The Guardian Books Podcast

Reading Mexico - books podcast

Novelists Valeria Luiselli, Yuri Herrera and Jorge Volpi join historian ...

Novelists Valeria Luiselli, Yuri Herrera and Jorge Volpi join historian Enrique Krauze on a journey around Mexican literature

African stories with Jemma Wayne and Lara Pawson - books podcast

The troubled histories of Rwanda and Angola feature in two ...

The troubled histories of Rwanda and Angola feature in two debuts in contention for the Baileys and Orwell prizes

Will Self and John Gray on freedom and determinism – books podcast

The philosopher John Gray discusses his latest book, The Soul ...

The philosopher John Gray discusses his latest book, The Soul of the Marionette, with the novelist Will Self

Kazuo Ishiguro on The Buried Giant - books podcast

His latest novel is set in an ancient land populated ...

His latest novel is set in an ancient land populated with ogres and pixies, but is it fantasy? The Booker-winning author explains all – and answers questions from a live audience

The perils of parenthood with Eula Biss and Kate Hamer – books podcast

We analyse parental anxieties with Eula Biss and Kate Hamer

Mythical figures with Amit Chaudhuri and Katrine Marçal – books podcast

We go in search of heroes with Amit Chaudhuri's reworking ...

We go in search of heroes with Amit Chaudhuri's reworking of the Odyssey and Katrine Marçal's deconstruction of economic myth

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Alexandra Fuller and Ruth Scurr on life writing – books podcast

We investigate whether a life can ever truly be captured ...

We investigate whether a life can ever truly be captured in prose with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Alexandra Fuller and Ruth Scurr

David Soul performs Pablo Neruda – books podcast

The Starsky and Hutch actor talks about the life and ...

The Starsky and Hutch actor talks about the life and loves of the Chilean poet, and performs Your Feet, Ode to Clothes and more of the literature laureate's work

John Banville on Raymond Chandler - books podast

The Booker-winning novelist sends his alias, Benjamin Black, to discuss ...

The Booker-winning novelist sends his alias, Benjamin Black, to discuss his Philip Marlowe novel, The Black Eyed Blonde

A whole world of fiction – books podcast

We travel the world in fiction with Ann Morgan, and ...

We travel the world in fiction with Ann Morgan, and hear from the South Korean novelist Han Kang and the South African writer SJ Naudé