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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 - books for long journeys
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
Open Book enters into the spirit of the holiday season, when we embark on a spiffing adventure into the nostalgic world of Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five.
We meet Salley Vickers, best selling author of Miss Garnett’s Angel who discusses her latest novel titled Mr Golightly’s Holiday. She reveals why the vacation theme was central to Mr Golightly’s story.
A listener’s problem of what to read on an eight hour coach journey is solved by two BBC foreign correspondents.
And Jenny Colgan explores the dark recesses of books that make living abroad seem like a Summer Holiday.
Sally Vickers
Mr Golightly’s Holiday (Fourth Estate)
Instances of the Number Three (Fourth Estate)
Miss Garnet’s Angle (Harper Collins)
Enid Blyton
Who’s Who in Enid Blyton by Eva Rice (Orion)
The Famous Five 1: Five on a Treasure Island (Famous Five) by Enid Blyton (Hodder Children’s Books)
Jenny Colgan Column
The Olive Season by Carol Drinkwater (Abacus)
The Olive Farm by Carol Drinkwater (Abacus)
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart (Sort of Books)
Snowball Oranger: A Winter in Mallorca by Peter Kerr (Summersdale)
Manana Manana: One Mallorcan Summer by Peter Kerr (Summersdale)
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (Penguin)
On Rue Tatin: The Simple Pleasures of a Small French Town by Susan Hermann Loomis (Harper Collins)
Reading Clinic – Books to take on holidays
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (Wordsworth Editions)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Wordsworth Editions)
Single & Single by John Lecarre (Wheeler Pub. Inc.)
Un Espia Perfecto by John Lecarre (Planeta)
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Vintage)
The Beach by Alex Garland (Penguin Books)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Penguin Books)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Minverva)
Possession by A.S.Byatt (Vintage)
Dune by Frank Herbert (Hodder & Stoughton)
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (Chatto and Windus)
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