Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx's latest novel Barkskins is a 700 page epic which opens with some of the first Europeans to settle in the New World and follows their descendants over three hundred years to the present day. The novel explores man's relationship with nature, and the way that generations of people have exploited the environment - particularly the forests of North America. Annie Proulx talks to Mariella Frostrup.

Also on the programme, Dr Sarah Dillon examines the qualities of Toni Morrison's writing in her great novel Beloved, and the story behind Graham Greene's The Third Man. Show less