Here Comes Everybody

James Fearnley is a founding member of The Pogues. Thirty years on, with the band now part of music folklore and still touring, we have Here Comes Everybody, a warts-and-all, riotous history. But how would it go down with the band?

Kate Summerscale discusses her new book, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace

A story of romance, fidelity, insanity, fantasy, and the boundaries of privacy in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace brings to life a complex, frustrated Victorian wife, longing for passion and learning, companionship and love.

Richard King on How Soon is Now?

Richard King’s How Soon Is Now? is a landmark survey of the record labels that make up the backbone of the independent music industry and the hugely inspirational, eccentric, impulsive and visionary figures who created them.

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.

Double Cross

Ben Macintyre, author of Double Cross on The True Story of The D-Day Spies… their codenames were Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo….

This is The Coward’s Tale

‘My name is Laddy Merridew. I’m a cry-baby. I’m sorry.’ ‘And my name is Ianto Jenkins. I am a coward. And that’s worse.’

Watch author Vanessa Gebbie discuss The Coward’s Tale.

Justin Ruthven-Tyers talks about his book Phoenix from the Ashes

After a fire destroyed their house, Justin and his wife Linda irrationally decided to build a 15-ton classic yacht, as complete amateurs – starting with the trees.

Book Heaven / Hell: Wiley Cash

We ask Wiley Cash, author of the haunting debut novel A Land More Kind Than Home, which book he would be happy to spend time with for eternity, and which would he find unbearably hellish to be stuck with?

Justin Cartwight on Other People’s Money

Great families, great fortunes and even greater secrets collide in this gripping, satirical and acutely observed story of our time.

John Lanchester talks about the characters in Capital

John Lanchester here discusses the many characters in his 2012 novel Capital, set on one street on the brink of the financial crash of 2007.

Less is More

According to Doug Johnstone…

I’ll keep this short, because that’s the point. Less is more, and all that.

William Gay, 1941-2012

Faber’s Angus Cargill remembers writer William Gay, (a firm Bookhugger favourite), whom Faber published in the UK, who died recently…

The Hunger Trace Podcast

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

Amor Towles on the TV Book Club

Amor Towles discusses Rules of Civility. Set in New York City in 1938, the book tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent…

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 Q&A with Amor Towles

Read on for some TV Book Club questions – and answers, with Amor Towles, author of Rules of Civility.

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.

A Q&A with Patrick de Witt

Patrick deWitt’s first novel Ablutions was a huge critical success. Born in British Columbia, he has also lived in California, Washington, and Oregon, where he currently resides with his wife and son. Read on for some TV Book Club questions – and answers.