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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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Open Book: Fredrik Backman

13/08/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Fredrik Backman

Mariella Frostrup talks to best-selling Swedish novelist Fredrik Backman.

Mariella Frostrup talks to best-selling Swedish author Fredrik Backman about his new novel, The Scandal.

Fredrik Backman is an internationally bestselling author whose A Man Called Ove has sold more than 3 million copies. His new novel, The Scandal, is set in an isolated Swedish town where the future is looking bright, until one brutal act threatens that future prosperity. Fredrik Backman talks to Mariella Frostrup.

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