This week's podcast is all about the shape of the year ahead: trends to look out for, anniversaries coming up and new novels from Dave Eggers, Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Stephen King and a host of others. And is there another EL James on the horizon?
We also talk to Daniel Tammet, author of Thinking in Numbers, about the beauty of mathematics, the ways in which it resembles literature and how both disciplines benefit from being considered together – and why it was that Tolstoy hated railways.
Reading list
Wool by Hugh Howey
Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle
Fobbit by David Abrams
All That Is by James Salter
Wise Men by Stuart Nadler
Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Delicate Truth by John Le Carre
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
The Guts by Roddy Doyle
Ghana Must Go by Talye Selasi
The Hive by Jill Hornby
Fractured Times by Eric Hobsbawm
The Democracy Project by David Graeber
The Message by Naomi Klein
The Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives by Daniel Tammet
