Book Café

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  Weekly

• Episodes available for:
  30 Days

Recent episodes (5)

• bookcafe:28 May 12

  Mon, 28 May 12

  Duration:
  45 mins
  
  Available:
  30 days remaining

  Jeffery Deaver on his latest novel, XO, and why he had to turn his hand to song-writing in the course of working on the book. TS Eliot Prize-winning Don Paterson on his Selected Poems. Author Alan Warner on why, now that’s he’s Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University he’s trying to set his students an example that he didn’t have when he started out as a writer. And- what books have you bought this week? We get a fascinating industry insider’s view of current book buying trends and what’s driving them.

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• Alexander McCall Smith

  Mon, 21 May 12

  Duration:
  46 mins
  
  Available:
  23 days remaining

  Alexander McCall Smith on how his love of WH Auden's poetry has crept into the portrayals of some of his most famous characters. The divorce case that scandalized Victorian society - author Kate Summerscale on Mrs Robinson's Disgrace. The novel that publishers jostled to buy at the London Book Fair 2011- Author Kathleen Mac Mahon on the pressure of living up to the hype. And can reading heal our troubled souls?

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• Mark Haddon

  Mon, 14 May 12

  Duration:
  45 mins
  
  Available:
  16 days remaining

  Mark Haddon on his new novel, the Red House. The School of Life's psycotherapist Phillipa Perry coaches us in how to stay sane, and Alexander Macleod talks about following in the footsteps of his father, the masterful short story writer Alistair Macleod.

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• bookcafe:07 May 12:Hilary Mantel

  Mon, 7 May 12

  Duration:
  46 mins
  
  Available:
  9 days remaining

  Hilary Mantel on Bring up the Bodies, the long- awaited sequel to Wolf Hall. Toni Morrison's latest novel, Home, reviewed. Magazine of new writing, Granta, asks what British identity means today. And Robert Browning's bicentenary- why we should be celebrating him alongside Dickens in 2012.

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• 30 Apr 12: Debut novelists

  Mon, 30 Apr 12

  Duration:
  46 mins
  
  Available:
  2 days remaining

  Debut novelists Jenni Fagan and Elizabeth Reeder; the dream of owning your own bookshop- and the reality; and a gem of a Beatrix Potter collection in a Perthshire library.

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