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295 - Ragnar Jonasson: The Darkness

The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.

295 - Ragnar Jonasson: The Darkness

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The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.

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Episodes

Ragnar Jonasson: The Darkness

Laurent Binet - HHhH

Linwood Barclay - Take Your Breath Away

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - The Palace of Illusions

Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister, The Serial Killer

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Mexican Gothic

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles

Juhea Kim - Beasts of a Little Land

Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project

N.K Jemisin - The City We Became

Abdulrazak Gurnah: Paradise

Michelle de Kretser: Scary Monsters

Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now

World Book Café: Oslo

Anne Holt: 1,222

Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain

Kate Mosse: Labyrinth

Elif Batuman

Ewald Arenz: Tasting Sunlight

Women of the World: Edna O’Brien

Paul Auster: New York Trilogy

Edna O'Brien: The Country Girls

World Book Cafe: Toronto

Kevin Kwan: Crazy Rich Asians

Miriam Toews: Women Talking

Percival Everett: The Trees

Charlotte Wood: The Weekend

Ann Patchett: The Dutch House

Madrid

Carlo Rovelli: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Antonio Muñoz Molina: In the Night of Time

Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

AS Byatt - Possession

Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife

Pilar Quintana: The Bitch

Sofi Oksanen: Purge

Judith Kerr: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Curtis Sittenfeld: Prep

Paul Theroux: Deep South

World Book Cafe: Paris

Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions

Anuk Arudpragasam: A Passage North

Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways

Tahmima Anam: A Golden Age

Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half