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Radio 4,21 Feb 2016,28 mins

Meg Rosoff

Open Book

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Meg Rosoff, best known for her books for young people talks to Mariella about her debut novel for adults, Jonathan Unleashed. Booker winner John Banville introduces us to For Two Thousand Years, a classic Romanian novel now available in English for the first time. Crime writer Ann Cleeves discusses the book she'd never lend - a rare volume of the flora and fauna of the tiny Hilbre Island, and there's new trends in book selling with the opening of Libreria - a new mobile phone free bookshop which hopes to win over hearts of the high tech community.

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