BBC World Book Club

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/wbc/all

The site contains lengthy interviews with authors and their most famous novels.

The podcasts can be downloaded.

Featured writers and books:

• David Grossman - To the End of the Land
• Hisham Matar - In the Country of Men
• Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
• Henning Mankell - Faceless Killers
• Val McDermid - A Place of Execution
• Boris Akunin - The Winter Queen
• Jo Nesbo - The Redbreast
• Javier Cercas - Soldiers of Salamis
• PJ O'Rourke - Eat the Rich
• Bernhard Schlink - The Reader
• Damon Galgut - The Good Doctor
• Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows
• Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
• Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
• David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
• Richard Ford - The Sportswriter
• JMG LeClezio - Desert
• John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• Andrea Levy - Small Island
• Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
• James Ellroy - American Tabloid
• Alaa Al-Aswaany - The Yacoubian Building
• Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum
• Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
• Nawal El Sadaawi - Woman at Point Zero
• Kate Grenville - The Secret River
• Moshin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• David Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars
• Toni Morrison - Beloved
• Derek Walcott - Omeros
• Alice Walker - The Color Purple
• Annie Proulx - The Shipping News; Brokeback Mountain
• David Lodge - Nice Work
• Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
• John Irving - The World According to Garp
• Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
• Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
• Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres
• Patricia Cornwell - Post Mortem
• Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls
• Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
• Sara Paretsky - Indemnity Only
• Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient
• Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City