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The Book Café: 25/07/2011

25/07/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, 25/07/2011

Rock star and avid reader Suzi Quatro talks about the classic she re-reads every few years

Rock star and avid reader Suzi Quatro talks about the classic she re-reads every few years.

Rock star Suzi Quatro on being an avid reader- she'll be discussing the unlikely classic she re-reads every few years.

Swedish author Marika Cobbold talks about the trick of writing about love as a female writer, while avoiding being pigeonholed as 'romantic' novelist.

George Mackay Brown, Edwin Muir, Sorley MacLean- a surprising number of this country's greatest poets have hailed from Scottish islands. Editor of an impressive new anthology, Kevin MacNeil, joins Clare to explain why.

And: as Edinburgh's new Literary Map is revealed, we'll be finding out why it's middle-aged readers rather than younger ones who are leading the way in using digital technology in the city's libraries.

Producer: Serena Field


Books featured on today's programme:

Drowning Rose- Marika Cobbold
These Islands, We Sing: An Anthology of Scottish Islands Poetry- ed. Kevin MacNeil.

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