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Chris Power speaks to Jonathan Lee about his new novel The Great Mistake, the story of Andrew Haswell Green, the so-called "the Father of Greater New York". Lee discusses rediscovering and fictionalising the life and mysterious death of this historical figure who founded Central Park.

Natasha Brown and Anna Glendenning, discuss how their exciting debut novels explore millennials attempting to reinvent themselves in a world constrained by class, gender and race, coming up against the inherent contradictions of social mobility narratives.

And video games writer-turned-novelist Greg Buchanan talks about playing with the two forms, both of which have been accused of being escapist or morally corrupting forces at different points in history.

Presenter: Chris Power
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

Book List – Sunday 13 June and Thursday 17 June

The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
Assembly by Natasha Brown
An Experiment in Leisure by Anna Glendenning
Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides