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 19 February 2006
Novelist Tim Parks talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new book, Cleaver, the story of a television journalist who decides to leave London to live in a remote Tyrolean hideaway.
Tim Parks
Tim Parks, who was Booker nominated for his novel Europa, lives in Italy and sets many of his books there. His latest, Cleaver, is no exception. It tells the story of a television journalist who leaves media London and his family behind to set up home in a remote Tyrolean village where he struggles to come to terms with his daughter's death and his relationship with his son.
Cleaver - Tim Parks
Publisher: Harvill Secker
ISBN: 0436205610
Judge Savage - Tim Parks
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099468557
John Berendt
Author John Berendt tells Mariella why, when a Book Club told him they were discussing his latest work, he decided to invite them round to his house to hold their meeting.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
ISBN: 0679643419
The City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 0340824980
Rewriting the Bible
David Maine has written two novels - both of them based on Bible stories. His first, The Flood, was a retelling of Noah's Ark and his latest, Fallen, is his take on the story of Cain and Abel. He tells Mariella about the appeal of reworking the Bible, while novelist Michael Arditti discusses other authors who've tried it.
Fallen - David Maine
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
ISBN: 1841956848
The Flood - David Maine
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
ISBN: 1841956309
Easter - Michael Arditti
Publisher: Arcadia Books
ISBN: 1900850346
Joseph and His Brothers (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) - Thomas Mann
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1857152875
Boating for Beginners - Jeanette Winterson
Publisher: Mandarin
ISBN: 0413590208
King David - Allan Massie
Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 0340659904
God Knows - Joseph Heller
Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
ISBN: 0684841258
Rape of Tamar - Dan Jacobson
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 1842321390
Not the End of the World - Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192754327
Job: The Story of a Simple Man - Joseph Roth
Publisher: Overlook Pr
ISBN: 0879511494
Man of Nazareth - Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN: 068687482X
Live From Golgotha - Gore Vidal
Publisher: Random House Value Pub
ISBN: 0517166356
The Gospel According to the Son - Norman Mailer
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1568955103
Authors as comedians
Novelist A L Kennedy has recently taken to performing stand up comedy, and hopes to take a show to the Edinburgh Festival this year. For Open Book, Laurence Howarth imagines what it would be like if more novelists turned comedian.
Indelible Acts - A L Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099433486
Everything You Need - A L Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN: 0375707476
