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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: 21/03/2010

21/03/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, 21/03/2010

Mariella Frostrup's guests include the writer DJ Taylor.

Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist DJ Taylor about why in his latest book he's taken on the persona of a 1930s thriller writer. Plus news of an exhibition of JD Salinger's letters.

Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist DJ Taylor, who explains why in his latest book he's taken on the persona of a 1930s thriller writer. He talks about his fascination with period slang, and why he decided to make up some of his own.

There's also news of a New York exhibition of JD Salinger's letters, containing major revelations about the reclusive writer's life. Declan Kiely of the Morgan Library explains what these 10 letters tell us.

And the writer Rachel Polonsky discusses what browsing the private library of one of Stalin's most notorious henchmen taught her about the life of Vyacheslav Molotov.

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