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11/07/2010

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Last broadcast on Thu, 15 Jul 2010, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only) (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Mariella Frostrup discusses the role of the pub in fiction with writers Richard Francis and John Banville, poet Craig Raine's fictional debut and Jane Austen's forgotten nemesis, the Regency novelist Maria Edgeworth.

Producer: Aasiya Lodhi.

Book List

CRAIG RAINE

Heartbreak – Craig Raine
Publisher - Atlantic Books

Collected Poems 1978-1998
Publisher - Picador

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Publisher - Oxford Paperbacks

In Defence of T.S.Eliot
Publisher - Picador

PUBS IN FICTION

RICHARD FRANCIS

The Old Spring
Publisher - Tindal Street Press

Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia
Publisher - Yale University Press

Fat Hen
Publisher – Fourth Estate

BENJAMIN BLACK

The Lemur
Publisher – Picador

Christine Falls (Quirke 1)
Publisher – Picador

The Silver Swan (Quirke 2)
Publisher – Picador

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JOHN BANVILLE

The Sea
Publisher – Picador

The Infinities
Publisher – Picador

The Book of Evidence
Publisher – Picador

THE READING CLINIC

Berlin: The Downfall 1945
Publisher – Penguin

A Woman in Berlin – Anonymous
Publisher – Virago Press

The Third Man – Graham Green
Publisher – Penguin

The Trial - Franz Kafka
Publisher – Penguin

Rubicon Tom Holland
Publisher – Abacus

MARIA EDGEWORTH

The Absentee
Publisher – Penguin

Belinda
Publisher – Oxford Paperbacks

Helen
Publisher - Sort of Books

Castle Rackrent
Publisher - Oxford Paperbacks

Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Mariella Frostrup talks to poet Craig Raineabout his debut novel Heatbreak.

Broadcasts

  1. Sun 11 Jul 2010
    16:00
  2. Thu 15 Jul 2010
    16:00

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