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Interview I: Eleanor Wachtel interviews British author Barbara Trapido and discusses her latest book, Juggling. Interview II: Eleanor speaks with American author Bill Bryson about the English language and his book The Mother Tongue : English And How It Got That Way

Eleanor Wachtel interviews one of the most popular African-American women Authors, Alice Walker. Famous for The Colour Purple, Alice Walker has also written short stories, essays, and other notable novels of the Black American experience.

Eleanor Wachtel talks to the award-winning American (and Canadian) writer, Bharati Mukherjee about her new novel Desirable Daughters. Highly autobiographical, it's about three sisters - wealthy, beautiful, Bengali, educated Brahmins from Calcutta.

Bestselling American author Brit Bennett joins Eleanor Wachtel to discuss her new novel, The Vanishing Half, which revolves around identical twin sisters who live out different racial identities.

Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Jeffrey Eugenides, creator of the most original coming-of-age stories, from the award-winning The Virgin Suicides to the recent Middlesex. Middlesex is about a hermaphrodite, but it couldn't be less sensational or more, in its way, old-fashioned.

A special program with American author Jane Smiley. Her latest book, A Thousand Acres, transposes Shakespeare's King Lear to an Iowa farm. It won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award.

A coversation with the young American novelist, Claire Messud. Her latest book, The Last Life is an evocation of the political and emotional inheritance of the Algerian-French. It's also a remarkable coming-of-age novel.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Michael Ondaatje about Divisadero, his first novel in seven years. It's a story of passion, loss and the imprint of the past.

Part I: The popular American novelist Alice Hoffman - she brings magic realism to suburbia and passion to the everyday in her new novel Practical Magic. Part II: In honour of Mother's Day, John Berger reads "Mother" from his collection Keeping a Rendezvous.

Eleanor interviews American biographer, novelist, travel writer, and critic, Diane Johnson. Her latest book, Le Divorce, is a delightful comedy of manners and a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.