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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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Jessie Greengrass

Jeremy Gavron

Danny Denton

Caitlin Davies

Open Book: 25/02/2018

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25/02/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, 25/02/2018

Prize-winning short story writer Jessie Greengrass on her debut novel, Sight.

Prize-winning short story writer Jessie Greengrass on her debut novel, Sight. Plus Jeremy Gavron talks about creating a new original novel from classic texts.

Prize winning short story writer Jessie Greengrass discusses her debut novel, Sight which deftly interweaves an intimate portrait of bereavement, pregnancy and motherhood with a history of some landmark medical advances. 

And more experimental fiction: Jeremy Gavron talks about creating a brand new original novel from classic texts and Danny Denton celebrates John Moriarty.

And, marking 100 years of the Suffrage Act, Caitlin Davies explores the books that offered solace to the suffragettes when they were sent to Holloway Prison.

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