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The Book Café: 08/10/2012

08/10/2012

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, 08/10/2012

Join Clare English and guests Anthony Horowitz and Iain M Banks.

Clare English welcomes Anthony Horowitz and Iain M Banks to The Book Cafe to discuss their latest books, plus she asks them to define their lives in three books!

ANTHONY HOROWITZ is one of the most prolific writers in the UK today. For a long time, he was best known as the saviour of teenage boys' reading on account of his 13 million-selling ALEX RIDER sequence. He joins Clare to discuss his latest book OBLIVION - the chilling conclusion to his epic supernatural series THE POWER OF FIVE, which has a broad readership ranging from young fans to adult.

IAIN M BANKS is now acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation: The Guardian has called him "the standard by which the rest of Sci-Fi is judged". He joins Clare to give an insight into his 'culture novels' the latest of which is HYDROGEN SONATA.

We ask Anthony and Ian to define their life in 3 books - tune in to find out what they chose and why.

And marking the Scottish International Storytelling Festival - this year much of the focus will be on the bicentenary of the BROTHERS GRIMM and the influence of their fairy tales across Europe and beyond.

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