Cressida Connolly talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel After the Party. Three sisters from a privileged Sussex family are caught up in the rise in popularity of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists during the summer of 1938.

Mariella talks to Chris Power and Peter Kemp about newly published collections of short stories from three recently departed masters of the genre, Helen Dunmore, William Trevor and Denis Johnson.

And a unique view of the book world of Baghdad from the Iraqi author of Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi. Show less