Live Radio 4 Bookclub recording in Glasgow on Friday with the legendary @nivenj1.bsky.social John Niven for his 2008 debut Kill Your Friends. If you wanna be in the audience, message me and I’ll put you on the list. Should be a cracker!

Coming up later today on BBC Radio 4 I'm talking to Graham Norton on #TakeFourBooks about his latest novel Frankie, along with 3 influences - Elizabeth Bowen, Armistead Maupin & Gabrielle Zevin (and bonus influence Charlie Brown!) - at 4pm 👇🎧📚 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Loved talking to Ian McEwan (& @damedenisemina.bsky.social!) on BBCRadio4 #TakeFourBooks about climate, memory & the way the past haunts the present in his new @jonathancape.bsky.social novel WHAT WE CAN KNOW with 3 influences incl the epic Footsteps by Richard Holmes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Melissa Lucashenko was the guest on Take Four Books on Sunday. Recorded duing @edbookfest.bsky.social #BBCradio4 - she was talking about Edenglassie and her three influences. 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We recorded some great episodes of Take Four Books at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - the first was Rachel Kushner talking about her book Creation Lake - listen again here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @edbookfest.bsky.social #BBCRadio4

Speed of Light by Laura Cumming is a brilliant series about five trail blazing photographers (two from Paisley) - who made history. Catch up on Sounds ⬇️

If you fancy coming along to see Take Four Books or Bookclub being recorded for #BBCRadio4 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - all the details are here: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Kit de Waal is talking about her debut novel, My Name Is Leon, on #Bookclub on #BBCRadio4 A lovely programme recorded with an audience of readers at Rare Birds bookshop in Edinburgh #booksky www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Catch up on Take Four Books - this week award winning writer, Denise Mina, discusses her twentieth novel, The Good Liar, and the three key influences that inspired its creation #takefourbooks #booksky #denisemina #radio4

Listen now to my chat on Radio4 with Gurnaik Johal on his debut @serpents-tail.bsky.social novel Saraswati on #TakeFourBooks: where a lost river re-emerges in contemporary India. His 3 influences include @amitav.bsky.social, Joseph Conrad and poet Natalie Diaz! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Read both of these in a couple of days before the Colm Toibin episode of Take Four Books. Flew through them. A great episode. #booksksy #takefourbooks #radio4 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Radio 4’s Bookclub recording of My Name Is Leon with Kit de Waal will be in Edinburgh on Tuesday (22nd) 6.15pm start. If you fancy coming along DM me and I can get you on the list. @kitdewaal.com

The Roman Empire is the subject of this month’s Bookclub on #BBC Radio 4. Author and historian, Tom Holland, is talking about #Rubicon and answering questions at Topping Books in Edinburgh. 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #booksky #romanempire

Graeme Macrae Burnet is the guest on the latest episode of World Book Club. He’s answering readers questions about his critically acclaimed novel, His Bloody Project @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social #booksky

Listen now to my chat on Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks with Madeleine Thien about her new, time-warping @grantabooks.bsky.social novel of war, exile and refugees, 'The Book of Records' - and her three influences, including the evergreen 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Author, Wendy Erskine, talks about her new novel, The Benefactors, on the most recent episode of Take Four Books, plus the three other books that inspired her writing. #BBCRadio4 @sceptrebooks.bsky.social Listen here 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

2025 marks 100 years since the National Library of Scotland was established by an Act of Parliament 🎂 Join our centenary champions, Val McDermid and Damian Barr, as they talk about the significance of libraries, and the importance of collections like ours 📚

‘Dear Library’ - this exhibition @natlibscot.bsky.social is lovely…including a brilliant picture of the old Paisley Library. I want a lego library. Get yourself along to the National Library of Scotland. How many times can I fit in the word LIBRARY #booksky #library

Elif Shafak talks about the books that inspired her novel, There Are Rivers In The Sky, on Take Four Books this week. Recorded backstage at Hay with Gwyneth Lewis joining the conversation #BBCRadio4 @hayfestival.bsky.social #booksky 📻: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is worth a listen….Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick. It’s longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights. #BBCRadio4

Congratulations to Andrew Miller on winning the Walter Scott Prize for The Land in Winter. He spoke to Take Four Books about the novel and his influences at the Hay festival on #BBCRadio4 @walterscottprize.bsky.social @hayfestival.bsky.social 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Lally MacBeth, author of The Lost Folk, interviewed about her new book about the past, present and future of the UK's folk culture on Front Row yesterday. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002db9r

We are delighted to present the 30th winner of the #WomensPrize for Fiction: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. Congratulations, Yael! Thank you to the judges and our sponsors #Audible and #Baileys. @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social

World Book Club this month is a brilliant discussion with author @nkjemisin.bsky.social and readers about The City We Became….catch up here 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #booksky #NKJemisin @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social #BBCWorldService

The latest episode of Bookclub on BBC Radio 4 is with author Joanne Harris - talking about her bestselling novel, Chocolat - in Rare Birds bookshop in Edinburgh. @joannechocolat.bsky.social 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Book-shopping-Hay-on-Wye @hayfestival.bsky.social #booksky

On latest #TakeFourBooks I’m talking to poet and memoirist Sean Hewitt about his debut novel ‘Open Heaven’ & 3 influences including E M Forster’s Maurice, LP Hartley’s The Go-Between and Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls! Listen now 🎧📻📚 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Take Four Books is at Hay! @hayfestival.bsky.social We’re talking to Andrew Miller about his novel, The Land in Winter, with Joanne Harris joining in the conversation. @jdcrawf.bsky.social

I talked to Ocean Vuong on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 about his new @vintagebooks.bsky.social novel “The Emperor of Gladness” and his three influences, including The Brothers Karamazov and Jack Kerouac - listen now! 📚🎧👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Listen again to Take Four Books on BBC Sounds - this week Ben Okri talks about ‘Madame Sosostris & The Festival of the Broken Hearted: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The brilliant Rupert Everett at the Boswell Book Festival. His new collection of short stories are inspired by film pitches that never got made. @bozzybookfest.bsky.social #booksky

I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover…. Picked these up at Rare Birds Bookshop in Edinburgh #booksky

Catch up with The Artist by Lucy Steeds on BBC Sounds - set in 1920s Provence and read by Tuppence Middleton and Luke Treadaway 📻

If you tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 4pm, you will hear me, James Naughtie and a wonderful Glasgow audience talk all about A Thousand Ships, on Bookclub! 📘📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Another great #BBCRadio4 Bookclub this month. Listen again to @nataliehaynes.bsky.social talk about her epic novel, A Thousand Ships…. 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

On World Book Club this month @harriettsg.bsky.social sits down with Nobel Laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah, to discuss his novel ‘Paradise’ - @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

World building? N.K Jemisin builds universes within universes in so much of her work. We’re recording with her next week, so be sure to get any last questions into us by Friday 2nd May - [email protected] #booksky #books #wbc #bookpodcast #nkjemisin

On Take Four Books this week Vincenzo Latronico talks about his Interntional Booker shortlisted novel - Perfection #BBCRadio4 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

What do you get if you Take Four Books and one whale? Find out at 4pm. Brilliant episode about to surface. Tune in folks 📻📚

Andrew O’Hagan is the guest on Take Four Books this week - delving into his novel Caledonian Road, and the 3 books that inspired him #takefourbooks #BBCRadio4

A joy to produce - on at 1815 or Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Had we never lov’d sae kindly/ Had we never lov’d sae blindly…’ Robert #Burns’ Ae Fond Kiss, his heartfelt farewell to his beloved, is this week’s Soul Music 10.30am Sat 12 April @BBCRadio4 Producer Maggie Ayre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #music #poetry #Ayrshire www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Enjoyed making this series, and now on BBC Sounds for your bingeing pleasure..

What a glorious shortlist! 📚💫

Exciting news! The next author to be featured author on #BBCWorldBookClub will be N.K. Jemisin! We're discussing the urban-fantasy love letter to NYC 'The City We Became'. Send us your recorded questions by May 1st, we can't wait to hear you on the podcast :) #booksky #nkjemisin #fantasybooks

Author Michel Faber is the guest on Bookclub this month, talking about his novel Under The Skin and answering readers questions @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social #bbcradio4 #booksky 🎧: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Catch up with Michelle De Kretser on @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social answering readers questions about Scary Monsters: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The 2025 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist. Have you read any of the shortlisted books?

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