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The Book Café: 11/07/2011

11/07/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, 11/07/2011

Goodbye Harry Potter: we look back at the books that gripped a generation of readers.

As the final Harry Potter film is released we look back at the series of books that gripped the imagination of an entire generation of young readers.

Award-winning author Colm Tóibín explains how solitude works both for and against him as a writer as we look at his latest book, The Empty Family.

Clare discovers how E. B. White spun the classic American children's story, Charlotte's Web.

The National Library of Scotland boasts the finest Byron collection in the world. We've been to see their latest acquisition: a 186 year old memorial book that lay on his grave and was written in by the great and the good who came to mourn, giving us a fascinating insight into how he was regarded in his own lifetime.

And- rather than turning us into introverted, escapist bookworms, can reading fiction improve our social skills and even heal us? Clare will be joined by Jane Davis, Director of the charity The Reader.

Producer: Serena Field.

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