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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Preti Taneja

Open Book: Literary Christmas Gifts

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17/12/2017

Literary Christmas Gifts

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Literary Christmas Gifts

Literary Christmas gifts and crowd-funded publishing.

News and features from the world of books, presented by Mariella Frostrup. Literary Christmas gifts and crowd-funded publishing.

Mariella Frostrup and her guests, novelists Patrick Flanery and Preti Taneja suggest some literary Christmas gifts, and she investigates the rise in crowd funded publishing in 2017. Also on the programme as the teenage diaries of Margaret Forster are published, her husband and daughter join Mariella to discuss what they reveal about this most loved writer.

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