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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Open Book: 14/03/2010

14/03/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, 14/03/2010

Novelist Maggie Gee talks to Mariella Frostrup about her memoir My Animal Life.

Mariella Frostrup is joined by novelist Maggie Gee, who talks about her memoir My Animal Life. Plus advice for a listener in search of the best fiction about long-distance running.

This week Mariella talks to the novelist Maggie Gee.  In a new memoir she writes about her upbringing and her often difficult relationship with her parents.  Maggie Gee talks about dealing with a father who struggled to control his temper, and how childhood fear has permeated her fiction.

Thereâs Reading Clinic advice for a marathon runner who wants suitable fiction to take her mind off hours of gruelling training - the novelist and fanatical runner Bidisha has some recommendations.

As new evidence emerges that more and more people are choosing to read books on their mobile phones, Tom Tivnan of the Bookseller tells Mariella how publishers are reacting to this trend.

And as the crime writer Elmore Leonard publishes a book of tips for would-be writers, Mariella looks back at the novelists whoâve revealed their own trade secrets.

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