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Open Book: Kamila Shamsie; Young feminist writing

20/04/2014

Kamila Shamsie; Young feminist writing

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Kamila Shamsie; Young feminist writing

Orange short-listed author Kamila Shamsie discusses her latest novel A God in Every Stone.

Kamila Shamsie discusses her latest novel A God in Every Stone; Laura Bates and Emer O'Toole discuss books aimed at young feminists; and John Crace on the art of the Digested Read.

Kamila Shamsie on her latest novel A God in Every Stone, a powerful interwoven story that crosses continents and decades, culminating in dramatic and tragic events in Peshawar in 1930. She talks about the little-known history of the Indian soldiers (sepoys) who fought in the First World War and about what it is like to be officially both a British and a Pakistani writer.

Laura Bates is the author of Everyday Sexism, a new book bringing together some of the personal experiences of sexist behaviour sent in to her website by people from all over the world. Emer O'Toole is another young feminist working on a book, Girls Will Be Girls, out later this year. They consider what their message is for a new generation of feminists; and post-Caitlin Moran, does feminism have to be funny?

John Crace has been writing Digested Reads for the Guardian newspaper since the turn of the century. He tells Mariella about the fine art of finding a writer's tics and making something fresh and funny out of them.

Presenter: Mariella Frostrup
Producer: Sarah Johnson.

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