Open Book: Barry Unsworth and Anita Desai talk to DJ Taylor
Aug 28, 2011
D J Taylor presents Open Book
Aug 21, 2011
Dreda Say Mitchell talks to Ruth Rendall, Martyn Waites and Michael Carlson
Aug 14, 2011
Open Book: Final part of the history of women's writing
Jul 31, 2011
A Good Read: 26 Jul 11: Xanthe Clay, Alexander Waugh
Jul 26, 2011
Open Book: A Book Of One's Own Part 3 & Crime fiction: too gory?
Jul 24, 2011
A Good Read: 19 Jul 11: Raymond Tallis, Allegra Stratton
Jul 19, 2011
Open Book: Al Murray on Thackeray, A Book Of One's Own - 2
Jul 17, 2011
A Good Read: 12 Jul 11: Juliet Barker, John O'Farrell
Jul 12, 2011
Open Book: A history of women's writing, Ross Raisin
Jul 10, 2011
A Good Read: 05 Jul 11: Fay Weldon, Louise Welsh
Jul 05, 2011
A Good Read 28 Jun 11: Simon Evans, Hardeep Singh Kohli
Jun 28, 2011
A Good Read: 21 Jun 11: Fleur Adcock, Laura Solon
Jun 27, 2011
Open Book: John Banville, novels about artworks and e-books & the short story
Jun 24, 2011
Open Book: Margaret Drabble, Helen Oyeyemi and Beach Reads
Jun 17, 2011
A Good Read: Bill Paterson, Dea Birkett
Jun 14, 2011
Open Book: Amitav Ghosh and Alexander Baron
Jun 10, 2011
A Good Read: Chris Smith, Mavis Cheek
Jun 07, 2011
A Good Read: James Walton, Lindsey Davis
May 31, 2011
Open Book: Hilary Mantel and guests-historical fiction
May 29, 2011
Open Book: Frederick Forsyth, Robert Louis Stevenson and the literary salons of Afghanista
May 20, 2011
Eoin Colfer, John Boyne & Jim Crace
May 13, 2011
Anne Enright and literary friendships
May 06, 2011
Edward St Aubyn
Apr 24, 2011
Max Hastings on journalism novels & Steve Hely
Apr 17, 2011
Jennifer Egan, conflict literature & Reading Clinic
Apr 10, 2011
Monica Ali, libraries & Woolf
Mar 25, 2011
Will Self, dead lovers and comic novels
Mar 18, 2011
Justin Cartwright, Juliet Stevenson
Mar 11, 2011
Alan Bennett reads Untold Stories
Mar 04, 2011
Agent Zigzag
Mar 04, 2011
A Fine Balance
Mar 03, 2011
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mar 03, 2011
Kim Edwards & Sybille Bedford
Feb 27, 2011
Sarah Winman & New Authors
Feb 20, 2011
Hanif Kureishi; Heroines; and technology
Feb 13, 2011
Sebastian Faulks; Michael Arditti; and Frontier Fiction
Jan 30, 2011
Paul Torday, Jay Parini, Sue Arnold
Jan 21, 2011
Alistair Campbell, AS Byatt and Carol Birch
Jan 14, 2011
Michael Cunningham and Joanna Trollope
Jan 13, 2011
Barry Humphries
Jan 04, 2011
Rose Tremain, Sunjeev Sahota and highlights of the year
Dec 17, 2010
12.12.10
Dec 12, 2010
King Arthur, Philip Kerr & Paul Bailey
Nov 28, 2010
21.11.10
Nov 19, 2010
14.11.2010
Nov 14, 2010
Amanda Foreman, Dr Zhivago & Gunter Grass's memoirs
Oct 29, 2010
Paul Auster, Richard Maybey and reading out loud
Oct 24, 2010
17.10.10
Oct 17, 2010
The Cheltenham Literary Festival
Oct 12, 2010
26.09.10
Sep 26, 2010
19/09/2010
Sep 17, 2010
12 Sep 2010
Sep 16, 2010