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It's been called 'the must-read book of the summer'. Author of Say Her Name, Francisco Goldman, talks about blurring fact and fiction in order to be able to write about his beautiful and talented young wife, writer Aura Estrada, who died in a bodysurfing accident on holiday only two years into their marriage.

Q.C. and human rights lawyer Mark Muller explains how his work in international conflict resolution led directly to the founding of a small, intimate and influential festival of books and ideas in the Scottish Borders.

Sebastian Barry discusses his new novel, On Canaan's Side, already long -listed for this year's Man Booker Prize.

Author Simon van Booy may have won great acclaim for two collections of short stories but we'll be finding out how easy it was to make the leap to writing his first novel.

And: far from being the simple Ploughman Poet, Robert Burns's work was radical and subversive- so much so that he didn't dare to put his name to many of his best-known poems such as 'A Man's A Man'. No stranger to controversy himself, Kevin Williamson, founder of underground magazine Rebel Inc, will give us a flavour of his multi-media Fringe show, 'Robert Burns: Not in My Name', which situates Burns very much as a man of his time- and of ours.

Books featured this week:

Say Her Name- Francisco Goldman
On Canaan's Side- Sebastian Barry
Everything Beautiful Began After- Simon van Booy

Producer: Serena Field.