There's corruption on the streets of Sydney with Stephen Greenall and Christoffer Carlsson takes us through the crime in Stockholm. Murder rears its ugly head in Daylesford courtesy of Greg Pyers before Linda Neil brings us back to beautiful and Katherine Heyman shares her inspirations.

Looking over the shoulder of a hugely successful writer write with Andy Martin. New York in the 60's and 70's with children, music and mothers with Emma Flint and Jacqueline Woodson and then some fairy tales, disillusioned fairy tales with Gretchen Schultz and Lewis Seifert.

A novel that is not a memoir from Michael Chabon, fairy tales and a magical toyshop with Angela Carter's biographer and Claire Louise Bennett shows us a pond, with a sign, that drives her nuts.

What RN Presenters read over Summer + Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue

Chris Cleave on war, writing, terrorism & cycling; Gretchen Shirm on photography & memory; Sebastian Barry’s new frontier.

Ben Lerner doesn’t really hate poetry, after all; Rebecca Vaughan brings the women of Austen to the stage; & writer Susan Johnson.

A love story from Isabel Allende; cities, gutters & history with Luc Sante; and the playful wit of Mo Willems.

Lev Grossman defends fantasy and talks music and writing; Ben Aaronovitch’s rivers of London sparkle with humour and goddesses; & Jaclyn Moriarty finds whole worlds in the tiniest cracks.

Yann Martel on writing animals, the importance of Portugal, & art; Tracy Chevalier writes big trees & a sweep of apple-filled frontier; Juliet Marillier brings folk tales to life.

Coulson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is hyperreal history; Francis Spufford’s Golden Hill remakes 18th century fiction; Cath Crowley’s Words in Deep Blue takes us into a secret second hand bookshop.