Jim Naughtie
Jim Naughtie presents Bookclub on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
Blog posts in total 62
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Book Club: The Travelling Hornplayer
We heard a ghost story from our author on this monthβs Bookclub. Barbara Trapido was talking about her novel The Travelling Hornplayer, which begins with the following sentence: βEarly on the morning of my interview, I woke up and saw my dead sister.β
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Book Club: Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City made the career of a writer who was then in his mid-twenties because, as he told this monthβs group of Bookclub readers, it caught the city at a moment of social and cultural drama.
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#LovetoRead
As part of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs #LovetoRead season Jim Naughtie takes the chance to discuss a book that meant a lot to him as a young reader.
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Book Club: H is for Hawk
This month's book is H is for Hawk, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2014.
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Book Club: Don DeLillo
For many people Underworld has become one of the great contemporary American novels. I hope you enjoy hearing Don DeLillo on Bookclub.
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A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd
Jim Naughtie chairs the Bookclub discussion of A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd.
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Book Club: China MiΓ©ville - The City and the City
Jim Naughtie presents Bookclub on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
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Bookclub: David Nicholls - One Day
Jim Naughtie talks to David Nicholls about his enormously successful novel One Day.
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Bookclub: A.M. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔs - May We Be Forgiven
Jim Naughtie talks to American novelist A.M. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔs about her book, May We Be Forgiven
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Bookclub: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Jim Naughtie takes the Bookclub to Derby to discuss If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor.
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Bookclub: Hisham Matar
James Naughtie and readers talk to Hisham Matar about his gripping debut novel In The Country Of Men.
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Bookclub: Adam Foulds
Lead by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best known novels.
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Bookclub: Judith Kerr
Jim Naughtie is joined by Judith Kerr to discuss her classic When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit