 | | | | | PROGRAMME INFO | | | |
| | | OPEN BOOK
Spotlights new fiction and non-fiction, picks out the best of the paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces. | | | | | LISTEN TO THE LATEST PROGRAMME | | | |
|
|
| | PRESENTER | | | |
|  | | 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.
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | LATEST PROGRAMME | | | |
| 
| | Open Book Chick Lit Special
Listen to Fay Weldon, Marian Keyes and Elaine Showalter interview
Chick Lit is Dead. Long Live chick Lit!
Today on Open Book we look at Chick lit, books for and mainly by women.
To some it's a derisory term that pigeonholes talented writers, to others it' s a throwaway description of a frothy genre that is to the nineties and noughties what Jackie Collins was to the Eighties.
When was chick-lit born? Has it died and why is it so maligned? One things for sure, it certainly wasn't born in a wine bar with Bridget Jones if what a certain G Eliot had to say in 1856 is anything to go by!
Email:[email protected]
This Week
Angels
by Marian Keyes
(Penguin)
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
by Marion Keyes
(Mandarin)
Dinner For Two
by Mike Gale
(Flame)
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
by Elaine Showalter
(Virago Press)
A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
by Elaine Showalter
(Virago Press)
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
(Picador)
The Fat Woman's Joke
by Fay Weldon
(Flamingo)
My Fat Brother
by Jim Keeble
(Penguin Books)
The Odd Women
by George Gissing
(Oxford World's Classics)
Email:[email protected]
| | |
RELATED LINKS
BBC Front Row Summer Reading Recommendations
BBC Books
Radio 4 Readings and Short Stories
Reading the Decades
His Dark Materials - from BBC Radio Drama
| |
| | Arts message boardsJoin the discussion: share your critique of recent drama on Radio 4. Art, literature, poetry, film, music: tell us what's caught your ear. See alsoThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites |
