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Jonathan Dean visits the Audible Studios to talk about his engrossing new book, exploring his powerful family history including his grandfather and great-grandfather - both refugees escaping from their home country to find a better life. Jonathan examines the plight of refugees and émigrés through their personal family history and connects their stories to today's global events. Dean's moving book not only chronicles his family history but also draws striking parallels to the situations that refugees face today and how there is a growing reluctance to help.

YouTube star Hannah Witton visits the Audible Studios to talk about her first book, Doing It: Let's Talk About Sex. After starting to create YouTube videos in 2011, Hannah now has over 300,000 subscribers and works with Radio 1, MTV and Awesomeness TV. Her varied videos are about books, films, travel and advice, with a focus on sex and relationships. In Doing It: Let's Talk About Sex, straight-talking Hannah tackles everything from masturbation and puberty to slut shaming and consent.

Caroline Mitchell visits the Audible Studios to talk about her latest Detective Ruby Preston thriller, Sleep Tight.

Maria Semple joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest book.

Karen Dionne joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to talk about her new novel The Marsh King's Daughter. The novel has already received rave reviews from the New York Times, from celebrated authors such as Lee Child and from Audible listeners too.

Modern spiritual healer, well-being consultant and meditation ambassador Jody Shield joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss her first ever book, LifeTonic: A Modern Toolkit to Help You Heal Your Life and Soothe Your Soul.

Maureen Carter visits the Audible Studios to talk about her former life as a journalist and the road to becoming a published crime author. Maureen is a former BBC journalist and presenter who now writes two hugely popular crime series starring Bev Morriss and DI Sarah Quinn.

Debut novelist Nick Clark Windo visits the Audible Studio to talk about his new novel, The Feed. He discusses how the idea for this dystopian thriller came about and the triumphs and pitfalls of social media. The RADA-trained film producer and communications coach began his first novel at the Faber Academy's 'Write a Novel' programme. The finished novel was snapped up just 24 hours after it was submitted to publishers.

Walter Lucius joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss his work.

Joining Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios is author of the UK's best-selling zombie horror series The Undead. British writer R R Haywood has just made the quantum-leap into the time travel genre, where a young scientist in the year 2061 has to save the world from oblivion, with the help of three ordinary people from the past. Here he talks about his latest book, Extracted, as well as all things zombies, time travel and more.

Elly Griffiths visits the Audible Studios to talk about her new book, The Chalk Pit, the ninth Ruth Galloway novel. Elly is one of the country's most popular and successful crime fiction writers, recently winning the CWA Dagger in the Library Award.

In this interview Karen Swan talks about her latest novel, The Christmas Secret. She discusses her deep connection with Scotland, her essential Christmas traditions and her gift-giving successes and disasters.... Best-selling author Karen Swan began her career as a fashion journalist but switched it for a life writing novels in a little tree house in the countryside. Renowned for her sumptuous stories of romance, idyllic European cities and happy-ever-afters, Karen is a master of the holiday listen.

A senior lecturer in English and Environmental Humanities, Cregan-Reid is also the author behind Footnotes - How Running Makes Us Human. He has a popular blog and has written widely on the subjects of health, literature, nature and the environment for publications such as the Guardian, Telegraph, and Literary Review and the BBC as well as numerous essays and articles for academic journals. His third book, Primate Change, was published in September 2018. Vybarr Cregan-Reid talks to us about his new book, how the human body is changing and why we need to be aware of it.

Publishing under the name SJ Bolton, the prolific writer has become a master of the crime thriller genre having written 10 novels, one of which, Sacrifice, was adapted to the big screen. Awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library for her entire body of work and winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award, Sharon published her thriller The Craftsman in May 2018....

Actor, voice artist and writer Damian Lynch joins us to discuss the Audible Original collection of short stories, in particular, Ben Okri’s 'The Multiverse Murder' and Paul Cornell’s 'A Conclusion'. Best known for starring in Day of the Dance, Waking the Dead, Star Citizen and Little Britain, Damian talks to us about this new and exciting audio collaboration, his experience within the acting industry and his love of storytelling.

David Lagercrantz, the Swedish international number one best-selling author of The Girl in the Spider's Web and I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, which remains the fastest selling book in Swedish history, returns to the Audible studios for the second time to discuss the fifth instalment in Stieg Larsson's Millennium legacy, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye.

Deon Meyer is a South African thriller novelist, described by The Times as 'One of the sharpest thriller writers around'. Deon's novels are international best sellers, translated into 28 different languages whose novels have won literary prizes all over the world and film rights to seven of his novels have been optioned or sold. The Fever, Deon's latest book is a gripping thriller that is a searing story of a group of people determined to carve a city out of chaos, and he visits the Audible Studios to tell us more about it.

Film writer and producer Martino Sclavi joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to talk about his new book, The Finch in My Brain: How I Forgot How to Read but Found How to Live. This inspiring memoir follows Sclavi on his journey from brain cancer diagnosis through treatment to his recovery today.

Graeme Simsion joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss his work.

Best-selling crime writer M. J. Arlidge joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss Follow My Leader, the seventh edition of his DI Helen Grace series. With DI Grace back in Southampton Central Police Station after a stint in prison, she investigates a string of brutal home invasions