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 22nd April 2007
Anne Enright (on the right) on her novel The Gathering and the advantages of narrating a novel through a sheep.
Bite Sized Classics A selection of classic novels have just been re-published by Orion, all edited down to under 400 pages.
Are these compact editions butchery of works of art, or in a country where 98% of adults don’t read the classics at all, a good way of making these books more accessible?
Mariella is joined by the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and publisher at Orion, Malcolm Edwards, and John Bowen, Professor of Literature at York University.
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy Publisher: Orion
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens Publisher: Orion
Moby Dick – Herman Melville Publisher: Orion
The Mill On The Floss – George Eliot Publisher: Orion
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray Publisher: Orion
Wives and Daughters – Elizabeth Gaskell Publisher: Orion
Anne Enright As her new book, The Gathering, is published, Mariella talks to Anne Enright about large families, materialism and whether knowledge traps you or sets you free.
The Gathering – Anne Enright Publisher: Jonathan Cape
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch – Anne Enright Publisher: Vintage
What Are You Like – Anne Enright Publisher: Vintage
Unusual Narrators Aauthors have often turned to unorthodox narrators, so Mariella hears from Francis Spufford, Leonie Swann and Joshua Ferris about the benefits of speaking through bananas, sheep and toasters.
Three Bags Full – Leonie Swann Publisher: Black Swan
Then We Came To The End – Joshua Ferris Publisher: Viking
Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens Publisher: Penguin
Then We Came To The End – Joshua Ferris Publisher: Viking
The Child That Books Built - Francis Spufford Publisher: Faber and Faber
I May Be Some Time: Ice And The English Imagination - Francis Spufford Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
The Vintage Book Of The Devil - Francis Spufford Publisher: Vintage
The Last Witch Finder - James Morrow Publisher: Phoenix
The Brave Little Toaster - Thomas M Disch Publisher: Doubleday
A Rose For Emily - William Faulkner Publisher: Dramatic
Pulitzer Prize This year see’s the 90th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize, named after the media baron and philanthropist Joseph Pulitzer. To hear more about the prize, and this year’s winner Cormac McCarthy, Mariella is joined by Sig Gissler, administrator of the prize since 2002.
The Road – Cormac McCarthy Publisher: Picador
March - Geraldine Brooks Publisher: HarperPerennial
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway Publisher: Arrow
The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway Publisher: Arrow
