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 8 January 2006
Novelist Tess Gerritsen joins Kate Mosse to talk about her latest thriller and translator Don Bartlett discusses the challenges of making foreign detectives work in English.
This week's Open Book investigates crime fiction. American novelist Tess Gerritsen, author of Harvest and The Surgeon, talks about her latest book, Vanish. Translator Don Bartlett and Francois von Hurter, founder of Bitter Lemon Press, discuss the challenges of publishing European crime writers in English. And Marcel Berlins, crime critic and legal journalist, reveals his pick of the best crime novels from the continent.
Booklist
Marcel Berlins' five crime recommendations:
Have Mercy on My Soul by Fred Vargas Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099453649
Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason Publisher: The Harvill Press ISBN: 1843431858
Calling Out for You by Karin Fossum Publisher: Vintage The Harvill Press ISBN: 1843432137
Almost Blue by Carlo Lucarelli Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099459434
Excursion to Tindari by Andrea Camilleri Publisher: Pan Pacmillan Picador ISBN: 0330493027
Other books mentioned:
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0593053516
The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo Publisher: Vintage Harvill Secker ISBN: 1843432161
Snatches by Martin Rowson Publisher: Cape ISBN: 0224076043
Harvest by Tess Gerritsen Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0553817728
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 055381706X
