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 23 July 2006
Mariella Frostrup is joined by the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips whose latest book of essays, Side Effects, explores the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis.
Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips has written several books of essays including On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and Going Sane. In his latest book Side Effects he explores the revealing gaps between what we think we're saying and what we're actually saying.
Side Effects (Hardcover) - Adam Phillips Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd ISBN: 0241142113
On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life - Adam Phillips Publisher: Faber and Faber ISBN: 0571170226
Kate O'Brien
Two of Kate O'Brien's novels, written in the 1930s, were banned in her native Ireland on the grounds of 'immorality'. Sarah Lefanu discusses the life and work of Kate O'Brien as four of her best novels are reissued.
The Land of Spices - Kate O'Brien Publisher: Virago Press Ltd ISBN: 1844083160
The Ante-Room - Kate O'Brien Publisher: Virago Press Ltd ISBN: 1844083179
Without My Cloak - Kate O'Brien Publisher: Virago Press Ltd ISBN: 1844083144
Mary Lavelle - Kate O'Brien Publisher: Virago Press Ltd ISBN: 1844083152 Crime Fiction
Susanna Gregory, Andrew Pepper and Martin Priestman discuss how fictional detectives solved their crimes before the help of forensic science.
The Mark of a Murderer - Susanna Gregory Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks ISBN: 0751535443
The Last Days of Newgate - Andrew Pepper Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN: 02978525
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction - Martin Priestman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521008719
Pregnancy in Fiction
The novelist Louise Doughty recommends books for a pregnant listener who wants to read some literary fiction featuring expectant mothers.
The Snapper - Roddy Doyle Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0749391
Grace Notes - Bernard MacLaverty Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099778017
