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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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Rachel Reeves

Lawrence Osborne

H B Lyle

Jennifer Croll

Open Book: Gail Jones, 1930s' crime fiction, Marlowe and Holmes revisited

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23/09/2018

Gail Jones, 1930s' crime fiction, Marlowe and Holmes revisited

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Gail Jones, 1930s' crime fiction, Marlowe and Holmes revisited

Gail Jones on her new novel The Death of Noah Glass, and new life for Marlowe and Holmes.

Gail Jones on her new novel The Death of Noah Glass, new life for Philip Marlowe and Sherlock Holmes and MP Rachel Reeves explains why she's championing a 1930s' crime novel.

Australian author Gail Jones discusses her new book The Death of Noah Glass, a meditation on grief, fatherhood and the transformational power of art.  

Lawrence Osborne and HB Lyle explain how they've breathed new life into the stories of fictional detectives Philip Marlowe and Sherlock Holmes.  

Jennifer Croll, Editorial Director at Greystone Books, recommends The Ravenmaster, a memoir of caring for the ravens at the Tower of London.

And MP Rachel Reeves explains how she bought back to life a novel by one of her parliamentary predecessor's - The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson.

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