Books And Authors

Chris Power discusses a year in books with Ellah Wakatama and Kate Mosse.

Books about tidying, music and addiction, and a desire to write are this week's choices.

Mariana Enríquez

A disgraced university tutor, a dysfunctional family, and a love-letter to literature.

Cormac McCarthy, The Writers, Derek Owusu

Two very-different memoirs and a tale of two women on an adventure feature this week.

Barbara Kingsolver, plus the "Social Novel" with John Lanchester and Ayisha Malik

Comedians Heidi Regan and Neil Delamere discuss their favourite all-time books with Harriett Gilbert. Heidi chooses a non-fiction book on the cult of positive thinking by the late Barbara Ehrenreich, called Smile or Die. Neil suggests a novel by Ronan Hession about two unambitious friends in their thirties; Leonard and Hungry Paul, and Harriett picks the novella Foster by Irish writer Claire Keegan, who has recently been nominated for the 2022 Booker Prize. Producer: Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio, Bristol Join the conversation on Instagram @agoodreadbbc

The comedian Ria Lina - who's appeared on the BBC’s Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You and Mock the Week - joins Otegha Uwagba - author of Little Black Book, Whites and We Need to Talk About Money - to talk to Harriett Gilbert about the books they love. Ria chooses Moll Flanders, the 18th-century classic by Daniel Defoe. Otegha picks the popular romance story Like Water for Chocolate by Mexican author Laura Esquivel and Harriett Gilbert brings a book about motherhood; Making Babies by Anne Enright. Produced by Eliza Lomas Comment on Instagram at @agoodreadbbc

Chris Power talks to Colm Tóibín about his essays on illness, religion and literature

The poet and the writer choose their favourite books.

Writing Nature

The writers choose the books they love to read.

William Boyd discusses his new novel, The Romantics.

The broadcaster and the comedian choose books they love

Celeste Ng and Grief and modern masculinity with Bobby Palmer and Michael Pedersen

Two writers who cover crime, football and music share their favourite books with Harriett

Orhan Pamuk, Patterson Joseph and Torrey Peters.

Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy

Chris Power talks to Ian McEwan about his new book, Lessons.