BBC World Book Club

28/09/2020

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09/09/2019

Let us have your questions for Héctor Abad, one of the finest contemporary Latin American writers. He'll be talking to us about his heartbreaking memoir Oblivion, a tribute to his beloved father Héctor Abad Gómez, a doctor and human rights campaigner murdered by paramilitaries in Medellín in 1987.
Post your questions here and hear them answered on BBC World Book Club on 5 October. There's even a chance to put them to him directly on the telephone at the recording of the programme on Wednesday 18th September.

05/03/2019

Tune in to hear literary legend Ngugi Wa Thiongo talking to World Book Club
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswsss

A special edition from Nairobi University's bustling bookshop, where Ngugi was a director.

01/03/2019

talks to the titan of Kenyan literature Ngugi wa Thiongo about his landmark novel A Grain of Wheat. Hear him speak to the BBC for the first time in his home country in a specially recorded edition from Nairobi this Sunday, 3rd March

15/01/2019

Let us have your questions for irrepressible British writer Jojo Moyes on her heart-wrenching novel Me Before You.
Post them here and hear them answered (hopefully) on 2 February on BBC World Book Club. You may even get to put them to her directly on the telephone at the recording next Thursday! Get posting.....

09/01/2019

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswssq
The inimitable Lee Child on vigilante justice, underwear, and so much more.....

Leading thriller writer Lee Child discusses Killing Floor and its hero Jack Reacher

06/12/2018

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswssp
Extraordinary Chinese writer Chan Koonchung discusses his controversial novel in a Beijing bookshop. Tune in below and listen in!

Chan Koonchung joins the World Book Club to discuss his dystopian novel The Fat Years

06/11/2018

The irrepressible Lijia Zhang on November's World Book Club

06/11/2018

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswssn
World Book Club visits China.
Listen in to a gripping hour of conversation with Lijia Zhang and her readers in Beijing at Bookworm Bookshop

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09/10/2018

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswssm Enjoy!

Kate Atkinson discusses her celebrated novel Life After Life

04/10/2018

World Book Club will be discussing Chan Koonchung's The Fat Years and Lijia Zhang's Lotus in Beijing on 25th October. We want to hear what questions you would like to ask the authors - please post in the comments

07/08/2018

Coming Up: Kate Atkinson - please post your questions for her award-winning novel Life After Life here.

07/08/2018

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswssk
Have a listen to the wonderful inimitable Hilary Mantel telling us what it's like to inhabit Thomas Cromwell's head for the last 10 years

World Book Club discusses Bring Up the Bodies with Man Booker prize-winner Hilary Mantel

22/05/2018

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswssg

Harriett Gilbert talks to British writer Sarah Waters about her novel, Tipping the Velvet

22/05/2018

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswssf

Celeste Ng discusses her bestsellling novel Everything I Never Told You

22/05/2018

https://www.facebook.com/bbcworldservice/videos/1972688059416977/

08/03/2018

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvtz4

Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz on his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

20/02/2018

If you love Celeste Ng and her heartrending novel Everything I Never Told You please post your question here and we will ask her it when we record World Book Club with her. And if you're in Boston next Thursday March 1st come along!