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Radio 4,15 Oct 2023,28 mins

Daniel Mason

Open Book

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Daniel Mason, award-winning author and still practicing psychiatrist, discusses the appeal of place and the passing of time, as he talks about his new novel, North Woods, set in New England across 200 years. Howard Jacobson and Farrah Storr reveal the lure of the digital platform Substack for writers and readers and wonder if it will supercede or enhance the novel. And as the conference season draws to a close, we look at the lot and the character of the nineteenth century politician in literature. Presenter Chris Power Producer Emma Wallace Book List – Sunday 15 October and Thursday 19 October North Woods by Daniel Mason The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason A Far Country by Daniel Mason The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason Street Walking by Howard Jacobson Compendia by S J Watson Plot Spoiler by Chuck Palahniuk Greener Pastures by Chuck Palahniuk Story Club by George Saunders Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith The Kureishi Chronicles by Hanif Kureishi Scarlet Town by Leonora Nattress Middlemarch by George Eliot Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope Can you Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

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