Bookclub

by BBC Radio 4

125

Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

Michel Faber
Apr 6, 2025 – 28:26
Christopher Brookmyre
Mar 2, 2025 – 28:46
Sara Collins
Feb 2, 2025 – 28:49
Richard Osman
Jan 5, 2025 – 28:29
Alan Warner: Morvern Callar
Dec 2, 2024 – 29:31
Carys Davies: The Mission House
Nov 3, 2024 – 28:38
Susanna Clarke: Piranesi
Oct 6, 2024 – 27:37
Ken Follett: A Column of Fire
Sep 1, 2024 – 27:43
Ayobami Adebayo
Aug 4, 2024 – 27:47
Marlon James: A Brief History of Seven Killings
Jul 7, 2024 – 27:39
Lucy Caldwell: These Days
Jun 2, 2024 – 27:48
Nicholas Shakespeare: Six Minutes in May
May 5, 2024 – 27:51
Clare Chambers: Small Pleasures
Apr 7, 2024 – 27:47
Ann Cleeves: Hidden Depths
Mar 3, 2024 – 27:46
Graeme Macrae Burnet: His Bloody Project
Feb 4, 2024 – 27:38
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, with Elly Griffiths
Jan 7, 2024 – 27:41
Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart
Dec 3, 2023 – 27:41
Katherine Heiny: Standard Deviation
Nov 5, 2023 – 27:45
Bernardine Evaristo: Mr Loverman
Oct 1, 2023 – 27:49
Denise Mina: The Long Drop
Sep 3, 2023 – 27:25
Mick Herron: Slow Horses
Aug 6, 2023 – 27:43
Julian Barnes: Arthur and George
Jul 2, 2023 – 27:43
Mary Lawson: Crow Lake
Jun 4, 2023 – 27:32
Sarah Winman: Tin Man
May 7, 2023 – 27:36
Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mists
Apr 2, 2023 – 27:52
Nadifa Mohamed: The Fortune Men
Mar 5, 2023 – 27:46
Cal Flyn: Islands of Abandonment
Feb 5, 2023 – 27:36
Ross King: Brunelleschi's Dome
Jan 1, 2023 – 27:49
AJ Pearce: Dear Mrs Bird
Dec 4, 2022 – 27:33
Juan Gabriel Vasquez: The Sound of Things Falling
Nov 6, 2022 – 27:52
Curtis Sittenfeld: American Wife
Oct 2, 2022 – 27:43
Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
Sep 26, 2022 – 27:01
Kathleen Jamie: Selected Poems
Sep 4, 2022 – 27:37
Kevin Barry
Aug 7, 2022 – 27:36
John Preston: The Dig
Jul 3, 2022 – 27:39
Diana Evans
Jun 5, 2022 – 27:32
Nick Harkaway
May 1, 2022 – 27:33
Karen Joy Fowler
Apr 3, 2022 – 27:43
Sarah Moss
Mar 6, 2022 – 27:45
Stacey Halls
Feb 7, 2022 – 27:33
Abir Mukherjee
Jan 2, 2022 – 27:44
Rachel Joyce: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Dec 5, 2021 – 27:47
Maja Lunde - The History of Bees
Nov 7, 2021 – 28:09
Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See
Oct 3, 2021 – 27:51
Lissa Evans - Old Baggage
Sep 5, 2021 – 30:29
Tahmima Anam - A Golden Age
Aug 1, 2021 – 27:47
Francis Spufford - Golden Hill
Jul 4, 2021 – 27:36
Melissa Harrison - All Among the Barley
Jun 6, 2021 – 27:22
Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies
May 4, 2021 – 27:25
Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow
Apr 4, 2021 – 27:15

Recent Reviews

minigoofy2011

Very interesting podcast !

I really enjoy listening to you podcast . Many very interesting stories and discussions about new books . Still is very surprising to me why you never cover or discuss in your book club podcast- the books of British writer Peter Grainger ,he is a author of many books of the crime and mystery series. In my opinion he is the best British mystery writer in the past decade! Maybe you should read his latest book-“Missing Pieces “ and cover this book on your podcast?! Keep up good work, warm regards from Singapore.
eat swim read

My favorite books podcast

I have listened to several and appreciate how this one gets right to the point, interviews the authors, and interjects others’ opinions without rambling, condescension or silliness. Thanks so much! USA fan
Podcast2020Listener

Wonderful!

Love listening to this every week! Makes me absolutely happy 😊
真人媳妇

My favorite

I hope it can be made a bi-weekly.
Rorymwj

Amazing!

I’ve just discovered the Book Club podcast, and I am listening with an abandon I haven’t felt since I was a child, stepping into a well-stocked library. To listen to Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John Le Carre, Jane Smiley, and Frank McCourt - all in an afternoon - is sublime beyond reasoning. Thank you, dear BBC! You’ve make this Yank very, very happy.