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Bill Hayes visits the Audible Studios to talk about his latest book, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me, a gripping, heart-wrenching tale of his love for Oliver Sacks, life in New York City and the fascinating people he meets on his way. Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life - a moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss her fifth novel, Manhattan Beach, is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan. Raised in San Francisco, Jennifer Egan has been described as one of the most experimentally fearless writers of the modern age - a Pulitzer prize winner for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad amongst various other awards and recognitions for both her fiction and nonfiction work.

Robin Morgan talks to Julie Corbin about her fifth novel, What Goes Around, about learning to write and taking revenge.

Katherine's subsequent novels often appear in the Sunday Times Top Ten Best Sellers and her works are not only a massive hit in the UK but internationally and have already been translated into 26 different languages! Today Katherine is here to talk about her exciting new novel, her seventh book, Hiding Places.

Nathan Hill joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss his hit debut novel, The Nix.

Fiona Barton, once a senior journalist for national newspapers, achieved great success in 2016 with her debut psychological thriller The Widow. Fiona visits the Audible Studios for the second time to tell us about her latest novel The Child, narrated by Clare Corbett, Adjoa Andoh, Finty Williams and Fenella Woolgar, in which the journalist Kate Waters is back to investigate the truth behind another compelling mystery.

Kaite Welsh is an Edinburgh-based journalist, author and critic who writes a regular column on LGBT issues for The Daily Telegraph as well as making multiple appearances on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. She has been referred to as the exciting new voice in historical crime, and she visits the Audible Studios to talk about her first book, The Wages of Sin, set in the dark belly of the Victorian era in 19th-century Edinburgh.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to talk about his latest novel, Take Nothing with You, is best-selling British author Patrick Gale. As well as being the author of 19 novels including the Costa-nominated A Place Called Winter, Gale also wrote the acclaimed BBC drama Man in the Orange Shirt. His latest book, Take Nothing with You, was published in August 2018. Patrick Gale talks to us about his latest book, the inspiration behind it and lessons from his own childhood.

Robin Morgan is joined in the Audible Studios by the best-selling and award-winning British poet and novelist Sophie Hannah. Sophie's first collection of poetry was published when she was just 24 - now her work is studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across the UK and she has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award. She is also the author of many brilliant mystery and crime novels including the Zailer & Waterhouse Mysteries series and two new Hercule Poirot novels, written at the request of Agatha Christie's family and estate.

An established actress across stage, screen and radio, Celia Imrie is most well known for her collaborations with Victoria Wood, including the spoof Acorn Antiques. With notable film appearances including Bridget Jones’s Diary, Calendar Girls and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Imrie has now narrated and published her latest audiobook, Sail Away. Celia Imrie talks to us about her new book, what we can expect from it and her successful and varied career as an actress.

Joining us in the Audible studios to talk about his latest book No Spin: My Autobiography is Australian former international cricketer Shane Warne. Widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of cricket, Shane Warne has had an astonishing career in the game, playing his first Test match in 1992 and retiring in 2013. The lead wicket taker in Test cricket until 2007 and named twice as a Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World, Warne has now published his biography, No Spin. Shane Warne talks to us about how he fell into cricket by accident, the lack of cricket superstars today and his relationship with Elizabeth Hurley.

Journalist, author and conqueror of fears Alexandra Heminsley joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss the process of writing and narrating her latest book, Leap In.

Joining us at Audible Studios is Louise Doughty, an English fiction and non-fiction writer, a playwright and a journalist. Doughty studied for an MA in Creative Writing. As her writing for newspapers and radio began to garner more attention, she wrote and released her first novel, and hasn't stopped since then. One of her novels, Apple Tree Yard, was adapted into a BBC series under the same name.

Markus Zusak visits Audible to discuss his latest novel, the much-awaited Bridge of Clay, 13 years after his last book published. In Bridge of Clay, listeners will be transported to Australia and follow the story of five brothers living in a house without grown-ups. But what happens when their father walks back into their lives? Markus Zusak talks about how he came up with the idea for Bridge of Clay, the dynamic between the five Dunbar brothers and the many quirks woven into the story.

PZ Reizin introduces his debut audiobook, Happiness for Humans. Having created a quirky and timely story which addresses our growing dependency on artificial intelligence, PZ describes his writing process, the source of his ideas and inspiration and the questionable ethics behind creating future sentient automatons.

Best-selling, Man Booker-short-listed author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid brings Audible his incredible new audiobook, Exit West. A love story about two refugees caught between their war-torn country and the beginnings of their own journey into adulthood, it has been praised by critics and readers alike, with The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New York Times and even Barack Obama reporting it as one of the greatest books of the year.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest book, Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades, is author and journalist Caitlin Davies. Caitlin Davies was born in London in 1964. She is the author of five novels and five non-fiction books, and has worked as a teacher and freelance journalist for 25 years. In 1989 she moved to Botswana where she worked for the country's first tabloid newspaper, The Voice, and later as editor of the Okavango Observer. She received a Journalist of the Year award.

David Hewson joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss Romeo and Juliet: A Novel, the latest in the series of original audiobook adaptations of Shakespeare plays, narrated by Richard Armitage. The audiobooks are imaginative reworkings of the original plays using contemporary language but retaining the original historical settings.

Emma Flint joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss her atmospheric debut novel, Little Deaths.

Introducing his autobiography, A Life in Parts, Bryan Cranston talks to us about embodying the infamous drug kingpin Walter White, the physical and emotional turmoil that comes with being an actor and how a difficult and oftentimes violent upbringing led him to become an unrelenting optimist. Having first graced our screens at the age of seven, Bryan now has over 150 titles to his name, including Linwood Boomer’s hugely celebrated sitcom Malcom in the Middle and Vince Gilligan’s multiaward-winning Breaking Bad.