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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

Matt Haig

Val McDermid

Open Book: Matt Haig

09/07/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Matt Haig

Matt Haig talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel, How to Stop Time.

Matt Haig has written frankly and movingly about his struggles with depression, topped the seasonal bestseller lists with A Boy Called Christmas and The Girl Who Saved Christmas and his new novel, How To Stop Time, takes on big questions of life, death and mortality. He talks to Mariella Frostrup about his varied writing career. 

Also on the programme, as part of BBC Radio 4's Queer Icon Season, Val McDermid celebrates Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando; and a literary postcard from Argentina.

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