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Chloe Aridjis won acclaim for her novels Book of Clouds and Asunder. She joins Mariella to discuss her third novel Sea Monsters, a coming of age story set in 1980's Mexico.

Novelists Adam Foulds and Leo Benedictus both publish books this month that imagine the motivations behind stalkers. They reflect on why the line between ardent love and dangerous obsession has proved so interesting to writers.

In our monthly Editor's Tip, Sophie Missing, editor at Daunt Books Publishing, recommends Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley, an expertly observed novel about the tangled webs at the centre of our most intimate relationships.

Jim McSweeney, co-manager of London's Gay's the Word bookshop, describes how the shop was established 40 years ago this month, and why it's so much more than just a shop.

We remember Diana Athill, one of the great literary editors of the 20th century, who died this week aged 101.