William Boyd and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

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Chris Power speaks to William Boyd about The Romantic, his inventive new novel about a 19th century globetrotter. The author of Any Human Heart and Restless talks about full life narratives, using fiction to explore fact and literary legacies. Also, equally playful and profound, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is 50 years old this year. Lauren Elkin and Darran Anderson take us on a tour of the imagined cities in the novel, a majestic prose-poem in which a fictional Marco Polo recalls his own intrepid travels. Book List – Sunday 16 October and Thursday 20 October The Romantic by William Boyd Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino The Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino Imaginary Cities by Darran Anderson Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin Floating Cities by Lauren Elkin Venice Observed by Mary McCarthy