World Book Club Episodes Available now

Mohsin Hamid: Exit West

Mohsin Hamid's profound meditation on love, hope and the psychology of exile

World Book Cafe: Brooklyn

World Book Café, where writers reveal the secrets of their home cities, goes to Brooklyn.

Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan answers audience questions about A Visit from the Goon Squad

Bryan Washington: Memorial

A portrait of an edgy gay relationship seen from both men’s point of view.

NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names

Ten-year-old Darling from Zimbabwe has a choice: it's down or out

Kiley Reid: Such a Fun Age

A carefully observed study of class and race, and biting portrait of white urban affluence

Isabel Allende: Eva Luna

In Eva Luna, an orphaned girl tells stories to survive mid-century South America

Naoise Dolan: Exciting Times

Irish writer Naoise Dolan talks about her dazzling novel Exciting Times

Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch

Harriett Gilbert talks to the award-winning Trinidadian-British author Monique Roffey

Burhan Sönmez: Istanbul, Istanbul

A powerfully political and intensely personal story of modern Turkish life

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