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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

Diana Evans

Vanora Bennett

Amy Sackville

Tony Parsons

Simon Richardson

Open Book: Diana Evans

08/04/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Diana Evans

Diana Evans talks to Mariella Frostrup about her third novel, Ordinary People.

Diana Evans on her novel Ordinary People, Amy Sackville discusses the court artist in literature and Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart. Presented by Mariella Frostrup.

Diana Evans, who won the inaugural Orange Award for New Writers, talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel Ordinary People set in South London in 2008 when two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning. Ordinary People opens with Barack Obama's election victory and is framed by that event and the death of Michael Jackson in 2009.

As London's Southbank Centre prepares to stage a day-long live reading of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's epoch-defining African novel Things Fall Apart, we'll be talking to the organisers about the joys and challenges of bringing the work to life.

Novelists Amy Sackville and Vanora Bennett who've both fictionalised famous court painters - in this Diego Velasquez and Hans Holbein - tell all about these characters' unique perspective on courtly life. 

And travel writer and novelist Emily Barr shares the Book she'd Never Lend.

Presenter: Mariella Frostrup
Producer: Simon Richardson.

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