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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.

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.

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.... 

Claire Fuller joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest novel, Swimming Lessons. Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious and complicated truths of a passionate and troubled marriage.

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

Angus Watson, author of the Age of Iron trilogy, visits the Audible Studios with actor and narrator Sean Barrett, the narrator of Watson's Age of Iron trilogy and latest book, You Die When You Die. Sean is a prolific narrator and has nearly 300 titles listed on the Audible website.

Noted for his popular detective novels, Barclay made his breakthrough with No Time for Goodbye in 2007, which became 2008’s top selling novel of the year in the UK. With 17 novels for adults under his belt, Barclay has now published his next thriller, A Noise Downstairs. Linwood Barclay talks to us about his latest novel, his love of typewriters and how he began writing.  

Alastair Reynolds joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss his work.

Today, best-selling crime writer Mark Billingham makes his second trip to the Audible Studios to discuss the latest edition of his D.I. Tom Thorne series. Love Like Blood, the 14th book in the series, sees Thorne team up with fellow police officer, D.I. Nicola Tanner, in an attempt to find the killer of Nicola's murdered partner. Mark Billingham welcome back to Audible.

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

Pippa Malmgren is a market economist, high-tech entrepreneur, and former presidential advisor. She has launched a video series called Fifty Shades of Economics which explores economics in an accessible way, and is the author of the new book Signals; The Breakdown of the Social Contract and the Rise of Geopolitics, which she discusses in this exclusive Audible Sessions interview.

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.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss the first book in her latest fantasy series, The Smoke Thieves, is award winning best-selling author Sally Green. Author of the critically acclaimed young adult fantasy series Half Life, Sally Green’s work has been likened to George Orwell but with witches. After winning the Teen category of the Waterstone’s Children’s Books prize in 2015, Sally has embarked on a brand-new epic fantasy series titled The Smoke Thieves, the first of which published in May 2018.

Karen Maitland joins Elise Italiaander to talk about her latest novel, The Plague Charmer.

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

Best-selling Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurdardottir chats to Elise Italiaander about her latest crime novel The Legacy.

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.

Multiaward-winning author, journalist and screenwriter Patrick Ness joins us to discuss his latest audiobook, Release,a raw, dark and deeply touching coming-of-age tale. Patrick talks to us about the inspiration behind it, his journey as an author and his unique approach to Young Adult fiction. We also hear what he thinks of the film adaptations of his books.

Sarah Dunant joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest book.

Joining us in the Audible Studios for the second time to discuss her fifth novel, Some Kind of Wonderful, is the talented author, presenter, blogger and columnist Giovanna Fletcher. With a biography that includes screen actress, accomplished author, presenter, blogger and vlogger, Giovanna’s talents are widespread as she publishes her next romantic fiction novel which follows on from her Sunday Times best-selling title Happy Mum, Happy Baby.