The Guardian Books Podcast

Stephen Fry: low tales of the high life - books podcast

John Crace digests Stephen Fry's latest memoir, More Fool Me, ...

John Crace digests Stephen Fry's latest memoir, More Fool Me, down to 600 words, and finds the nation's favourite luvvie adrift in a blizzard of names and white powder

Karl Ove Knausgaard: Proust or poseur? - books podcast

John Crace digests Karl Ove Knausgaard's multi-volume autobiographical fiction, My ...

John Crace digests Karl Ove Knausgaard's multi-volume autobiographical fiction, My Struggle, and asks if it is exceptional in anything apart from length

Guardian writers' books of 2014 – podcast

Guardian writers round up the books that have made their ...

Guardian writers round up the books that have made their year special – from Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch to Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle via Andrew Solomon's Far from the Tree and beyond

Jane Smiley, Neel Mukherjee and the fiction of family – podcast

Pulitzer prizewinner Jane Smiley introduces the first in her new ...

Pulitzer prizewinner Jane Smiley introduces the first in her new dynastic trilogy, while Neel Mukherjee explains his love-hate relationship with the family saga

Guardian first book award winner Colin Barrett – books podcast

We hear from readers, judges, editors and the winner of ...

We hear from readers, judges, editors and the winner of the 2014 Guardian first book award, Colin Barrett

James Ellroy on The Black Dahlia - books podcast

The modern master of hard-boiled fiction talks profanity, political correctness ...

The modern master of hard-boiled fiction talks profanity, political correctness and the horrors of real-life crime

Going, going, gone: Perfect by Chika Unigwe – podcast

Our series of sound stories created to lull you to ...

Our series of sound stories created to lull you to sleep concludes with the tale of a baby's complicated arrival in a Nigerian family

Michel Faber and Malcolm Gaskill – books podcast

The novelist Michel Faber and the historian Malcolm Gaskill explore ...

The novelist Michel Faber and the historian Malcolm Gaskill explore the ties which bind us across oceans of space and time

Going, going, gone: Phases of Twilight by Jessa Gamble

Going, going, gone: Phases of Twilight by Jessa Gamble

Helen Macdonald and Tomás González – books podcast

With memoir taking the laurels in the UK's biggest non-fiction ...

With memoir taking the laurels in the UK's biggest non-fiction award we look at life writing, with Samuel Johnson winner Helen Macdonald and the Colombian novelist Tomás González