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The Book Café: 20/08/2012

20/08/2012

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, 20/08/2012

Biographer and writer Claire Tomalin joins Clare English for a Book Cafe special.

The queen of literary biography, Claire Tomalin, joins Clare English for a Book Cafe special. Her latest book "Charles Dickens: A Life" coincides with the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. Claire Tomalin brings great insight, in-depth research and intelligence to her writing. In this conversation with Clare English, we also get a chance to enjoy Claire Tomalin's perceptive approach to the lives placed under her biographical scrutiny and her lively sense of humour.

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