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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's programme
American writer Carl Hiaasen explains the serious issues behind his comic romps set in his beloved Florida. In the latest Open Book Reading Clinic, advice about babies and books. Plus Salman Rushdie on his novel Haroun and The Sea Of Stories, written as a 'message in a bottle' to his young son during the years of the Fatwa.
Programme book list
Books by Carl Hiaasen
1) Skinny Dip* - Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Bantam Press
ISBN: 0593053737
*Available as an audiobook from BBC Audiobooks, ISBN 0563526572
2) Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN: 0330415298
3) Team Rodent - Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Ballantine
ISBN: 0345422805
4) Native Tongue* - Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 0330321935
*Available as an audiobook narrated by William Hootkins, from Macmillan Audio, ISBN 0333666593
5) Sick Puppy - Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 0330351729
6) Basket Case - Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 0330490184
7) Powder Burn - Carl Hiaasen, Bill Montalbono
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 0330326651
8) Trap Line - Carl Hiaasen, Bill Montalbono
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 033032666X
9) A Death in China - Carl Hiaasen, Bill Montalbono
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 0330329367
10) Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen - Carl Hiaasen, ed. Diane Stevenson
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN: 0425178242
11) Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen - Carl Hiaasen, ed. Diane Stevenson
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN: 0425186067
12) Stormy Weather* / Lucky You - Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 0330420984
*Available as an audiobook as part of The Carl Hiaasen Collection by Audio Editions, PO Box 6930 Auburn, CA 95604-6930. ISBN 0375410465
13) Tourist Season* - Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 0330322362
*Available as an audiobook as part of The Carl Hiaasen Collection by Audio Editions, PO Box 6930 Auburn, CA 95604-6930. ISBN 0375410465
14) Strip Tease* - Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 0330333844
*Available as an audiobook as part of The Carl Hiaasen Collection by Audio Editions, PO Box 6930 Auburn, CA 95604-6930. ISBN 0375410465
15) Double Whammy - Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 0330309870
16) Skin Tight* - Carl Hiaasen
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 0330314203
*Available as an audiobook narrated by William Hootkins, from Macmillan Audio, ISBN 0333666607
Childhood Reading
17) Narratives of Love and Loss - Margaret Rustin, Michael Rustin
Publisher: Karnac Books
ISBN: 1855752697
18) Dear Zoo - Rod Campbell
Publisher: Campbell Books
ISBN: 140505686X
19) The Spot Books are by Eric Hill, and published by Frederick Warne and others.
Books by Salman Rushdie
20) Haroun and the Sea of Stories* - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Viking Children's Books
ISBN: 0670886580
*Available as an audiobook from Penguin, ISBN 0140861939
21) Step Across This Line - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099421879
22) Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099578514
23) The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0963270702
24) Shame - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099578611
25) Imaginary Homelands: Essays & Criticism, 1981 to 1991 - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Penguin Books / Granta
ISBN: 0140140360
26) The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 009959241X
27) The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099766019
28) Fury* - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099421860
*Available as an audiobook from Recorded Books Inc, ISBN 1402505388
29) East, West - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099533014
30) Grimus - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099592711
31) The Jaguar Smile: Nicaraguan Journey - Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099285223
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