Sunday 16:00-16:30, repeated Thursday 16:00-16:30, except first Sunday in the month when it is replaced by Book Club.
Open Book spotlights new fiction and non-fiction, picks out the best of the paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces.
This week
Sunday 28 August 2005
Salman Rushdie talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel, Shalimar the Clown.
In an extended interview, Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Salman Rushdie about his new novel Shalimar the Clown, which has been longlisted for this year's Booker Prize. He also discusses how the fatwa issued against him in 1989 affected his work, and why he has no plans to write his autobiography or include autobiographical characters in future novels.
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Books by Salman Rushdie:
Grimus
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099592711
Midnight's Children
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099578514
Shame
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099578611
The Moor's Last Sigh
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 009959241X
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099766019
Fury
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099421860
The Satanic Verses
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0963270702
Shalimar the Clown
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 0224061615
