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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
This week on Open Book Peter Kemp will be talking about why what fictional characters read matters: the biographer and novelist Victoria Glendinning talks about her third novel Flight, an ambitious investigation of the meaning of life and love: we take a look at the new trend for group biographies: and ask thriller writer Donna Leon why her novels aren't published in Italy.
Pacemakers
by Margaret Macmillan
(John Murray)
The Lunar Men
by Jenny Uglow
(Faber & Faber)
Uniform Justice
by Donna Leon
(William Heinemann)
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting Wannsee And The Final Solution
by Mark Roseman
(Penguin)
Flight
by Victoria Glendinning
(Scribner)
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