• Travels with Graham Greene — the remarkable life and times of a master storyteller
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• Wayétu Moore tells the story of Liberia through her family’s escape from its devastating civil war
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• Indigenous filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin on her legendary career and the power of storytelling
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• Amitav Ghosh pursues adventure across the Indian Ocean in Sea of Poppies
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• The legacy of John le Carré: master of the political thriller
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• David Foenkinos on literary fame, lost artistic genius and John Lennon
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• Tsitsi Dangarembga looks at the dreams and disappointments of post-colonial Zimbabwe
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• On finding and losing yourself in the city: from Charles Dickens to Virginia Woolf
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• 30 years of Writers & Company: highlights from our very first season
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• Brit Bennett on race, identity and the re-invention of self in The Vanishing Half
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• Dalia Sofer draws on her family’s escape from revolutionary Iran in her compelling novels
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• Martin Amis on the inside story of his literary life, loves and losses
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• Ayad Akhtar examines the soul of America through his own family's story in Homeland Elegies
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• Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive is a moving tribute to her mother's life
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• Dionne Brand, Margaret Drabble, Deborah Eisenberg & Andrew O'Hagan reflect on life and writing
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• Fatima Bhutto on her powerful and tragic political family and the lure of extremism for the young
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• Mira Nair's adaptation of A Suitable Boy looks at family and political tensions in post-partition India
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• In Intimations, Zadie Smith reflects deeply on isolation and injustice
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• How the tragic story of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet inspired Maggie O’Farrell’s prize-winning novel
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• Ann Patchett on the true meaning of beauty and her prize-winning novel, Bel Canto
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• 'Each novel is a journey.' Rose Tremain explores the exile experience in her vivid, engaging fiction
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• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on why she can't stay silent
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• Ali Smith on art, adolescence and gender ambiguity in her time-bending novel, How To Be Both
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• Carol Shields finds a way home through the mazes of Larry’s Party
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• P.D. James at 100: the thrills and mysteries of her life as a crime writer
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• The imaginative leaps of German filmmaker Wim Wenders
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