The Book Cafe
Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary
The Book Café - 01/02/2010
Clare English talks to Peter Carey, the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar And Lucinda and The True History Of The Kelly Gang, plus we look at the legacy of JD Salinger.
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The Book Café - 01/03/2010
American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer discusses his unexpected third book.
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The Book Café - 01/06/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 01/10/2007
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The Book Café - 01/11/2010
'Godfather of steampunk' Bryan Talbot and crime writer turned graphic novelist Denise Mina consider the reasons behind the growing appeal of graphic novels.
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The Book Café - 02/03/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 02/07/2007
The latest cultural news from home and abroad, join Radio Scotland for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 02/11/2009
Join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 03/05/2010
A forgotten classic - overlooked the first time around, so why is it worth a second look? We speak to an editor who's on a personal crusade to publish a book he's loved for years.
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The Book Café - 03/08/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 03/09/2007
The latest cultural news from home and abroad. Join Radio Scotland for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 04/01/2010
Clare English has all the names to watch out for in 2010, plus John Burnside joins her to talk about Waking Up in Toytown, the sequel to his successful memoir A Lie About My Father.
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The Book Café - 04/05/2009
Chris Dolan hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 04/06/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 04/10/2010
As a wave of new fiction uses the war in Afghanistan as setting or inspiration, we ask how sensitive fiction writers should be to the consequences of using a 'live' story.
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The Book Café - 05/04/2010
A first-time author at the age of 90, Alistair Urquhart talks about what it means to him to have written the best-selling non-fiction book in the UK last week.
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The Book Café - 05/07/2010
We mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by finding out what the book has meant to readers through the generations.
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The Book Café - 05/10/2009
If you love fiction, join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 06/04/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 06/08/2007
The latest cultural news from home and abroad. Join Radio Scotland for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 06/09/2010
Comedian Alexei Sayle and writer Jackie Kay compare their experiences of growing up with communist parents.
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The Book Café - 07/05/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 07/05/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 07/06/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 07/06/2010
Clare English talks to Yann Martel, who won the Booker prize for his novel Life of Pi but risks that acclaim with his new book, which uses the Holocaust as the basis for its story.
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The Book Café - 07/07/2008
Clare English hosts a debate at the Borders Book Festival, featuring literary critic James Wood, authors Claire Messud and Sally Vickers, and Scotland on Sunday's Stuart Kelly.
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The Book Café - 07/09/2009
If you love fiction, join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 07/12/2009
Join Janice Forsyth for a book group special as we go behind the scenes at a local monthly meeting, discuss the growing community of online groups and meet the school girls behind The Radio Book Club.
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The Book Café - 08/02/2010
Melvyn Bragg explains why he's donated 50 years' worth of his papers to Leeds University. Why would a still active writer give away their personal archive?
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The Book Café - 08/03/2010
We get acquainted with the defiant people of the Caucasus as Oliver Bullough gives us an insight into a corner of the world that remains very much unknown to the West.
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The Book Café - 08/06/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 08/10/2007
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The Book Café - 08/11/2010
3079 people across Scotland are writing a 50000 word novel this month, to be finished by midnight on 30 November. But is there a book in everyone? Really?
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The Book Café - 09/03/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 09/04/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 09/04/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 09/07/2007
The latest cultural news from home and abroad, join Radio Scotland for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 09/11/2009
Join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 10/01/2010
Join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 10/01/2011
Clare English discusses the delicate and diplomatic art of book reviewing with The Scotsman's Lee Randall.
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The Book Café - 10/05/2010
We discuss passion, literary collaboration and betrayal with Daisy Hay, the author of a new biography about Shelley and Byron.
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The Book Café - 10/09/2007
The latest cultural news from home and abroad. Join Radio Scotland for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 11/01/2010
AS Byatt joins us to talk about her dark and beautiful Man Booker prize short-listed novel The Children's Book.
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The Book Café - 11/05/2009
Clare English talks to broadcaster Joan Bakewell about her first novel All The Nice Girls in an interview recorded at this year's Aye Write Festival.
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The Book Café - 11/06/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 11/10/2010
Together with The Scottish Book Trust, we launch Family Legends, the chance to tell the story of a remarkable relative and have it read out to the nation.
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The Book Café - 12/01/2009
Clare English talks to Edinburgh-based writer Lin Anderson, whose latest book features a forensic scientist investigating a dead body found lying on a grave in Glasgow Necropolis.
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The Book Café - 12/04/2010
Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, talks to Chris about immersing herself in the murky world of online communities as research for her new novel Blueeyedboy.
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The Book Café - 12/07/2010
If you love fiction, join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 12/10/2009
Janice Forsyth talks to broadcaster and novelist Gavin Esler at the 2009 International Genealogy Festival. Gavin was born in Glasgow, but from where did his ancestors come?
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The Book Café - 13/04/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 13/07/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 13/09/2010
Set within the current banking crisis, how does John le Carre's latest novel Our Kind of Traitor dissect this complex backdrop?
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The Book Café - 13/10/2008
Join River City's Tony Kearney for a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 13/12/2010
Clare English looks at the best books of 2010. Plus hear from the author who has turned one of Jane Austen's classics into a murder mystery.
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The Book Café - 14/05/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 14/06/2010
If you love fiction, join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 14/09/2009
If you love fiction, join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 14/12/2009
Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson is all over the bestseller charts. Publisher Christopher MacLehose and Sarah Death of the Swedish Book Review join us to talk about his success.
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The Book Café - 15/02/2010
A literary speed dating night in Edinburgh is trying to liven up the city's dating scene. Is talking about books a reliable way of finding 'the one'?
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The Book Café - 15/03/2010
Crime writer Louise Welsh welcomes The Book Cafe into her home and gives us an insight into the working life of a full-time author.
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The Book Café - 15/06/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 15/11/2010
Julia Donaldson talks about the pleasures and challenges of writing for children, and Bernard MacLaverty on why Irish writers have an aptitude for the short story form.
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The Book Café - 16/02/2009
Author Chris Dolan hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 16/03/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 16/04/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 16/04/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 16/07/2007
The latest cultural news from home and abroad. Join Radio Scotland for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 16/08/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 16/11/2009
Chris Kane talks to Anthony Horowitz about his new Alex Rider novel Crocodile Tears and Stephen King fan Ellie Wixon gives her verdict on his latest book Under the Dome.
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The Book Café - 17/01/2011
Songs inspired by books - from Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights to The Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil, we pick out the best.
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The Book Café - 17/03/2008
Clare English heads to the latest Gliterary Lunch held in the Jam House in Edinburgh to meet Tony Parsons and Anne Landesman.
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The Book Café - 17/05/2010
Summer Reads - as the holiday season approaches, we challenge River City's Libby McArthur to go out book shopping and bring us back a good selection of enticing holiday reads.
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The Book Café - 17/09/2007
The latest cultural news from home and abroad. Join Radio Scotland for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 18/01/2010
Fiction that goes where journalism can't. Deborah Moggach explains the process of turning what she saw on a trip to Ghana into a story that might move the reader to help.
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The Book Café - 18/05/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 18/06/2007
...Books for Boys Special. A show dedicated to the desk-bound dad, a celebration of the old-fashioned, rip-roaring Boys Own genre.
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The Book Café - 18/10/2010
Parodies of classic books - a bit of fun or a great way to get to the heart of the text? John Crace, writer of The Guardian's Digested Reads column, joins Clare English.
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The Book Café - 19/01/2009
Clare English hosts a debate at the Borders Book Festival, featuring literary critic James Wood, authors Claire Messud and Sally Vickers, and Scotland on Sunday's Stuart Kelly.
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The Book Café - 19/04/2010
Hollywood screenwriter William Nicholson talks about moving on from Gladiator and Shadowlands to writing a love story for teenagers that's unusually explicit about sex.
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The Book Café - 19/07/2010
As Westminster's reaction to Peter Mandelson's The Third Man continues to make headlines, we discuss the art of writing a political memoir.
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The Book Café - 19/10/2009
Join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 20/07/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 20/09/2010
Master storyteller Philip Pullman discusses the secrets of spinning a good yarn, plus he reveals how he discovered that he's just not a writer who can do comedy.
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The Book Café - 20/12/2010
Ebooks are changing the way adults read, but can we expect the same to happen for children? Julia Eccleshare, The Guardian's children's books editor, gives us her predictions.
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The Book Café - 21/05/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 21/06/2010
What makes a writer turn the attention on themselves? Janice Galloway, Rupert Thomson and William Fiennes talk to Stuart Kelly about their recent memoirs.
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The Book Café - 21/09/2009
If you love fiction, join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 21/12/2009
Join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 22/02/2010
Joshua Ferris' debut novel was one of the most talked-about books in America during 2007. He tells us about trying to follow that huge success with his second novel.
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The Book Café - 22/03/2010
George Pelecanos is a writer on US drama The Wire and a successful crime novelist. He tells The Book Cafe about basing his new novel on his own experiences of crime and violence.
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The Book Café - 22/06/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 22/11/2010
Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin discusses the long-awaited next novel in the series, Mary Ann in Autumn, and explains his 30-year fascination with the same characters.
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The Book Café - 23/02/2009
Author Chris Dolan hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 23/03/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 23/04/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 23/04/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 23/07/2007
The latest cultural news from home and abroad. Join Radio Scotland for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 23/08/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 23/08/2010
Experience the buzz of the Edinburgh Book Festival with Clare English, live from Charlotte Square. Top authors, new talents, and great stories. A feast for book-lovers.
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The Book Café - 23/11/2009
The Scottish Book Trust is asking people to tell them about the book that changed their life, so Clare English spends the programme exploring memories of meaningful books.
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The Book Café - 24/01/2011
Scotland's new national poet Liz Lochhead and Alaska's David Vann, author of award-winning book Legend of a Suicide, join Clare English.
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The Book Café - 24/05/2010
Fantasy writer China Mieville talks about the challenges of keeping the genre fresh. Making a giant squid the star of his new novel was just the beginning.
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The Book Café - 24/08/2009
Novelist William McIlvanney joins Stuart Kelly to talk about politics, culture and the Scottish Renaissance in a session recorded at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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The Book Café - 24/09/2007
Best-selling author of The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver, joins Clare English.
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The Book Café - 25/01/2010
Clare English talks to writer and Holocaust survivor Thomas Buergenthal, and Ewen McCaig, son of poet Norman MacCaig, discusses the latest collection of his father's work.
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The Book Café - 25/05/2009
Join writer Chris Dolan for a feast of new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 25/06/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 25/10/2010
Featuring Ed Hollis on his book The Secret Lives of Buildings and Nick Nairn, Tom Kitchin and food writers Catherine Brown and Donald Reid with Clare English at the Good Food Show.
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The Book Café - 26/04/2010
Orange Prize shortlisted author Rosie Alison talks about why historical fiction has come to dominate the bestseller charts and literary prize shortlists.
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The Book Café - 26/07/2010
Bestselling American author Jeffrey Deaver explains how he manages to hold his own in a crowded area of popular fiction - the forensic detective novel.
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The Book Café - 26/10/2009
Join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 27/04/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 27/07/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 27/08/2007
The latest cultural news from home and abroad. Join Radio Scotland for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 27/09/2010
In part two of our interview, author Philip Pullman looks back at the furore caused by his recent and highly controversial book The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ.
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The Book Café - 28/05/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 28/06/2010
Janice Forsyth asks why so few of us have heard of Jane Duncan, a 1950s literary superstar.
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The Book Café - 28/07/2008
Writer Louise Welsh is the guest presenter, will crime fiction be on the agenda?
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The Book Café - 28/09/2009
If you love fiction, join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - 28/12/2009
Stuart Kelly talks to Audrey Niffenegger, author of bestselling novel The Time Traveler's Wife, about her life, her work and her new book A Fearful Symmetry.
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The Book Café - 29/03/2010
Ed Hollis, author of The Secret Lives of Buildings, talks to Clare English about how structures take on a life of their own during the course of their history.
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The Book Café - 29/06/2009
Clare English hosts the Book Café with a feast of all things literary.
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The Book Café - 29/11/2010
How does Norwegian crime fiction shape up against the Swedish version, given the huge success of Steig Larsson's Millenium trilogy and Henning Mankell's Wallander?
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The Book Café - 29/12/2008
Agnes Owens and James Kelman chat about their long friendship, and Agnes entertains the Edinburgh International Book Festival audience with some of her stories.
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The Book Café - 30/03/2009
Clare English talks to journalist, broadcaster and sixties icon Dame Joan Bakewell about her book All the Nice Girls, and about her life and career.
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The Book Café - 30/04/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 30/04/2007
There's a new menu at the Cafe. Join Clare English for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 30/07/2007
The latest cultural news from home and abroad. Join Radio Scotland for a feast of books and all things literary.
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The Book Café - 30/08/2010
Experience the buzz of the Edinburgh Book Festival with Clare English, who is joined by Alexander McCall Smith, Simon Van Booy and Antonia Fraser.
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The Book Café - 30/11/2009
Join Clare English for a Saint Andrew's Day treat as author Pete Irvine reviews the best Scotland has to offer.
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The Book Café - 31/01/2011
Charles Cumming on how being approached for recruitment by MI6 led to a career writing spy novels.
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The Book Café - 31/05/2010
John Grisham has created a new genre - legal thrillers for kids. Is the bestselling author of A Time to Kill and The Firm on to something? Find out as we review Theodore Boone.
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The Book Café - 31/08/2009
If you love fiction, join Clare English for a literary treat with new writing and favourite authors.
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The Book Café - Audrey Niffenegger
Stuart Kelly, literary editor of Scotland on Sunday, talks to Audrey Niffenegger, author of the six million-selling novel The Time Traveller's Wife'.
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The Book Café - Diana Quick
Another chance to hear Clare English talking to Brideshead Revisited actress Diana Quick at the 2009 Borders Book Festival.
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