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The Book Show - full program
Category: Talk - Literature
Last Update: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:08:06 -0700
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
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Book Show 2010-09-08
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1000 (18.3 Mb)
The Swedish underbelly
When you think of Sweden do you think of IKEA, Pippy Longstocking, ABBA, a model for social democracy? Crime and corruption might not come to mind but as with most societies Sweden has it's fair share of vice and violence.
Milk: A Global History
In the Reaktion series of little books about food, we've already heard all about caviar and cake. Now it's milk's turn. Hannah Velten is a former agricultural journalist and the author of a book all about the Cow. Now she's written Milk: A global History, in which she takes us through the myths and rumours that have dogged the production and drinking of raw milk from the 7th century BC till now, when the milk we drink is certainly far removed from what came out of those first herd animals.
Off the Shelf: Brenda Walker
We all know that reading can be a solace in times of crisis. It was a powerful companion for Brenda Walker while she was being treated for breast cancer.
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1000 (18.4 Mb)
Rukmini Bhaya Nair: 'Chick Lit' in India
Two years ago when Mills and Boon launched its romance titles in India, it was hoping the familiar 'bodice ripping' formula would find an audience among English language readers. According to Mills and Boon's management in India, it has. Sales have doubled in the past year and are looking positive for the rest of 2010.
Jaspreet Singh: Chef
At the moment the airport, transport services and schools are still closed in Srinagar in Indian Kashmir after demonstrations on Friday turned violent. The latest unrest was sparked by the police shooting of a 17-year-old medical student in June. Since then more than 60 people have been killed and scores injured across the Kashmir valley.
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1000 (18.1 Mb)
China Mieville - Hugo science fiction award winner
Last night London based writer China Mieville added a Hugo award to his already crowded shelves having won many of the major world prizes, some of them more than once. He's won the Arthur C.Clarke award, the British Fantasy award and the latest Hugo is for his novel The City and the City.
Hand in the Fire by Hugo Hamilton (review)
Hugo Hamilton grew up speaking Irish and German which are the languages of his parents. He wasn't allowed to speak English and was punished by his father if he did.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1000 (18.0 Mb)
Jostein Gaarder: The Castle in the Pyrenees
The Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder is best known for his book Sophie's World. It's been read all over the world in 55 language. There's also a movie, a musical, a board game and a CD-ROM. Sophie's World, which is an exploration of thought and philosophy, was the best-selling fiction book in the world in 1995.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1000 (18.4 Mb)
Utopia and climate change - Kim Stanley Robinson
George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are familiar dystopias in fiction. Utopias in literature, however, are less familiar.
Nikolski by Nicholas Dickner (review)
Two of Nicholas Dickner's favourite Canadian authors are William Gibson and Douglas Coupland.
Off the Shelf: Raj Patel
The Seattle protests against the 1999 World Trade Organisation talks were a key moment in the anti-globalisation movement.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +1000 (18.4 Mb)
Cake: A Global History
Readers of the classics already know the answer to 'What's cake got to do with books and literature?' Proust's Madeleine and Miss Havisham's wedding cake in Dickens's Great Expectations make a great start. Both literary cakes feature in Nicola Humble's book Cake: A Global History: these cakes and so much more. In fact French cakes are about pleasure, English cakes about denial, and cakes of North America are about process.
Bookmakers: The Book Title
Titles of books can sometimes cause as much sensation as the books themselves. Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses was viewed by some Muslims as a sacrilege in itself: translated into Arabic it provocatively suggests that the Koran was the work of the devil.
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +1000 (18.0 Mb)
Will Self walking to LA
English writer Will Self creates satirical and fantastical novels. His bad boy reputation, at least the heavy drug-taking part of it, may be in the past but Will Self is still known for his strong opinions and straight talking.
Rock and roll childhood
Rockfarm is a residential recording studio in Diamond Star Halo, the second novel by Tiffany Murray.
Off the Shelf: Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester's latest book Atlantic: A Biography of the Ocean, is not just tracing the birth and future of this vast body of water but of its place and influence in the human sagas on and between its shores. It's the story of conquest and discovery of trade, of battles and of personal reflections from a prolific storyteller.
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +1000 (18.3 Mb)
Reading on Vocation: scientists
Henry Walter Bates was an English naturalist who left school at the age of 12. Despite this he taught himself what he needed to know by reading. He's famous for his trip to the Amazon with Alfred Wallace in 1848. Wallace was Darwin's direct competitor for a coherent theory of natural selection.
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +1000 (19.0 Mb)
Val McDermid: Crime and rewards
Celebrated Scottish crime writer Val McDermid in conversation with Ramona Koval at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +1000 (18.5 Mb)
Faulkner audio online
In 1949, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to American writer William Faulkner. Faulkner understood his profession as one inspired by forces beyond the self. He said, 'The writer is demon-driven.'
Delhi's independent Bookshop
Multinational retailers are moving into India at a dizzying rate, keen to tap in to one of the fastest growing economies in the world. And the large English-speaking population means a good market for the big booksellers like Borders, or Barnes and Noble.
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