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Radio 4,12 Oct 2008,30 mins

Mal Peet, Isabel Fonseca, John Lloyd, and Paul Auster

Open Book

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Misha Glenny is at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, where he’s joined by three authors appearing there – the children’s author Mal Peet, first time novelist Isabel Fonseca and comedy producer and writer John Lloyd. Misha also talks to the American novelist Paul Auster, about his new book Man in the Dark. Auster explains his penchant for fictional games, and reflects on his thirty-four year love affair with a manual typewriter.

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