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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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Maev Kennedy was born in Dublin in 1954, the child of two writers who subsidised literary work with jobbing journalism. She worked for many years for the Irish Times, ultimately as parliamentary and political sketch writer. Maev wrote on arts and politics for a wide range of Irish and British publications, before joining the staff of the Guardian, where after a stint of editing the Guardian Diary, she is now Arts and Heritage Correspondent. She lives in London with her son Samuel.
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Detail from the bookcover of Bernard Cornwell's new novel, 'The Last Kingdom' .
Take part in the programme. Find out how you can contact us to put your literary question to The Reading Clinic
This week's programme
Maev Kennedy presents an Open Book special on Historical Fiction. To discuss the topic she is joined by successful historical novelists Philippa Gregory and Bernard Cornwell, with Sarah Bower from the Historical Novel Society.
Programme book list
Books by Philippa Gregory:
Elizabethan Trilogy:
1) The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007147309
2) The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0006514006
3) The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007147295
Wideacre Trilogy:
4) Wideacre - Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0006514618
5) The Favoured Child - Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0006514626
6) Meridon - Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0006514618
Books by Bernard Cornwell:
7) The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007149905
The Grail Quest books:
8) Harlequin - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0006513840
9) Vagabond - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0006513859
10) Heretic - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007149891
Some 'Sharpe' Titles:
11) Sharpe's Escape - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007120133
12) Sharpe's Havoc - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007120125
13) Sharpe's Christmas - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Sharpe Appreciation Society
ISBN: 0972222014
14) Sharpe's Skirmish - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Sharpe Appreciation Society
ISBN: 0972222006
15) Sharpe's Prey - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0006513107
16) Sharpe's Trafalgar - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0006513093
17) Sharpe's Fortress - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0006510310
18) Sharpe's Triumph - Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0006510302
C. S. Forester's Hornblower Novels:
19) The Young Hornblower: Mr Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, Hornblower and the 'Hotspur' - C.S. Forester
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140271732
20) Hornblower During The Crisis - C.S. Forester
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 0316289442
21) Captain Hornblower, R.N.: Hornblower and the 'Atropos', Happy Return and Ship of the Lane - C.S. Forester
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140081771
22) Beat to Quarters - C.S. Forester
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316289329
23) Admiral Hornblower Omnibus: Flying Colours, Commodore, Lord Hornblower and Hornblower in the West Indies - C.S. Forester
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014011940X
Margaret Irwin novels:
24) Young Bess - Margaret Irwin
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: 0701108487
25) Elizabeth, Captive Princess
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: 0701002239
26) Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: 0701108479
Hilda Lewis novels:
27) The Ship That Flew
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192717685
28) Gentle Falcon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192770373
Most of Margaret Irwin's and Hilda Lewis' novels are now out of print but are obtainable online, and through libraries and good second hand bookshops.
Click here for the Historical Novel Society's website.
E-mail Open Book with your comments and views about the programme.
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