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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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|  | | Detail from the cover of Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver.
Listen to the interview with Michelle Paver
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This week's programme
Mariella Frostrup talks to Michelle Paver, author of Wolf Brother, which tells the story of a prehistoric boy Torak and his friendship with a wolf cub. Children's author Marcus Sedgwick, top book consultant Wendy Cooling and children themselves explore the meteoric rise of children's fiction as a genre, with great reading suggestions for the early teens! Plus a look at Dan Brown's best-selling book, The Da Vinci Code, and the sources behind his inspiration.
Programme Book List
1) Wolf Brother - Michelle Paver
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1842551701
This newly-published novel is the first in a forthcoming six-part series, The Chronicle of Ancient Darkness.
Da Vinci Code books
2) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Publisher: Corgi Adult
ISBN: 0552149519
3) The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
Publisher: Arrow Books
ISBN: 0099682419
4) De-coding Da Vinci by Amy Welborn
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN: 1592761011
Reading Clinic: Teenage Books
5) Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve
Publisher: Scholastic Point
ISBN: 0439979439
6) The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
Publisher: Chicken House
ISBN: 1903434777
7) Keeper - Mal Peet
Publisher: Walker Books
ISBN: 0744590256
8) Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140126716
9) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099458160
10) The Diary of Adrian Mole Aged Thirteen and Three-Quarters - Sue Townsend
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 0141315989
11) His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 0439994349
12) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099450259
13) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099283336
14) Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007182368
15) The Dark Beneath - Alan Gibbons
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1842550977
16) Unique - Alison Allen-Gray
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192753355
Books by Marcus Sedgwick
17) Floodland - Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1858817633
18) Witch Hill - Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1858818834
19) The Dark Horse - Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1858818842
20) Witch Hill - Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1858818834
21) Cowards - Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 0340860618
22) The Book of Dead Days - Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1842552171
23) A Christmas Wish - Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Dutton Books
ISBN: 0525471952
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