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This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Edinburgh writer Stuart Kelly about his idiosyncratic view of literature. His book The Book of Lost Books is sub-titled An incomplete history of all the great books you will never read. From Homer to Sylvia Plath, from Shakespeare to Hemingway, great writers had written - or planned to write - works that are not available to us as readers. Whether lost, unfinished or un-started, these are the texts that tantalise Kelly's…

An interview with a remarkable psychoanalytic thinker - Adam Phillips. The author of On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored is interested in nothing less than how to live at the end of the 20th century.