This week is Jewish Book Week, and sees the announcement of the Jewish Quartely-Wingate Prize 2013. Journalist and author of The Coincidence Engine, Sam Leith, looks at the rich breadth of the Prize's scope, and why this makes for such an interesting and diverse shortlist...
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Episode 1
Angoulême: the most amazing, star studded art-stravaganza you’ve probably never heard of...
Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of fans of bandes dessinées – French for comics – descended on the southwestern French city of Angoulême. Nye Wright, creator of our weekly exclusive comic strip, Sprout’s Book Club, was there. He tells us why, if you like comics, you should be there next year too.
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Karyn Dougan tells us what makes the upcoming events that make up Book Week Scotland so exciting and important - and why you should stop reading this and get involved...
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Fifty Shades of Grey has brought erotica for women into the spotlight and it’s now at the heart of a publishing boom - but of course from Sappho to Nancy Friday, from The Story Of O to Riders, female erotica has been around for centuries if not millennia. Charlie Hay from our Basildon bookshop joined Brooke Magnanti, the erstwhile Belle de Jour, poet Ruth Padel, author Bel Mooney and journalist Bidisha as they discussed the Fifty Shades phenomenon and their own favourite erotica... Read more 
In the second part of this interview, recorded at our Cheltenham bookshop during the Literature Festival, our Managing Director James Daunt speaks of reclaiming the "honourable profession" of bookselling, reinvigorating our bookshops and why the debut novel HHhH is the best book he has read this year....
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James Daunt, Managing Director of Waterstones, speaks about the libraries of his childhood, his journey into bookselling, the importance of literature festivals and how Waterstones bookshops are changing...
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Richard Ford spoke to us about the upcoming US election, and how America is perhaps "almost ungovernable".
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Aifric Campbell, ex-investment banker turned Orange Prize longlisted author, spoke to us about her book On The Floor and why fiction can some times be the best medium for dealing with issues such as the financial collapse.
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We caught up with the broadcaster Evan Davis after his book signing to hear about his book Made In Britain. We also asked him about the suggestion made by Digby Jones in an event the previous day at Cheltenham Literature Festival that the government could stimulate growth in the economy by cutting employer National Insurance contributions - which is, as he saw it, a tax on jobs. Read more 
Journalist Jonathan Dimbleby enthuses about his new book Destiny In The Desert. We challenge you to not buy the book after listening to him...
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Novelist and art historian Ross King spoke to us about his new book, Leonardo And The Last Supper, why Dan Brown still looms large over da Vinci, and a possible return to fiction writing. Read more 
One Shot Kill is the latest entry in the Henderson's Boys series from children's author Robert Muchamore. He talks about the book as well as the challenges faced making a CHERUB film, and the pleasures of writing characters over a series of novels.
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It's been a rollercoaster year for Rachel Joyce with the runaway success of her novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry. She tells us a bit about the book, juggling family and a book tour, and that she's almost finished a new novel...
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Andrea Gillies told us about the huge cast of characters and confused memories which make up her novel The White Lie.
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