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|  | | Defying any attempt to pigeonhole her skills and talents Mariella combines her television and radio career with that of a prolific journalist.
Over a fifteen-year TV career she has continued to impress both audiences and critics with her friendly, accessible and intelligent screen presence. Her projects run the gamut from current affairs to movies and the arts.
As a journalist she is currently the film critic for Harpers And Queen and has a weekly dilemma column in The Observer Magazine, while her book reviews and travel pieces appear regularly in the press. She has also been a member of the Booker-Mann Prize panel.
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| | This week Open Book takes a look at travel.
Listen to William Fiennes interview.
We ask why so many travel writers are men? Judith Palmer presents a feature on writers who refuse to travel, even though they write about foreign places. While in the studio Marialla talks to William Fiennes author of The Snow Geese.
There's also an interview with the manager of Daunts travel bookshop and with Robert McFarlane author of Mountains of the Mind.
This week's books:
The Snow Geese
by William Fiennes
(Picador)
Mountains Of The Mind
by Robert McFarlane
(Granta Books)
The Snow Goose
by Paul Gallico
(Penguin Books)
The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
Vintage)
Rings Of Saturn
by W. G. Sebald
(Vintage)
Music & Silence
by Rose Tremain
(Vintage)
Something Like A House
by Sid Smith
(Picador)
House by the River
by Sid Smith
(Picador)
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