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Open Book: Benjamin Markovits, PG Wodehouse,  Family rows in novels and child prodigies

15/12/2019

Benjamin Markovits, PG Wodehouse,  Family rows in novels and child prodigies

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Benjamin Markovits, PG Wodehouse,  Family rows in novels and child prodigies

Benjamin Markovits on his novel Christmas in Austin.

Benjamin Markovits talks about his latest novel Christmas in Austin, an intimate and multi-layered story of one family's conflicts, love and enduring loyalty.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Benjamin Markovits about his latest novel, Christmas in Austin.  An intimate and multi-layered story of one family's conflicts, love and enduring loyalty which unfurls over seven days at Christmas. 

We discuss a new anthology of PG Wodehouse’s sports writing with the book's editor Richard T Kelly. Above Average At Games charts his journey from school boy enthusiast to Long Island residing golf fanatic. 

Professor John Mullen explores the festive family furors in fiction. And we hear the remarkable stories of two child prodigies whose books are re issued for a new readership.

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