Bookclub
Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best known novels
Bookclub - 06/02/2005
Bill Bryson meets readers to discuss his bestselling book A Short History of Nearly Everything, his quest to find out all that has happened since the Big Bang.
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Bookclub - AL Kennedy
James Naughtie talks to author AL Kennedy about her prize-winning novel Day, the story of RAF gunner Alfred Day and how he comes to terms with the end of the Second World War.
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Bookclub - Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith talks about his novel 44 Scotland Street with James Naughtie and readers.
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Bookclub - Alice Sebold
James Naughtie and readers meet American author Alice Sebold to discuss her debut novel The Lovely Bones, which remained on the New York Times hardback bestseller list for a year.
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Bookclub - Alison Weir
Eleanor of Aquitaine was the most powerful and enigmatic woman of her age. Historian Alison Weir discusses her biography of Eleanor with James Naughtie and a group of readers.
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Bookclub - Amitav Ghosh
James Naughtie talks to the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. He joins an audience of readers to discuss his novel The Glass Palace.
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Bookclub - Andrew Motion
As he prepares to leave the post, Andrew Motion talks to James Naughtie about his 10 years as Poet Laureate and discusses his collection Public Property.
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Bookclub - Armistead Maupin
James Naughtie and an audience of readers discuss Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, which began as a newspaper column and became a best-selling series of novels.
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Bookclub - Asne Seierstad
With James Naughtie. Norwegian author Asne Seierstad discusses The Bookseller of Kabul, the novelisation of her time in Afghanistan as a foreign correspondent just after 9/11.
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Bookclub - Barbara Kingsolver
James Naughtie and an audience of readers discuss American author Barbara Kingsolver's novel The Poisonwood Bible.
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Bookclub - Bernard Cornwell
James Naughtie talks to the novelist Bernard Cornwell. He joins an audience of readers to discuss the first novel in his series set in Saxon England, The Last Kingdom.
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Bookclub - Bernard MacLaverty
James Naughtie and readers meet Northern Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty to discuss his Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Grace Notes.
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Bookclub - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joins James Naughtie and readers to talk about Half of a Yellow Sun, winner of last year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.
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Bookclub - CJ Sansom
James Naughtie and readers meet the best-selling writer CJ Sansom. They discuss Dissolution, the first in his series of Tudor mysteries featuring the investigator Matthew Shardlake.
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Bookclub - Claire Tomalin (on Thomas Hardy)
James Naughtie talks to award-winning biographer Claire Tomalin about her book on Thomas Hardy - The Time-Torn Man.
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Bookclub - Clive James
James Naughtie and readers talk to Clive James about the first volume of his autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, which has sold more than a million copies.
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Bookclub - Colin Dexter
James Naughtie and an audience of readers talk to Colin Dexter about The Remorseful Day, Chief Inspector Morse's last case.
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Bookclub - Colm Toibin
Irish writer Colm Toibin joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss his Man Booker shortlisted novel The Master, a fictionalised account of five years in the life of Henry James.
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Bookclub - David Mitchell
From the Hay Festival, James Naughtie and an audience of readers talk to David Mitchell about Cloud Atlas, the novel that made him an overnight literary star.
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Bookclub - Douglas Coupland
James Naughtie and readers talk to Canadian author Douglas Coupland about his 1991 cult novel Generation X, which became a worldwide bestseller and defined a generation.
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Bookclub - Fay Weldon
James Naughtie and Fay Weldon join an audience of readers to discuss her novel The Cloning of Joanna May, first published in 1989.
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Bookclub - Germaine Greer
James Naughtie is joined by Germaine Greer to discuss her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch. Published in 1970, the book changed women's lives and has been in print ever since.
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Bookclub - Gillian Slovo
James Naughtie and readers talk to Gillian Slovo about her novel Red Dust, a courtroom drama set in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Bookclub - Gore Vidal
James Naughtie talks to one of the great American men of letters - novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, raconteur and notorious wit Gore Vidal.
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Bookclub - Henning Mankell
James Naughtie and readers talk to Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell about his novel Sidetracked, featuring his famous detective Kurt Wallander.
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Bookclub - Howard Jacobson
James Naughtie and readers talk to this year's Man Booker prize winner - Howard Jacobson. The chosen novel is his own favourite, The Mighty Walzer.
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Bookclub - James Robertson
James Naughtie and an audience of readers talk to James Robertson about his historical novel Joseph Knight, winner of two major Scottish literary prizes in 2003/4.
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Bookclub - Jan Morris
Jan Morris joins James Naughtie and readers to talk about her portrait of the city of Venice. The book, simply entitled Venice, was written nearly fifty years ago.
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Bookclub - Jeanette Winterson
James Naughtie and readers talk to Jeanette Winterson about her breakthrough first novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, about a girl growing up in an Evangelical Christian group.
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Bookclub - Jodi Picoult
James Naughtie and an audience talk to author Jodi Picoult. Her novel My Sister's Keeper is about a young girl who sues her parents for the right to make her own decisions.
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Bookclub - John Irving
James Naughtie and readers talk to celebrated American author John Irving about his novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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Bookclub - Jonathan Coe
James Naughtie and an audience of readers talk to comic fiction author Jonathan Coe, who discusses his novel What A Carve Up!
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Bookclub - Kate Grenville
Orange Prize winner Kate Grenville talks to James Naughtie about her novel The Secret River and answers questions from a group of readers.
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Bookclub - Linda Grant
James Naughtie and readers talk to Linda Grant about her novel When I Lived in Modern Times, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000.
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Bookclub - Lynne Reid Banks
James Naughtie and readers talk to celebrated writer Lynne Reid Banks about her groundbreaking novel The L-Shaped Room, first published 50 years ago.
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Bookclub - Michael Morpurgo
James Naughtie talks to Michael Morpurgo about his novel Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, inspired by the history of English orphans transported to Australia after the Second World War.
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Bookclub - Oliver James
James Naughtie talks to the psychologist Oliver James, who puts his case against 'affluenza', a virus which he says is sweeping through the English-speaking world.
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Bookclub - Orhan Pamuk
James Naughtie and readers talk to the Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk about his murder mystery My Name is Red.
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Bookclub - Robert Macfarlane
James Naughtie talks to Robert Macfarlane about his book The Wild Places, in which he sets out to discover if there remain any genuinely wild places in Britain and Ireland.
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Bookclub - Roddy Doyle
Irish writer Roddy Doyle joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss his Booker Prize winning novel Paddy Clarke HA HA HA, which is written in the voice of a ten-year-old Dubliner.
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Bookclub - Sarah Dunant
James Naughtie and an audience of readers discuss Sarah Dunant's The Birth of Venus, an erotic thriller set in Renaissance Florence.
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Bookclub - Sarah Hall - The Carhullan Army
James Naughtie and readers talk to Sarah Hall about her novel The Carhullan Army, recorded at the Chapter and Verse Literature Festival in Liverpool.
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Bookclub - Simon Armitage
Poet Simon Armitage joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss his translation of the Middle English epic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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Bookclub - Siri Hustvedt
James Naughtie and readers talk to American writer Siri Hustvedt about her novel What I Loved, set in the New York art world.
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Bookclub - Thomas Keneally
James Naughtie and readers meet the 1982 Booker Prize winner Thomas Keneally. The chosen book is Schindler's Ark, which remains one of the best evocations of the Holocaust.
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Bookclub - Val McDermid
Val McDermid joins readers to discuss The Mermaids Singing, the story of a serial killer who stalks the gay subculture of a northern town. James Naughtie presents.
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Bookclub - William Hague
James Naughtie and an audience of readers are joined by William Hague to discuss his biography of William Pitt the Younger, who became the youngest ever prime minister in 1783.
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Bookclub - Xiaolu Guo
James Naughtie and readers meet Chinese author Xiaolu Guo to talk about her novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.
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Bookclub - Yann Martel
James Naughtie and readers talk to the Canadian writer Yann Martel about his novel Life of Pi, which won the 2002 Man Booker Prize and went on to become a global phenomenon.
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