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Gary Shteyngart: Vera, or Faith
<p>Sam Leith is joined for this week's Book Club podcast by Gary Shteyngart — whose new novel <em>Vera, or Faith </em>is set in a near-future America whose politics seems to be less science-fictional by the day. It tells the unexpectedly te
Frances Wilson: Electric Spark – The Enigma of Muriel Spark
<p>My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the biographer Frances Wilson, whose new book <em>Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark</em> was recently lauded in these pages as "mesmerising" and "a revolutionary book". She tells me h
Irvine Welsh: Men In Love – Trainspotting Sequel
<p>My guest this week is Irvine Welsh – who, three decades after his era-defining hit <em>Trainspotting</em>, returns with a direct sequel, <em>Men In Love</em>. Irvine tells me what Sick Boy, Renton, Spud and Begbie mean to him, why his ne
M. John Harrison: The Course of the Heart
<p>My guest this week is the writer M. John Harrison, who joins me to talk about the rerelease of his 1992 novel <em>The Course of the Heart</em> – a deeply strange and riddling story of grief, friendship, memory and occult magic. We talk a
Karin Slaughter: We Are All Guilty Here
<p>Sam Leith's guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is one of the most popular living thriller writers. Karin Slaughter has made her native Georgia her fictional territory, and she joins Sam as she launches a new series set in a whole new
Carl Zimmer: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
<p>My guest on this week’s <em>Book Club</em> podcast is science writer Carl Zimmer, whose new book <em>Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe</em> explores the invisible world of the aerobiome – the trillions of microbes and
William Dalrymple: The Golden Road
<p>My guest on this week’s <em>Book Club</em> podcast is the historian William Dalrymple, whose bestselling account of ancient India’s cultural and economic influence, <em>The Golden Road</em>, is newly out in paperback. He tells me why the
Lucy Mangan: How Reading Shapes Our Lives
<p>In this week’s <em>Book Club</em> podcast I am joined by Lucy Mangan, author of <em>Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives</em>. She tells me what teenagers did before they had Young Adult books to read, the bizarre demise of the author o
Alice Loxton: Eighteen – A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
<p>My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the historian Alice Loxton, whose new book <em>Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives</em> is just out in paperback. In it, she tells the story of the early lives of individuals as d
Robert Macfarlane: Is a river alive?
<p>Sam Leith's guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Robert Macfarlane. In his new book <em>Is A River Alive?</em> he travels from the cloud forests of Ecuador to the pollution-choked rivers of Chennai and the threatened waterways of ea
Geoff Dyer – the Proust of prog rock and Airfix
<div>My guest in this week’s <em>Book Club</em> podcast is Geoff Dyer, who’s talking about his memoir <em>Homework</em>, in which he describes growing up as an only child in suburban Cheltenham, and how the eleven-plus and the postwar settl
Julie Bindel: Lesbians – where are we now?
<div>My guest on this week’s <em>Book Club</em> podcast is the writer, activist and <em>Spectator</em> contributor Julie Bindel. In her new book <em>Lesbians: Where Are We Now?</em>, Julie asks why lesbian liberation seems – as she sees it
Daniel Swift: The Making of William Shakespeare
<div>My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Daniel Swift. Daniel’s new book, <em>The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare</em>, tells the fascinating story of a theatrical innovation that trans
Anne Sebba: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
<div>My guest on this week’s podcast is the historian Anne Sebba. In her new book <em>The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival</em>, Anne tells the story of how a ragtag group of women musicians formed in the shadow of Auschw
Lamorna Ash: A New Generation's Search for Religion
<div>My guest on this week’s <em>Book Club</em> podcast is Lamorna Ash, author of <em>Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion</em>. She describes to me how a magazine piece about some young friends who made a
Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street – On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
<div>Sam Leith’s guest on this week’s <em>Book Club</em> podcast is the lawyer and writer Philippe Sands, whose new book <em>38 Londres Street</em> describes the legal and diplomatic tussle over the potential extradition of the former Chile
Fara Dabhoiwala: What Is Free Speech?
<div>My guest on this week's <em>Book Club</em> podcast is Fara Dabhoiwala, whose new book <em>What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea</em> looks not just at the origins of free speech as an idea, but also its uses and misuses.
Joe Dunthorne: Children of Radium
<div>My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the poet and novelist Joe Dunthorne, who is here to talk about his new non-fiction book <em>Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance</em>. In it, he describes how he criss-crossed Europe in
Francesa Simon: Salka
<div>My guest in this week’s <em>Book Club</em> is Francesca Simon. Best known for her <em>Horrid Henry</em> series of children’s books, Francesca has just published her first novel for grownups, a haunting reworking of a Welsh folk tale ca
Who is Government? edited by Michael Lewis
<div>My guest in this week's <em>Book Club</em> podcast is the novelist and journalist John Lanchester, one of the contributors to Michael Lewis’s very timely new anthology of reportage on the United States federal government, <em>Who Is Go
Anthony Cheetham: A Publisher's Memoir
<div>My guest in this week's <em>Book Club</em> podcast is the publisher Anthony Cheetham, one of the biggest figures in British publishing through the second half of the twentieth century and into this one. In his new book <em>A Life in Fi
Michael Wolff: How Trump Recaptured America
<div>In this week's <em>Book Club</em> podcast, I'm joined by Donald Trump's outstanding Boswell, the magazine writer Michael Wolff. Michael’s new book, <em>All or Nothing: </em><br><em>How Trump Recaptured America</em>, takes Donald Trump
Selena Wisnom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History
<div>My guest on this week's <em>Book Club</em> podcast is the Assyriologist Selena Wisnom, author of <em>The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History</em>. Selena tells me about the vast and strange world of cuneifo
James Bradley: The World in the Ocean
<div>My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the novelist and critic James Bradley whose new book is <em>Deep Water: The World in the Ocean</em>. He tells me how we need to rethink our relationship with the sea and the life it contains
Colin Greenwood: How to Disappear - A Portrait of Radiohead
<div>Sam's guest on today’s Book Club podcast is the musician, writer and photographer Colin Greenwood, who joins me to discuss his new book of photographs and memoir <em>How To Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead</em>. Colin tells me about
Philip Marsden: Under A Metal Sky
<div>My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Philip Marsden, whose new book <em>Under A Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonde</em>r looks in thrilling and surprising detail at the wonders that are to be found beneath o
Lissa Evans: The Surreal Joys of Producing Father Ted
<div>My guest on this week's<em> Book Club</em> podcast is the novelist Lissa Evans, talking about her previous life as the producer of the sitcom Father Ted – as described in her new book <em>Picnic on Craggy Island: The Surreal Joys of Pr
What we get wrong about The Great Gatsby
<div>In this week’s Book Club podcast, we’re contemplating the astounding achievement of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em> in its 100th year. My guest is Professor Sarah Churchwell, author of <em>Careless People: Murder, Mayhe
Orlando Reade: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost
<div>My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Orlando Reade, whose book <em>What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost</em> describes the life and afterlife of one of the greatest poems in the language. Orlando tells me
Rachel Cooke: The Virago Book of Friendship
<div>In this week’s Books podcast, I am joined by Rachel Cooke, who edits the new book <em>The Virago Book of Friendship</em>. Rachel unpacks the intense, often enigmatic dynamics of female friendships in a spry and very dip-in-and-out-able
