Celebrating women writers
Bernardine Evaristo, Leïla Slimani, Fatima Bhutto, Hilary Mantel and others answer readers' questions and read from their books.
Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing
We discuss the prize-winning novel Homegoing with its acclaimed Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi
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Yiyun Li: The Vagrants
We talk to acclaimed Chinese author Yiyun Li about her harrowing debut novel The Vagrants
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Ali Smith: How to Be Both
We discuss the novel How to Be Both with its acclaimed British author Ali Smith
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Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge
Harriett Gilbert talks to the world-renowned American author Elizabeth Strout
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Helen Garner: The Spare Room
Friendship, caring, nursing and anger in a short, fierce novel from Australia
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Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other
A novel that offers an unforgettable insight into life in today’s multi-cultural Britain
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Deborah Levy - Hot Milk
A hypnotic tale of female sexuality set with the lush backdrop of southern Spain
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Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
The rise and fall of Cromwell, the most powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII
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Fatima Bhutto - The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Five young Pakistani men and women try to live and love in a world on fire
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Leïla Slimani - Lullaby
An acclaimed French thriller which probes at the fault lines of gender, class and race
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Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory
A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution
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Naomi Alderman - The Power
A speculative fiction imagining women and a new ‘power’ helps them take over the world
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