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 9 October 2005
In a special extended interview for Open Book, Mariella Frostrup talks to crime writer P D James.
P D James is one of our most successful and critically acclaimed crime writers. She wrote her first book, 'Cover Her Face', over forty years ago and now, aged 85, she is publishing her latest Dalgliesh mystery, 'The Lighthouse'. In this special programme she talks to Mariella Frostrup about the appeal of crime writing, her views on marriage and motherhood, and getting older.
Books by P D James:
The Lighthouse
Publisher: Faber and Faber (10 Oct.)
ISBN: 0571229182
Cover Her Face
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571204902
A Mind to Murder
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571204155
Unnatural Causes
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571204104
Shroud for a Nightingale
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571204058
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571203892
The Black Tower
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140129553
Death of an Expert Witness
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571204201
Innocent Blood
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571203949
The Skull Beneath the Skin
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 057120399X
A Taste for Death
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571229603
Devices and Desires
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140132910
The Children of Men
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571204007
Original Sin
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140245510
A Certain Justice
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140274685
Death in Holy Orders
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0141004789
The Murder Room
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0141015535
