Books and Authors BBC Radio 4

Johny Pitts talks to Kevin Barry about his new novel, The Heart in Winter

Claire Messud, Kafka and Jiaming Tang

QUARTET IN AUTUMN by Barbara Pym, chosen by Samantha Harvey
MRS CALIBAN by Rachel Ingalls, chosen by Harriett Gilbert
PHARMACOPOEIA: A DUNGENESS NOTEBOOK by Derek Jarman, chosen by Darran Anderson
Two award-winning writers share books they love with Harriett Gilbert.
Produced by Mair Bosworth for BBC Audio

Historian and author Kathryn Hughes and No Such Thing As a Fish presenter Dan Schreiber recommend favourite books to Harriett Gilbert. Kathryn chooses Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes, an exploration of the French writer's life in the form of a novel. Dan's choice is very different - John Higgs taking on the conceptual artists and chart toppers The KLF. Harriett has gone for Michael Ondaatje's novel Warlight, set in a murky and mysterious post-war London.
Presenter: Harriett Gilbert
Producer for BBC Audio Bristol: Sally Heaven

Octavia Bright talks to Maggie Nelson about Like Love, an anthology of essays which explore art and friendship and criticism. And a new prize for climate fiction.
Presenter: Octavia Bright
Producer: Nicola Holloway

Sarah Perry talks to Shahidha Bari about her new novel, Enlightenment