Lauren Wolk explores teenage resilience and alternative remedies in her Carnegie Medal shortlisted novel ‘Echo Mountain’.

  

Connect Radio’s Ellie Marsh learns more about an exciting online book group with author Fiona Shaw.

  

Sera Milano discusses her compelling new novel 'This Can  Never Not Be True', with Robert Kirkwood.

 

And loyal listener NB Dixon reviews a spine-tingling tale by Sarah Waters. 

Best-selling author Josie Lloyd introduces us to 'The Cancer Ladies’ Running Club'.

 

Narrator Paul Birchard shares his enthusiasm for an explosive  

Talking Book with Robert Kirkwood.

 

And we continue our review of this year’s CILIP Carnegie shortlist by going deep into the Snow Forest with author Sophie Anderson and 'The Girl Who Speaks Bear'.

We continue our review of this year’s CILIP Carnegie shortlist with author Ruta Sepetys and and her novel  'The Fountains of Silence'.

Hollywood actress Joely Richardson reveals what it was that profoundly moved her when she visited the RNIB Talking Books studios.

Red reviews the spy story that 007 author Anthony Horowitz selected as one of the Books of His Life.

And we return to Ruta Sepetys for the Books of Her Life.

We continue our review of this year’s CILIP Carnegie shortlist, with the author of ‘On Midnight Beach’, Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick. 

 

Red reviews a classic Victorian suspense novel, 'Lady Audley’s Secret'. 

  

Lynne Truss takes us back to the 1950s for a seaside crime caper.

And we return to Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick for the Books of Your Life.

International best-seller B.A. Paris discusses her latest psychological thriller ‘The Therapist’.

Penny Melville-Brown introduces us to her favourite spy writer.

We continue our review of this year’s CILIP Carnegie shortlist, with middle-grade sensation Jason Reynolds.

And we go back to B.A. Paris for the Books of Your Life.

Blind chef Kim Jaye tells us how lockdown inspired her to write two accessible cookbooks, and shares her passion for reading.

Narrator David John discusses the joys and challenges of recording Talking Books.

We begin our review of the shortlist for this year’s CILIP Carnegie Medal by interviewing former winner and 2021 contender, Elizabeth Acevedo.

And we go back to Kim Jaye for the Books of Your Life.

Femi Kayode transports us to Nigeria for his tense thriller, ‘Lightseekers’.

Children’s author Onjali Q Rauf introduces us to ‘The Boy at The Back of the Class’.

And Blind author Bill Skipworth discusses his memoir ‘Now I  See’.

We learn how our canine companions can help us become better human beings, as Ericka Waller walks us through her novel 'Dog Days'.

Robert Kirkwood discovers how a selection of 2000AD graphic novels, including Judge Dredd, have been transformed into audio.

Bestselling children’s author, Frances Hardinge, gets darkly supernatural in her historical novel ‘A Skinful of Shadows’.

And we return to Ericka Waller for the Books of Your Life.

Fiona Lucas talks about moving on in her new novel 'The Last Goodbye', and tells us why writing for Mills and Boon was such a great apprenticeship.

 

We go behind the scenes with actor Samuel West as he records new versions of the House Of Cards trilogy.

  

Sita Brahmachari discusses the importance of tackling the big global issues in her books for children.

And we return to Fiona Lucas for the Books of Your Life

E.J. Harper introduces us to 'Lazarus Remembered', her novel on family and redemption, written specifically to be an immersive audiobook experience.

Andrew Cullum talks about his life as an audiobook narrator.

Jessica Townsend discusses the world of 'Nevermore' and her heroine, Morrigan Crow. 

And we return to E.J. Harper for the Books of Her Life.