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OPEN BOOK
Spotlights new fiction and non-fiction, picks out the best of the paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces. |
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Defying any attempt to pigeonhole her skills and talents Mariella combines her television and radio career with that of a prolific journalist.
Over a fifteen-year TV career she has continued to impress both audiences and critics with her friendly, accessible and intelligent screen presence. Her projects run the gamut from current affairs to movies and the arts.
As a journalist she is currently the film critic for Harpers And Queen and has a weekly dilemma column in The Observer Magazine, while her book reviews and travel pieces appear regularly in the press. She has also been a member of the Booker-Mann Prize panel.
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Listen to Eoin Colfer interview
The Year's Best Children's Books
This week it's a review of the best of the year's children's books.
Our guests in the studio were Quentin Blake, the writer and illustrator, and the Children's Editor of The Guardian, Julia Eccleshare.
We also had an interview with Eoin Colfer, the author of Artemis Fowl about his new book The Wish List, and a feature on history books for children with Terry Deary (the author of the Horrible Histories series), Geraldine McCaughrean (the author of Movers, Shakers and Record Breakers: 20 Stories from British History) and the historian Amanda Vickery.
The Panel's Choice - Christmas Books 2002
Picture books
Ian Beck/ Berlie Doherty:
The Nutcracker
(Doubleday)
Tony Ross:
I want my Tooth
(Andersen)
Anthony Browne:
Animal Fair
(Candlewick Press)
Julia Donaldson:
The Smartest Giant in Town
(Macmillan Children's Books)
6-9
Lauren Child:
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
(Orchard)
Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon:
Kings and Queens
(Jane Nissen Books)
Anne Fine:
A Shame to miss
(3 volumes)
(Transworld)
Non Fiction:
Meredith Hooper/ Stephen Biesty:
Gold
(Hodder)
10 +
Jackie Kay:
Straw girl
(Macmillan)
Philip Reeve:
Mortal Engines
(Scholastic)
Email: open.book@bbc.co.uk
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Roddy Doyle interviews - from BBC Archives
Roddy Doyle biography - from Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
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