Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland, here discusses his new novel Turbulence and the largely unheralded role of weather forecasters in the run-up to D-Day.

Sarah Hall discusses her new book, How to Paint a Dead Man. From Italy in the 1960s to Cumbria thirty years later, Sarah Hall's Booker-longlisted fourth novel, told through four narrators, is a fierce and brilliant study of art and its place in our lives.

In our May 2009 podcast we speak to Guardian journalist Andy Beckett about his new book, When the Lights Went Out, which examines Britain during the 1970s, that most maligned of all decades. We also speak to Adam Creed about the first in a new British crime series, Suffer the Children, with its very distinctive hero, DI Will 'Staffe' Wagstaffe.

Guardian journalist Andy Beckett discusses his new book When the Lights Went Out, an examination of Britain during that most maligned of decades, the 1970s.

Adam Creed discusses his new book Suffer the Children and introduces the hero of the books, DI Will Wagstaffe, aka 'Staffe'. Since this first in the series, two more cases for Staffe have been published - Willing Flesh (2010) and Pain of Death (2011).

This month's Faber Podcast travels from A to Z - from Argentina and other South American nations documented by Oliver Balch in his new book, Viva South America!, to Zimbabwe, which provides the backdrop to the stories in Petina Gappah's book of stories, An Elegy for Easterly.

In her spirited debut collection, Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah brings us the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle to live under Robert Mugabe’s regime. Despite their circumstances, the characters in An Elegy for Easterly are more than victims; they are all too human, with as much capacity to inflict pain as they have to endure it. They struggle with larger issues common to all people everywhere: failed promises, unfulfilled dreams and the yearning for something to anchor them to life.

An interview with Oliver Balch, in which he discusses his new book Viva South America - an examination of the countries and communities of a great continent.

In our March 2009 podcast we discuss the secret lives of cells - their beautiful complexity - with Professor Lewis Wolpert, who publishes his latest book How We Live and Why We Die. We also speak to crime writer Stav Sherez about his new book The Black Monastery, a suspenseful thriller set on a Greek island.

Distinguished broadcaster, embryologist and Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine at University College, London Lewis Wolpert talks to us about How We Live and Why We Die, and reveals how cells provide the answers to the fundamental questions about our lives.