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 July 2007
Summer has arrived on Open Book at least - we offer some holiday reading suggestions
Summer Reading
Travel writers Hilary Bradt, Jennifer Cox and Rory Maclean join Mariella Frostrup to talk about the importance of books on their trips, and suggest some reading for this summer.
Hilary's choices
Life of Pi - Yann Martel Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Digging to America - Anne Tyler Publisher: Vintage
Flying under Bridges - Sandi Toksvig Publisher: Time Warner
At Play in the Fields of the Lord - Peter Matthiessen Publisher: Vintage Books
Jennifer's choices
Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich Publisher: Headline Review
Skylight Confessions - Alice Hoffman Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith Publisher: Abacus
Rory's choices
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees - Roger Deakin Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
The Way of the World – Nicholas Bouvier Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
On the Road - Jack Kerouac Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Collected Poems – Roger McGough Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Sam North
Novelist Sam North talks to Mariella about his new darkly comic novel, The Old Country, three episodes in the life of Sir Michael Gough, once a member of the landed gentry but now impoverished and confused by the modern world.
Word Plays
Sue Townsend, creator of Adrian Mole, discusses the latest innovation in audio books - Macmillan Word Plays.
