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Synopsis
Mariella talks to Frances Fyfield, whose bestselling crime novels are influenced by her previous career as a lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service. She explains how a recently discovered fascination with her local butcher's shop influenced her latest book, Cold to the Touch.
The short story writer John Cheever was sometimes described as the Chekhov of the suburbs. As a new biography of this chronicler of the American middle class is published, Mariella talks to its author, Blake Bailey, and the novelist Paul Bailey, who interviewed him for the BBC 30 years ago, to find out more about Cheever's life and work.
And there's advice for another book lover with a problem from The Reading Clinic. The editor of Granta, John Freeman, has some suggestions for an Open Book listener who is in search of reading matter for a trip to San Francisco.
Frances Fyfield
Frances Fyfield: Cold To The Touch
Publisher: Sphere
Frances Fyfield: Blood From Stone
Publisher: Sphere
Frances Fyfield: The Art of Drowning
Publisher: Sphere
Frances Fyfield: Seeking Sanctury
Publisher: Little, Brown
John Cheever
Blake Bailey: John Cheever, a Life
Publisher: Picador
John Cheever: The Wapshot Chronicle
Publisher: Vintage
John Cheever: The Wapshot Scandal
Publisher: Vintage
John Cheever: Oh What a Paradise it Seems
Publisher: Vintage
John Cheever: Collected Stories
Publisher: Vintage
The Letters of John Cheever
Publisher: Vintage
John Cheever: Bullet Park
Publisher: Vintage
John Cheever: The Journals
Publisher: Vintage
John Freeman's San Francisco Reading List
Dashiel Hammett: The Maltese Falcon
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Gus Lee: China Boy
Publisher: Penguin
Simon Winchester: A Crack in the Edge of the World
Publisher: Penguin
Joan Didion: Slouching Toward Bethelehem
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Broadcasts
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Sun 15 Nov 200916:00
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Thu 19 Nov 200916:00
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