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Isa's Book Club

Isa's Book Club

Isa Soares brings you intimate and wide-ranging chats with authors from around the world. Find your next great read or just get a taste of the writers behind the books – their inspirations, experiences and how global events shape their storytelling.
Isa Soares brings you intimate and wide-ranging chats with authors from around the world. Find your next great read or just get a taste of the writers behind the books – their inspirations, experiences and how global events shape their storytelling.

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Video Former Editor of Vanity Fair Graydon Carter: ‘I never used the word career… I’m really lucky to have this job.’ 7:29

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Award-winning international correspondent Isa Soares hosts ‘Isa Soares Tonight,’ which airs weeknights at 2 pm ET (7 pm London).
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Video Lauren Child: ‘You can’t live without hope.’ 5:58
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<p>Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse joins Isa's Book Club to talk about her memoir, documenting her terrifying escape from Rwanda in the 1990s. </p>
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Video Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse: This book was ‘a way to reappropriate the history.’ 6:23
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Video Kenneth Roth: ‘The defense of human rights is a matter of hardball.’ 2:00
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<p>In the latest edition of Isa's Book Club, first-time author Catherine Airey joins Isa Soares to discuss her book about intergenerational trauma, "Confessions."</p>
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Video Novelist Catherine Airey: There are secrets in every family that ‘reverberate through time.’ 7:03
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Harry Potter’s stunt double David Holmes: ‘My life was changed forever.’
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Video Jodi Picoult: ‘Women have often been written out of history by the men who were holding the pen.’ 7:32
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Video Former CIA analyst David McCloskey: ‘The building doesn’t love you back.’ 6:25
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<p>Isa Soares speaks with former FBI Director James Comey about his new book as part of Isa's Book Club. </p>
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Video Former FBI Director James Comey: Radical transparency is the ‘best approach to leadership.’ 7:30
Feb 5, 2025
<p>Isa Soares speaks with best-selling author David Nicholls about "You Are Here" on this edition of "Isa's Book Club".</p>
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Video David Nicholls: ‘I’ve never been very good at that great, joyous, rush to the airport kind of ending.’ 7:34
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Video Artist George Butler: For Ukraine this is ‘a record of the first draft of history.’ 7:09
Mar 28, 2025
<p>Hostage negotiator Mickey Bergman recounts high stakes efforts to free U.S. hostages held abroad in an interview with CNN's Isa Soares. </p>
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<p>Author and correspondent Aamna Mohdin joins Isa's Book Club to discuss her new book, "Scattered: The making and unmaking of a refugee"</p><p><br /></p>
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Video Journalist Aamna Mohdin: ‘My life split in two, half as a refugee and half as a British citizen.’ 6:41
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<p>Michael Bociurkiw, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, joins Isa Soares from Odesa to discuss the impact of Russia's massive attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. </p><p><br /></p>
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Video Rumaan Alam: ‘The books become a way of working out what I feel.’ 7:26
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Video Artist Oliver Jeffers: A picture book is ‘like a triangle relationship between a parent and a child.’ 6:32
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