Orbital by Samantha Harvey The book we introduce today won the Booker Prize in 2024. It’s a short book, with only 136 pages, and although it’s a novel, it doesn’t really tell a story. Instead, it documents the lives of the six astronauts on...
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge Today we introduce a novel by a very famous English author, David Lodge, who was born in London in 1935. He was a lecturer in English and then Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham from 1960...
Details für die Sendung am 2026-03-03 von 20:00 bis 20:30 ‘Prophet Song’ by Paul Lynch, winner of the Booker Prize for 2023, is the novel we are introducing this month. „In the dark times/ Will there also be singing?/ Yes, there will...
Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 07. April 2026: The book we are introducing today won the Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. In January 2022 BBC Radio 4 serialised it in its Book of the Week series. The title of the...
Details für die Sendung am 2025-11-04 von 20:00 bis 20:30 The Humour of Jane Austen In this month’s programme we are departing from our usual approach of introducing the most recently read book from our English Reading Circle. Instead we going...
Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 02. Dezember 2025: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan Today we introduce the latest novel from one of the UK’s best-known writers, Ian McEwan. He is the critically acclaimed author of 19 novels and 2 short-story...
Disappearing Earth by Julia Philipps Disappearing Earth, (2019), is the first novel from an American author, Julia Phillips. The book was a finalist for the 2019 US National Book Award for Fiction. It was also named one of The New York Times Top...
Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang This month‘s novel is Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang, an American novelist, who has a degree in international economics and graduate degrees in Sinology from Magdalene College, Cambridge and University College,...
Trust by Hernan Diaz This month‘s novel is Trust by Hernan Diaz, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2023 and was a Sunday Times Top Ten Best-Seller. Hernan Diaz is an Argentinian/American writer. His first novel In The Distance, was a finalist for...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë This month we are introducing a classic of English literature, Jane Eyre, An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë, first published under her pen name of `Currer Bell´, in October 1847. What‘s the book about? The...
Bournville by Jonathan Coe This month we are introducing a state-of the-nation novel, Bournville, by Jonathan Coe, published in 2022. What’s the book about? The description on the back of the novel says: In Bournville, a placid suburb of...
‚Cry, The Beloved Country‘ by Alan Paton The novel we are introducing this month is a classic of 20th Century literature, and one of the best known South African novels. Cry, the Beloved Country, the first novel by Alan Paton, (1948)...
Baumgartner by Paul Auster The novel we are introducing today is Baumgartner by Paul Auster, published in 2023, and described by its publisher as: A tender masterpiece of love, memory and grief from one of the world’s greatest writers. Paul...
