Books and Authors Episodes Episode guide
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Open Book: Colin Firth shares his 5 of the best books
Colin Firth shares his 5 of the best books with Mariella Frostrup. The Sound and the I...
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Open Book: Claire Messud
Claire Messud, Kafka and Jiaming Tang.
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Open Book: Claire Fuller, Neil Gaiman and literature in Iran
Claire Fuller discusses her new novel, Bitter Orange and Neil Gaiman on Hope Mirrlees
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Open Book: Christopher Bollen on Orient
American novelist Christopher Bollen talks about his novel Orient, a literary murder a...
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Open Book: Christmas Writings
Christmas, with all its tradition and rituals and emotion, has always provided a rich...
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Open Book: Chinese Literature, Eleanor Updale and debut novels
Mariella Frostrup discusses Chinese literature and how we can view this emerging its...
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Open Book: Children's literature special
Open Book is devoted to the joys of children's literature. Four Weddings and a Funeral...
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Open Book: Children's Literature and Oxford
A special edition from Oxford, explores why the city is often called the home of with...
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Open Book: Chick lit, The Woman Reader and Writing Britain
Jane Green and Adele Parks discuss why Chick Lit arouses such passion and how the is...
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Open Book: Charles Frazier, travel writing and magic realism
Charles Frazier, bestselling author of Cold Mountain, discusses his long awaited third...
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Open Book: Catch 22 50th anniversary and writers-in-residence
Open Book marks the 50th anniversary of Joseph Heller's bestseller, Catch 22, as Andy...
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Open Book: Carys Davies, Annie Ernaux
Carys Davies on her new novel, Clear. Plus Annie Ernaux and photography
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Open Book: Caryl Phillips on The Lost Child
Mariella Frostrup talks to award winning novelist Caryl Phillips whose new novel and T...
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Open Book: Carolina Setterwall, Re-reading and what it offers, Shadowplay reviewed, Ahmad Danny Ramadan
Carolina Setterwall and the pleasures of re-reading. With Mariella Frostrup.
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Open Book: Carlos Acosta and Victoria Hislop
Carlos Acosta shares his Five of the Best Books and Victoria Hislop on where she writes.
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Open Book: BJ Novak - The Book With No Pictures
The actor and comedian BJ Novak has written his first children's book.
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Open Book: Bernardine Evaristo, Victorian showmen in fiction, Graeme Simsion, Faber at 90
Bernardine Evaristo discusses her polyphonic new novel Girl, Woman, Other.
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Open Book: Bernard MacLaverty on a literary life
Bernard MacLaverty on a literary life.
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Open Book: Ben Watt and Mike Nicol
Literary reviews - do women get a fair deal? Musician Ben Watt on his memoir about his...
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Open Book: Ben Lerner on 10:04
Acclaimed American novelist Ben Lerner on his playful second novel 10:04 which tackles...
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Open Book: Ben Fountain, Siri Hustvedt, internet book sales
Mariella Frostrup talks to Ben Fountain about his satirical Iraq War novel Billy Long...
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Open Book: Barry Unsworth and Anita Desai talk to DJ Taylor
DJ Taylor talks to Barry Unsworth, who shared the 1992 Booker Prize for his historical...
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Open Book: Barbara Kingsolver, Northern Irish writing, India鈥檚 gay fiction
Barbara Kingsolver discusses her new novel Unsheltered with Mariella Frostrup.
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Open Book: Barbara Kingsolver, David Foster Wallace, Raffles
Barbara Kingsolver talks about her latest novel Flight Behaviour, David Baddiel and D.T.
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Open Book: Australian classics, literary neuroscience, Robert Hudson
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Thomas Keneally, publisher and writer Carmen and...
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Open Book: Anne Enright on The Green Road
Anne Enright talks about her novel The Green Road, her new role as the Irish fiction...
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Open Book: Amitav Ghosh and Alexander Baron
Mariella talks to award-winning author Amitav Ghosh about River of Smoke - the second...
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Open Book: Aminatta Forna, the Russian literary scene and 150 years of The Water-Babies
Aminatta Forna discusses her latest novel The Hired Man. Mariella delves into the of...
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Open Book: Amanda Coe and Catalan Literature
Amanda Coe talks to Mariella Frostrup about her double writing life as both a novelist...
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Open Book: Ali Smith on How to Be Both
Ali Smith has been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize for the third time this year...
