Sunday 16:00-16:30, repeated Thursday 16:00-16:30, except first Sunday in the month when it is replaced by Book Club.
Open Book spotlights new fiction and non-fiction, picks out the best of the paperbacks, talks to authors and publishers, and unearths lost masterpieces.
This week
Sunday 14 August 2005
Summer reading tips from Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Joanna Trollope and fifty years of The Lord of the Rings.Listen to this item
Authors Salman Rushdie , Joanna Trollope , Michael Ondaatje and David Grossman advise Mariella Frostrup on contemporary books to take on holiday while Peter Kemp suggests literary classics for summer reading.
Also on Open Book, first time novelist Giles Coren talks about his anti-hero Winkler and Doris Lessing and Professor John Carey mark the fiftieth anniversary of the complete publication of Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings.
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Booklist:
Don Quixote - translation by Edith Grossman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0099469693
Between Silk and Cyanide - Leo Marks
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 000653063X
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
Publisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 0340682388
Winkler - Giles Coren
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 0224074997
No Name - Wilkie Collins
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 019283388X
