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 11 September 2005
Fay Weldon talks to Mariella Frostrup about her latest novel, 'She May Never Leave'.
Fay Weldon talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new book, 'She May Not Leave', in which she chronicles the break up of a family after the arrival of an unscrupulous au pair. Graham Sharpe reveals the secrets behind gambling on literary prizes. Two delegates from the Small Wonder Short Story Festival - author Tobias Hill and Jan Morrison-Campbell - join Mariella to give advice on reading and writing this succinct form.
For more information click on: www.charleston.org.uk/smallwonder
And, BBC Radio 4 has collaborated with NESTA and Prospect magazine to launch the National Short Story Prize. For more information log on to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/short_story_prize.shtml Mark Cocker and RSPB librarian Ian Dawson consider different approaches to writing about birds.
Booklist
Fay Weldon
She May Never Leave
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
ISBN: 0002258528
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 0340589353
Mantrapped
Publisher: Perennial
ISBN: 0007194528
Auto Da Fay
Publisher: Flamingo
ISBN: 0007109938
Reading Clinic:
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 0340822783
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 0340739754
Hotel World - Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140296794
Collected Short Stories - Ruth Rendell
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 0099546205
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories - Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Rebound by Sagebrush
ISBN: 0613257200
Drown - Junot Diaz
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571190634
Selected Short Stories - D H Lawrence
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0141184213
Collected Short Stories - E M Forster
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0141186518
Five Great Short Stories - Anton Chekov
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486264637
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 - Anton Chekov
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140447873
Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories - Raymond Carver
Publisher: The Harvill Press
ISBN: 1860460399
(includes the short story 'A Small Good Thing')
Cathedral - Raymond Carver
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099449854
Becoming a Writer - Dorothea Brande
Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher
ISBN: 0874771641
