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Sheffield
Johny Pitts returns to his home city to explore Sheffield's literary landscapes.
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Revisiting the 1990s
Chris Power explores fiction set in the 1990s.
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Time and Time Travel with Emily St. John Mandel, Carlo Rovelli and Audrey Niffenegger
Johny Pitts discusses time with three writers who have explored it in very different ways.
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Elif Batuman
Johny Pitts speaks to Elif Batuman about her new novel, Either/Or
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Benjamin Myers
Johny Pitts talks to Benjamin Myers about his new book, The Perfect Golden Circle.
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Atticus Lish, Jean Rhys, Maggie Shipstead
Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish about his new novel The War for Gloria.
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Neurodiversity
Johny Pitts and guests discuss neurodiversity in contemporary fiction.
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About A Son; Book Banning; The Water Statues
David Whitehouse on his creative non-fiction work About a Son.
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Julian Barnes; How Words Get Good; Bangkok Postcard
Julian Barnes talks to Elizabeth Day about his new novel Elizabeth Finch.
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Forbidden love with Douglas Stuart; Oxford鈥檚 influence on interwar writers
Elizabeth Day talks to Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart about his new novel, Young Mungo
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Belfast in the Blitz
Two historic novels about Belfast, literary spinsters, and dissident Russian writers.
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Here Again Now, Readers guide to Gogol, Lessons in Chemistry
Elizabeth Day talks to Okechukwu Nzelu about his novel Here Again Now.
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Karen Joy Fowler on the infamous Booth family, Michel the Giant, Lisa Taddeo on Fever Dream
Johny Pitts talks to Karen Joy Fowler about the infamous Booth family
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A life in books with Marlon James
Elizabeth Day talks to Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James.
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The Power of Language: Audrey Magee, short stories from Afghanistan and India
Elizabeth Day talks to Audrey Magee about her latest novel The Colony.
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A love story from Trinidad; Toni Morrison's only short story
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo talks to Johny Pitts about her debut novel, When We Were Birds
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The 鈥榥ew boom鈥� of feminist Spanish-language literature
We meet the new wave of Spanish and Latin American writers who are breaking with the past.
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Gary Shteyngart's tragicomedy set in lockdown; A new collection exploring South Asian identity
Johny Pitts speaks to author Gary Shteyngart about his new novel, Our Country Friends.
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Free Love, Richard Beard on Time, Bookshops as Social Spaces
Elizabeth Day speaks to Tessa Hadley about her new novel, Free Love.
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Open Book's guide to Ulysses
A guide to reading James Joyce's Ulysses from those who understand it best
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Life in a parallel New York with Hanya Yanagihara: Book highlights for Spring 2022
Hanya Yanagihara speaks to Chris Power about her new book, To Paradise.
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Open Book's highlights for 2021
Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts look back at the highlights of their first year at the helm.
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Twelve days of Christmas with Laura Barnett, A literary postcard from Moscow; Best of 2021's non-fiction
Laura Barnett on her novel Gifts, and recommended non-fiction books of 2021.
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Behind locked doors with Claire Keegan; Alan Cumming's book he would never lend
Claire Keegan talks to Chris Power about her new book, Small Things Like These.
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Love, relationships, and road trips with Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout talks to Elizabeth Day about her new novel, Oh William!
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Teaching teenagers with J J Bola; cutting the environmental footprint of books
JJ Bola speaks to Johny Pitts about his new novel, The Selfless Act of Breathing.
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The diaries of Patricia Highsmith; Contemporary views of the American West
Chris Power talks to Stella Duffy and Anna Von Planta about Patricia Highsmith's diaries
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Friendship in Fiction: a special programme from London Literature Festival
Elizabeth and Johny present a special programme from LLF on literary friendship.
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Sarah Hall
Elizabeth Day talks to Sarah Hall about her latest novel, Burntcoat.
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Lauren Groff
Johny Pitts speaks to Lauren Groff.
