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Radio 4,10 May 2009,30 mins

Colm Toibin, Ali Smith, and the new John Wyndham book

Open Book

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Mariella Frostrup talks to the Irish writer Colm Toibin, who has twice been nominated for the Booker prize, about his new novel, Brooklyn. Plus Ali Smith takes Mariella on a walk around the park that inspired her latest fiction.

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