Graham and the Club talk about books for adult readers, which means that, sometimes, some of the themes discussed may not be suitable for younger ears. The Wonder is a psychological thriller centred around English nurse Lib who travels to a small town to observe an 11-year-old girl, Anna ODonnell, who has stopped eating but somehow remains alive and healthy. Emma Donoghue: ‘I’ve ended up having a family and being a lesbian.' Her new book is based on the many cases of fasting girls reported across the world from the 16th to the 20th centuries. And, of course, each time our passionate band of book clubbers will share their opinions and their scores out of ten for our book of the week and we’ll give you a sneak peek into what’s rising in the best seller lists.

Plus, we’ll hear from the famous voices behind some of the hottest audio books around – like Bill Bryson, Konnie Huq, Nicola Walker, Richard Armitage and Think Like a Monk author, Jay Shetty. As award-winning author Emma Donoghue made clear in her breakthrough novel Room, she is a master of tight spaces: both the physically cramped confines of a single small area in which a woman and her young child are held prisoner, and the inside of a character’s mind. We’ve got some of the biggest names in books including Oscar-nominated Room and The Wonder author Emma Donoghue, Oprah-picked, youngest ever Booker-nominated, Leila Mottley, best-selling thriller writer, David Baldacci, Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, national treasure Alan Bennett and more. Her novel Room won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’. 24 Swoonworthy Novels Inspired by Ireland. Born in Dublin in 1969, EMMA DONOGHUE is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright who lives in Canada. Welcome to the fourth series of The Graham Norton Book Club where we’re all about the stories – reading them, listening to them, talking about them. The Wonder 2022 Maturity Rating:R 1h 49m Drama Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girls supposedly miraculous fast. With her latest novel, The Wonder, set mostly in a small cottage in a Read More.

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