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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Tom Drury

Open Book: Tom Drury

13/12/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Tom Drury

The best new fiction and non-fiction, talking to writers and unearthing lost classics.

On Open Book this week Mariella Frostrup talks to American novelist Tom Drury -who is often described as 'the greatest novelist you've never heard of'. His books, which include The End of Vandalism and Pacific have received great critical acclaim in his home country and are now being published here in the UK. He tells Mariella about what it's like to be rediscovered, and how getting locked in a London communal garden might inspire his next novel. 

Also on the programme, crime for Christmas - we look at some of the great seasonal stories from the Golden Age of detective fiction; and a guide to the works of Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon whose 1932 novel Sunset Song has just been adapted for the big screen.

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