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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

Open Book: Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Alexis Wright

Australian writer Alexis Wright, on new novel Praiseworthy

Award winning novelist Alexis Wright talks to Chris Power.

Chris Power is joined by award-winning Australian writer  Alexis Wright, whose new novel Praiseworthy, set in a small Aboriginal town, explores difficult ecological challenges. 

Also on the programme,  Roland Allen explores the history of writers and their notebooks; and Mark Blacklock and Toby Litt discuss J G Ballard's non-fiction.

Book List – Sunday 26 November and Thursday 30 November

Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Tracker by Alexis Wright 
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright 
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 
Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard 
High Rise by J G Ballard
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007 by J. G. Ballard
Reports From The Deep End, stories inspired by J G Ballard

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