Bookmark
Second Tuesday of every month at 1:30 pm during The Mix
Three local writers choose and discuss a favorite read in our monthly on-air book club with Pete Forster. A discussion with Daniela I. Norris, Susan Jane Gilman and Richard H. Weber.
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Bookmark: January 2010 editionTuesday, 12 January, 2010Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel discuss:
- An Expensive Education by Nick McDonell
- The Dogs and the Wolves by Irene Nemirovsky
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Bookmark: December editionTuesday, 8 December, 2009Pete Forster and the panel choose light-hearted books for travelling over the Christmas period.
Bookmark: November editionTuesday, 10 November, 2009Pete Forster and the team leaf through this month’s selections:
Bookmark: Top one-word titlesTuesday, 20 October, 2009October’s selction of books all have something in common with the show itself: they’re all great works of high art with single-world titles.
Bookmark: July editionTuesday, 14 July, 2009Pete Forster does his best to fill Richard Weber’s shoes alongside Daniela I. Norris and Susan Jane Gilman as they discuss this month’s picks:
Bookmark: June editionTuesday, 9 June, 2009Pete Forster and his regular band of wordsmiths explore books from small publishers, namely Michel Faber’s The Fire Gospel, Josie Henley-Einion’s Silence and Martin Booth’s Islands of Silence.
Bookmark: May editionTuesday, 12 May, 2009This week’s book selections share a connection with Switzerland’s famously romantic neighbour to the south, Italy. On the coffee-table this week are Shirley Hazzard’s Ancient Shore, Lily Tuck’s Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante and The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones.
Bookmark: April editionTuesday, 14 April, 2009In this DIY-themed programme, the group discuss books that begin with “How To”: How To Cook a Wolf by Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose, and the ever important How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard.
Bookmark: March editionTuesday, 10 March, 2009A biography-themed edition of the programme sees the group discuss Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando by Stefan Kanfer, Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me by Pattie Boyd as told to Penny Junor and Wangari Maathai’s autobiography Unbowed.
Bookmark: February editionTuesday, 10 February, 2009The panel this week give Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns a mixed reception in a discussion that also focuses on the true story Three Cups of Tea co-authored by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, and Julian Barnes’ study of mortality, Nothing to be Frightened Of.