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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
The Reading Clinic
Do you have a problem that concerns books? If so, Open Book's Reading Clinic wants to hear from you.
For instance, do you have a partner who never reads and 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 to which you'd 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 you can including a daytime contact number if possible.
This week's programme:
This week on Open Book, Jenny Colgan visits the Edinburgh International Book Festival and talks to some of the authors taking part.
She meets Kate Atkinson, whose first novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum was a huge international bestseller and won the Whitbread prize. Her latest book is a collection of twelve short stories which mix the mythological and the everyday. She explains why she decided to bring the Greek gods to the suburbs, and why she believed in fairy stories until her thirties.
And Jenny walks around Edinburgh with the writer James Buchan, whose new book tries to explain how in the space of fifty years the city was transformed from a smelly backwater into the cultural capital of Europe.
Fintan O’Toole offers advice to a listener who’s been having trouble getting to grips with James Joyce’s novel Ulysses and Open Book explores the uses crime writers make of forensic science in their work.
This week's books:
Kate Atkinson
Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Black Swan)
Not the End of the World (Black Swan)
James Buchan
Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World (John Murray)
Reading Clinic
James Joyce: Ulysses (various publishers)
James Joyce: Dubliners (various publishers)
James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (various publishers)
Robert Nicholson: The "Ulysses" Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin (New Island Books)
Forensic Science and Crime Fiction
Quintin Jardine's books, including his latest, Fallen Gods (Headline).
Jacques Futrelle: The Thinking MachineAustin Freeman's novels (House of Stratus).
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes books (various publishers)
Patricia Cornwell's novels (Time Warner).
Kathy Reich's novels (Arrow)
E-mail Open Book here with your comments and views.
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