A Good Read

Comedian, Nathan Caton and science presenter and geneticist, Adam Rutherford join Harriett Gilbert.

The trio discuss favourite books by Paul Auster, Juan Pablo Villalobos and Paul Canoville.

Leviathan by Paul Auster

Black and Blue: How Racism, Drugs and Cancer Almost Destroyed Me by Paul Canoville

I'll Sell You A Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2017.

Comedians Ed Byrne and Hardeep Singh Kohli talk to Harriett Gilbert about favourite books. It's a bit of a Scotfest: Ed's is Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre, Hardeep's The Prime of Miss Brodie by Muriel Spark and then Harriett introduces them to The Seven Good Years by little-known Israeli writer Etgar Keret - with mixed results..

Tim Winton on his new book The Boy Behind The Curtain – Notes from an Australian Life

Gail Honeyman, Nell Stevens and Angie Thomas on the Book She'd Never Lend

Richard Beard and Bella Pollen discuss their memoirs and a discussion on George Eliot.

The Girl on the Train writer Paula Hawkins talks about her new novel Into The Water

Lisa McInerney on her new novel, Blood Miracles and a discussion on regional writing

Luiza Sauma on her book Flesh and Bone and Water and books for Easter.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Jon McGregor about his new novel Reservoir 13, a haunting exploration of the impact of a missing child on a Derbyshire community. Polly Clark explains why she decided to fictionalize a less well known period in W H Auden's life when, as a young man, he worked as a school master in Scotland. Mariella is also joined by another devotee of Auden, writer Alexander McCall Smith, to discuss the poet's timeless appeal. We discusses the novel behind the film 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' which is being re-released. And Wendy Holden tells us about the Book She'd Never Lend.

Writers Will Self and Rachel Johnson join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Raymond Carver, JR Ackerley and Doris Lessing.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love:

My Father and Myself, by JR Ackerley.

The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017.