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Adam Thirlwell, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Yuval Noah Harari join Alex Clark for a men's special in celebration of International Men's Day.

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Join Alex Clark in a special Vintage Design Podcast as she talks to renowned designers Pascal Anson and Dominic Wilcox, whose books Ordinary Made Extraordinary and Variations on Normal are published by Square Peg this autumn, and Vintage’s own in-house book designers Stephen Parker and Matt Broughton from the CMYK team. See here for a gallery of innovations from Pascal and Dominic: http://on.fb.me/Zpni6l

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Ian McEwan and Martin Amis are two old friends - who also happen to be literary superstars. Listen to them discuss their thought-provoking new books, The Children Act and The Zone of Interest, look back over their distinguished careers and consider the current state and the future prospects of the novel. The podcast is presented by journalist Alex Clark. Contains strong language.

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Ian McEwan - The Children Act

A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam.

Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life. Time is running out.

She visits the boy in hospital – an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. But it is Fiona who must ultimately decide whether he lives or dies and her judgement will have momentous consequences for them both.

Martin Amis - The Zone of Interest

Shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize

'Surely his masterpiece… Intelligent, terrifying and comic… Amis has tackled the biggest questions with imagination and intelligence, and the ultimate strength of this masterly novel is that he knows, and shows, that although there is no answer to the questions Auschwitz poses, we must never stop asking them. Read it, ponder it – revel in it indeed – then read it again.'

Allan Massie, Scotsman

There was an old story about a king who asked his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn’t show you your reflection. Instead, it showed you your soul – it showed you who you really were. But the king couldn’t look into the mirror without turning away, and nor could his courtiers. No one could.

What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it? Fearless and original, The Zone of Interest is a violently dark love story set against a backdrop of unadulterated evil, and a vivid journey into the depths and contradictions of the human soul.

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Alex Clark talks to five Man Booker 2014 shortlisted authors from across Penguin Random House in this special episode featuring past winner Howard Jacobson, Ali Smith, Richard Flanagan, Neel Mukherjee and Joshua Ferris.

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A special World War One literature podcast to mark the centenary of when Britain entered the Great War. Alex Clark is joined by Sebastian Faulks, Emily Mayhew and Brian Turner.

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It's a bumper year for British cycling as the Tour de France hits our shores. In a cycling special, Alex Clark talks to Tim Moore about slogging around the routes of cycling’s greatest races; Max Leonard discusses the Lanterne Rouge; and Ellis Bacon of The Cycling Anthology gives us a taster of the latest volume.

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To mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest this June, Alex Clark talks to Xiaulo Guo, one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, about her new book I Am China. The New Yorker China correspondent Evan Osnos sends us his dispatch taken from Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China, and Wild Swans author Jung Chang talks about the most important woman in Chinese history, Empress Dowager Cixi.

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Alex Clark charts the UK feminist movement from the Suffragettes to today’s fourth-wave feminism in this podcast special. She talks to the founders of The Vagenda blog, and now book, discussing the media’s relationship with women, and also the creators of Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, a graphic novel which delves into the history of feminism in the UK.

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Tune in to listen to an exclusive interview with Irvine Welsh about his new novel The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins and to delve into the world of a slang lexicographer, with Jonathon Green and his new book Odd Job Man.

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From the number one bestselling author of Trainspotting

Meet Lucy Brennan – an aggressive personal trainer who has just become a media hero after taking down a would-be gunman in Miami.

The one witness to the daring rescue is Lena Sorensen – an overweight depressive who is becoming increasingly obsessed with Lucy…

Irvine Welsh’s latest creation captures the two great obsessions of our time – how we look and where we live – and tells a story so subversive and dark it blacks out the Florida sun.

For thirty years Jonathon Green has been collecting slang – the indefinable language of the gutter, the brothel, the jail, the barroom – producing a succession of dictionaries, most recently the three-volume Green's Dictionary of Slang, that have been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative ever compiled. In this fascinating memoir Green reveals that he first began collecting slang in the 1970s, noticing that the contemporary authorities (notably Eric Partridge) preferred the past to the present, unaware of the huge array of new slang being coined by the counter-culture. He ponders why he still does this strange, lonely job, exploring the satisfaction that can be gained by tracking down the first use of a term just encountered in one of the cheap dime novels he devours for research. The lexis leans towards pimping and prostitution, crime and imprisonment, violence and cruelty, drunken and drugged debauches: what does this say about the man who spends every day truffling for it?

A fascinating look at how one man has built a lexis of 125,000 words that includes 1,740 words for sexual intercourse, 1,351 for the penis, 540 for defecation/urination, 247 for fat, 219 for vomiting and 180 for anal sex, Odd Job Man will delight all those who love the words that the conventional dictionaries leave out.

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In the March Vintage podcast with Alex Clark we hear from some on Vintage’s new female authors to celebrate International Women’s Day. With Lauren Owen, Hermione Eyre, Eva Dolan and Anna Whitwham.

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