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Sunday 5 Feb 2017
The new novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon reimagines history through the eyes of man in love with rockets.
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A new novel that explores the 'ravines of smeared disarray'. Everyday objects and interior lives.
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The first full biography of one of the most beguiling and influential writers of the twentieth century, Angela Carter.
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Kristel Thornell with her favourite works of art.
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Sunday 29 Jan 2017
What did you read over Summer? And what did RN presenters read?
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Novelist, journalist and essayist Álvaro Enrigue imagines history as a wild tennis games, batting ideas made of human hair back and forth across oceans of ideas.
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Sunday 22 Jan 2017
Novelist Chris Cleave cycled until he threw up to write about the Olympics, and survived on very short rations to imagine the WWll siege of Malta.
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A novel that moves between Berlin and Sydney, finding both light and shadows in both places.
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Irish writer Sebastian Barry takes his fiction to the bloody American frontier.
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Sunday 15 Jan 2017
How many of Jane Austen's women characters can you fit onstage at the one time?
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What was the novel that writer Susan Johnson took apart, like a clock, to understand how it worked?
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Does the prospect of poetry make you cringe? Or are you one of its passionate defenders? Either way, you'll want to hear Ben Lerner.
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Sunday 8 Jan 2017
Alleys, gutters, cities and secrets. Luc Sante tells stories of New York and Paris.
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Isabel Allende's new novel centres upon a slightly faded retirement home full of secrets, activism and stories of love.
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Mo Willems is a best-selling author of children's books, and also an illustrator and animator.
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Sunday 1 Jan 2017
Why didn't Harry Potter read more books, when he was stuck under the stairs all those years?
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A boy hides in a backyard in Brisbane, terrified of his mum's boyfriend. The old man whose yard it is recognises something of himself in this neglected child, and a tentative spiky friendship begins.
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‘It was one of those tragic relationships: I’m a junior policeman, she’s the goddess of a suburban river in south London.’ Snort. Police procedural meets a city's history of gods and monsters in Ben Aaronovitch's novels.
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Sunday 25 Dec 2016
A large tiger against a blue sea; the embodiment of grief sewn inside a dead man; a figure walking backwards. Yann Martel's books are full of arresting images.
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Historical novelist Tracy Chevalier has written small characters into big picture history in the world of Dutch artists, mediaeval weavers, English fossil hunters and revolutionary poets. Now she turns her attention to the American frontier and Johny Appleseed.
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In Juliet Marillier's novels there is a lot of slippage between the 'real world and the world of the 'fey', a world of magical creatures who are not always benign.
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