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Bite Sized Classics
A selection of classic novels have just been re-published by Orion, all edited down to under 400 pages. Are these compact editions butchery of works of art, or in a country where 98% of adults don鈥檛 read the classics at all, a good way of making these books more accessible? Mariella is joined by the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and publisher at Orion, Malcolm Edwards, and John Bowen, Professor of Literature at York University.

Anne Enright
As her new book, The Gathering, is published, Mariella talks to Anne Enright about large families, materialism and whether knowledge traps you or sets you free.

Unusual Narrators
Authors have often turned to unorthodox narrators, so Mariella hears from Francis Spufford, Leonie Swann and Joshua Ferris about the benefits of speaking through bananas, sheep and toasters.

Pulitzer Prize
This year sees the 90th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize, named after the media baron and philanthropist Joseph Pulitzer. To hear more about the prize, and this year鈥檚 winner Cormac McCarthy, Mariella is joined by Sig Gissler, administrator of the prize since 2002.