Jeanine Cummins on her explosive new novel, American Dirt

This week, Claire talks to the controversial author Jeanine Cummins, whose thriller American Dirt – opening with a violent crime at a family barbecue and following Lydia and her son on their journey from Mexico to the US – is causing something of a stir.

We also celebrate Roger Robinson’s TS Eliot prize success, and look at how trauma has always been an inspiration for poetry, memoir and fiction.