The Book Show Podcast
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The Book Show is ABC Radio National's home for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. This daily program will explore the many worlds in which we find readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and type designers -- all working with words and the medium of language.
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Book Show 2009-11-25
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Nov 25, 2009
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas (Review)
It's not often that an author will quibble when winning a major literary prize, particularly if it's a lucrative one.
In search of a writer's source with Janine Burke
Writer Janine Burke says that 'Creativity is a place. Memory is an image. The artistic process itself is a journey, a specific one, the return to a lost and cherished childhood realm, the original source of inspiration and identity.'
Off the Shelf with China Mieville
China Mieville is an award-winning fantasy fiction writer.
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Book Show 2009-11-24
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Nov 24, 2009
Painting a grim picture of the Neanderthal
Modern science has long painted Neanderthals as our placid cousins. But a new book claims that the Neanderthal was actually a brutal carnivore who hunted and raped humans and then ate them.
William Boyd's Ordinary Thunderstorms
William Boyd's new novel is Ordinary Thunderstorms. It's about Adam Kindred, who comes back to London from America where he has been working for a few years as a climatologist.
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Book Show 2009-11-23
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Nov 23, 2009
Iain Banks on Transition
Twenty-five years ago, Scottish writer Iain Banks wrote his first book, The Wasp Factory.
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Book Show 2009-11-20
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Nov 20, 2009
Antonia Fraser on writing historical biography
It's been 40 years since the publication of Antonia Fraser's award winning biography Mary Queen of Scots.
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Book Show 2009-11-19
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Nov 19, 2009
Writing about music
Igor Stravinsky claimed that music is beyond verbal description. But is it?
Nick Hornby's Juliet Naked (review)
Music is a strong theme in Nick Hornby's writing. He's best known for his book High Fidelity, which is about a man with a vinyl record obsession. It was made into a movie starring John Cusack.
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Book Show 2009-11-18
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Nov 18, 2009
John Banville: The Infinities
The Infinities is a marvellous, funny, gently erudite and wise book and it's set in a crumbling house on a midsummer's day where a family is attending the deathbed of the paterfamilias, one Adam Godley.
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Book Show 2009-11-17
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Nov 17, 2009
A New Literary History of America
Greil Marcus says that the purpose of A New Literary History of America was to set American speech in motion.
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Book Show 2009-11-16
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
Off the Shelf with Philip Hensher
It's always interesting to hear what people like to read, but even more so when that person writes and reads for a living.
Napoleon's romantic novella
Napoleon Bonaparte is considered one of the greatest military leaders in history, and his relationship with Josephine is one of the most enduring love stories.
In Search of Hobart: Peter Timms
On sighting Tasmania in 1642, Abel Tasman wrote dismissively, 'Too far for the spices, and too close to the rim of earth to be inhabited by anything but freaks and monsters.'.
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Book Show 2009-11-13
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Nov 13, 2009
Hermione Lee on writing biography
Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling and widely-read of all the literary genres. We love to read about other people's lives and about historical events.
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Book Show 2009-11-12
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Nov 12, 2009
Maggie Gee and Tobias Hill on travel writing
In 2003, the Cheltenham Literature Festival sent two writers, Tobias Hill and Maggie Gee, off to Mexico and Uganda as part of a cross-continent writers' exchange program.
The demise of the newspaper book review
In February when The Washington Post published its last edition of Book World, one of America's last major stand-alone newspaper book sections died.
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