Our pick of BBC Books on air now - June 2017

Our pick from Book at Bedtime is the long-awaited second novel from Arundhati Roy, whose debut in 1997, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize. Twenty years on, many agree it has been worth the wait for a follow up!

The brilliant Indira Varma reads, with support from Emilio Doorgasingh. All fifteen episodes of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness are available now, as an exclusive Online First.

• Listen to all fifteen episodes

Damn His Blood is Peter Moore’s true account of a murder case that gripped Georgian Britain – the brutal killing of a rural parson on Midsummer Day, in the remote Worcester village of Oddingley.

Peter's account of the infamous case is a also fascinating glimpse into the darker side of English rural life at the beginning of the nineteenth century, far away from the civilised drawing rooms of Jane Austen...

It's read by Alex Jennings (Silk, BBC One)

• Listen to all five episodes of Damn His Blood

Is Tim Winton the greatest living Australian writer? Perhaps, says Mariella Frostrup - so if you're unfamiliar with Tim and his work, read and listen on!

In The Boy Behind The Curtain Tim explores stories from his formative years which shaped and formed him as a writer; from his father's near fatal accident, to his enduring love for the ocean and riding the waves.

• Listen to Open Book with Tim Winton

Listed in Granta's 2003 selection of young British novelists, Hari Kunzru is one of our most socially observant and skilful novelists. Jumping around in time with episodes and characters from 1947 to 2008 to 1778 to 1958, Gods Without Men is about the power of a god-like force emanating from a rock formation called The Pinnacles.

The novel's pivotal story is about an autistic child who vanishes in the Californian desert. Gods Without Men was widely regarded as one of the best novels of 2011.

Tributes have been paid to the Orange Prize-winning writer Helen Dunmore, who has died of cancer at the age of 64. Her most recent novel, Birdcage Walk, was published in March. She discussed it with Mariella Frostrup on Radio 4's Open Book.

We also share with you again the Radio 4 adaptation of her novel The Betrayal

• Read about Helen Dunmore