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The Book Café: 17/09/2012

17/09/2012

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, 17/09/2012

Join Clare English with guests Roger McGough, Attica Locke and Miriam Darlington.

Roger McGough discusses his new book As Far As I Know, plus Attica Locke talks about her second novel The Cutting Season and Miriam Darlington drops by to discuss Otter Country.

Roger McGough; Liverpudlian poet and presenter of Poetry Please on BBC Radio 4, discusses his latest book 'AS FAR AS I KNOW' on Monday's Book Cafe. Clare English examines how his style of plain-speaking poetry, based on the lives and voices of people in the everyday world has ensured McGough a place in the public heart.

Attica Locke's first novel, Black Water Rising, was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize in the UK in 2010 and now she's back with her second offering - The Cutting Season -The Book Café caught up with Attica on her recent book tour of the UK to uncover a few secrets that inspired the book.

She spent a year travelling all over the UK in search for one of our nation's most elusive creatures. Miriam Darlington joins Clare to discuss Otter Country.

One of the most popular events at The Stirling Book Festival, the Big Book Exchange grows year after year. The Book Café's Paul Saunders dropped by to find out more.

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