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Open Book: Emma Donoghue, Spy Fiction, Harper Lee's Unpublished Novel

13/10/2019

Emma Donoghue, Spy Fiction, Harper Lee's Unpublished Novel

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Emma Donoghue, Spy Fiction, Harper Lee's Unpublished Novel

Emma Donoghue discusses her new novel Akin, plus a discussion of the best fiction spies

Emma Donoghue discusses her new novel Akin, and as GCHQ turns 100, spy writer Alan Judd and academic Sam Goodman consider the surprising history of the spy fiction genre

Booker shortlisted author of Room Emma Donoghue discusses her latest novel Akin, an investigation into the undercover world of the French Resistance, with a side order of contemporary intergenerational discord.

As GCHQ turns 100, spy writer Alan Judd and academic Sam Goodman consider the best fictional spooks and discuss the surprising history of the genre.

Casey Cep discusses her bestselling book Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, an investigation into the true crime novel that the To Kill a Mockingbird author spent months researching but ultimately failed to publish.

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