Book at Bedtime - Monday 18 - Friday 22 August

A rom-com with added OCD!

Book at Bedtime - Monday 25 - Friday 29 August

A wonderfully assured and compelling thriller about a documentary film-maker who unknowingly capt...

Book of the Week - Monday 18 - Friday 22 August

Esther Woolfson has been fascinated by corvids, since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook sixte...

Book of the Week - Monday 25 - Friday 29 August

A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson's own ...

Woman's Hour Drama - Monday 25 - Friday 5 September

The striking reissue of this classic Lessing novel. Widely regarded as one of the most influentia...

September's Bookclub - There is no-one quite like Gore Vidal. Essayist, novelist, screenwriter, political gadfly - he's been an elegant irritation on the American scene since the 1950s, a brilliant stylist and a contrary spirit. Now at 82 and rather fr...

* In this sequel to PALIMPSEST, Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with his signat...

Muriel Gray talks to the historical novelist Philippa Gregory about her new book.

A dramatic novel of passion, politics and betrayal from the author of The Other Boleyn Girl, in w...

Book at Bedtime - Monday 11 - Friday 15 August

It's summer 1936 in rural Sussex, a local girl Kitty Allen answers an advert looking for 'a good ...

Book of the Week - Monday 11 - Friday 15 August

From the streets, bars and dance halls of Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia to those of Panama, Puerto...

Open Book - Owen Sheers, presenter of this week's Open Book, on location in New York.

At forty, without professions to define them, and with children growing up, Amy, Jill, Roberta an...

Owen Sheers talks to Meg Wolitzer, author of The Position, about her new novel. The Ten Year Nap is set in Manhattan and looks at the dilemma faced by four mothers who, ten years after the birth of their children, are uncertain whether to return to wor...

'The book was called Pleasuring: One Couple's Journey to Fulfillment. The title, when the childre...

Book of the Week - Monday 4 - Friday 8 August

Following a chance encounter with a psychic, Angus Bell sets off on an 8,000-mile Skoda-powered r...

Classic Serial - Sunday 3 August 2008

In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of hi...

August's Bookclub - Booker-shortlisted novel which focuses on a five year period in the life of Henry James, following the failure of a West End play. Tóibín assures readers that anyone unfamiliar with James can follow it ? although if you are an afici...

It is January 1895 and Henry James's play, Guy Domville, from which he hoped to make his fortune,...

A Good Read - July 29th - Sue MacGregor's choice:

This text is an updated edition of Flaubert's classic tale. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, t...

A Good Read - July 29th - Tracy-Ann Oberman's choice:

Includes the author's views on overpopulation, propaganda, advertising and government control. Th...

A Good Read - July 29th - Shaun Ley's choice:

Jabez was a businessman, philanthropist, politician, temperance campaigner and charmer. He was al...

Open Book - 27 July 2008 - Mariella is joined by Orange Prize nominee and Somerset Maugham Prize winner Deirdre Madden, to talk about her new novel Molly Fox's Birthday. The book centres on a triangular friendship between actress Molly Fox, a nameles...

Dublin, Midsummer: While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house ...

Book of the Week - Monday 28 - Friday 1 August

Green (ish), keen (definitely) Perrier-winning Mark Watson is halving his carbon footprint and, ...

Book at Bedtime - Monday 28 - Friday 8 August

Sam Marsdyke falls for a young, sophisticated girl from London, while she begins to see him as a ...