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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

Steven Pinker

T Jefferson Kline

Agnes Poirier

Kirsten Locke

Open Book: The Brethren; The Sense of Style

28/09/2014

The Brethren; The Sense of Style

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, The Brethren; The Sense of Style

Mariella Frostrup discusses Robert Merle's The Brethren, and Steven Pinker on Style.

Marilla Frostrup discusses Robert Merle's iconic French series The Brethren, now in English. Plus a look behind the genius of Ian Curtis, and socio-linguist Steven Pinker on style.

Mariella Frostrup discusses Robert Merle's The Brethren, the first book in an epic French historical drama which is just been translated into English, with it's translator T. Jefferson Kline and critic Agnes Poirier.

Experimental psychologist Steven Pinker on his new book The Sense of Style - the Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, about the written word and how best to utilise it.

And a new book celebrating the lyrics of Ian Curtis of Joy Division.

Producer: Kirsten Locke.

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