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Books and Authors

This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. Open Book talks to authors about their work. In A G

Episodes

Total: 925

In the third instalment of her history of women's twentieth-century writing, A Book of One's Own, Ma

Harriett Gilbert talks to Raymond Tallis and Allegra Stratton about their favourite books.

Mariella presents the second part of her series examining the history of women's writing in the last

Satirical writer John O'Farrell and historian Juliet Barker talk to Harriett Gilbert about their fav

Mariella presents the first in a four part series examining the history of women's writing in the la

Fay Weldon and Louise Welsh talk to Harriett Gilbert about the books they love.

Broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli and comedian Simon Evans talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favour

Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite paperbacks with writer Fleur Adcock and comedian Laura Solon. T

John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black, discusses the fourth novel in his Dublin mystery series A

Margaret Drabble discusses the new collection of her 13 short stories, published between 1966 and 20

Harriett Gilbert's guests, actor Bill Paterson and travel writer Dea Birkett, discuss with her their

Mariella talks to award-winning author Amitav Ghosh about River of Smoke - the second book in his Ib

Lord Chris Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency, and novelist Mavis Cheek are Harriett Gilbert'

Joining Harriett Gilbert to discuss some favourite books are historical novelist Lindsey Davis and w

Mariella celebrates a renaissance in historical fiction writing with authors Philippa Gregory, Sarah

Mariella talks to Frederick Forsyth, forty years after he wrote his ground-breaking novel The Day of

Mariella talks to novelists Eoin Colfer and John Boyne about their new books as they cross the divid

Mariella talks to Booker winning author Anne Enright about her new novel, The Forgotten Waltz. Dicke

Edward St Aubyn

2011/4/24

This week Mariella Frostrup is in extended conversation with the novelist Edward St Aubyn. This pro

Two eras of journalism collide in Annalena McAfee's debut novel, 'The Spoiler'. Sir Max Hastings di