We have a packed show on Talking of Books this week as we discuss science-fiction and fantasy and crime and thriller writers attending the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature! Isobel Abulhoul (host) and Yvette Judge (co-host) are joined by Penny Mackenzie, Chris Bradley, Joseph Capozzi, Monita Mohan, Shen Husain, Sharmila Mohan, Louise Edensor and Martin Lonergan to discuss the George Greenby series by Lucy Hawking, ‘The Aliens Are Coming’ by Ben Miller, ‘Night Without Stars’ and ‘A Voyage Through Air’ by Peter F Hamilton, Ashlee Vance’s ‘Elon Musk’, ‘Cure’ by Jo Marchant, ‘Railhead’ and ‘Blacklight Light Express’ by Philip Reeve, ‘Utopia’ by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, ‘Ink Vampires’ by Ibrahim Farghali, Martin Edwards’s ‘Golden Age of Murder’, Vaseem Khan’s ‘The Perplexing Theft of The Jewel’, Liz Porter’s ‘Cold Case Files’, ‘The Bone Collection’ and ‘The Virals’ by Kathy Reichs, Piyush Jha’s ‘Raakshas: No 1 Serial Killer’, Parker Bilal’s ‘Dark Water’, ‘The Frozen Dead’ by Bernard Minier, Monther Al Kabbani’s ‘Knights & Priests’ trilogy, Eric Van Lustbader’s Jason Bourne books and Tom Callaghan’s ‘A Spring Betrayal’.