Open Book
Mariella Frostrup with the best new fiction and non-fiction, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics.
Open Book - 01/02/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Sophie Kinsella, who defends her most famous literary creation, Becky Bloomwood, against accusations of greed and selfishness.
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Open Book - 03/05/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Sebastian Faulks and winner of this year's Orwell Prize, Peter Hennessey, recommends some of the best examples of political writing.
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Open Book - 08/02/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to Australian novelist Kate Grenville about her relationship with her country's past, and her exploration of the subject in her book The Lieutenant.
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Open Book - 08/03/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to Dame Joan Bakewell, who explains why she has waited until her eighth decade to publish a novel.
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Open Book - 08/04/2007
Mariella Frostrup investigates publishing houses, and how they work with authors to nurture and develop their talent.
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Open Book - 08/06/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to Susan Hill, whose bestsellers include The Woman in Black. She discusses The Vows of Silence, her latest crime novel featuring detective Simon Serrailler.
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Open Book - 08/07/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to John Harvey, the winner of this year's Diamond Dagger Award, which recognises sustained excellence in crime writing.
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Open Book - 08/08/2010
Aminatta Forna talks to novelist Louise Dean about her new book The Old Romantic and discusses the fictionalisation of real crime.
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Open Book - 08/11/2009
Mariella Frostrup unveils the results of the two previous editions of the programme focusing on neglected classics, in which listeners voted for one of ten forgotten books.
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Open Book - 09/03/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to Justine Picardie, who explains how studying a cache of letters led her to write a novel combining the worlds of the Bronte family and Daphne du Maurier.
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Open Book - 09/05/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Blake Morrison about his novel The Last Weekend, and comedian Bill Bailey reveals why he loves the work of Somerset Maugham.
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Open Book - 09/08/2009
Muriel Gray presents the books programme. Her guests include thriller writer Christopher Brookmyre, who talks about his new horror satire, Pandaemonium.
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Open Book - 09/09/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to award-winning novelist Jonathan Coe. In his new book, The Rain Before It Falls, a dying woman records her final thoughts.
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Open Book - 09/11/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, about Mercy, her first novel for five years, and looks back at her career.
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Open Book - 09/12/2007
Mariella Frostrup presents the books programme, including a Christmas selection of some of the year's best fiction.
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Open Book - 10/01/2010
Mariella Frostrup's guests include American writer Edmund White. He talks about his most recent collection of fiction, Chaos, and his new memoir City Boy.
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Open Book - 10/02/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to Joanna Trollope about her new book Friday Nights, which examines the complex friendship of a disparate group of single women.
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Open Book - 10/05/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to the Irish writer Colm Toibin about his new novel, Brooklyn, and Ali Smith takes Mariella on a walk around the park that inspired her latest fiction.
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Open Book - 10/08/2008
Owen Sheers presents an edition of the books programme from New York. He talks to novelist Meg Wolitzer, author of The Wife, about her latest book, and visits the Morgan Library.
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Open Book - 10/10/2010
In a special edition of the programme from the Cheltenham Literary Festival, Mariella Frostrup talks to Booker of Booker winner Salman Rushdie and to crime writer James Ellroy.
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Open Book - 11/01/2009
Mariella Frostrup presents the books magazine. She talks to the American novelist Jay McInerney, the author of Bright Lights, Big City, about his new novel The Good Life.
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Open Book - 11/02/2007
Mariella Frostrup is joined by critically acclaimed writer Justin Cartwright whose new novel is set during the Second World War, and focuses on the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.
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Open Book - 11/03/2007
Tracy Chevalier, who famously fictionalised the life of the painter Vermeer in Girl with a Pearl Earring, talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel Burning Bright.
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Open Book - 11/04/2010
Mariella Frostrup visits Dublin to talk to Roddy Doyle, winner of the 1993 Booker Prize, about The Dead Republic, the last instalment of a trilogy about modern Irish history.
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Open Book - 11/05/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to poet and novelist John Burnside, whose latest book Glister is a sinister tale about a small town whose children are mysteriously disappearing.
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Open Book - 11/07/2010
Mariella Frostrup discusses pubs in fiction with Richard Francis and John Banville, poet Craig Raine's first novel and Jane Austen's forgotten nemesis, novelist Maria Edgeworth.
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Open Book - 11/10/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to bestselling thriller writer Robert Harris about his novel Lustrum, set in the Ancient Rome of Cicero and Julius Caesar.
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Open Book - 11/11/2007
Mariella Frostrup meets Alice Sebold, whose first novel The Lovely Bones was a huge bestseller. She talks about her long-awaited follow-up, the dark thriller The Almost Moon.
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Open Book - 12/04/2009
Mariella Frostrup presents a celebration of nature writing with guests including Horatio Clare, the author of a new book tracing the annual migration of swallows.
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Open Book - 12/07/2009
Mariella Frostrup meets Marina Lewycka, the author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, who discusses her third novel We Are All Made of Glue.
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Open Book - 12/08/2007
Kathryn Hughes investigates Virginia Woolf's relationship with her servants, and how it affected her writing. She also talks to novelist Elif Shafak.
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Open Book - 12/09/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Man Booker winner DBC Pierre about his new novel.
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Open Book - 12/10/2008
Misha Glenny presents an edition of the books programme from the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
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Open Book - 12/12/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer about her collected short stories which span a 50-year career. Plus historian Tom Holland on the legacy of I, Claudius.
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Open Book - 13/01/2008
Kathryn Hughes reassesses the life and work of one of the great American writers, Edgar Allan Poe. Contributors include Peter Ackroyd, author of a new biography.
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Open Book - 13/01/2011
Mariella Frostrup talks to American author Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours, adapted into a film starring Nicole Kidman. Cunningham discusses his new novel, By Nightfall.
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Open Book - 13/04/2008
Mariella Frostrup presents the books programme, including a beginner's guide to the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Open Book - 13/05/2007
Mariella Frostrup's guest is Helen Oyeyemi, who wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while still studying for her A-levels. John Preston discusses his literary inspirations.
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Open Book - 13/06/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Jonathan Coe about his novel The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim.
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Open Book - 13/07/2008
Mariella Frostrup presents the books magazine. She talks to Patrick McGrath about his new novel Trauma and hears about some strange things listeners have found in second-hand books.
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Open Book - 13/09/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist William Boyd about his latest book, Ordinary Thunderstorms, and discusses his interest in biography, both real and imagined.
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Open Book - 13/12/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to Colum McCann about his new novel, which won the National Book Award. Plus a discussion on the future of the bookshop with industry insiders.
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Open Book - 14/02/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Peter Carey about his latest novel, Parrot and Olivier in America. Plus Liz Thomson on persuading celebrities to write, and books about the dispossessed.
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Open Book - 14/03/2010
Mariella Frostrup is joined by novelist Maggie Gee, who talks about her memoir My Animal Life. Plus advice for a listener in search of the best fiction about long-distance running.
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Open Book - 14/06/2007
Mariella Frostrup meets Michael Chabon, whose new book, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, postulates Alaska, rather than Israel, as a homeland for the Jewish people after the war.
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Open Book - 14/06/2009
Mariella Frostrup speaks to the American crime writer George Pelecanos about his new novel, The Way Home, and reviews the Palestinian Festival of Literature, held in the West Bank.
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Open Book - 14/09/2008
Tibor Fischer joins Mariella Frostrup to discuss Good to Be God, his first novel for several years, in which a con artist tries to pull off an extremely ambitious identity theft.
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Open Book - 14/10/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland about his new book The Gum Thief. Journalist and former MP Martin Bell chooses his five favourite books.
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Open Book - 14/11/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Barry Humphries about his five favourite books, novelist Mohsin Hamid discusses Antonio Tabucchi and Christopher Brookmyre on what makes a good title.
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Open Book - 14/12/2008
Mariella Frostrup presents the books magazine. Including a round-up of the year's best children's books.
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Open Book - 15/02/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to poet Sophie Hannah, who in the last few years has also become a bestselling thriller writer. She talks about her new novel The Other Half Lives.
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Open Book - 15/03/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to writer Marcel Theroux, who explains how his interest in climate change and a trip to northern Siberia provided raw material for his novel Far North.
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Open Book - 15/04/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to Booker winning novelist Graham Swift, whose new book Tomorrow explores parenthood and family life. She also takes a look at the American bestseller lists.
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Open Book - 15/07/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to Armistead Maupin, whose latest novel revisits the characters in his Tales of the City series. Plus Mark Knopfler's favourite books.
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Open Book - 15/08/2010
Aminatta Forna talks to Nigerian novelist Helon Habila. Plus how men and women write domesticity into their books, and Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago's posthumously-published novel.
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Open Book - 15/11/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to crime writer Frances Fyfield about her latest novel, Cold to the Touch. Plus an appreciation of short story author John Cheever.
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Open Book - 16/03/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to the Indian writer and mathematician Manil Suri about his new novel The Age of Shiva. She also takes a look at the rarefied world of the bookshop.
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Open Book - 16/05/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Australian novelist Christos Tsiolkas, whose award-winning debut The Slap looks at the consequences when a father smacks a child who is not his own.
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Open Book - 16/08/2009
Muriel Gray talks to Diana Evans, whose first novel, 26a, won prizes and critical acclaim, as she publishes her second, The Wonder.
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Open Book - 16/09/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to Peter Ackroyd about his book Thames Sacred River, exploring the river's history. She also explores the enduring appeal of books about World War II.
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Open Book - 16/11/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to Shena Mackay, the author of Heligoland, about her new short story collection The Atmospheric Railway.
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Open Book - 16/12/2007
Mariella Frostrup presents a round-up of the year's best non-fiction books.
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Open Book - 17/01/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist Daniel Handler, who under the alter ego Lemony Snicket wrote the phenomenally successful A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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Open Book - 17/02/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Bernhard Schlink, author of The Reader. Mariella and her guests also discuss the work of George Gissing, whose books include New Grub Street.
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Open Book - 17/05/2007
Mariella Frostrup's guest is Helen Oyeyemi, who wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while still studying for her A-levels. John Preston discusses his literary inspirations.
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Open Book - 17/05/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to Michael Palin about his Five of the Best and two former police officers reveal why they decided to swap crime for crime fiction.
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Open Book - 17/06/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Penelope Lively about her long writing career and new book Consequences, the story of three generations of women from the same family.
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Open Book - 17/08/2008
Owen Sheers presents an edition of the books programme from New York. He visits Brooklyn to find out why it has displaced Manhattan as the city's literary heart.
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Open Book - 17/10/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to bestselling writer Ken Follett about his new book which follows five families through the dramatic events of the early twentieth century.
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Open Book - 18/01/2009
Mariella Frostrup presents the books magazine. She talks to the Italian writer Niccolo Ammaniti, the author of I'm Not Scared, about his new novel The Crossroads.
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Open Book - 18/02/2007
Mariella Frostrup investigates sagas. She talks to best-selling novelists Lesley Pearse and Meg Hutchinson. Plus, Jason Jenkins highlights some of the best book sites on the web.
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Open Book - 18/03/2007
Award-winning novelist Ali Smith joins Mariella Frostrup to explain her fascination with the short stories of Katherine Mansfield.
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Open Book - 18/04/2010
Alex Clark talks to the children's author Gillian Cross, creator of The Demon Headmaster, about her new book. Writer Alberto Manguel discusses a lifetime of avid reading.
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Open Book - 18/05/2008
Mariella Frostrup meets playwright Sebastian Barry, who has also emerged as one of Ireland's leading novelists. He talks about his latest book The Secret Scripture.
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Open Book - 18/07/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Richard Russo about his literary influences and Nicholas Shakespeare discusses his latest novel, The Inheritance.
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Open Book - 18/10/2009
Mariella Frostrup presents the first of two programmes in which ten leading novelists nominate books they think have been unfairly neglected.
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Open Book - 18/11/2007
Mariella Frostrup and her guests ask whether publishing is adequately serving all members of society. Does the industry need to do more to include minorities?
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Open Book - 19/04/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to US crime writer Elmore Leonard about his new novel. Claire Harman and Deborah Moggach debate popular culture's continuing fascination with Jane Austen.
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Open Book - 19/07/2009
Mariella Frostrup's guests include Aravind Adiga, and Dame Beryl Bainbridge talks about a non-fiction classic, JB Priestley's English Journey.
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Open Book - 19/08/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Christopher Hope, who shares his passion for the works of Joseph Conrad. Nicholas Shakespeare discusses his latest novel.
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Open Book - 19/09/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to the award-winning crime novelist Val McDermid about her new book, and author Alexander McCall Smith on the art of writing prolifically.
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Open Book - 19/10/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist Thomas Keneally, who, in a new memoir, recalls the writing of his 1982 novel Schindler's Ark.
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Open Book - 19/12/2010
Mariella Frostrup picks her personal highlights from a year in the Open Book studio and novelist Rose Tremain discusses the literary and dramatic potential of sibling rivalry.
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Open Book - 20/01/2008
Mariella Frostrup presents the books programme. Guests include children's writer Eoin Colfer, author of the bestselling Artemis Fowl series.
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Open Book - 20/04/2008
Mariella Frostrup presents the books programme. She talks to Will Self about his new novel Butt, a fable about smoking, moral dilemmas and the intrusive nature of authority.
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Open Book - 20/05/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to Owen Sheers about his new novel Resistance, a counter-factual history in which the Germans occupy Britain in 1944 and a Welsh resistance movement forms.
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Open Book - 20/06/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to columnist and author Allison Pearson about her latest novel, the successor to her bestselling I Don't Know How She Does It.
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Open Book - 20/09/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to John Banville about his latest novel, The Infinities, and what effect his successful crime-writing alter ego, Benjamin Black, has had on his fiction.
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Open Book - 20/12/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to crime writer Mark Billingham and crime writing expert Barry Forshaw about Sherlock Holmes.
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Open Book - 21/02/2010
Mariella Frostrup's guests include Thomas Lynch, who talks about his first collection of fiction Apparition and Late Fictions.
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Open Book - 21/03/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist DJ Taylor about why in his latest book he's taken on the persona of a 1930s thriller writer. Plus news of an exhibition of JD Salinger's letters.
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Open Book - 21/06/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelists Hari Kunzru and Giles Foden about Ox-Tales, a joint initiative between Oxfam and Profile Books, and to Patrick Neate about his new novel.
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Open Book - 21/09/2008
Mariella Frostrup presents the books magazine. She talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead, about her new book Home.
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Open Book - 21/10/2007
Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss the difficult business of getting a first book published. Children's author Malorie Blackman talks about her new novel The Stuff of Nightmares.
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Open Book - 21/11/2010
Mariella Frostrup presents a special edition exploring the recent boom in fiction for young adults. She speaks to authors Marcus Sedgwick, Malorie Blackman and Gemma Malley.
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Open Book - 21/12/2008
Nigella Lawson talks to Mariella Frostrup about the five books that mean the most to her. And how important is it for a writer to make an impression with their first book?
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Open Book - 22/02/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to Sanjida O'Connell about her novel The Naked Name of Love and Dame Beryl Bainbridge reflects on her admiration for the work of German writer Hans Fallada.
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Open Book - 22/03/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to Maggie Gee about her new novel My Driver. And 50 years after the death of Raymond Chandler, William Boyd pays tribute.
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Open Book - 22/04/2007
Mariella Frostrup examines how unusual narrators in novels create different perspectives on both story and character. Anne Enright talks about her new novel The Gathering.
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Open Book - 22/06/2008
Mariella Frostrup meets the American writer Dave Pelzer, whose best-selling books include A Child Called It. Novelist Adam Thirlwell discusses Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.
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Open Book - 22/07/2007
Mariella Frostrup asks three travel writers for their holiday reading recommendations. Sam North talks about his book The Old Country and Sue Townsend discusses audio books.
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Open Book - 22/08/2010
Dreda Say Mitchell talks to bookseller Tim Waterstone about his first novel and to writer Fay Weldon about Maori myth as it appears in her new book.
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Open Book - 22/11/2009
Writer James Meek offers a beginner's guide to Tolstoy. Plus the surprising stories behind the dedications of some of the best-known works of literature. Mariella Frostrup presents.
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Open Book - 23/05/2010
Mariella Frostrup and Michael Morpurgo visit a Lincolnshire lighthouse to uncover the story behind the writing of Paul Gallico's timeless classic The Snow Goose.
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Open Book - 23/08/2009
Muriel Gray talks to novelist Iain Banks, whose latest book, Transition, brings together science fiction and the contemporary concerns of terrorism and global financial collapse.
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Open Book - 23/09/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to children's writer Geraldine McCaughrean about her new book Tamburlaine's Elephants.
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Open Book - 23/11/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to Will Self about the work of William Burroughs, as a previously unpublished novel by the American writer appears in print for the first time.
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Open Book - 23/12/2007
In an extended interview, Mariella Frostrup talks to Khaled Hosseini, author of the international bestseller The Kite Runner.
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Open Book - 24/01/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to the Swedish thriller writer and creator of Wallander, Henning Mankell, who reveals how living in Africa has given his latest novel a global sweep.
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Open Book - 24/02/2008
Mariella Frostrup meets Clare Morrall, whose novel Astonishing Splashes of Colour was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. She talks about her new book The Language of Others.
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Open Book - 24/05/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to Owen Sheers about his new novel Resistance, a counter-factual history in which the Germans occupy Britain in 1944 and a Welsh resistance movement forms.
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Open Book - 24/05/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to author of The Long Firm, Jake Arnott, who discusses the subject of his latest novel, The Devil's Paintbrush.
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Open Book - 24/06/2007
Gordon Brown talks to Mariella Frostrup about his five all time favourite books, and reveals why reading has always been a source of inspiration and a pleasure for him.
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Open Book - 24/08/2008
Muriel Gray talks to novelist Philippa Gregory about her new book The Other Queen, a fictional account of the life of Mary Queen of Scots.
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Open Book - 24/10/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Paul Auster about his new book Sunset Park, set in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse. Plus, Richard Mabey on the literary allure of weeds.
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Open Book - 25/01/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to Charles Elton about his novel Mr Toppit, about the dubious legacy of a children's book that becomes successful only after the death of its author.
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Open Book - 25/02/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to Booker shortlisted novelist Gerard Woodward about his new book, A Curious Earth, the conclusion of his trilogy based on his own family.
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Open Book - 25/03/2007
Award winning science-fiction novelist China Mieville joins Mariella Frostrup to discuss Un Lun Dun, his first novel for younger readers.
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Open Book - 25/04/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Andrew O'Hagan, whose latest book is a portrait of Marilyn Monroe as seen through the eyes of her dog, Maf.
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Open Book - 25/05/2008
Mariella Frostrup presents the books programme from Hay-on-Wye. Her guests, joining her in front of a Hay Festival audience, include screenwriter Andrew Davies.
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Open Book - 25/07/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Howard Jacobson about his new novel, The Finkler Question and explores the impact of illness on writing with novelists Tim Parks and Philip Hensher.
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Open Book - 25/10/2009
Mariella Frostrup presents the second of two programmes in which ten leading novelists nominate books they think have been unfairly neglected.
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Open Book - 25/11/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to Richard Russo, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his book Empire Falls. He talks about his new novel Bridge of Sighs.
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Open Book - 26/04/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to Hilary Mantel about her interest in Henry VIII's notorious minister Thomas Cromwell, the subject of her novel Wolf Hall.
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Open Book - 26/07/2009
Mariella Frostrup's guests include Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong and now chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle universities, who chooses his five favourite books.
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Open Book - 26/08/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to nature writer Robert Macfarlane about his quest to discover Britain's unspoilt wilderness. Adrian Chiles reveals his five favourite reads.
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Open Book - 26/09/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to writer Susan Hill about creating menace and fear in her new ghost story and to novelist Joanna Trollope about the pleasure and power of reading aloud.
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Open Book - 26/10/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to Bernard Cornwell about his new book Azincourt, which narrates the battle of Agincourt from the perspective of an English archer.
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Open Book - 26/12/2010
Barry Humphries talks to Mariella Frostrup about five of his favourite books.
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Open Book - 27/01/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to Helen Dunmore about her new book Counting the Stars, a love story set in Rome at the time of Julius Caesar. Will Self explores the work of JG Ballard.
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Open Book - 27/04/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist William Sutcliffe, who discusses his new novel Whatever Makes You Happy and explains his fascination with men who refuse to grow up.
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Open Book - 27/05/2007
In a special programme from this year's Guardian Hay Festival, Mariella Frostrup talks to Australian novelist Thomas Kenneally and gets some tips from booksellers.
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Open Book - 27/06/2010
Writers join Mariella Frostrup to talk about Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird as it turns 50.
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Open Book - 27/07/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to the Irish novelist Deidre Madden and considers how the world of art is presented in fiction.
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Open Book - 27/09/2009
Mariella Frostrup and her guests discuss the rise of Australian fiction. Richard Flanagan, author of the cult novel Gould's Book of Fish, talks about his latest book, Wanting.
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Open Book - 27/12/2009
Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss a generally unheralded figure in the writing of a book - its editor. With Diana Athill, Giles Foden, John Carey, DJ Taylor and Jenny Uglow.
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Open Book - 28/02/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Joshua Ferris about his new novel, The Unnamed. Plus bankers writing about the credit crunch and Spanish books on the country's civil war.
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Open Book - 28/03/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Dave Eggers about his latest non-fiction work, Zeitoun, plus Stephen Poliakiff chooses his five favourite books.
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Open Book - 28/06/2009
Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist Adam Thorpe, who uses Robin Hood as the central character of his new novel, Hodd.
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Open Book - 28/09/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to Zoë Heller about her new novel The Believers. Alan Sillitoe recalls the success of his novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
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Open Book - 28/10/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to Jane Gardam about her new collection of short stories, The People on Privilege Hill.
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Open Book - 28/11/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to writers Peter Ackroyd and Kevin Crossley-Holland about the legend of King Arthur and to novelist Philip Kerr about his new book Field Grey.
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Open Book - 28/12/2008
Mariella Frostrup presents the books magazine. She and her guests consider novelists' relationships with their families and how writers include their relatives in their work.
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Open Book - 29/03/2009
Mariella Frostrup's guests include thriller writer Tom Rob Smith, who talks about his latest novel The Secret Speech. Plus a walk around Venice with novelist Donna Leon.
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Open Book - 29/04/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Sebastian Faulks and winner of this year's Orwell Prize, Peter Hennessey, recommends some of the best examples of political writing.
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Open Book - 29/06/2008
Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Irvine Welsh, whose books include the bestseller Trainspotting. He talks about his latest novel, Crime.
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Open Book - 29/07/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to Marcus Sedgewick about his enthusiasm for novelist Arthur Ransome's work. She also investigates a new way to reinvigorate classic texts.
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Open Book - 29/08/2010
Kwame Kwei-Armah talks to thriller writer Mark Billingham, author Philip Ardagh discusses the Just So Stories and Bruce Chatwin's editor looks over the travel writer's letters.
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Open Book - 29/11/2009
Mariella Frostrup's guests include novelist Jeanette Winterson, who discusses her two new books for children.
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Open Book - 30/03/2008
Mariella Frostrup presents the books programme, which includes a look at the works of Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul, one of our greatest contemporary novelists.
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Open Book - 30/05/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to the bestselling writer Bill Bryson about his latest book, At Home, his history of domestic life, inspired by his Norfolk home, a rectory built in 1851.
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Open Book - 30/08/2009
Nick Hornby talks to Alex Clark about his new novel, Juliet, Naked, and explains his fascination with obsessive music fans.
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Open Book - 30/09/2007
Mariella Frostrup talks to Michael Ondaatje about his new book Divisadero. She also looks at illustrated adult novels and asks why should pictures be just for children.
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Open Book - 31/01/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Neel Mukherjee about his prize-winning debut A Life Apart, a novel about a young man's escape from the slums of Calcutta.
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Open Book - 31/05/2007
In a special programme from this year's Guardian Hay Festival, Mariella Frostrup talks to Australian novelist Thomas Kenneally and gets some tips from booksellers.
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Open Book - 31/05/2009
Mariella Frostrup meets an engaging mix of authors at the Hay Festival and hears from Monty Don about his five best books.
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Open Book - 31/08/2008
Muriel Gray talks to Andrew Miller about his new novel set in wartime Japan. As Arthur C Clarke's final work is published posthumously, she looks at the sci-fi writer's career.
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Open Book - 31/10/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to the historian Amanda Foreman about her new book, A World on Fire, which explores Britain's role in America's Civil War. And, Doctor Zhivago re-examined.
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Open Book - Alastair Campbell's Five of the Best; AS Byatt and Carol Birch
Mariella Frostrup talks to Alastair Campbell about his five of the best books. Novelists AS Byatt and Carol Birch discuss the merits of a Victorian backdrop to a novel.
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Open Book - Open Book
Double Booker prize winner Peter Carey talks to Mariella Frostrup about his novel Theft: A Love Story, about the art world and about his relationship with his native Australia.
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Open Book - Paul Torday, Jay Parini, Sue Arnold
Mariella Frostrup talks to author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Paul Torday about his new book, and writer Jay Parini discusses the life of Herman Melville.
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