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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Mariella Frostrup

Horatio Clare

Christopher Nicholson

Andrea Kidd

Open Book: Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson on winter; Jeffery Deaver; Anna Whitwham

19/01/2014

Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson on winter; Jeffery Deaver; Anna Whitwham

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson on winter; Jeffery Deaver; Anna Whitwham

Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson discuss the influence of winter in literature.

Novelists Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson discuss the influence of the season of winter in literature, and Jeffery Deaver discusses the books he would never lend.

In the last in our series on how the seasons influence literature, authors Horatio Clare and Christopher Nicholson discuss the importance of Winter in the novel, from Scandinavian crime to writers such as Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens and Jack London.

For many young boys, the boxing clubs of the East End were a haven from the grim realities and hardships of poverty stricken London. One such young man was John Poppy, a featherweight boxer at the Crown and Manor Boys Club in Hoxton in the 1920s. His granddaughter, Anna Whitwham, inspired by clubs such as this one and her grandfather's early life as an amateur boxer, has written her debut novel Boxer Handsome. Bringing the action into a more contemporary setting, she delves into the sometimes raw and brutal world of both the amateur boxing ring and the surrounding community.

We return to our occasional series, The book you'd Never Lend and it's the turn of the internationally bestselling thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, who managed to get the thousands of books he owns down to not one, but two treasured tomes.

Producer: Andrea Kidd.

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