Well known figures each present a programme on the novel that changed their world
Mel Smith delves into a work by one of America's masters of fiction - A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe.
DetailsCherie Blair presents Khaled Hosseini's powerful portrait of female suffering under the Taliban.
DetailsLaurence Llewelyn-Bowen immerses himself in the doomed fortunes of the Flyte family in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.
DetailsKathy Lette delves into Thackeray's epic, Vanity Fair, a satirical picture of High Society at the dawn of the 19th century, set against the backdrop of the Battle of Waterloo.
DetailsAlex James sets off on a fantastic adventure with young Jim Hawkins and the ruthless pirate, Long John Silver, in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
DetailsVic Reeves chooses On the Road, Jack Kerouac's legendary account of a frenzied, liberating drive across America.
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