A Good Read

Liane Moriarty, best-selling author of Big Little Lies, discusses her latest novel.

Comedian, writer and actor Ben Miller and writer Danny Wallace join Harriett Gilbert discuss their favourite books by AA Milne, William Trevor and George and Weedon Grossmith.

Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne

Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.

Colombian novelist Hector Abad joins Mariella Frostrup to discuss ideas of inheritance and escape in his new family saga The Farm. And Laura Purcell reflects on what soaring horror fiction sales can tell us about contemporary anxieties.

Journalist Grace Dent and comedy writer Sian Harries join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Max Porter, Lissa Evans and Barbara Pym.

Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.

Writers Nikesh Shukla and Leone Ross join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Thomas Page McBee, Jean Toomer and Arundhati Roy.

Amateur by Thomas Page McBee

Cane by Jean Toomer

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.

Open Book celebrates 20 years with Mariella Frostrup in front of a live audience.

Gail Jones, revisiting iconic literary detectives and crime fiction of the 1930's.

Australian author Gail Jones discusses her new book The Death of Noah Glass

Lavinia Greenlaw on her new book In the City of Love's Dreams and Venezuelan literature.

John Boyne on his new novel, and ode to Mrs Gaskell and six of the best Sci Fi novels.