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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 Terry Pratchett interview
Listen to the Reading Clinic - Modern Fiction
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:
Mariella Frostrup’s guests are two bestselling male writers, Terry Pratchett and Raymond Briggs. Terry Pratchett explains how he keeps his interest in his fictional creation Discworld alive after thirty one books and why his readers are a bit like the Masons. And one of Pratchett’s biggest fans the novelist Alison Lurie is on hand to champion his comic vision and the satirical impact of his writing.
Raymond Briggs’ prolific career illustrating and writing books for adults and children is celebrated in a new collection Blooming Books. The creator of The Snowman, Father Christmas and Fungus The Bogeyman talks about why so many of his characters resemble his parents and why he has been a controversial figure in the sometimes cosy world of children’s publishing.
Raymond Briggs -
Blooming Books (Jonathan Cape)
The Snowman (Hamish Hamilton Children’s Books)
Fungus the Bogeyman (Puffin Books)
Ethel & Ernest (JonathanCape)
The Tin-pot Foreign General and the Old IronWoman (Hamish Hamilton)
When The Wind Blows (Hamish Hamilton)
Fungus the Bogeyman makes his way to the small screen this Christmas in a new adaptation by Mark Haddon author of The Curious Incident of The Dog In the Night-time for the BBC.
Reading Clinic: Modern contemporary fiction that will wean you of the classics -
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books)
Affinity by Sarah Waters (Virago Books)
Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore (Viking)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Fourth Estate)
Terry Pratchett –
Monstrous Regiment (Doubleday)
The Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers, Diggers and Wings (Doubleday)
The Wee Free Men (Doubleday)
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Harper Collins)
Witches Abroad (Harper Collins)
Night Watch (Harper Collins)
Soul Music (Harper Collins)
Men At Arms (Harper Collins)
Small Gods (Harper Collins)
Lords and Ladies (Harper Collins)
The Last Hero (Gollancz)
Reaper Man (Harper Collins)
Thief of Time (Doubleday)
Eric (Gollancz)
Moving Pictures (Harper Collins)
Guards! Guards! (Harper Collins)
Pyramids (Harper Collins)
The Fifth Elephant (Corgi Adult)
Wyrd Sisters (Harper Collins)
Sourcery (Harper Collins)
Mort (Harper Collins)
Carpe Jugulum (Harper Collins)
Equal Rites (Harper Collins)
The Light Fantastic (Harper Collins)
The Colour of Magic (Corgi Adult)
The Last Continent (Eos)
Hogfather (Eos)
Jingo (Eos)
Maskerade (Eos)
Interesting Times (Harper Collins)
Feet of Clay (Eos)
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