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Tom's Book Club

Tom's Book Club

Von: Thomas Watters
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Tom’s Book Club is a weekly books podcast featuring in-depth conversations with leading contemporary authors. Each episode features a focused, in-depth conversation with the authors behind the most talked-about new fiction, exploring the ideas, craft, and real-world questions that shape their work. Recent guests include Booker Prize winners George Saunders and Howard Jacobson, alongside bestselling writers and emerging voices from across the literary world. Subscribe for thoughtful author interviews, new book recommendations, and a closer look at the stories everyone’s talking about.

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  • Bobby Palmer on Main Characters

    Bobby Palmer on Main Characters
    Jun 30 2026
    Bobby Palmer joins Tom’s Book Club to discuss his new novel Main Characters, an ambitious love story told entirely through the eyes of friends, family, flatmates and strangers. In this episode, Bobby discusses the inspiration behind Main Characters, why he had wanted to write a love story for many years, and how he approached telling a relationship entirely through the perspectives of other people. He talks about creating dozens of narrators, writing humour, family and friendship, and the challenge of building two central characters who never tell their own story. Bobby Palmer is the author of Isaac and the Egg, a Waterstones Paperback of the Year, and Small Hours.

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    24 Min.
  • Elif Shafak on Writing, Memory and the Power of Fiction

    Elif Shafak on Writing, Memory and the Power of Fiction
    Jun 23 2026

    Bestselling novelist and President of the Royal Society of Literature Elif Shafak discusses literature, storytelling and the writing life.

    In this wide-ranging conversation, Elif reflects on the books that have guided her through difficult times, growing up between cultures, writing in both English and Turkish, and why stories can cross borders more easily than people can.

    She discusses her acclaimed novel There Are Rivers in the Sky, the experience of being put on trial following The Bastard of Istanbul, and the challenge of inhabiting voices as varied as sex workers, archaeologists and even a fig tree.

    Elif also opens up about her unusual writing process, why she writes amid a "hullabaloo" of noise, her thoughts on artificial intelligence and literature, and her forthcoming novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity, which she describes as "the novel I always wanted to write."

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    34 Min.
  • Rachel Clarke on The Story of a Heart

    Rachel Clarke on The Story of a Heart
    Jun 16 2026

    Women's Prize-winning author and palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke joins Tom's Book Club to discuss The Story of a Heart, the book that won the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.


    Following the announcement of this year's Women's Prize winners, we're revisiting this conversation with Rachel about the extraordinary true story of Keira, a young girl whose donated heart saved another child's life.


    Rachel discusses how she first discovered the story, the families at its centre, and the remarkable history of heart transplantation. She also reflects on balancing medicine with storytelling, the emotional challenges of writing about grief and hope, and the response the book has received from readers.

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    15 Min.
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