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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Open Book: Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy

Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy

Johny Pitts talks to Maggie O'Farrell about her new book, The Marriage Portrait.

Johny Pitts talks to Maggie O'Farrell about her new book, The Marriage Portrait. Plus feminist graphic novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds

Johny Pitts talks to Maggie O'Farrell, the Woman's Prize-winning author behind Hamnet. Continuing her fascination with overlooked women in history, O'Farrell explains how her new novel, The Marriage Portrait, is poetically influenced by the brief life of Lucrezia de Medici. 

There is a long tradition of female graphic novelists, even if it is considered to be a "boys club". Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds discuss.

Plus Anuradha Roy sends a reflective Literary Postcard from the Himalayan foothills.

Book List – Sunday 18 September and Thursday 22 September

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Alison by Lizzie Stewart
Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds
Tamara Drew by Posy Simmonds
Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds 
Maus by Art Spiegelman
When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs 
Sally Heathcote, Suffragette by Mary M Talbot, Kate Charlsworth and Bryan Talbot 
Lighter Than My Shadow by Katy Green 
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy

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