Adam Foulds, Naomi Wood, David Park, Lindsey Davis, listeners' heroines
Adam Foulds on his latest novel In the Wolf's Mouth; David Park and Naomi Wood discuss the experiences of the wives of great writers; and Lindsey Davis on Quick Reads.
Adam Foulds talks to Mariella Frostrup about his latest novel In the Wolf's Mouth, which follows the Allied troops through North Africa and into Sicily. He explores how the army inadvertently helped the return of the Mafia to that island and explains that for many, with the rise of the Mafia, the end of the Second World War was only the start of the troubles to come.
David Park and Naomi Wood discuss the challenging lives experienced by the partners of great writers and poets from the four Mrs Hemingways to the wives of William Blake and Osip Mandelstam.
Quick Reads was launched in 2006 to help to get people reading and to introduce them to the pleasures that fiction can bring. Lindsey Davis, one of this year's authors writing a bite sized novel, explains why she wanted to be part of this campaign and the challenges of writing a short book for non readers.
Mariella Frostrup hears from the Open Book listeners, as they share their favourite heroines.
Producer: Andrea Kidd.
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BOOKLIST
By Adam Foulds:
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The Truth About These Strange Times -ÌýPublisher: Orion
The Quickening Maze - Publisher: Jonathan Cape
In The Wolf’s Mouth - Publisher: Jonathan Cape
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Poets' Wives by David Park - Publisher: Bloomsbury
Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood - Publisher: Picador
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A Cruel Fate by Lindsey Davis - Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
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LISTENERS' LITERARY HEROINES
Literary Heroines:
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Prue Sarn in Precious Bane by Mary Webb
MargaritaÌýin The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Offred in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Aibeleen in The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Lady Slane in All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
Mrs Waterbury in The Railway Children byÌýEdith Nesbit
Camilla Marteline in Peeping Tom by Howard Jacobson
Elizabeth Bennet in Pride andÌýPrejudice by Jane Austen
Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot
Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Anne Elliot in Persuasion by Jane Austen
Harriet Vane in Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers
The Story Girl by L M Montgomery
Violet Elizabeth Bott by Richmal Crompton
George from the Famous Five books by Enid BlytonHarriet Pringle from Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning
Jean Paget in A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Maggie Tulliver in Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Catherine Seyton from The Abbot by Walter Scott
Anna Holbrook in Yonondio by Tilly Olsen
Lisa Longland in Life with Lisa by Sybil Burr
Greta in The Snow Queen by Hans Christian AndersenÌýÌý
Lydia Gwilt in Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Priscilla in My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Flora Post in Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Keti in Voyagers – A Trilogy by Christopher Jon
Maeve Salmon in Going the Whole Hog by Christina Jones
Emma Foxberrow in the Harpole Report and other J L Carr novels
Nancy Blackett Ìýin Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Betsy Trotwood in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Anna in The Soprano Sorceress byÌýL E Modesitt, Jr
Fancy Day in Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Frances Montrose in ÌýLeaning Towards Infinity by Sue Woolfe
Priscilla in The Long White Month by E P Dutton and Theresa Kalab
Kate in The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Miss Read in Chronicles of Fairacre by Miss Read
Harriet from The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Smilla in Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Sido in Break of Day by Colette
Lisbeth Salander in the Steig Larrson books
Jo in Little Women by Louisa M Alcott
Miss Lucy Pym in Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
Matilda from Matilda by Roald Dahl
Irene Forsyte in the Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Tess in Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Read the Opening Chapter of In The Wolf's Mouth by Adam Foulds
Chapter 1: In The Wolf's Mouth by Adam Foulds
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Get ahead with Mariella’s next book Of Cops and Robbers by Mike Nicol
Find Chapter 1 from Of Cops and Robbers by Mike Nicol
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
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| Presenter | Mariella Frostrup |
| Interviewed Guest | Adam Foulds |
| Interviewed Guest | David Park |
| Interviewed Guest | Naomi Wood |
| Interviewed Guest | Lindsey Davis |
| Producer | Andrea Kidd |
Broadcasts
- Sun 9 Feb 2014 16:00Â鶹Éç Radio 4
- Thu 13 Feb 2014 15:30Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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