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WBC: Andrea Levy

Winner of the UK's Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, the Orange Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Small Island is a heart-warming and thought-provoking tale of love, friendship and immigration set in London during and after World War II. It focuses on the diaspora of Jamaican immigrants, who, escaping economic hardship on their own "small island," move to England, the Mother Country, for which the men have fought during World War II. Told through the intertwining stories of three v ...

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Indian writer Kiran Desai discusses her internationally best-selling work, The Inheritance of Loss.

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The great crime novelist James Ellroy discusses the first of three part trilogy about the American underworld, American Tabloid.

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Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswaany discusses his best-selling novel, The Yacoubian Building, a moving study of politics and power in downtown Cairo.

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World famous German writer Gunter Grass talks about his controversial masterpiece, The Tin Drum, on World Book Club.

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Renowned Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi discusses her classic novel Woman at Point Zero with Harriett Gilbert on World Book Club.

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Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her novel Half of a Yellow Sun.

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American writer Lionel Shriver discusses her novel, We Need to Talk about Kevin.

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Harriett Gilbert talks to Mohsin Hamid about his novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

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Harriett Gilbert talks to the Australian author Kate Grenville about her book, The Secret River.

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In front of an audience at the South Bank Arts Centre, London, Harriett Gilbert talks to Toni Morrison about her prize-winning book Beloved.

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Harriett Gilbert talks to David Guterson, in front of an invited audience, about his bestselling courtroom thriller Snow Falling on Cedars.

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Harriett Gilbert talks to Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott about his epic poem Omeros, which explores ancient themes of displacement and exile in a modern Caribbean setting.

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Harriett Gilbert talks to American author Armistead Maupin about his novel Tales of the City.

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A special fifth-anniversary edition of the World Book Club with the Sri Lankan-born, Canadian author Michael Ondaatje who discusses his best-loved novel'The English Patient'.

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American crime writer Sara Paretsky talks to Harriett Gilbert about her detective novel 'Indemnity Only'.

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Italian author Umberto Eco discusses his novel 'The Name of the Rose', set in a 14th century Franciscan monastery.

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Irish writer Edna O'Brien discusses The Country Girls, her novel about adolescence set in 1950's Ireland.

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American crime writer Patricia Cornwell talks about Post Mortem, the first novel in her celebrated Kay Scarpetta series.

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Best-selling American author Jane Smiley discusses A Thousand Acres, her ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear transposed onto an Iowan farmstead, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

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