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Internationally acclaimed writer Alexander McCall Smith speaks to Gavin Esler at the Hay Festival about what motivates his work. Show more
Indian writer and publisher Anuradha Roy talks about her novel An Atlas of Impossible Longing. Show more
Norwegian journalist and author Åsne Seierstad is renowned for her accounts of day-to-day life from war zones. Show more
Karl Ove Knausgaard and what motivated him to expose the most intimate details of his life on paper. Show more
"Our story, my story. That wasn't anywhere" author Toni Morrison on African American literature Show more
Razia Iqbal talks to Jung Chang who, she says, went from concubine to laying the foundations of modern China Show more
Writer Nicci Gerrard talks to George Alagiah about her latest book on dementia. Show more
Fatima Bhutto talks to George Alagiah about how politics and tragedy shaped her writing. Show more
Novelist and poet Kapka Kassabova talks to Stig Abell about growing up behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria. Show more
Kirsty Wark talks to author and academic T. Geronimo Johnson. Show more
This week in the second of two special programmes recorded in Egypt, Razia Iqbal talks to the feminist campaigner Nawal Al Saadawi. Show more
Susan Hill had her first novel published in the UK at the age of 18. Since then her short stories and novels have won numerous awards and The Woman in Black is about to be released as a film. Show more
Razia Iqbal talks to him about being an immigrant in the melting pot of the United States, the decline and fall of his hometown of Detroit, Michigan and whether creative writing can be taught. Show more
Razia Iqbal talks to novelist Justin Cartwright about success as a writer and the possibilities of spiritual change in a material world. Show more
This week on Talking Books Razia Iqbal's guest is the playwright, essayist and novelist Caryl Phillips. Razia Iqbal asks him how travel and life as an immigrant has shaped his writing. Show more
Razia Iqbal talks to novelist Alaa Al Aswany, author of the bestselling Yacoubian Building and one of Egypt's most prominent writers. Show more
In London, Razia Iqbal talks to American author Paul Auster about his work, and his new book Winter Journal.
Author Sebastian Barry on his writing career and latest novel Days Without End, winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2016. Show more
Australian author Tim Winton on what drives him and his literary life story. Show more
Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn on why he wants to make his readers laugh. Show more