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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

Alan Hollinghurst

Denise Mina

Max Porter

Jami Attenberg

Open Book: Alan Hollinghurst

08/10/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel, The Sparsholt Affair.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Alan Hollinghurst about his much anticipated new novel The Sparsholt Affair. It opens at Oxford University during World War 2 and follows a group of friends through the social and sexual revolutions of the twentieth century, right up to the dating apps of the present day. He talks to Mariella about why he 
chose to leave some major events 'offstage' and why he believes this to be his most romantic, and optimistic book yet. 

Also on the programme writers Dame Denise Mina and Max Porter discuss their two new ghost stories inspired by place and critically acclaimed novelist Jami Attenberg
reveals it's a form that eludes her.

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