Blackwell Podcasts
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Welcome to the Blackwell podcast page for Fiction, the home of our complete Fiction podcast backlist.
P.D. James - Death Comes to Pemberley
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For our final podcast of 2011 we are delighted to welcome a very special guest - doyenne of English crime novelists, PD James. In the interview, Baroness James talks about her lifelong passion for the works in Jane Austen, a passion that this autumn resulted her publishing Death Comes to Pemberley, a murder mystery set on Darcy's country estate which reveals the later lives - and some of the secrets - of Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test
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Early on in his new book, The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes:
"I�d never really thought much about psychopaths and I wondered if I should try and meet some.�
Having explored the world of extremists in Them, and the wilder shores of the US military's psychic operations in The Men who Stare at Goats, Jon has now turned his attention to psychopaths. In this entertaining interview, he tells us why.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 Catherine O'Flynn - The News Where You Are
Catherine O'Flynn is an English novelist. Her debut title, What Was Lost, was a huge success winning the First Novel prize at the Costa Book Awards in 2008 as well as being long listed for the 2007 Man Booker and Orange prizes. Catherine's new novel, The News Where You Are, is set, like her first, in her home town of Birmingham and follows the story of local TV news presenter Frank. Frank is coming to terms with significant changes in the world around him, leading him to take a drastic look at his life, a life that is well hidden beneath his on-screen persona.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 David Peace - Occupied City
David Peace is the author of The Red Riding Quartet, The Damned Utd and new in paperback, Occupied City; the second book in his Tokyo Trilogy. The book dramatises the notorious real-life case of Japan's Teikoku Bank Massacre that took place in 1948, exploring the man who was convicted of the crime, the victims, survivors and more.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
With her Man Booker Prize victory still fresh in the memory, Hilary Mantel takes some time out of her very busy schedule to discuss the book that won her the prestigious prize, Wolf Hall. The book is set in the 1520s and tells the story of Thomas Cromwell's rise to prominence in the Tudor court. Listen as Mantel discusses the book.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 Mark Ellingham - Ox-Tales
Profile Books, in partnership with the charity organisation Oxfam, has produced the Ox-Tales series, four books that feature new work by some of the best contemporary fiction writers. Mark Ellingham explains where the concept for the series came from, how he got such high profile authors involved and his hopes for the future of 'charity books' as a result of this project.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 Kazuo Ishiguro - Nocturnes
Listen to one of Britain's most eminent novelists, Kazuo Ishiguro, talk about his first volume of short stories, Nocturnes, a bittersweet collection that owes its inspiration to Ishiguro's fascination with music.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 Peter Carey - His Illegal Self
Peter Carey answers questions on His Illegal Self, new in paperback, which follows the self-discovery story of a young boy as he flees New York city in search of his parents in distant Queensland.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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 Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
Man Booker winner Aravind Adiga fields questions on his triumphant book The White Tiger.
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Audio recordings produced by George Miller of podularity.com
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