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Last broadcast on Thu, 23 Jul 2009, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Mariella Frostrup talks to Aravind Adiga about his new novel Between the Assassinations, written before his first book, the Booker Prize -winning novel The White Tiger. The title refers to the period between the two assassinations of two former prime ministers of India, Indira and her son Rajiv Gandhi, and is a sequence of fictional stories set in a fictional seaside town Kittur.
75 years after JB Priestly's English Journey was published, novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge discusses Priestly's love of England and the impact of the book, 25 years on, from following in Priestly's footstep herself - documented as a film and in the book, English Journey or the Road to Milton Keynes.
Also, European writers and their literary love affair with the Carribbean, from Jean Rhys's The Wide Sargasso Sea to the present, with two new Trinidadian writers Amanda Smyth and Monique Roffey, and Carole Angier biographer of Jean Rhys.
Book List
Amanda Smyth: Black Rock
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Monique Roffey: The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Carol Angier: Jean Rhys
Publisher: Penguin
Aravind Adiga: Between the Assissinations
Publisher: Atlantic Books
J B Priestley: English Journey
Publisher: Great Northern Books
Beryl Bainbridge: English Journey: Or the Road to Milton Keynes
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishing
Broadcasts
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Sun 19 Jul 200916:00
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Thu 23 Jul 200916:00
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