Jane Smiley, and writing gay lives from the past with Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens
Chris Power talks to Jane Smiley, Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens about drawing on marginal - and radical - voices from history in their fiction.
Chris Power talks to Jane Smiley about her new book A Dangerous Business, set in 1850s Monterey when women's lives were not only constrained but often at risk.
Luke Roberts helped to uncover a forgotten gay novel from the 1960s. He retraces poet Mark Hyatt's footsteps in Soho.
Plus, Tom Crewe and Nell Stevens discuss creatively drawing on marginal - and radical - LGBTQ voices from the 19th century in two exciting fiction debuts.
Book List – Sunday 15 January and Thursday 19 January
A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Love, Leda by Mark Hyatt
Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
The New Life, by Tom Crewe
Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner