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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

Jennifer Egan

Jen Campbell

Helen Smith

Adam Haslett

Open Book: Jennifer Egan

19/11/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Jennifer Egan

Pulitzer-winning Jennifer Egan on her new novel Manhattan Beach.

Pulitzer-winning Jennifer Egan on her new novel Manhattan Beach set during the second world war in the Brooklyn Naval Yards.

Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad. Her new book Manhattan Beach is set largely during the Second World war, her heroine is the first ever female diver employed to mend warships. She talks to Mariella Frostrup about turning her hand to historical fiction, and her literary interest in twins.

Also on the programme, Jen Campbell calls for better depiction of people with disabilities in fiction; biographer Helen Smith talks about Edward Garnett - man of letters and supportive editor to DH Lawrence and Joseph Conrad among others and Adam Haslett reveals the book he'd never lend. 

Image: Jennifer Egan
Credit: Pieter M. Van Hattem.

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