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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

Mirza Waheed

Anne Rice

Tessa Hadley

Dr Sarah Dillon

Open Book: Mirza Waheed on The Book of Gold Leaves

Mirza Waheed on The Book of Gold Leaves

23/11/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Mirza Waheed on The Book of Gold Leaves

Featuring Mirza Waheed on his new novel The Book of Gold Leaves.

Kashmiri novelist Mirza Waheed talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel The Book of Gold Leaves, a love story set against the backdrop of war and Anne Rice on a precious book.

Mirza Waheed is a Kashmiri novelist whose new book, The Book of Gold Leaves, is a Romeo and Juliet style love story set in war-torn 1990s Srinigar. He talks to Mariella about whether he feels a responsibility to write about his home country and the conflict there. Also on the programme, vampire chronicler Anne Rice reveals the book she'd never lend and why it informs her work. And the novelist Tessa Hadley and Dr Sarah Dillon discuss the joys of forensic dissection of texts as we begin a new series: Close Reading - examining how great writing works.

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