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What are young people writing and reading?

A special edition of Open Book recorded at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

• 28 mins

Deborah Levy, therapists in fiction, India's richest literary prize, Lorca's symbolism

Deborah Levy discusses her bestselling new novel The Man Who Saw Everything.

• 28 mins

Robert Harris

Robert Harris discusses his new novel The Second Sleep and reflects on 30 years of writing

• 28 mins

Ann Patchett, Jia Tolentino and USA book picks

A special American-themed edition with Ann Patchett and rising star Jia Tolentino.

• 28 mins

Dana Czapnik, Black Death novels, Imani Perry on Corregidora

Dana Czapnik discusses her debut novel The Falconer.

• 28 mins

Emma Donoghue, Spy Fiction, Harper Lee's Unpublished Novel

Emma Donoghue discusses her new novel Akin, plus a discussion of the best fiction spies

• 28 mins

Literary Norwich Special

A visit to Norwich, England's first Unesco City of Literature

• 28 mins

Andrew Michael Hurley, best novels of 1995, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Andrew Michael Hurley talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel Starve Acre.

• 28 mins

Kathy O'Shaughnessy, George Eliot, Literary Magazines and Jason Reynolds

Kathy O'Shaughnessy on her novel about George Eliot and Literary Magazines discussed

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Ben Lerner, Ian Rankin, Auto Fiction

Elizabeth Day talks to Ben Lerner about his novel The Topeka School

• 28 mins

Lee Child

Lee Child, Pat Barker, Hanne 脴rstavik.

• 28 mins

2019 Books, Andr茅 Aciman and David Bowie

Books of 2019, Andr茅 Aciman, Bowie's Books

• 28 mins

Benjamin Markovits, PG Wodehouse, Family rows in novels and child prodigies

Benjamin Markovits on his novel Christmas in Austin.

• 28 mins

Highlights of 2019

Highlights of 2019; Ali Smith, Bernadine Evaristo, Robert Harris, Ann Patchett, Max Porter

• 28 mins

Graham Greene Special

Louise Doughty, Lawrence Osborne and Peter James on the great 20th century master of plot

• 28 mins

100 Novels That Shaped Our World

100 Novels That Shaped Our World: Identity

• 28 mins

Deepa Anappara, Helen Fielding on Hemingway, Rob Doyle and Finnish literature

Journalist turned novelist Deepa Anapara on her debut set in contemporary India

• 28 mins

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, Ann Petry's The Street, gay love in 1980s Poland

Jeanine Cummins on American Dirt, and forgotten classic The Street with Tayari Jones

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100 Novels; Love and Romance with Marian Keyes, David Nicholls, Sara Collins

Marian Keyes on new novel Grown Ups

• 28 mins

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende, Magic Realism, The Foundling

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Colum McCann, George Orwell, new fiction set in Windrush-era London

Colum McCann discusses his new book about Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Apeirogon.

• 28 mins

Kiley Reid, Lucy Foley and Abir Mukherjee, Peter Swanson

Mariella Frostrup talks to Kiley Reid about Such A Fun Age.

• 28 mins

Christos Tsiolkas, Mothers and Daughters in fiction, Nairobi books

Mariella talks to author of The Slap Christos Tsiolkas about his latest novel, Damascus.

• 28 mins

Petina Gappah

Mariella Frostrup talks to Petina Gappah about her book, Out of Darkness, Shining Light.

• 28 mins

Maggie O'Farrell, Sophie Hannah and Reading in Isolation

Mariella Frostrup talks to Maggie O'Farrell about her new novel, Hamnet.

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Evie Wyld, Louise Doughty on Ghostly Narrators, Polly Samson and Leonard Cohen's Hydra

Mariella Frostrup talks to Evie Wyld about The Bass Rock

• 28 mins

Ingrid Persaud, Short Fiction, Patricia Grace

Mariella Frostrup talks to Ingrid Persaud about her debut novel, Love After Love.

• 28 mins

Garth Greenwell

Garth Greenwell talks to Mariella Frostrup.

• 28 mins

Tayari Jones, Jane Eyre, John Freeman

Mariella Frostrup talks to Tayari Jones about her novel Silver Sparrow.

• 28 mins

Curtis Sittenfeld

Curtis Sittenfeld, Ian Rankin and Katherine Rundell.

• 28 mins