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Last broadcast on Thu, 16 Jun 2011, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only) (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Mariella Frostrup talks to the award-winning author Amitav Ghosh about River of Smoke, the second book in Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy, set in the waterways around Canton during the events leading up to the start of the First Opium War in 1839.
In this week's Reading Clinic, author Joanna Kavenna recommends fiction in which women rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
And we hear why Alexander Baron, the British novelist of the Second World War, should be rediscovered and re-read, from writer and poet Iain Sinclair.
Producer: Ella-mai Robey.
Read the opening chapter of River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
Get ahead with Mariella’s next book Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
BOOK LIST
AMITAV GHOSH
River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: John Murray
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: John Murray
The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: Flamingo
The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: HarperCollins
READING CLINIC (GUEST: JOANNA KAVENNA)
Recommendations:
Oeuvres complètes, 1832: Indiana; Valentine – George Sand
Publisher: Honoré Champion
Ella Hepworth Dixon: The Story of a Modern Woman (The Nineteenth Century Series) - Valerie Fehlbaum
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
The Millstone - Margaret Drabble
Publisher: Penguin
Arlington Park - Rachel Cusk
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Mariella's recommendations:
The Summer of the Bear - Bella Pollen
Publisher: Pan
Perfect Lives - Polly Samson
Publisher: Virago Press
ALEXANDER BARON (GUEST: IAIN SINCLAIR)
Recommendations from Iain:
There's No Home – Alexander Baron
Publisher: Sort Of Books
From the City, From the Plough - Alexander Baron
Publisher: BLACK SPRING
King Dido - Alexander Baron
Publisher: New London Editions
Further suggested reading:
The Human Kind - Alexander Baron
Publisher: BLACK SPRING
Broadcasts
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Sun 12 Jun 201116:00
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Thu 16 Jun 201116:00
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