The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Joe Haddow speaks to writer David Diop and translator Anna Moschovakis about how it felt to win the International Booker Prize and we hear the moment when Lucy Hughes-Hallett announced the winner again from Coventry Cathedral. Listen to the episode for a discussion of language, t ... Show More

We’re pleased to introduce the first episode on this year’s International Booker Prize podcast. In this episode host Joe Haddow is in conversation with two of the judges for this year Olivette Otele and Aida Edemariam. The trio discuss each of the thirteen longlisted books in dep ... Show More

In our 2020 Booker Prize winner episode, this year's winner Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain, speaks to host Joe Haddow about the aftermath of his win, from reaching out to English teachers who inspired his love of literature, to his surprise at the global reception of ... Show More

Esther Duflo, Économiste, Professeure à MIT, prix « Nobel » d’économie. 

Orhan Pamuk talks to Philip Dodd about his writing career and his views of modern Turkey. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2006, his novels include The Black Book, Snow, My Name is Red and The Museum of Innocence - a book and a real building created by the author which ea ... Show More

The Young Diana by Marie Corelli audiobook. Genre: romance Step into the enchanting world of 'The Young Diana' by Marie Corelli, where the delicate threads of fate weave an intricate tapestry of love, ambition, and self-discovery that will captivate your heart and mind. This tim ... Show More

A down and out young man looking for work gets a job as custodian at a wax works museum and finds himself captivated by a woman's wax likeness in the section reserved for murderers. This story was inspired by the author's attempt to sneak into the famous Madame Tussaud's London w ... Show More

"The Fall of The House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. Adapted by Jake Weber. 2021.Intro read by Margo Seibert.Poe is an audiochuck production.Instagram: @audiochuckTwitter: @audiochuckFacebook: /audiochuckllc Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for inform ... Show More

<p>Rebecca Makkai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/06/21/the-third-and-final-continent"><strong>The Third and Final Continent</strong></a>,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 1999. Makka ... Show More

Arundhati Roy, the Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner is in conversation with Philip Dodd as she publishes her second novel 20 years after The God of Small Things. Arundhati Roy's new novel is called The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. It is being read on BBC Radio 4's ... Show More

Jewell Parker Rhodes, winner of the American Book Award, talks about the difficulty of writing "Ghost Boys" and about her own reading journey with host Kitty Felde. bookclubforkids.org