Sunday 16:00-16:30, repeated Thursday 16:00-16:30, except first Sunday in the month when it is replaced by Book Club.
Open Book spotlights new fiction and non-fiction, picks out the best of the paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces.
This week
Sunday 16 October 2005
Mariella talks to Anita Shreve about her new novel 'A Wedding in December', she explores the theme of older women falling for younger men in fiction, and assesses a new book, '1966 And All That'.
Best selling novelist Anita Shreve talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new book, 'A Wedding in December', about a group of high school students re-united after nearly thirty years. Also on Open Book, Elizabeth Buchan suggests reading material for a listener who has fallen in love with a younger man and Craig Brown discusses '1966 And All That' - his follow up to the comic classic '1066 And All That'.
Booklist:
Anita Shreve
A Wedding in December Publisher: Little Brown ISBN: 0316727776
The Pilot's Wife Publisher: Abacus ISBN: 0349110859
Weight of Water Publisher: Abacus ISBN: 0349109117
Other Books
Perfect Love - Elizabeth Buchan Publisher: Pan ISBN: 0330344730
Cheri and the Last of Cheri - Colette, Roger Senhouse (Translator) Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN: 0374528012
The Grandmothers - Doris Lessing Publisher: Perennial ISBN: 0007152817
In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of Andras Vajda - Stephen Vizinczey Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226858863
My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier Publisher: Virago Press Ltd ISBN: 1844080404
Notes on a Scandal - Zoë Heller Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 0141012250
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway (Translator) Publisher: Phoenix mass market p/bk ISBN: 0753804700
A Scandalous Life: A Biography of Jane Digby - Mary S. Lovell Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd ISBN: 1857024699
1966 and All That - Craig Brown Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd ISBN: 0340897112
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England - W.C. Sellar, R.J. Yeatman Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd ISBN: 0413772705
