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The Book Café: 11/06/2012

11/06/2012

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, 11/06/2012

Christopher Paolini explains how his career took off after self-publishing his first book.

Author Christopher Paolini is one of the most successful children's authors writing today. He tells Clare English how his career took off after self-publishing his first book.

Award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves saw her novels transferred to television screens for ITV drama Vera last year. Now her Shetland Quartet books about Detective Jimmy Perez are following suit and set to hit the BBC schedule later this year. She joins Clare to talk about how it feels to see her books come to life.

Author Christopher Paolini is one of the most successful children's authors writing today, having sold 35 million copies of his fantasy novels. He explains how his career flourished after his parents self-published his first novel.

We review Robert MacFarlane's latest offering The Old Ways, a major new book about landscape and the human heart.

Plus Managing Director of Cape Town Opera, Michael Williams describes writing fiction as the perfect antidote to the drama of keeping an opera company alive in Africa. He lifts the lid on his latest novel, Now is the Time for Running.

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