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Barbara Kingsolver, Northern Irish writing, India鈥檚 gay fiction

Best-selling novelist Barbara Kingsolver talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel Unsheltered, which uses a historical perspective to address contemporary US politics.

Best-selling novelist Barbara Kingsolver talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel Unsheltered, which uses a historical perspective to address contemporary US politics.

Patrick Gale explains why Moominland Midwinter is the book he'd never lend, and describes how it comforted him as a young child at boarding school.

In light of Anna Burns becoming the first Northern Irish novelist to win the Man Booker Prize, writers Lucy Caldwell and Brian McGilloway consider how writers from the North are answering the questions of whether, and how, to address The Troubles in their fiction.

And Sandip Roy reflects on how the historic decision to decriminalise homosexuality in India is opening doors for LGBT writers.

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28 minutes

Photo credit: David Wood

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  • Sun 18 Nov 2018 16:00
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