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 15 January 2006
Mariella Frostrup talks to cartoonist turned novelist Martin Rowson, and a guide to Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
This week on Open Book Mariella Frostrup is joined by cartoonist Martin Rowson who has written his first novel - Snatches - a sideways look at the history of the world. John Mullan and Ian Campbell Ross offer a guide to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman as Michael Winterbottom's film version of this unusual novel is released in cinemas and can reading during the lunch hour combat stress at work? Email us with your office reading habits.
Booklist
The Cutting Room - Louise Welsh Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd ISBN: 1841954748
Snatches - Martin Rowson Publisher: Jonathan Cape ISBN: 0224076043
Laurence Sterne: A Life - Ian Campbell Ross Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192122355
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne Publisher: Oxford World's Classics ISBN: 0192834703
The Beach - Alex Garland Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140258418
Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140017836
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140620168
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert Publisher: Wordsworth ISBN: 1853260789
Civil War Books
Canaan 's Tongue - John Wray Publisher: Chatto and Windus ISBN: 0701175079]
The Widow of the South - Robert Hicks Publisher: Bantam Press ISBN: 059305590X
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0345444124
Beloved - Toni Morrison Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc ISBN: 0195107977
The March: A Novel - E. L. Doctorow Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 0316731986
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor Publisher: New Amer Library ISBN: 0451160215
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140620893
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell Publisher: Pan ISBN: 0330323490
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier Publisher: Sceptre ISBN: 0340680598
Flight to Canada - Ishmael Reed Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0684847507
The Clansman - Thomas Dixon, Jnr. Publisher: Nuvision ISBN: 1595479872
