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 8th July 2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to John Harvey, the winner of the 2007 Diamond Dagger Award for sustained excellence in crime writing.
John Harvey John Harvey, the creator of detectives Charlie Resnick, Frank Elder and now a new police team Will Grayson and Helen Walker, talks to Mariella about giving a policeman a convincing work-life balance, why he always returns to Nottingham in his fiction and what recognition from his peers means to him.
Gone to Ground- John Harvey Publisher: William Heinemann
Ash and Bone- John Harvey Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Lonely Hearts- John Harvey Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Rough Treatment- John Harvey Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Online publishing Authors Simon Spurrier and Julian Gough have both chosen to publish their books online, before making them available in the more conventional paper form. They're joined by publisher Piers Blofeld to discuss why they all believe the internet is going to change the face of publishing.
Parent-writing partnerships When journalist and novelist James Long decided to write a history book he asked his son, Ben, to help him write it. He talks about how their writing partnership worked along with mother-daughter writing teams PJ and Traci Lambrecht, who write thrillers under the name PJ Tracy and Louisa and Isabel Young who write as Zizou Corder.
Plot Against Pepys - James and Ben Long Publisher- Faber and Faber
Snow Blind- PJ Tracy Publisher: Putnam
Dead Run- PJ Tracy Publisher: Penguin books
Lionboy - Zizou Corder Publisher: Puffin Books
Lionboy: The Chase - Zizou Corder Publisher: Puffin Books
Lionboy: The Truth - Zizou Corder Publisher: Puffin Books
H Rider Haggard Two new editions of Rider Haggard's 1885 adventure story King Solomon's Mines come out this year. Mariella talks to huge Rider Haggard fan, novelist Kate Mosse.
King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard Publisher: Headline Penguin edition comes out later this year.
