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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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Open Book: Stephen Buoro

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Johny Pitts talks to the debut novelist about The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa.

Johny Pitts talks to Stephen Buoro about his debut novel The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa. Plus Debbie Hicks from The Reading Agency discusses their new initiative.

Johny Pitts talks to Stephen Buoro about his book The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa. The debut novelist discusses drawing on religion, maths and coming-of-age narratives in his humorous and cerebral story of a teenager in contemporary Nigeria. 

Debbie Hicks from The Reading Agency explains how their new initiative, Road to Reading, aims to help people get back into the habit of regularly spending time with a good book.

And Leonora Craig Cohen choses a new novel about strikes and sexual awakening in the 1980s as her Editors' Pick for next month.

Book List – Sunday 30 April and Thursday 4 May

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro 
Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde
Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham
God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
A Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
Neon Roses by Rachel Dawson 
Parallel Hells by Leon Craig

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