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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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Detail from the cover of Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess.
Listen to the interview with Andy McNab
Take part in the programme! Click here to put your literary question to The Reading Clinic .
This week's programme
Andy McNab explains to Mariella Frostrup why he jumps on the furniture holding a tape recorder when writing his successful thrillers. How did the man who left school with a reading age of 11 write Bravo Two Zero and Immediate Action, both best-selling accounts of his time in the SAS, and then move on to fiction? Plus - why do some writers use brand names in their novels? Open Book investigates!
Programme Book List
1) Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099468646
2) Ways of Escape - Graham Greene
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099282593
3) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 0140620265
Andy McNab books
4) Deep Black - Andy McNab
Publisher: Bantam Press
ISBN: 0593050282
5) Bravo Two-Zero - Andy McNab
Publisher: Corgi Adult
ISBN: 0552141275
6) Immediate Action - Andy McNab
Publisher: Corgi Adult
ISBN: 055214276X
7) Remote Control - Andy McNab
Publisher: Corgi Adult
ISBN: 0552145912
8) Dark Winter - Andy McNab
Publisher: Bantam Press
ISBN: 0593050258
9) Firewall - Andy McNab
Publisher: Corgi Adult
ISBN: 0552147974
10) Liberation Day - Andy McNab
Publisher: Corgi Adult
ISBN: 0552147990
11) Last Light - Andy McNab
Publisher: Corgi Adult
ISBN: 0552147982
12) Crisis Four - Andy McNab
Publisher: Corgi Adult
ISBN: 0552152366
Product Placement in Novels
13) Waverley - Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140430717
14) The Coming Race - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551115158
15) American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 0330319922
The James Bond 007 novels by Ian Fleming are published by Penguin.
Carole Matthews' novels are published by Headline.
Click here to read Carole Matthews' short stories
E-mail Open Book with your queries or comments about the programme, or to obtain a list of your Life-Changing Books.
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