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: March 2010 editionTuesday, 9 March, 2010Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel discuss:
- I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
- The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
- Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Bookmark: February 2010 editionTuesday, 16 February, 2010Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel discuss:
- The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved & Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade
- Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes by Melissa Katsoulis
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
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.