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Trailer for Life and Fate

by Dan on September 13, 2011

London-based creative agency Devilfish has created this fantastic Saul Bass-inspired animated trailer for a new BBC Radio dramatisation of Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate:

Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant star in the eight-hour dramatisation of the book, which will be broadcast from 18 to 25 September on Radio 4. All the episodes will be available for download(!).

(via Creative Review)

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Henning Mankell | BBC World Book Club

by Dan on July 4, 2011

Author Henning Mankell talks to Harriett Gilbert about Faceless Killers, the first novel featuring Inspector Kurt Wallander, for the BBC World Book Club:

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Edward St Aubyn | Open Book

April 27, 2011

Author Edward St. Aubyn talks to Mariella Frostrup about his brilliant, funny, and very, very harrowing semi-autobiographical novels for BBC Radio’s Open Book: BBC RADIO OPEN BOOK: Edward St. Aubyn At Last, Edward St. Aubyn’s new novel, and the conclusion of the Melrose series, is being published next month. Tweet

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Jo Nesbø | BBC World Book Club

April 8, 2011

With A.A. Knopf FINALLY publishing his novel The Snowman in the US this May, Norwegian author Jo Nesbø discusses his earlier Harry Hole novel The Redbreast with the BBC World Service Book Club: BBC WORLD BOOK CLUB: JO NESBØ Tweet

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Midweek Miscellany

August 18, 2010

The Eyes Have It — An interview with gentleman book cover designer and advertising copywriter David Gee about his design for Jim Hanas’s e-book short story collection Why They Cried. You can find my interview with David here. Writers on Process — Writers of every stripe talking about how they write (via Largehearted Boy). In [...]

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