David Grossman and the new publishing season

In this week's podcast we take a look at the new publishing season and open the betting on who this year's Christmas bestsellers will be: with Stephen Fry, Michael Caine, Michael McIntyre and Cheryl Cole all heading for the bookshops, the celebrity stakes are wide open. We also look at the making of a publishing phenomenon with the editor behind Jonathan Franzen's new novel Freedom, which has been gobbling up column inches in print and online with weeks still to go before publication. Plus Jonathan Freedland interviews the great Israeli novelist David Grossman. Reading list To the End of the Land by David Grossman (Cape) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (4th Estate) Nourishment by Gerard Woodward (Picador) Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman (|Sceptre)