Graham Norton

Have you always loved stories? Reading them, listening to them, talking about them? Then The Graham Norton Book Club is for you....

The Graham Norton Book Club is back....

The Book Club entertains literary royalty as Margaret Atwood tells Graham about her Booker-nominated story of murder and madness, Alias Grace, and the clubbers pass judgement on whether it stands up in court....

Our book of the week is Naoise Dolan’s smash hit debut, Exciting Times. Graham talks to her about creating this story of young, misguided love and our clubbers reveal if they’re excited about it or not....

Matt Haig’s chart topping The Midnight Library is this week’s book. He tells Graham about creating this fantasy best-seller while the club decide if they’re renewing their loan or returning their cards....

Crying in H Mart is Michelle Zauner’s New York Times best-selling memoir about the loss of her Korean mother and the discovery of her own Korean heritage. Michelle tells Graham about the writing of it while the clubbers debate how they felt about the reading of it....

In the first of a brand-new series, Graham talks to best-selling ‘tartan noir’ doyenne, Val McDermid, about her latest novel, 1979 and our clubbers debate whether it was, in fact, a good year.....

Sechs junge Leute fahren ans Meer. Auf dem Rückweg ein schrecklicher Unfall: Es sterben ein Paar, das am nächsten Tag heiraten wollte, und...

Our book of the week is Edna O’Brien’s remarkable Girl – the story of a schoolgirl kidnapped by religious extremists which involved Edna travelling to Nigeria to do her research at the age of 85....

For our second club gathering, the book of the week is Zadie Smith’s On Beauty....

For the Club’s first meeting, the book of the week is Denise Mina’s The Less Dead....

In the final episode of the series, our book of the week – The Idiot by Elif Batuman - evokes strong reactions from our Clubbers and Elif tells Graham, amongst other things, how she ended up running a school production of Chicken Little in Hungary when she was 18....

Our book of the week is Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies. Graham talks to Andrew about treading the fine line between autobiography and fiction and our clubbers discuss whether he managed to do it successfully....

After a long search, Graham finally gets to talk to author Albert French about his extraordinary book, Billy....

Our book of the week – Lanny – gets one of the strongest clubber reactions so far! Graham talks to its author, Max Porter....

Novelist Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith) gives us insight into our book of the week – Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – and its author, Elizabeth Taylor....

Graham talks to Adrian McKinty about our book of the week, The Cold Cold Ground as well his nearly giving up writing in favour of Uber driving....

Graham and the Clubbers get adventurous with book-of-the-week choice, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Volume I: Preludes and Nocturnes....

Voller Sehnsucht und voller Geheimnisse, voller Dunkelheit und Licht: Nach langen Jahren kehrt Elizabeth Keane aus New York in die irische Heimat...

Duneen liegt wirklich am Arsch der Welt, ganz, ganz unten im Süden Irlands. Große Dramen finden in dem kleinen Ort nicht statt...