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

Anne Enright - The Gathering

Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney

Historian Antonia Fraser discuss her book The Gunpowder Plot.

Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings

Simon Armitage talks to James Naughtie about his translation of the Middle English epic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Jessie Burton - The Miniaturist