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

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Open Book: 20/02/2011

20/02/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, 20/02/2011

Mariella Frostrup talks to new writer Sarah Winman and explores the rise in debut fiction.

Mariella Frostrup talks to first time writer Sarah Winman and explores the rise of debut fiction this year and we look back at the series of Penguin modern classics.

Mariella Frostrup talks to first time novelist Sarah Winman and investigates the rise of debut fiction this year. 

Authors Muriel Zagha and John Baxter discuss how the the art of writing about sensuality is poles apart in French and English literature. 

And we look back at the radical series of Penguin modern classics, now classics themselves at fifty.

Producer: Sally Spurring.

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