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Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

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

Mariella Frostrup

Jessie Burton

Viv Groskop

Matt Haig

Deborah Levy

Open Book: Jessie Burton and Summer Reads

Jessie Burton and Summer Reads

27/07/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Jessie Burton and Summer Reads

Mariella Frostrup talks to Jessie Burton, author of the bestselling The Miniaturist.

Jessie Burton takes Mariella Frostrup back to Golden Age Amsterdam with The Miniaturist, plus Viv Groskop and Matt Haig on this summer's best beach reads and Deborah Levy at home.

This week Mariella Frostrup talks to Jessie Burton, author of one of this year's mostly eagerly awaited and acclaimed debuts, The Miniaturist - a tale of greed, lust and hypocrisy set in Golden Age Amsterdam.

Author and broadcaster Viv Groskop and writer Matt Haig will be guiding Mariella through the best of the beach reads this summer, as well as taking us on a tour of the great classics set around the Mediterranean.

Also in the programme, Booker-shortlisted and South African-born novelist and playwright Deborah Levy on the place where she writes.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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