William Trevor discusses his short story collection After Rain

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

Jan Morris discusses her classic travel book Venice

Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn

Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing

Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others

John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles

David Baddiel talks about Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death in the Family