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Bookclub Clips

  1. Sarah Moss answers listener questions about her novel The Tidal Zone.

    Duration: 27:45

  2. Bookclub on the Today Programme

    Duration: 05:21

  3. The crucial moment in Ann Patchett's novel readers always miss

    Duration: 01:21

  4. How the fear of penury underpins the drama of seminal Irish novel The Butcher Boy

    Duration: 02:08

  5. “I’m always interested in people who are a little bit from here, a little bit from there"

    Duration: 02:44

  6. Hari Kunzru: "Alien of Extraordinary Ability"

    Duration: 01:52

  7. How to invent a convincing superhero, with Michael Chabon

    Duration: 02:03

  8. "No one would expect a British writer to explain birdwatching to an Indian audience"

    Duration: 02:27

  9. The real life explosion that inspired the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

    Duration: 01:55

  10. Jay McInerney: New York isn't bohemian any more

    Duration: 02:22

  11. Louise Welsh reads from Kidnapped

    Duration: 01:49

  12. "They're like the avian equivalent of Christopher Walken."

    Duration: 02:21

  13. Don DeLillo on teaching his characters to 'speak Bronx'

    Duration: 02:30

  14. “After the noise and the fire of war, the real work begins with the voice in your head”

    Duration: 00:45

  15. "These are men with huge secrets"

    Duration: 02:53

  16. Locked up for being different - the plight of women in 1930s Britain and Ireland

    Duration: 03:03

  17. No other way to leave their mark?

    Duration: 01:23

  18. "We'll occupy your lousy leasehold poetry!"

    Duration: 01:40

  19. Javier Marias on his ‘suicidal method’ for writing novels

    Duration: 03:22

  20. People love Olive because she does things they daren't

    Duration: 01:55

  21. "Gordon Craig fathered 13 children by eight women in three or four countries..."

    Duration: 03:02

  22. Kamila Shamsie on the kindness of other authors

    Duration: 02:35

  23. "Evil didn't begin with the first beating or bullet, it began in the generation before."

    Duration: 04:30

  24. "My heart was thumping..." Colum McCann on the art of fictionalising real living people, and how they react.

    Duration: 01:19

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