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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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Francesca Kay

Francesca Haig

Ann Morgan

Open Book: Francesca Kay on The Long Room

Francesca Kay on The Long Room

10/01/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Francesca Kay on The Long Room

Alex Clark talks to Francesca Kay about her novel The Long Room.

Alex Clark talks to Francesca Kay about her novel The Long Room, and Francesca Haig and Ann Morgan discuss twins in literature.

On Open Book this week, Alex Clark talks to Francesca Kay about her novel The Long Room which is set in London in the 1980s, against the backdrop of the Cold War. Also on the programme - the power of two: Francesca Haig and Ann Morgan discuss twins in literature, in their own novels and beyond; an editor recommends a book from a rival publishing house, and as we begin a New Year, Open Book offers a new way to read a little every day.

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