Watch the trailer for No and Me, by Delphine de Vigan

Watch a trailer for Delphine de Vigan’s bestselling novel, No and Me, newly translated from the French by George Miller.

Christian Wolmar on Blood, Iron and Gold

George Miller talks to Christian Wolmar about his latest book, which documents the drastic transformative effect that the railways had on the world around us.

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Amanda Vickery on house and home in Georgian England

In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. George Miller talked to her about it.

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An interview with Mary Beard

George Miller talks to Cambridge Classics Professor Mary Beard about the book of her blog, It’s a Don’s Life.

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Three questions for… Simon Winder

George Miller asks author and publisher Simon Winder about his new book, Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern. As ever, there are no trick questions, but no forewarning either. Watch the video to find out what Simon thinks are the highs and lows of German cooking.

George Miller talks to Julian Baggini – can you judge a book by its cover?

Julian Baggini talks about his latest book, Should You Judge This Book by Its Cover?: 100 Fresh Takes on Familiar Sayings and Quotations.

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George Miller talks to David Kynaston

George Miller talks to David Kynaston about the second volume in his ‘Tales of a New Jerusalem’ series, Family Britain.

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Ian Mortimer on 1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory

George Miller talks to Ian Mortimer about the pivotal year of Henry V’s reign, and finds out what one of our most famous kings was really like.

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An interview with Nicola Upson

George Miller talks to Nicola Upson about her second book, which features the Cornish landscape and its people, the very real ‘golden age’ crime writer Josephine Tey, and the theatre world of 1930s Britain

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The Children’s Invasion Book

In this second short film featuring Faber archivist Robert Brown, he introduces us to another of Faber’s wartime publications – The Children’s Invasion Book. Published in 1944, this book wasn’t a guide to help British children prepare for the possibility of a German invasion of the UK, but a display of the Allied military hardware which was about to be unleashed on D-Day…

Sam Taylor talks about The Island at the End of the World

George Miller talks to Sam Taylor about his post-apocalyptic vision, The Island at the End of the World, and the three very different narrators that it features.

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David Peace on Occupied City

George Miller talks to David Peace about the background to and writing of his latest novel, the second in his Tokyo Trilogy, Occupied City, and we have clips of David Peace reading from the novel too.

Andy Beckett on the 1970s

Andy Beckett’s new book When the Lights Went Out takes a fresh look at the 1970s, a much-maligned decade. Was it really so bad? The author, who writes for the Guardian, reveals more in conversation with George Miller.

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Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Oxford University talks about Charles Dickens’ life at the time he started writing his classic Great Expectations, and the reason he started writing the book.

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Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle

James A. Secord talks about the purpose of the famous voyage of the Beagle, on which the young Charles Darwin was exposed to many of the sights and experiences which led him to formulate his ground-breaking theories.

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Tim Bale on the Conservative Party

Tim Bale has published a major new assessment of the Conservative Party’s wilderness years which followed their removal of Margaret Thatcher from the leadership in 1990. It examines why it took the party so long to learn from its mistakes and also why change – when it did eventually come – happened so quickly.

Steven Asma’s monster gallery

George Miller talks to Stephen Asma about On Monsters, his wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters, and we have an exclusive gallery of illustrations from the book too.

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Tobias Jones on The Salati Case

Tobias Jones introduces his first novel, set in the foggy northern city of Parma in winter time, and his detective Castagnetti, and suggests why Italy is hard to beat as a setting for crime fiction.

Three questions for… Mary Beard

Mary Beard is professor of classics at Cambridge University. Last autumn she published the book of her blog A Don’s Life. In the book she reflects on the lot of a classics don at an elite university, the way in which the ancient world is portrayed in the media, the purpose of education and much else besides.

The early years of Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) came from an unlikely background for a future literary celebrity. Unlike most of his fellow writers, he wasn’t from an aristocratic family but a conservative, merchant one. Rosamund Bartlett, who edited and translated the stories in the collection About Love, introduces Chekhov

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Science writer Marcus Chown on extraterrestrial life: “Where is everybody?”

Science writer Marcus Chown responds to the question first posed by Enrico Fermi – the Italian physicist who developed the first nuclear reactor – about the apparent absence of extraterrestrial life: “Where is everybody?”

Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Josephine McDonagh, who has written a new introduction to the Oxford World’s Classics edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, introduces the novel, and talks about Anne’s life and the imaginative world she and her siblings – Emily, Charlotte, and Branwell – inhabited

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