A Good Read

Mariella Frostrup talks to Samuel Bjork about I'm Travelling Alone.

Mariella Frostrup talks to American novelist Tom Drury about The Driftless Area

Science writer and botanist,James Wong, TV's Dr Christian Jessen and Harriett Gilbert discuss their favourite books by Michael Crichton, Louis Begley and Amos Oz.

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Producer Sally Heaven

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2015.

Politician Shirley Williams and novelist Margaret Drabble join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Winifred Holtby, Mary McCarthy and James Joyce.

The Group by Mary McCarthy

South Riding by Winifred Holtby

Dubliners by James Joyce

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015.

Mariella Frostrup talks to William Boyd about his novel Sweet Caress

Writer Tracy Chevalier, historian Niall Ferguson and Harriet Gilbert discuss favourite novels by Murial Spark, Robert Louis Stevenson and Irène Némirovsky.

Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

South Sea Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

Producer: Sally Heaven

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Edna O'Brien about The Little Red Chairs

Harriett Gilbert is joined by comic novelist Jonathan Coe and Radio 1 DJ Gemma Cairney to recommend favourite books.

Jonathan's choice is the first part in a tragi-comic epic, 'The Complete Pratt',a semi-autobiographical novel by the late David Nobbs, creator of 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'. It's called 'Second From Last in the Sack Race'.

Gemma chooses a novel by Laura Dockrill, a vividly imagined story of mermaids and pirates, 'Lorali'.

Harriett dusts off a novel from the 1940s by Nevil Shute, 'Pied Piper'. Its subject matter is sharply topical: an elderly man leads a growing group of refugee children across Europe, attempting to avoid the Nazi invaders.

Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Jeremy Gavron, Kate Grenville and Eugene Vodolazkin

News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy, crime writer Ann Cleeves and Harriet Gilbert discuss their favourite books by Alain-Fournier, George Orwell and Joanna Rakoff.

The Lost Estate (Le Grande Meaulnes) by Alain-Fournier

The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell

My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff

Producer: Sally Heaven

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015.