Gerard Woodward, and Dishing the Dirt on the Office

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Gerard Woodward Gerard Woodward was Booker nominated for I'll Go To Bed At Noon, the second volume in his trilogy about the dysfunctional Jones family. He's now written the last book which concentrates on the father, Aldous Jones, living alone in a ramshackle house where the cupboards sprout potatoes. His life is transformed after he suffers a fall. Teaching Tips for Martin Amis Novelist Martin Amis has just become a Creative Writing Professor at Manchester University. Three writers who have all combined teaching and writing duties - Jill Dawson, Richard Francis and Susan Elderkin - offer him some advice on how to get the best of out of his students. Reading Clinic Novelist, poet and performer Anthony Joseph joins Mariella to help our latest patient in the Reading Clinic, a listener whose about to spend retirement sailing round the Caribbean and would like some advice on what to read on her travels. Dishing The Dirt on the Office Three novelists who've all based their first books on their first jobs talk about dishing the dirt on office politics, taking revenge (in fiction) on their former colleagues and how they've carried on with their writing lives after they've exhausted all the material from their day jobs.