Mariella Frostrup discusses Robert Merle's The Brethren, the first book in an epic French historical drama which is just been translated into English, with it's translator T. Jefferson Kline and critic Agnes Poirier.

Experimental psychologist Steven Pinker on his new book The Sense of Style - the Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, about the written word and how best to utilise it.

And a new book celebrating the lyrics of Ian Curtis of Joy Division.

Producer: Kirsten Locke. Show less