Andrew Michael Hurley, best novels of 1995, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

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Andrew Michael Hurley talks to Mariella Frostrup about his third novel Starve Acre, which explores loss, grief and the power of landscape and which is set against a backdrop of sinister English folklore. Open Book pays a visit to an elite book club made up of the spouses of ambassadors to the UK. The novels they select are intended to give them a better sense of the country they're temporarily calling home, so which books have been most enlightening? In the latest instalment of Open Book's best novels of...series, writer Richard Beard and critic Arifa Akbar consider the best and most enduring novels of 1995. And novelist Rowan Hisayo Buchanan explains how persuading her partner to help with research for her latest novel Starling Days revealed more about their relationship than she expected.