Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss his novel The Death of Artemio Cruz.
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World Book Club
The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
Episodes
Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby talks to an audience about his book about being an Arsenal football fan Fever Pitch. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss his novel A Suitable Boy. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. Recorded May 2005. (Photo: BBC)
Ian McEwan - Atonement
Ian McEwan discusses his 20th century familiy saga about the need for atonement
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith talks to an audience about her novel 'White Teeth'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
PD James
P.D. James joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss her novel 'Original Sin'. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
Writer Paulo Coelho talks about his book The Alchemist which has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold over 27 million copies worldwide. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. (Photo: Paulo Coelho, 2010) (Credit: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro joins Harriett Gilbert and an audience of World Service listeners to discuss his classic novel The Remains Of The Day. (Photo: Kazuo Ishiguro. Credit: Jeff Overs/BBC)
Anita Desai - Fasting, Feasting
Anita Desai joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss her 1999 novel 'Fasting, Feasting'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. Broadcast in September 2004. (Photo: Anita Desai) (Credit: Jerry Bauer)
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle talks about his novel The Commitments. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
Amoz Oz
Amos Oz joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss his novel 'My Michael'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Gillian Slovo
South African novelist, Gillian Slovo talks about her novel 'Red Dust'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss her novel 'Girl With A Pearl Earring'. Image: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, Credit: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images
Martin Cruz Smith
Author Martin Cruz Smith talks about his novel Gorky Park. Presented by Harriett Gilbert from California in a special co-production with San Francisco radio station KALW
Amy Tan
Amy Tan joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss her novel The Joy Luck Club.
Isabelle Allende - The House of Spirits
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss her novel 'The House of the Spirits'. First broadcast in November 2003. (Photo credit: Lori Barra.)
Frederick Forsyth - The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth joins an audience of World Service listners to discuss his novel 'The Day of the Jackal'. Introduced by Harriett Gilbert. First broadcast in October 2003. (Photo: Frederick Forsyth outside his home in Ireland, 1978) (Credit: Evening Standard/Getty Images)
Peter Carey
Peter Carey joins an audience of World Service listeners to discuss his novel 'Oscar and Lucinda'. Introduced by Harriett Gilbert.
Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone
Popular British crime writer Ruth Rendell talked to the programme about her work, including that written under her pseudonym Barbara Vine. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. (Photo: Ruth Rendell) (Credit:Seth Wenig/Reuters)
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes joins a World Service audience to discuss his novel 'Flaubert's Parrot'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
Jung Chang
Prize winning Chinese writer Jung Chang joins a World Service audience to discuss her novel 'Wild Swans'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
Author Terry Pratchett talking about The Colour Of Magic in 2003, one of his Discworld series. Terry died in March 2015. The World Book Club was presented by Harriett Gilbert. Photo: Terry Pratchett Credit: PA
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The novel explores themes of women in subjugation, and the various means by which they gain agency. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
Doris Lessing
The British author Doris Lessing died on 17 November at the age of 94. As a tribute the BBC World Service revisits Doris Lessing’s discussion with Harriett Gilbert from a 2003 edition of World Book Club, when she talked about her debut novel The Grass is Singing, which was published in 1950. In an introduction to the original interview, Harriett remembers her encounters with Doris Lessing with affection and reminds us of the fact that she became the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literatur...
Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi joins a World Service audience to discuss his book 'The Buddha of Suburbia'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.
V S Naipaul - A House for Mr Biswas
Nobel Prize winner V. S Naipaul discussess his book 'A House for Mr Biswas' with an audience of World Service listeners. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. (Photo: VS Naipaul, Credit: Press Association)
Ben Okri
Nigerian born writer Ben Okri discusses his novel The Famished Road. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy talks to the programme about winning the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert. (First broadcast December 2002) (Photo: Arundhati Roy) (Credit: HOCINE ZAOURAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Martin Amis - Money: A Suicide Note
Martin Amis joins an audience of World Service listeners to answer questions about his novel Money. Broadcast in October 2002. (Photo: Martin Amis, 2006. Credit: BBC)
Stephen King
What makes Stephen King, not only the Master of Horror, but more than that? (Image: Stephen King speaking in 2009. Credit: Mike Segar/Reuters)