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World Book Night highlights
Short films for World Book Night 2020.
Owen Teale reads The Wind in the Willows
Game of Thrones' actor Owen Teale reads from The Wind in the Willows for World Book Night.
Margaret Atwood's Lockdown Reads
The acclaimed author talks to Will Gompertz for World Book Night.
Maggie O'Farrell's Lockdown Reads
The author speaks to Will Gompertz for World Book Night.
Moffie director Oliver Hermanus, Sharon D Clarke, Lesbian visibility, Anna Meredith—Front Row
Director Oliver Hermanus and Sharon D. Clarke on World Book Night.
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Best-selling authors on their lockdown reads
Book recommendations from today's top selling authors
The Novels That Shaped Our World
Jo Whiley & guests reveal the Novels That Shaped Our World, live from the British Library.
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'I was so used to any depiction of dystopia being men fighting each other'—Novels That Shaped Our World, Series 1, A Woman's Place
How The Handmaid's Tale uniquely placed women at the centre of events.
'It is about woman's destiny'—Novels That Shaped Our World
How Mary Shelley's relationship to motherhood inspired Frankenstein.
