Books and Authors Episodes Episode guide
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Megan Nolan, plus crime summer reading recommendations from Vaseem Khan, Laura Wilson and Val McDermid
Johny Pitts speaks to Megan Nolan about her new novel, Ordinary Human Failings
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Max Porter, Folk resurgence in literature, Angie Thomas on Hip Hop
Max Porter discusses his new novel Lanny.
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Max Hastings on journalism novels & Steve Hely
Two eras of journalism collide in Annalena McAfee's debut novel, 'The Spoiler'.
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Matt Haig, Val McDermid and a postcard from Argentina
Matt Haig on time travel and Val McDermid discusses Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
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Matt Haig
Matt Haig discusses his new novel, The Life Impossible and Lord of the Flies at 70.
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Mary Renault's Greek Myths
Mary Renault's Greek Myths
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Martin Amis
Martin Amis
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Marlon James
Booker winning writer Marlon James talks to Elizabeth Day
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Marlon James
A life in books with Marlon James
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Mark Radcliffe & Patricia Cumper
Toni Morrison's Beloved and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Again are the books on the table
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Mark Haddon on Virginia Woolf and Ruth Ware discusses her new novel, The Lying Game
Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press and Misha Glenny on The Master and Margarita
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Mariella Frostrup with Margaret Atwood, Helen Simpson and Hari Kunzru
Mariella Frostrup talks to the Canadian Booker prize winning author Margaret Atwood...
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Mariella Frostrup with Ian Rankin and Don McCullin
Ian Rankin talks to Mariella Frostrup about his latest crime thriller The Impossible...
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Mariella Frostrup talks to John Lanchester
Mariella Frostrup presents news and features from the world of books. John Lanchester...
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Mariella Frostrup looks at the career and life of Dodie Smith
Mariella Frostrup looks at the career and life of Dodie Smith, the author best known I...
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Mariella and guests Sebastian Faulks, Lisa McInerney, Chibundu Onuzo and Kamila Shamsie celebrate 20 years of Open Book
Open Book celebrates 20 years with Mariella Frostrup in front of a live audience.
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Margaret Drabble Louis de Bernieres and a passion for islands
Margaret Drabble on her new book The Dark Flood Rises and the books on her bedside table.
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Margaret Drabble and Sebastian Faulks
Margaret Drabble on her novel The Pure Gold Baby; Sebastian Faulks and Helen Dunmore...
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Margaret Atwood and Sam Selvon
Johny Pitts explores the work of two writers who have combined comedy with tragedy
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Malorie Blackman talks to Johny Pitts about Endgame
Malorie Blackman talks to Johny Pitts about Endgame
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Making it new? Literature of the Twenties Special
Johny Pitts explores the 20s with Alison MacLeod, Bill Goldstein, James Clammer & Jo Hamya
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Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy
Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy
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Maggie O'Farrell on her new novel, Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell Sophie Hannah and Reading in Isolation
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Madeleine Gray
Madeleine Gray on her witty, heartbreaking novel, Green Dot, about a young woman's affair
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Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis on the writing of Our Strangers.
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Luiza Sauma and Easter reading
Luiza Sauma on her book Flesh and Bone and Water and books for Easter.
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Looking back at 2022 and (re)discovering Bruno Schulz Open Book
Chris Power discusses a year in books with Ellah Wakatama and Kate Mosse.
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Literary Postcards
Literary postcards from around the world.
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Literary Norwich Special
The University of East Anglia's Creative Writing MA turns 50.
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Lisa McInerney, regional writing and a postcard from Cuba
Lisa McInerney on her new novel, Blood Miracles and a discussion on regional writing
