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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 cover of 'The Field of Blood' by Denise Mina.
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This week's programme
Scottish crime writer Denise Mina introduces her new novel, 'The Field of Blood', set in Glasgow in 1981. We take a journey to the original 39 Steps in Kent, which inspired John Buchan to write the classic adventure story. Listeners give their response to our latest Reading Clinic on books for the broken-hearted. And how Renaissance self help manuals encouraged Matt Thorne to begin a series of books for children.
Programme booklist
Denise Mina:
1) The Field of Blood - Denise Mina
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0593050975
2) Sanctum - Denise Mina
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553813293
3) Exile - Denise Mina
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553813277
4) Resolution - Denise Mina
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553813285
5) Garnethill - Denise Mina
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553506943
John Buchan:
Click here for a full list of John Buchan's works and for details of the John Buchan Society.
6) The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140621091
The Thirty Nine Steps is also available as a BBC Audiobook cassette starring Tom Baker, ISBN 0563535814.
7) The Gap in the Curtain - John Buchan
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 1842327674
8) Greenmantle - John Buchan
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 1842327690
Greenmantle will be broadcast as a Radio 4 Classic Serial in July.
Listener's Suggestions for Books for the Broken-Hearted:
9) The Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0141182857
10) Couples - John Updike
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140299556
11) The Rabbit novels by John Updike (various) are published by Penguin.
12) Herzog - Saul Bellow
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142437298
13) Independence Day: A Lonely-Heart's Voyage Around the USA - Jim Keeble
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 0349112940
14) A Lover's Discourse - Roland Barthes
Publisher: Vintage Classics
ISBN: 0099437422
Matt Thorne:
The first two books in the '39 Castles' series are:
15) Kingmaker's Castle - Matt Thorne
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571219985
16) Greengrove Castle
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571219969
Popular Renaissance Self-Help Manuals:
17) The Book of the Courtier - Baldesa Castiglioni (1528) trans. Thomas Hoby
Publisher: Dent
ISBN: 0460118072
18) The Prince - Machiavelli (1532) trans. Peter Bondanella
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019280426X
Follow the links below for online versions of:
The Boke Named the Governour by Thomas Elyot (1531)
Guls Horn-booke by Thomas Dekker (1609)
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