Mariella talks to BAFTA award winning broadcaster Graham Norton about his debut novel Holding, a bittersweet love story set in Ireland. It features PJ, an overweight and underconfident local Garda officer, who is catapulted from small town inertia when human bones are dug up in a local field. This leads to the unravelling of many long held secrets from the past.

Bestselling novelist Michelle Paver and writer and adventurer Robert Twigger discuss how the awe inspiring landscape of the Himalayas inspired both of their new books, Thin Air: a Ghost Story and the non-fiction White Mountain.

And we explore the challenging writing of Henry James in the latest in our series of Close Readings. Dr Sarah Dillon scrutinises his gothic masterpiece Turn of the Screw. Show less