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 19 March 2006
Jay McInerney on his new novel The Good Life which opens on September 10 2001 and considers the emotional impact of the attacks on the Twin Towers on his cast of wealthy Manhattanites.
Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney - one of the great chroniclers of wealthy, partying New Yorkers - has written a new novel with more sombre themes. He talks to Mariella Frostrup about The Good Life which is set in the aftermath of September 11th and considers the emotional impact of the devastating terrorist attacks.
The Good Life - Jay McInerney Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 0747580901
Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 0747512493
Brightness Falls - Jay McInerney Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 0747584850
Reading Clinic
Novelist and critic Philip Hensher visits the Reading Clinic to help a listener who wants to read PG Wodehouse, and doesn't know where to start. Philip's suggestions are:
The Code of the Woosters - P G Wodehouse Publisher: Everyman's Library ISBN: 1841591009
Mr Mulliner Speaking - P G Wodehouse Publisher: Everyman's Library ISBN: 1841591386
Psmith in the City - P G Wodehouse Publisher: Everyman's Library ISBN: 1841591084
Ukridge - P G Wodehouse Publisher: Everyman's Library ISBN: 1841591025
Poets turn to crime
Whitbread Poetry Award winner Michael Symmons Roberts has written his first novel - a thriller, Patrick's Alphabet. His fellow poet, David Harsent, has long had a double life as a crime writer under the pseudonyms Jack Curtis and David Lawrence. They talk to Mariella Frostrup about why poetry and crime make good bedfellows.
Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts Publisher: Jonathan Cape ISBN: 0224073427
Patrick's Alphabet - Michael Symmons Roberts Publisher: Jonathan Cape ISBN: 0224075969
Legion - David Harsent Publisher: Faber and Faber ISBN: 0571228097
Cold Kill - David Harsent writing as David Lawrence Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 0141014334
Books before the beak
Dr Marcus Waithe on the occasions when literature has fallen foul of the law.
