29/09/18: From bookish facts to impress your friends with at the dinner table to viral videos of seals with octopuses, we covered a lot in Literary Moment today, including a way you can catch David Attenborough, Kate Atkinson and Mary Beard live at Festival in a Day on October 6.

22/09/18: Mohamed Al Aidaroos is the Managing Partner of Ink Readable Books, organisers of the Big Bad Wolf Books Sale coming to Dubai in October. Listen to find out why it’s the ‘world’s biggest book sale’ when and where you can start restocking your bookshelves.

22/09/18: What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them…all at once? That’s exactly what To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han is about - sixteen year old Lara Jean Song writes five love letters which secretly get mailed to her crushes. Now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix, we review the book and share our thoughts on the adaptation with Fiona Du Vivier.

22/09/18: It’s not news that crime fiction is one of the most popular genres of fiction worldwide and there are so many great crime novels, both classic and new releases that it can be difficult choosing the next one for your TBR pile. Tune in as Fiona Du Vivier, crime fiction fanatic and content writer, comes prepared with an array of suggestions for people looking for their next literary whodunnit.

22/09/18: September is a busy month for a lot of us so we’re handing over to two bookworms, Thomas Billinghurst and Kiera Purdue, to recommend short stories and fiction that you can dip in and out of or read in a single sitting. From Murakami, to Mark Haddon, to fairy tales and beyond.

22/09/18: A book recommendation based on a David Mitchell piece in the New Yorker about cartography, a quick look at the Booker shortlist and what we’re looking forward to reading, and of course, a literary moment – where we highlight a classic science fiction writer who is still relevant today.

22/09/18: Megan Bridget Sigalos won third place in the 12-14 category of the 2018 OUP Story Writing contest at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature with her entry A Perfect Day. Have a listen to an excerpt of this beautiful story inspired by the theme of ‘Memory’.

22/09/18: An ancient Persian love story inspires an English Rock and Blues musician on this week’s soundtrack.

22/09/18: People of Ras Al Khaimah is a beautiful collaboration between author Anna Zacharias and Jeff Topping, American photojournalist and former staff photographer for The National. It documents the stories of the people who shaped Ras Al Khaimah’s great economic, political and social transformation in the second half of the twentieth century. They join us on the show to tell us all about it.

15/09/18: Bernie Taupin was inspired by a Ray Bradbury short story for this classic Sir Elton John song.