Our young reviewers, Gabe and Phoebe, are with us to over a review of Muddle Earth, a children’s novel by Paul Stewart which largely parodies ‘The Lord of the Rings

In this week’s Literary Moment we discuss the life and times of American novelist, Herman Melville. Melville passed away on September 28th, 1891 and is best known for his novel Moby-Dick.

Karen Osman is with us in our Castaway segment to reveal which books she would take with her if she were to become stranded on a deserted island. She tells us why she has picked The Power by Naomi Alderman, Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, and The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory.

On this week’s Arab World Segment of Talking of Books, Dalia Dogmoch joins us to discuss her wildly popular food blog Dalia’s Kitchen. She also delves into an in depth discussion of Arabesque, the revolutionary cookbook published in the 1960’s which introduced Western audiences to Middle Eastern recipes for the first time

In our Book of the Week segment we are joined by Chris Bradley who offers his perspective on Irresistible by Adam Alter which examines society’s growing dependence on technology.

This week’s show ends with a musical interlude of Hakuna Matata from The Lion King Soundtrack.

On this week's Talking of Books, Annabelle Corton (host) and Natalie Madison (co-host) celebrate Stephen King's birthday, and begin the show with their young reviewer, Inigo LeBlanc, who offers his perspective on 'The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy' by Rick Riordan. Spoken word artist Afra Atiq then joins us to reveal the three books she would take with her if she ever became stranded on a deserted island. We then delve into a fascinating segment of Arab World with Afra who chats about her journey as an Emirati spoken word artist and gives a powerful live performance. Flora Rees, former editor and current Head of Education and Publishing at the Emirates Literature Foundation, makes a guest appearance during The Big Question to address how you should move forward with editing your manuscript once it's been written. Daniel LeBlanc then chimes in for a review of 'Lagoon' a novel by Nnedi Okorafor where a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier are left to handle humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador and save the world from destruction. Our show ends with a musical interlude of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.

On this week's Talking of Books, Annabelle Corton (host) and Natalie Madison (co-host) celebrate Stephen King's birthday, and begin the show with their young reviewer, Inigo LeBlanc, who offers his perspective on 'The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy' by Rick Riordan. Spoken word artist Afra Atiq then joins us to reveal the three books she would take with her if she ever became stranded on a deserted island. We then delve into a fascinating segment of Arab World with Afra who chats about her journey as an Emirati spoken word artist and gives a powerful live performance. Flora Rees, former editor and current Head of Education and Publishing at the Emirates Literature Foundation, makes a guest appearance during The Big Question to address how you should move forward with editing your manuscript once it's been written. Daniel LeBlanc then chimes in for a review of 'Lagoon' a novel by Nnedi Okorafor where a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier are left to handle humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador and save the world from destruction. Our show ends with a musical interlude of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.

On this week's Talking of Books, Annabelle Corton (host) and Natalie Madison (co-host) celebrate Stephen King's birthday, and begin the show with their young reviewer, Inigo LeBlanc, who offers his perspective on 'The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy' by Rick Riordan. Spoken word artist Afra Atiq then joins us to reveal the three books she would take with her if she ever became stranded on a deserted island. We then delve into a fascinating segment of Arab World with Afra who chats about her journey as an Emirati spoken word artist and gives a powerful live performance. Flora Rees, former editor and current Head of Education and Publishing at the Emirates Literature Foundation, makes a guest appearance during The Big Question to address how you should move forward with editing your manuscript once it's been written. Daniel LeBlanc then chimes in for a review of 'Lagoon' a novel by Nnedi Okorafor where a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier are left to handle humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador and save the world from destruction. Our show ends with a musical interlude of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.

On this week's Talking of Books, host Annbelle Corton and co-host David McAdam pay special tribute to Roald Dahl, author of classics such as 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'Matilda', and 'James and the Giant Peach', in honor of his birthday. Special guests, Rachel Hamilton, Jodie Hamilton and Alex Ring also join us to offer their thoughts on Roald Dahl's collection, the Roald Dahl Dictionary, and take the Roald Dahl character quiz. During the Castaway segment, Rachel Hamilton also shares the three books that she would take with her if she ever got stranded on an island! Maan Jalal then joins us to discuss the epic life and works of Rumi, the Persian poet whose works still inspire millions today. We're also discussing the big question of how scientists are attempting to bring back the long extinct woolly mammoth! Aya Sallam jumps in to offer her views on 'Together' by Julie Cohen, a book that describes itself as not a great love story, but rather a story about great love. As always, we end our show with a musical interlude - 'Pure Imagination' by Gene Wilder.