Today we rush headlong into the fantasy genre and some visions of the future. There is a world of music and some unlikely teenage superheroes and then some other teenagers who aren't heroes of any kind, in fact they're zeroes.

Today is all about crime. We travel from the mountains of Sweden to the hills near Gallipoli, through an invented American city and landing in the Victorian bush and the ghost of Ned Kelly. Along the way we'll meet an a policewoman with an intriguing history and spend time in a place that is in darkness for six months of the year. We'll catch up with Kinsey Milhone and we'll ponder what if Ned Kelly had a son who went to Gallipoli and stayed there.

Today writers tell us what they like to read, watch and listen to. Fancy some Buffy the Vampire Slayer or how about some Mickey Spillane? Grab a pen and paper or go find your favourite electronic device because you'll want to write down some of the titles from this very eclectic list!

Today we have a collection of writers who have taken parts of their pwn lives and transformed them into something else altogether in fiction. A refugee story between Vietnam and America, a journalist who writes about espionage, a woman whose childhood was full of foster children and also swimming under water whilst talking!

Today we are in India for a book about love, marriage and family that nods in the direction of Jane Austen. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth was published in 1993 and is one of the longest novels ever published in a single volume in English. Then we'll stay in India for a novel that features dogs who might grow wings and to meet people who may or may not have a name.

Today a gender-bending app with a story that is a Shakespearean time travelling 1960" fantasy campus novel plus an Indonesian debut novelist about sex. We also meet an author who published his first book when he was 50 and an Irish New Yorker with an achingly beautiful story to share.

Today a young girl on an island and another in a slightly menacing other-world. Plus a long and tragic love affair and gunpowder and treason from the year Shakespeare created King Lear

Today an Australian author, Elizabeth Harrower, whose 1960's novels have finally been published and an Australian journalist who turned to historical fiction, Geraldine Brooks, who for her new book, goes back to the times King David. Plus children's author Gillian Mears on her favourite books.

Today we go to the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali to talk to Michael Chabon about music, writing, parrots and his new book Telegraph Avenue

Today we look at historical fiction but there's not a bonnet in site! First we go to Rome and to the enemy of Caesar, Cicero and then we travel to the Antarctica and the life of Frank Hurley. We also go to Long Bay .. and the birth of a baby.