Books and Authors Episodes Episode guide
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Open Book: India Knight, M C Beaton & library reads
Mariella Frostrup talks to India Knight about her hilarious new novel Mutton featuring...
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Open Book: Ian McEwan and Amy Bloom
As we head for a September publishing bonanza, Mariella Frostrup is joined by writers...
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Open Book: Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson
Novelists Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson discuss the influence of the season...
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Open Book: Hilary Mantel and guests-historical fiction
Mariella celebrates a renaissance in historical fiction writing with authors Philippa...
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Open Book: Hector Abad, Horror fiction
Colombian novelist Hector Abad joins Mariella Frostrup to discuss his new saga The Farm.
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Open Book: Harlan Coben, Rodge Glass & London Book Fair
Harlan Coben talks to Mariella Frostup about his new thriller novel Six Years.
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Open Book: Grace McCleen on The Professor of Poetry
Mariella Frostrup talks to Grace McCleen about her new novel The Professor of Poetry...
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Open Book: Glenn Patterson on Belfast
Glenn Patterson takes Mariella Frostrup around Belfast - the city that has inspired...
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Open Book: Gillian Cross, Taiye Selasi and novels behind operas
Mariella Frostrup talks to Taiye Selasi about her debut novel Ghana Must Go with.
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Open Book: Gail Jones, 1930s' crime fiction, Marlowe and Holmes revisited
Australian author Gail Jones discusses her new book The Death of Noah Glass
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Open Book: Gail Jones, 1930's crime stories and the Tower of London's Ravens
Gail Jones, revisiting iconic literary detectives and crime fiction of the 1930's.
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Open Book: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Authors Salman Rushdie and Elif Shafak pay tribute to writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Open Book: Frederick Forsyth, Robert Louis Stevenson and the literary salons of Afghanista
Mariella talks to Frederick Forsyth, forty years after he wrote his ground-breaking of...
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Open Book: Fiction following the Armistice; Beowulf reimagined; James Daunt
Exploring literary responses to the Great War in the immediate aftermath of the Armistice
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Open Book: Evie Wyld on All the Birds, Singing
Evie Wyld, one of Granta's 2013 best young British novelists, discusses her latest All...
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Open Book: Esther Freud on Mr Mac and Me
Novelist Esther Freud talks about her latest, Mr Mac and Me, inspired by the time in...
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Open Book: Emma Hooper - Etta + Otto + Russell + James
Canadian writer Emma Hooper on her first book, Etta and Otto and Russell and James - a...
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Open Book: Elif Shafak, children's books
Mariella talks to novelist Elif Shafak about her latest book highlighting the issue of...
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Open Book: Edna O'Brien and the pain and pleasure of writing a novel
Edna O'Brien discusses her memoir Country Girl and Sid Smith and Naomi Alderman the in...
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Open Book: Denise Mina on The Red Road
Denise Mina talks to Mariella Frostrup about her latest crime novel The Red Road; jobs...
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Open Book: Deborah Levy and Bulgarian fiction
Deborah Levy revisits her early work; Kapka Kassabova and Miroslav Penkov discuss and...
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Open Book: Dawn French, bibliomania and Britain re-imagined
Dawn French talks about her latest novel Oh Dear Silvia. Authors CJ Sansom and Owen at...
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Open Book: David Hewson, Commonwealth Writers, Helen Simpson
David Hewson explains how he's transported the cult Danish TV series The Killing into...
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Open Book: David Baddiel & Naomi Alderman and Jim Crace
Mariella Frostrup discusses what defines a Jewish novel with stand up comedian, tv & &...
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Open Book: Damon Galgut on Arctic Summer
Medium Acclaimed South African writer Damon Galgut on his novel Arctic Summer, plus on...
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Open Book: Daisy Johnson on her debut novel, Everything Under
Daisy Johnson, The literary appeal of the Fens, Book festival etiquette
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Open Book: Conn Iggulden, Autumn in Literature
Conn Iggulden on Stormbird, the first in his new series set during the Wars of the and...
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Open Book: Comic writing continued, Sarah Hall
Mariella Frostrup continues her celebration of funny books and funny writers with A L...
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Open Book: Colum McCann; Mental health and fiction
Column McCann on his novel TransAtlantic, which explores the relationship between and...
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Open Book: Colm Toibin
Mariella Frostrup is joined by award-winning Irish writer, Colm Toibin, to discuss his...
