Open Book Neglected Classics
There's nothing that Open Book likes more than browsing and discovering the forgotten treasures of the literary world - books that have been overlooked or become inexplicably out of vogue.
With Neglected Classics we dug out some of the lost works and forgotten authors of the world of literature.
Ten of our best known authors nominated the books that they felt most deserved to be re-read and reinstated onto our bookshelves.
Radio 4 listeners voted for the winnner which will be dramatised on Radio 4 in 2010.
- The winner is The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
- Find out more about the book and listen to an extract
- See the results of the vote
Advocates
- Programme One: Sunday 18 October 2009
- William Boyd
The Polyglots by William Gerhardie -
Susan Hill
The Rector's Daughter by F M Mayor -
Hari Kunzru
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov -
Ruth Rendell
Many Dimensions by Charles Williams -
Colm Toibin
Esther Waters by George Moore
- Programme Two: Sunday 25 October 2009
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Beryl Bainbridge
The Quest for Corvo by A J A Symons -
Howard Jacobson
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson -
Val McDermid
Carol by Patricia Highsmith -
Michael Morpurgo
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico -
Joanna Trollope
Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope
Neglected Classics
Advocates
- Beryl Bainbridge
- William Boyd
- Susan Hill
- Howard Jacobson
- Hari Kunzru
- Val McDermid
- Michael Morpurgo
- Ruth Rendell
- Colm Toibin
- Joanna Trollope
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