Ryan Gattis talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel All Involved, a fictional account of the 1992 Los Angeles riots told from the perspective of 17 different characters caught up in the violence from gang members to fire fighters.

Also on the programme, resident close reading expert Sarah Dillon scrutinizes a passage of Ian McEwan's prose; we offer advice to someone in search of the perfect novel for a hen night and Saud Alsanousi, winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, sends us a literary postcard from Kuwait. Show less