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
28 September 2008
Zoe Heller, author of Notes On A Scandal, joins Mariella to talk about her new book The Believers.
Zoe Heller Mariella Frostrup talks to Zoe Heller, whose Booker-nominated novel Notes on a Scandal was a huge bestseller and subsequently turned into a film. Five years after that book’s phenomenal success she joins Mariella to talk about her long-awaited follow-up, The Believers, about an ageing socialist couple in New York.
Alan Sillitoe Mariella also meets Alan Sillitoe, whose celebrated novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was published fifty years ago this week.
He remembers the publication of a book which was immediately hailed for its humour, atmospheric setting and realistic depiction of factory work, and reflects on a writing life spanning over half a century.
Books for Men Stephen Andrews and Penny Smith discuss the new book which gives men a reading list of 100 must-read books. How much do male and female reading tastes differ, and is the world of books now dominated unfairly by women?
