Johny Pitts speaks to Janice Hallett about her new book, The Christmas Appeal.

Ron Rash on his new book, The Caretaker.

The artist Chantal Joffe picks I Capture The Castle, the English classic by Dodie Smith. Set in 1930s rural England, it relates the adventures of an eccentric family over the course of about a year. It's a book Chantal has come back to again and again, ever since she was a teenager. Séamas O'Reilly champions the Irish novel, A Goat's Song by Dermot Healy, which he argues deserves to be more widely known. And Harriett Gilbert recommends a graphic memoir by the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, called The Secret to Superhuman Strength.

Chantal Joffe is an artist known for her often larger-than-life-sized paintings, of women and children in particular, which have been shown in solo exhibitions around the world. Séamas O'Reilly is a columnist for the Observer whose memoir is Did Ye Hear Mammy Die.

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Award winning novelist Alexis Wright talks to Chris Power.

The presenter and the sociologist share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

Crime writer Femi Kayode on his new novel, Gaslight.

The journalist and the writer talk to Harriett about favourite books.

Chris Power talks to Teju Cole about his wide-ranging and powerful new novel, Tremor.

Good books chosen by well known guests as reading recommendations

Books worth reading chosen by Harriett Gilbert and guests