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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

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Richard Beard

Naomi Alderman

Sarah Dillon

Open Book: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on her novel Dust

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on her novel Dust

29/03/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on her novel Dust

Author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor talks to Mariella Frostrup about her debut novel Dust.

Mariella Frostrup is joined by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, who discusses her acclaimed debut novel Dust.

Mariella is joined by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, who discusses her acclaimed debut novel Dust, about a splintered family in her native Kenya. Richard Beard, whose new book Acts of the Assassins, combines the story of the Crucifixion with a modern day detective novel, and Naomi Alderman, author of The Liars' Gospel, discuss the ways they, and others, have re-imagined Bible stories in their fiction. And Dr Sarah Dillon continues her series of Close Readings by examining a short extract from Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party.

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