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This week on Writers and Company, Eleanor Wachtel interviews this year's Man Booker prize-winner, Julian Barnes, in a remarkably expansive and personal conversation. His new novel is called The Sense of an Ending.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American author Anne Tyler. In a rare interview, the much-loved chronicler of families talks about her life, her work, and her new novel - A Spool of Blue Thread.

Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with an American original, Nicholson Baker. He's known for his observations of the minutiae of life and for his fierce advocacy of library card catalogues and newspaper storage. As one critic put it, Nicholson Baker "doesn't just count the angels on the head of a pin, he does long division with the feathers in their wing tips." Baker's latest book is called A Box of Matches.

Eleanor Wachtel talks with English novelist Mark Haddon this week on Writers & Company. The author of the extraordinarily successful The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, has a new novel called A Spot of Bother. Also, crime writer P.D. James on the book behind the hit new movie Children of Men.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of England's finest writers, Ian McEwan. They talk about his post-9/11 novel, Saturday, and his latest dysfunctional romance, On Chesil Beach.

Australian novelist Tim Winton has officially been named a "Living Treasure" by the country's national trust. His latest novel focuses on Western Australia's resource and mining boom and its effect of the country and people.