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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

Bill Clegg

Matt Haig

Agnes Poirier

Etgar Keret

Open Book: Bill Clegg on Did You Ever Have a Family

Bill Clegg on Did You Ever Have a Family?

20/09/2015

Bill Clegg on Did You Ever Have a Family

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Bill Clegg on Did You Ever Have a Family

Mariella Frostrup talks to Bill Clegg about his book Did You Ever Have a Family.

The best new fiction and non-fiction, talking to writers and unearthing lost classics. Mariella Frostrup talks to Bill Clegg about his book Did You Ever Have a Family.

Literary agent Bill Clegg is famous in the publishing world for his tough negotiations. Now he's turned novelist himself and he talks to Mariella Frostrup about his Man Booker longlisted Did You Ever Have A Family which imagines the impact of a devastating house fire on those left behind. It's written from a variety of perspectives and he talks about picking up on fictional gossip and the way his own struggle with addiction influenced this novel. 

Also on the programme, writer Matt Haig on judging the new BBC Young Writers Award, Agnes Poirier offers a guide to French Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano whose works are newly available in English and Israeli novelist Etgar Keret selects the Book He'd Never Lend.

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