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The Book Café: 28/05/2012

28/05/2012

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, 28/05/2012

Clare English speaks to crime writer Jeffery Deaver about turning his hand to songwriting.

Clare talks to best-selling crime writer Jeffery Deaver about his latest novel, XO, and finds out why he had to turn his hand to song-writing in the course of working on the book.

We luxuriate in Don Paterson's Selected Poems- all his best works in one place and, for newcomers, an introduction to this T.S. Eliot Prize- winning, Dundonian poet. 

Author Alan Warner on returning to the remote Highland landscapes of 1995's Movern Callar in his new novel, The Deadman's Pedal, and how, now that's he's Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, he's trying to set his students an example that he didn't have when he started out.

And- what books have you bought in the last few days? We get a fascinating industry insider's view of current book buying trends and what's driving them from Philip Stone, Charts Editor of The Bookseller magazine.

Producer: Serena Field.

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