Percival Everett

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US author Percival Everett talks about his new novel, James - a retelling of Huckleberry Finn, told from the point of view of runaway slave, Jim. Plus, writing openly about the challenges of motherhood, and doing so with humour. Shahidha talks to two authors who have done just that, in the short story form: Naomi Wood, winner of the BBC Short Story Award, and author of a new collection, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, and to Helen Simpson who has written stories about motherhood in books such as Motherhood, and Hey Yeah Right Get A Life over 20 years previously. Presenter: Shahidha Bari Producer: Emma Wallace Book List – Sunday 14 April and Sunday 21 April James by Percival Everett The Trees by Percival Everett Erasure by Percival Everett Huckleberry Flynn by Mark Twain Wild Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Foe by JM Coetzee Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Naomi Wood Motherhood by Helen Simpson Hey Yeah Right Get A Life by Helen Simpson Dear George by Helen Simpson The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright I Don’t Know How She Does it by Allison Pearson My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley Openings: Thirteen Stories by Lucy Caldwell Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall Madame Zero by Sarah Hall The Collected Stories of Grace Paley The Squire by Enid Bagnold