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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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Listen to the clinic - high tension novels
The Reading Clinic
Do you have a problem that concerns books? If so Open Book's Reading Clinic wants to hear from you.
e.g. do you have a partner who never reads and you want some suggestions as to what might entice them in to the world of literature?
Are there some books, or genres that you have never managed to get your head round and would like an introduction?
What book do you give to the person who has read everything?
Where do I start with Proust?
What book should I take on a long train journey?
How do you get teenage boys to read?
If you want a full and frank discussion of your particular literary conundrum, then Open Book's Reading Clinic can prescribe the right book for you.
Please contact Open Book here with your literary ailment, giving as many details as possible including a daytime contact number where possible.
This week's programme
Mariella Frostrup talks to Tariq Goddard about taking liberties with history in his novel Dynamo based on an historic football match played in Moscow in 1938.
And, Hotel Du Lac, Hotel Honolulu and Finbar’s Hotel. Why have so many writers used the hotel as a setting for fiction? Plus advice for crime readers seeking novels of high tension
Tariq Goddard
Homage To A Firing Squad by Tariq Goddard (Sceptre)
Dynamo by Tariq Goddard (Sceptre)
Books mentioned by listeners
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding (Picador)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Fourth Estate)
Underworld by Don Delillo (Picador)
Hotel feature
The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Imperial Palace by Arnold Bennett (Ayer Co Pub)
Finbar’s Hotel edited by Dermot Bolger (Picador)
Ladies’ Night at Finbar’s Hotel edited by Dermot Bolger (Picador)
Temptation by Dermot Bolger (Flamingo)
The Water’s Edge by Louise Tondeur (Review)
The Terribly Strange Bed a short story by Wilkie Collins
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins (Dover Publications)
The Comedians by Graham Greene (Vintage)
At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie (Harper Collins)
Death On The Nile by Agatha Christie (Harper Collins)
Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux (Penguin)
Hotel World by Ali Smith (Penguin)
Troubles by J.G.Farrell (Phoenix)
Confessions of Felix Krull by ThomasMann (Minerva)
Death In Venice by Thomas Mann (Vintage)
Reading Clinic
Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith (Vintage)
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (Vintage)
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith (Vintage)
Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith (Vintage)
Strangers On A Train by Patricia Highsmith (Vintage)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Penguin)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (Vintage)
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (Vintage Classics)
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson (Bloomsbury)
The John Franklin Bardin Omnibus: the Deadly Percheron, the Last of PhilipBanter, Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly by Franklin Bardin (Penguin)
The Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine (Penguin)
Hit Man by Lawrence Block (Orion)
Hit List by Lawrence Block (Orion)
Hannibal by ThomasHarris (Arrow)
Other authors mentioned
MinetteWalters
Francis Fyfield
P. D. James
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