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Hay Festival 2019: Nicci Gerrard

Writer Nicci Gerrard talks to George Alagiah about her latest book on dementia

Hay Festival 2019: Kapka Kassabova

Novelist and poet Kapka Kassabova talks about growing up behind the Iron Curtain

Hay Festival 2019: Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto talks to George Alagiah about how politics and tragedy shaped her writing

T. Geronimo Johnson

Kirsty Wark talks to author and academic T. Geronimo Johnson

Asne Seierstad

Norwegian author Åsne Seierstad is renowned for her s of daily life in war zones

Anuradha Roy

Indian writer and publisher Anuradha Roy on her novel An Atlas of Impossible Longing

Alexander McCall Smith

Writer Alexander McCall Smith on creating The Number 1. Ladies’ Detective Agency

Tim Winton - Author

Australian author Tim Winton on what drives him and his literary career

Elizabeth Strout - Author

Pulitzer prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout on what drives her and her literary career

Sebastian Barry

Author Sebastian Barry on his writing career and latest novel Days Without End

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