Mariella Frostrup talks to Tessa Hadley about her latest novel Clever Girl, which charts one women's life from childhood in the 1960s to middle age and why her character Stella has a love hate relationship with literary fiction.

From H.G Wells to Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov to Arthur C Clarke, many writers have enjoyed playing with the possibilities of science and pushing the boundaries of technology.
Author Cory Doctorow and Dr Ester MacCallum-Stewart discuss how much literature has embraced and inspired future technology.

Continuing our series on books that are too treasured to ever leave their owner's possession, award winning crime writer Ian Rankin explains why he'll never lend his precious copy of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

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