Michael Chabon, Louise Doughty, and Dayo Forster

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Michael Chabon Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon imagines a Jewish homeland in Alaska in his latest book, The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Written in the style of a 1940's detective noir, his cop hero Meyer Landsman has to investigate the death of a lonely drug addict, an investigation which takes him deep into the heart of the orthodox community to unravel conspiracy theories and uncover long buried secrets. A Novel in a Year Louise Doughty has written a how-to guide to becoming an author, based on her recent newspaper columns about the novelist’s art. She talks to Mariella about her advice and why, she believes, all writers should be happy to help those trying to get published. And first timer Dayo Forster describes her journey from first draft to publication. North East teenagers Writers Richard Milward and Ellen Phethean, and Claire Malcolm from New Writing North discuss the fictional depiction of teenagers on Tyneside as hard living and hard drinking.