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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. She also currently presents the Radio 2 arts show, The Green Room and The Culture Show on BBC2.
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 judging panels for various awards including the Booker-Mann Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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|  | | Detail from The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
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This week's programme
Mariella Frostrup talks to Ron McLarty about his powerful newly published novel, The Memory of Running. Despite writing it way back in the 1980s, it burst onto the literary scene only relatively recently after being discovered by Stephen King. Beyond the prison doors - Open Book hears from writer Stephen Leather and the prisoners themselves on the best things to read "inside". Plus what's hot in Spain? We take a look at Spanish fiction as Latino writers become ever more popular.
Programme Book List
1) The Memory of Running - Ron McLarty
Publisher: Time Warner Books
ISBN: 0316728608
Prison books:
2) Martina Moore - The Graft
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 0747269696
3) Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140620567
4) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 0340822775
5) The Prince and The Art of War - Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher: Collector's Library
ISBN: 1904633811
6) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind trans. J.E.Woods
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140120831
7) Stupid White Men ... and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation - Michael Moore
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 0747269696
Stephen Leather's newest novel, Soft Target, will be published by Hodder & Stoughton at the end of February 2005 (ISBN: 0340834080).
Spanish Books:
8) The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant - Pablo Tusset trans. Christina Cordero
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1841954713
9) The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
Publisher: Phoenix
ISBN: 0753819317
10) The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz - Aludena Solana
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099461684
11) Soldiers of Salamis - Javier Cercas
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0747568235
12) Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra trans. John Rutherford
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0142437239
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