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The Book Café: 10/01/2011

10/01/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, 10/01/2011

Clare English discusses the delicate and diplomatic art of book reviewing.

Clare English discusses the delicate and diplomatic art of book reviewing with The Scotsman's Lee Randall.

Wilbert Rideau became an award-winning journalist while serving time on death row in America's most violent jail. An African American imprisoned during the civil rights ferment of Louisiana in 1961 for the killing of a white woman, he was released after 44 years when his conviction was changed from murder to manslaughter. He's now written a memoir. Wilbert will join us to explain how developing the habit of reading in jail first made him realise the enormity of his crime and set him on the path to a more meaningful life.

A hot tip for your New Year reading: a Motherwell reading group reviews Tessa Hadley's The London Train. 

Far Flung Fiction- we're going to be sending books out into the world and seeing where they end up.

And The Art of Book Reviewing: The Scotsman's Lee Randall and Ralph Blumenau, top reviewer with Amazon, discuss the etiquette, the pitfalls, the famous bust-ups and divided loyalties associated with the apparently simple matter of saying whether or not a book is any good.

Produced by Serena Field.

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