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The Book Café: 29/10/2012

29/10/2012

BBC Radio Scotland - The Book Café, 29/10/2012

Rachel Johnson, Thomas Keneally and Sara Maitland talk to Clare English on The Book Cafe.

Rachel Johnson introduces her novel Winter Games, Thomas Keneally talks about his WW1 book The Daughters of Mars, and Clare English discusses the Penguin/Random House merger.

- We indulge in a little literary necromancy as Edinburgh's premier spoken-word performance group, WRITERS' BLOC hail Halloween.
- The Lady editor and author of Notting Hell and Shire Hell, RACHEL JOHNSON introduces her first historical novel, Winter Games.
- And antipodean literary giant THOMAS KENEALLY raises the profile of First World War nurses in his latest historical novel The Daughters of Mars.
- SARAH MAITLAND'S new book Gossip from the Forest is published in November in honour of the 200th anniversary of the first edition of the Grimm Brothers' collection of fairy tales.
- We look into the implications of the Penguin Random House merger with Birlinn's HUGH ANDREW.

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