Deepa Anappara, Helen Fielding on Hemingway, Rob Doyle and Finnish literature

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Journalist turned novelist Deepa Anapara discusses her debut Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, about child disappearances in contemporary India. She tells Mariella about writing the perspective of a 9 year old amateur detective searching for his lost schoolmates. For a Book I'd Never Lend Helen Fielding, author of Bridget Jones's Diary, picks a perhaps surprisingly "muscular" treatise by Ernest Hemingway. Rob Doyle on a psycho-geographic search for cheap thrills and higher meaning in Threshold - an autofictional journey of sex, drugs and metaphysics narrated by an Irish writer called "Rob" on the threshold between hedonistic youth and contemplative middle-age. And Finnish Antti Tuomainen sends his literary postcard from Helsinki.