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Open Book: The Year in Fiction

Janice Hallett

The Year in Fiction

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Chris Power looks back at some of our highlights from 2023.

Chris Power shares some of the highlights of the year on Open Book.

2023 has been a great  year for fiction, and in this programme, Chris Power looks back at some of Open Book’s highlights, including interviews with Zadie Smith, Bret Easton Ellis,  Eleanor Catton and Richard Ford.

They reflect on their literary influences and the echoes of the past which help them write their way into the future.

Book List – Monday 25 December and Thursday 28 December

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis 
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Julia by Sandra Newman 
The Future by Naomi Alderman 
The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell 
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 
The Fraud by Zadie Smith 
Be Mine by Richard Ford 
Watch Us Dance by Leila Slimani 
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff 
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

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