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Led by James Naughtie, readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

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Bookclub: Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever

Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever

04/08/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever

Deborah Moggach discusses her novel Tulip Fever with James Naughtie and a group of readers

Deborah Moggach discusses her novel Tulip Fever, a story about art, love and greed in 17th-century Holland, with James Naughtie and a group of readers.

Deborah Moggach talks about her bestselling novel Tulip Fever, a story of love, greed and betrayal in 17th Century Amsterdam.

Artist Jan van Loos falls for his married subject Sophia during 'tulipomania'. Prices for the recently introduced flower reached extraordinarily high levels - one bulb could fetch thousands of pounds - and then suddenly collapsed.

James Naughtie and a group of invited readers discuss the story and its resonance with 21st century boom and bust economies, as well as the paintings that inspired Deborah to write the novel.

September's Bookclub choice : Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux

Producer : Dymphna Flynn.

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