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 29 October 2006
Queen of the short story Alice Munro talks about a life time of writing and her latest work, which draws on her personal family history. Plus the enduring appeal of the locked room mystery, and the pick of the latest audio books.
Alice Munro Author of some of the best short stories ever written, Alice Munro talks to Mariella about her most recent book, The View From Castle Rock which is an unusual mixture of autobiography, family history and fiction.
Dance of the Happy Shades
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099273772
Lives of Girls and Women
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140121617
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375707484
Who Do You Think You Are?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140241582
The Moons of Jupiter
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099458365
The Progress of Love
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375724702
Friend of My Youth
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099820609
Open Secrets
Publisher: Open Secrets
ISBN: 009945971X
The Love of a Good Woman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099287862
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099422743
Runaway
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099472252
The View From Castle Rock
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
ISBN: 0701179899
Audio Books
Why are audio books so popular? Christina Hardyment talks about some recent releases.
A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon, read by Alex Jennings
Publisher: Random House Audio
ISBN: 1846570751
Eleven On Top - Janet Evanovich, read by Lorelei King
Publisher: Headline Audiobooks
ISBN: 0755328094
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield, read by Juliet Stevenson
Publisher: Orien Audiobooks
ISBN: 0752875728
Locked Room Mysteries
Val McDermid, John Sutherland and Gilbert Adair discuss the enduring appeal of ‘locked room’ mystery stories.
Act of Roger Murgatroyd - Gilbert Adair
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 057122637X
The Wire in the Blood - Val McDermid
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 000649983X
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allen Poe
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099502747
The Hollow Man - John Dickson Carr
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 0752851373
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0007136838
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0007141343
