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 24 September 2006
Novelist Nick Hornby, who talks about publishing his diary of all that he's read and enjoyed over the past three years.
Writing about reading In The Complete Polysyllabic Spree novelist Nick Hornby has written an account of all the books he bought and read over the course of a year, and admits that sometimes he even leaves books unfinished. He joins Mariella and Professor John Mullan, who is publishing his own book about books - How Novels Work - to discuss the pleasures of reading.
Nick Hornby: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree Publisher: Viking ISBN : 0670916668
John Mullan: How Novels Work Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199281777 Christopher Hope The South African novelist Christoper Hope talks to Mariella about his new book My Mother's Lovers, the story of Alex Healey and his adventurous pilot mother, which is also an angry satire about the state of contemporary South Africa .
Christopher Hope: My Mother's Lovers Publisher: Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 1843543826
Christopher Hope: White Boy Running Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 0330418343
Christopher Hope: Serenity House Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 0330330284
Copyright As the boom in publishing - especially self publishing - on the internet, and books being made available online, calls into question laws of copyright and ownership the British Council has organised a debate about the future of creativity and author rights. Rosemary Bechler has written a short book on the subject - which will only be available online.
Unbounded Freedom' by Rosemary Bechler is available to download under a Creative Commons license from www.counterpoint-online.org Fun Home Cartoonist Alison Bechdel has written a memoir of her troubled childhood - her father's suicide and her own struggles with her sexuality - in the form of a graphic novel which includes quotes from Fitzgerald, Kafka and Proust, excerpts from her own teenage diary and reproductions of letters her father sent to her at college. She talks to Mariella about sharing her intimate family secrets with the world.
Alison Bechdel: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0224080512
