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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

Graham Norton

Michelle Paver

Robert Twigger

Sarah Dillon

Open Book: Graham Norton, Close reading Henry James, Michelle Paver on the Himalayas

16/10/2016

Graham Norton, Close reading Henry James, Michelle Paver on the Himalayas

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Graham Norton, Close reading Henry James, Michelle Paver on the Himalayas

Graham Norton talks to Mariella Frostrup about his debut novel, Holding.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Graham Norton about his debut novel, Holding. Michelle Paver and Robert Twigger discuss how the awe-inspiring Himalayas inspired both of their new books.

Mariella talks to BAFTA award winning broadcaster Graham Norton about his debut novel Holding, a bittersweet love story set in Ireland. It features PJ, an overweight and underconfident local Garda officer, who is catapulted from small town inertia when human bones are dug up in a local field. This leads to the unravelling of many long held secrets from the past.

Bestselling novelist Michelle Paver and writer and adventurer Robert Twigger discuss how the awe inspiring landscape of the Himalayas inspired both of their new books, Thin Air: a Ghost Story and the non-fiction White Mountain.

And we explore the challenging writing of Henry James in the latest in our series of Close Readings. Dr Sarah Dillon scrutinises his gothic masterpiece Turn of the Screw.

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