Graham Norton

It is 1987, and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony, a group of young friends, including the bride and groom, are involved in an accident. Three survive. Three are killed....

The internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show returns with a tense and darkly comic novel that casts a caustic light on the relationship between mothers and daughters and truth and self-preservation....

Graham Norton has been entertaining audiences and having fun with some of the world's biggest stars for nearly 20 years....

When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only on saying goodbye to that dark and dismal part of her life. Her childhood home is packed solid with useless junk, her mother’s presence already fading....

The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, but when human remains are discovered on an old farm, the village's dark past begins to unravel....

Have you always loved stories? Reading them, listening to them, talking about them? Then The Graham Norton Book Club is for you....

The Graham Norton Book Club is back....

In our last ever Book Club, we feature Claire Keegan’s Booker short-listed novella, “Small Things Like These”. Claire discusses the book with Graham, while our Clubbers give their final verdict....

Our book is Angie Cruz’s “How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water”, the highs and lows of immigrant life in New York. Plus, multi-Booker Prize winner, Salman Rushdie shares his journey of recovery from the stabbing that nearly ended his life in his memoir, “Knife”....

Our book is PG Wodehouse’s The Code of the Woosters. Sir Tim Rice tells Graham why he’s a devoted fan of Jeeves and Bertie, while the Clubbers seem to differ. Drag superstar RuPaul invites us into his House of Hidden Meanings and Sara Collins looks at 90s British novels. Join us....

For the Club’s first meeting, the book of the week is Denise Mina’s The Less Dead....

Novelist Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith) gives us insight into our book of the week – Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – and its author, Elizabeth Taylor....

Graham talks to Adrian McKinty about our book of the week, The Cold Cold Ground as well his nearly giving up writing in favour of Uber driving....

In the first of a brand-new series, Graham talks to best-selling ‘tartan noir’ doyenne, Val McDermid, about her latest novel, 1979 and our clubbers debate whether it was, in fact, a good year.....

Crying in H Mart is Michelle Zauner’s New York Times best-selling memoir about the loss of her Korean mother and the discovery of her own Korean heritage. Michelle tells Graham about the writing of it while the clubbers debate how they felt about the reading of it....

Sechs junge Leute fahren ans Meer. Auf dem Rückweg ein schrecklicher Unfall: Es sterben ein Paar, das am nächsten Tag heiraten wollte, und...

In the final episode of the series, our book of the week – The Idiot by Elif Batuman - evokes strong reactions from our Clubbers and Elif tells Graham, amongst other things, how she ended up running a school production of Chicken Little in Hungary when she was 18....

Graham and the Clubbers get adventurous with book-of-the-week choice, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Volume I: Preludes and Nocturnes....

After a long search, Graham finally gets to talk to author Albert French about his extraordinary book, Billy....

Our book of the week is Edna O’Brien’s remarkable Girl – the story of a schoolgirl kidnapped by religious extremists which involved Edna travelling to Nigeria to do her research at the age of 85....