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 14 May 2006
Bernard MacLaverty on his new collection of short stories and historians who swapped non fiction for novel writing.
Bernard MacLaverty
The writer Bernard MacLaverty was Booker nominated for his novel Grace Notes. He talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new collection of short stories, and why, even though he left his native Belfast thirty years ago, the Troubles still haunt his writing.
Bernard MacLaverty - Grace Notes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099778017
Bernard MacLaverty - Matters of Life and Death
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 0224077856
Bernard MacLaverty - Walking the Dog and Other Stories
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 009928488X
Literary Confessions
Continuing our series of literary confessions, author Ben Schott admits to neglecting his books, and distrusting people who use bookmarks.
Schott Miscellanies
Ben Schott
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0747582378
Schott's Almanac
Ben Schott
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0747583072
Author Manuscripts
The Japanese author Haruki Murakami has accused one his editors, who has since died, of selling his manuscripts without permission. To discuss the issue of manuscript ownership, Mariella is joined by antiquarian bookseller Ed Maggs.
Historians Turn Novelists
The historians Alison Weir and Jason Goodwin are both publishing their first novels - and both have set their fictional work in the period they've written about factually. Tudor expert Alison Weir has written about Lady Jane Grey in Innocent Traitor, while Jason Goodwin, who's books include a history of the Ottoman empire, has set his detective story, The Janissary Tree, in nineteenth century Istanbul. They discuss why they've taken this leap from fact to fiction.
