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Steve Wright in the Afternoon: The Radio 2 Book Club with Colson Whitehead and Kate Mosse

The Radio 2 Book Club with Colson Whitehead and Kate Mosse

BBC Radio 2 - Steve Wright in the Afternoon, The Radio 2 Book Club with Colson Whitehead and Kate Mosse

Colson's novel Harlem Shuffle is Book Of The Month and Kate's our guest reviewer.

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead is The Radio 2 Book Club Book Of The Month, and author and Founder Director of The Women's Prize For Fiction Kate Mosse is our guest reviewer.

Colson Whitehead discusses his novel Harlem Shuffle which is The Radio 2 Book Club Book Of The Month, and Kate Mosse - author and Founder Director of The Women's Prize For Fiction is our guest reviewer.
Plus there's the Factoids, Non-Stop Oldies and the latest entertainment and lifestyle news.

Colson Whitehead is a multi-award winning and bestselling author whose works include The Nickel Boys, The Underground Railroad, The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York.
He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice and is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships.
For The Underground Railroad, Whitehead won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a second time for The Nickel Boys, which also won the George Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kirkus Prize.
The Underground Railroad has been adapted as a Prime TV series, produced and directed by Academy Award winning director Barry Jenkins.

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