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Spotlights new fiction and non-fiction, picks out the best of the paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces. |
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Maev Kennedy was born in Dublin in 1954, the child of two writers who subsidised literary work with jobbing journalism. She worked for many years for the Irish Times, ultimately as parliamentary and political sketch writer. Maev wrote on arts and politics for a wide range of Irish and British publications, before joining the staff of the Guardian, where after a stint of editing the Guardian Diary, she is now Arts and Heritage Correspondent. She lives in London with her son Samuel.
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Detail from the bookcover of The Faber Book of Exploration.
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This week's programme
Maev Kennedy talks to acclaimed writer Alison Lurie 20 years on from the publication of her most successful novel, Foreign Affairs, and to David Leavitt about his new book, The Body of Jonah Boyd. Historian Fergus Fleming and explorer Benedict Allen discuss tales of daring-do, and we keep you up to date with a report from the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Programme book list
1) The Body of Jonah Boyd - David Leavitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0747561362
2) The Lost Language of Cranes - David Leavitt
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140159223
3) Equal Affections - David Leavitt
Publisher: Grove Books
ISBN: 0802135315
4) Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0749397934
5) The War Between the Tates - Alison Lurie
Publisher: William Heinemann
ISBN: 0434439045
Exploration Books
6) The Faber Book of Exploration - ed. Benedict Allen
Publisher: Faber
ISBN:05712056123
7) Cassell's Tales of Endurance - Fergus Fleming
Publisher: Cassell
ISBN: 030457472
8) Barrow's Boys - Fergus Fleming
Publisher: Granta
ISBN:186207173X
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