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Make a delicious loaf cake from Ruby Tandoh's Eat Up! for National Baking Week
Recipe: Ruby Tandoh's herby pesto flatbread
09 Oct 2018
Does the idea of baking bread fill you with fear? This easy recipe will give rise to feelings of happiness only...
Read the opening pages of Sarah Perry's Melmoth
28 Sep 2018
Read the spine-tingling opening to Melmoth, and watch author Sarah Perry read it.
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New releases
Melmoth the Wanderer 1820
The original tale of gothic horror, now with an introduction by Sarah Perry
Melmoth
From the author of THE ESSEX SERPENT comes a dazzlingly inventive and deeply moving novel that...
The Changeling
A work of mythic genius by 'the heir to Anton Chekhov' and celebrated author of The...
Half Blood Blues
Repackaged edition of Man Booker and Orange Prize shortlisted novel, to tie in with publication of...
Washington Black
A stunning new novel of slavery and freedom by the author of the Man Booker and Orange Prize...
Videos
Watch Sarah Perry discuss The Essex Serpent
05 Jan 2017
Mary Gaitstill reads from The Mare - video
15 Jul 2016
Watch Mary Gaitskill read from her highly-acclaimed new novel, The Mare.
Events
Sarah Perry and James Naughtie in conversation about Melmoth at Liverpool Literary Festival
20 Oct 2018
Sarah Perry's second novel The Essex Serpent was nominated for numerous awards and has been a huge bestseller. Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award for Best Novel, the Encore Award and the International Dylan Thomas Prize, it was Waterstones Book of the Year 2016 and won the overall Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards, 2017. She will read from her brand new novel Melmoth and discuss her writing with BBC Radio 4's James Naughtie.
James Naughtie is one of our best-known broadcasters, special correspondent and books editor for BBC News. For 21 years he presented Today, and has hosted every edition of Bookclub on BBC Radio 4 since the programme began in 1998. As an author he has written books on politics and music, and two espionage novels, The Madness of July and Paris Spring.
