Listen to the hedgehog podcast!

Hugh Warwick’s The Beauty in the Beast is a delightful portrait of some of the UK’s best-loved wild animals and birds and the colourful enthusiasts who champion their causes.

Elliot Perlman reads from The Street Sweeper

On the crowded streets of New York City there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day… only some of these stories survive to become history.

Elliot Perlman introduces The Street Sweeper

Elliot Perlman’s latest novel is written on an epic scale – spanning six decades and moving from Chicago to New York, Warsaw to Melbourne, and Auschwitz.

Sandstorm podcast

The inside story of Gaddafi’s regime from the award-winning Channel 4 and CNN journalist, Lindsey Hilsum.

The Hunger Trace Podcast

Author Ed Hogan discusses his latest paperback, The Hunger Trace, out this month via Simon & Schuster.

An Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Mysterious Continent…

Gabrielle Walker, author, consultant to New Scientist and regular broadcaster with the BBC has written a book unlike any that has ever been written about the continent of Antarctica.

A Pure trailer…

Pure. Is it always what it seems?

Watch the trailer for Julianna Baggott’s coming of age novel set in a richly imagined post- apocalyptic world.

William Boyd on Waiting for Sunrise #2

William Boyd discusses Waiting for Sunrise – a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force.

Wilful Blindness Podcast

Margaret Heffernan has written an engaging and anecdotal examination of how and why as individuals and as a society we choose to turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable truth…

William Boyd on Waiting for Sunrise #1

William Boyd discusses the topic of parallelism in his new novel, Waiting for Sunrise.

The extract is read by Robert Hudson.

Keeping Up with the Germans…

Keeping Up with the Germans interweaves memoir and history to look at ten historical encounters between English and German people from the last 200 years.

Listen to an interview with the author, Philip Oltermann.

Something of the Night podcast

Who can say what the night might bring? Mummy tucking you up with Teddy and a cup of Ovaltine? Fireworks and frivolity? A party? Music? Dancing? Ian Merchant might have the answers…

The November Vintage Books Podcast

The Vintage Podcast is a monthly book programme hosted by Alex Clark with interviews, discussions and features on subjects ranging from literary fiction to graphic novels, cookery to crime fiction, history and travel to sport, biography and poetry…

P. D. James shares her appreciation for Jane Austen

In this extended 30-minute interview the author discusses the challenge of taking, Pride and Prejudice, a beloved work of fiction, in a wholly unexpected direction.

P.D. James in conversation

P. D. James introduces and discusses Death Comes to Pemberley

More Pyg…

More from the star of the world’s first ‘pigaresque’ novel, a beguiling and charming memoir of Toby, an exceptionally gifted pig who escapes the butcher’s knife, gains an education and becomes the most famous animal of his time…

Introducing Pyg, or, Toby the Pig…

This, the world’s first ‘pigaresque’ novel, is the beguiling and charming memoir of Toby, an exceptionally gifted pig who escapes the butcher’s knife, gains an education and becomes the most famous animal of his time…

The Last Werewolf’s Wolfcast!

Seeing as today’s the scariest day, or evening, or night of the year, we have a selection of tasty morsels for all those lycanthropes out there. And you are out there. We know you exist… there surely can’t be only one left?

BBC Archive Voices Competition [closed]

Four Bookhugger readers will each win two full downloads from the amazing selection of BBC Archive Voices interviews that we’ve featured this month, in association with Audiogo.

BBC Archive Voices: Roald Dahl and Alfred Hitchcock

The final of our exceprts from BBC Archive Voices features two master storytellers, also well-known for their eccentricities. On Friday we’ll be running an exclusive competition to win downloads of these amazing interviews.

BBC Archive Voices: Margaret Thatcher and Brian Clough

The third entry in our BBC Archives series features memorable interviews with two equally opinionated management figureheads, from completely different backgrounds!

BBC Archive Voices: Shirley Bassey and Paul McCartney

BBC Archive Voices is a fascinating collection of archive interviews with icons past and present. Today we have extracts from two musical greats. Watch out for an exclusive competition soon on Bookhugger!