Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB episodes
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Fiona Lucas and Amelia Henley
Fiona Lucas deals with memory loss and hope for lost love in 'Never Forget You'
Shehan Karunatilaka, George Saunders, Richard Flanagan, Eleanor Catton and Marlon James
Robert Kirkwood listens back to some winners of the Booker Prize including George Saunders, Richard Flanagan, Eleanor Catton and Marlon James, plus we have the Books of Your Life from this year's winner, Shehan Karunatilaka.
Alan Garner and J.O. Morgan
Alan Garner joins Robert Kirkwood to talk about the origin of his Booker Shortlisted book, Treacle Walker. Plus we listen back to an interview with J.O. Morgan after he recorded his Costa poetry winning book, 'Assurances' exclusively for RNIB Talking Books.
Jan Grue, Melanie Reid, Ineffable Books and more
Author Jan Grue talks to Paulina Kuchorew about his autobiography 'I Live a Life Like Yours' now available in an English translation as an audiobook,
Book Week Scotland 2022
Book Week Scotland is an annual celebration of books and reading that takes place across the country, this year taking place from the 14th to the 20th of November.
Jenny Ashcroft, Elizabeth Strout and Robert Burns
Jenny Ashcroft tells Robert Kirkwood about her most personal novel to date, The Echoes of Love, Elizabeth Strout tells Toby Davey about Booker shortlisted Oh William!, and after his passing Robert listens back to the only time his Dad was on the show, proudly talking about the replica printing press he conceived to celebrate Robert Burns' Kilmarnock Edition.
Helen Fields and John Bew
Helen Fields talks to Robert Kirkwood about 'The Last Girl to Die' a haunting mystery set on the ancient ocean-battered Isle of Mull.
Booker 2022 Winner - Shehan Karunatilaka
Robert Kirkwood interviews Shehan Karunatilaka about his Booker winning book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ... and off screen had a grey beard off!
Booker Prize 2022 - NoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Shehan Karunatilaka and Claire Keegan
We talk to four of the six Booker shortlisted authors (with the other two coming soon)
Wigtown Book Festival 2022
In a packed show recorded on location at the Wigtown Book Festival, Robert Kirkwood chats to a whole host of writers, including three very different historians, Nick Jubber on the Fairy Tellers, Alex von Tunzelmann on toppled statues in Fallen Idols and Estelle Paranque on Fire, Blood and Gold - the relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici.