In this week’s Books podcast, I am joined by the writer Daniel Tammet, whose new book Nine Minds: Inner Lives... more

In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is Jonathan Coe, talking about cosy crime, the tug of nostalgia, the... more

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the novelist Nick Harkaway, whose new book Karla's Choice sees him... more

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the psychoanalyst and writer Josh Cohen. With anger seemingly the default... more

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the writer, musician and editor Michael Moorcock, whose editorship of New... more

On this week's Book Club podcast we're celebrating the 100th anniversary of a landmark in children's publishing, When We Were... more

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is John Suchet whose new book In Search of Beethoven: A Personal... more

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Rachel Clarke, author of the Baillie Gifford longlisted new book The... more

In this week's Book Club podcast Sam Leith’s guest is the great Sue Prideaux who, after her prize-winning biographies of... more

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the former Home Secretary Alan Johnson, who joins me to talk... more

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Malcolm Gladwell. Twenty-five years after he published The Tipping Point, Malcolm... more

My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Alan Garner whose new book of essays and poems is called... more

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Channel 4's international editor Lindsey Hilsum. In her new book I... more

In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the satirist Craig Brown, talking about his brilliant new book A... more

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the writer, artist and historian Amy Jeffs. Her new book Saints:... more

The Book Club has taken a short summer break and will return in September. Until then, and ahead of the... more

The Book Club has taken a short summer break and will return in September with new episodes. Until then, here’s... more

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Adam Higginbotham, whose new book Challenger: A True Story of Heroism... more

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Nathan Thrall, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book A Day... more

My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the writer and comedian David Baddiel, talking about his new book... more

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the writer and film director Neil Jordan, who joins me to... more

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Roger McGough, whose new The Collected Poems: 1959-2024 anthologises a poetic... more

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Michael Nott, author of the new biography Thom Gunn: A Cool... more

In her new book Cairn, the Scots poet Kathleen Jamie sets a capstone of sorts on her trilogy of short... more

My guest for this week's Book Club is the journalist and author Åsne Seierstad. She tells me about her new... more

My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Mark Bostridge. In his new book In Pursuit of Love: The... more

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Marlon James, who ten years ago published his Booker Prize winning... more

In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is the Booker Prize winning novelist Richard Flanagan, talking about his extraordinary... more

June 3rd marks the centenary of Franz Kafka's death. To talk about this great writer's peculiar style and lasting legacy,... more

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Conn Iggulden, probably the best selling author of historical fiction of... more

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! On this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by Olivia Laing to... more

This week, my guest on the Book Club podcast is the poet Jackie Kay, whose magnificent new book May Day... more

On this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by Ariane Bankes, whose mother Celia was one of the great beauties... more

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the author and historian Kathryn Hughes, whose new book Catland tells... more

On this week’s Book Club podcast I’m joined by Percival Everett, who has followed up his Booker-shortlisted The Trees with... more

In this week’s Book Club podcast my guest is Dorian Lynskey. In his new book Everything Must Go, Dorian looks... more

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the investigative reporter Annie Jacobsen, whose hair-raising new book Nuclear War:... more

In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the Pulitzer prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose new book... more

My guest in this week's Book Club is Joel Morris, an award-winning comedy writer whose credits run from co-creating Philomena... more

This week's Book Club podcast sees me speaking to the critic and novelist Lauren Oyler about her first collection of... more