Settle in for this week’s Bookshelf chat about Arabian Nights and The Labyrinth of Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

How to Do Good? Is both our second Big Question of the week and a collection of extraordinary personal stories from thought leaders, celebrities, statesmen and women, Nobel prize winners, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists and others driving and inspiring positive change.

What do you do if the job you have isn’t the life you want? To answer that question, we’re looking at a book titled When to Jump by Mike Lewis, with executive coach, facilitator, trainer and leadership advisor, Dawn Metcalfe.

Explorer, adventurer, and author Levison Wood joins us on this week’s castaway session to reveal which three books he would take with him if he became stranded on a deserted island! Given his incredible expeditions through the Nile, the Himalays, the Silk Road and more you won’t want to miss his choices.

Children’s author Roderick Hunt is with us during our Young Reviewers segment via phone! Together with Alex Brychta, Hunt created the beloved characters Biff, Chip, Kipper, Floppy and their friends.

Some children have quite a long commute to school, but Binti has to travel away from the planet she calls home and across hostile Space to reach the prestigious university she earned a place at. Then we travel back in time with the updated Adventures of Mr. Toad by Tom Moorhouse and look at what has changed from Kenneth Grahame’s original Wind in the Willows.

Author and Emirates Airline Festival of Literature moderator Rehan Khan joins us during our Arab World Segment to discuss The Fall of the Ottomans by historian, professor, and bestselling author Eugene Rogan.

Mishka Khan, book blogger at The Paperback Blog is in the young reviewer seat today telling us about Zahra the Windseeker by critically acclaimed Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor. Okorafor is known for incorporating themes of African mythology into flowing tales of science fiction and Zahra the Windseeker is no exception!

Robert McCrum is the former editor-in-chief of Faber & Faber, co-author of the Emmy Award-winning television series The Story Of English and author of fiction and non-fiction including award winning biography P.G. Wodehouse: A Life and most recently, Every Third Thought. He joins us during our Castaway Segment to reveal his three choices for books he would take with him if he became stranded on a desert island.

Frankenstein in Baghdad won Ahmed Saadawi the IPAF Award in 2014 - it has just been translated from its original Arabic into English and is already making waves in literary circles. Arts and Culture correspondent and frequent reviewer Maán Jalal weighs in on the novel that he’s been waiting to read for ages.