Mariella Frostrup
Self - Presenter
The Book Show (2006)
Series 5
Three people -- generally authors but also agents and publishers -- talk about their work as well as the hot topics of the day.
Released Nov. 2, 2006
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Keywords: tmdb.literature, tmdb.author, tmdb.books, imdb.reading, imdb.book
Network: Sky Arts
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S5E11 - Episode 11
Biographer Sarah Bakewell, spin doctor and diarist Alistair Campbell, and cult film director John Waters
Jan. 20, 2011, midnight
S5E12 - Episode 12
Lindsey Davis, Daisy Goodwin, and Raymond Khoury
Jan. 27, 2011, midnight
S5E13 - Episode 13
Guest authors Matthew Parris, Leila Aboulela, and writer/director Rowan Joffé. Also Armistead Maupin on his Bedside Reads, Jonathan Safran Foer reads us his Fine Line, Colin Dexter gives his Book Club Recommendation, and Sister Wendy reveals her writing habits.
Feb. 3, 2011, midnight
S5E14 - Episode 14
Linda Grant, Simon Sebag Montefiore, and Jane Shilling. Plus Belle de Jour's bedside reads, Mark Mills' Book Club, and Steve Bell's study.
Feb. 10, 2011, midnight
S5E15 - Episode 15
Wendy Holden, Anthony Quinn, and Edna O'Brien as well as a trip to Paris to see Victor Hugo's study, as well as Rebecca Hunt's bedside reads and Philip Kerr's Book Club selection.
Feb. 17, 2011, midnight
S5E16 - Episode 16
Allison Pearson, Helen Dunmore, and Francesca Beauman. Plus: Hugh Bonneville on his book club choice, Kate Mosse on The Write Place, and Alexander McCall Smith reveals his bedside reads.
Feb. 24, 2011, midnight
S5E17 - Episode 17
Bath Literature Festival (1/2): Howard Jacobson, Colin Thubron, and Kim Edwards
March 3, 2011, midnight
S5E18 - Episode 18
Bath Literature Festival (2/2): Kazuo Ishiguro, David Starkey, and Aminatta Forna
March 10, 2011, midnight
S5E19 - Episode 19
Words by the Water: Jackie Kay, Valerie Grove, and Joanna Trollope
March 17, 2011, midnight
S5E20 - Episode 20
Ways With Words Festival: Salley Vickers, Manju Kapur, and Chris Mullin
March 24, 2011, midnight
S5E21 - Episode 21
Noughts and Crosses writer Malorie Blackman, Costa-nominated author Louise Doughty, and controversial historian Niall Ferguson.
March 31, 2011, midnight
S5E22 - Episode 22
Melvyn Bragg, Emma Donoghue, and Wendy Cope
April 7, 2011, midnight
S5E23 - Episode 23
Biographer Hugo Vickers tells all about Wallis Simpson, bestselling rom-com author Jenny Colgan serves up a feast, and Jennifer Egan tells us about her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad which she says is Proust meets The Sopranos.
April 14, 2011, midnight
S5E24 - Episode 24
Philip Hensher, Peter Ackroyd, and Sara Paretsky
April 21, 2011, midnight
S5E25 - Episode 25
Stefanie Powers, Monica Ali,and Paula McLain
April 28, 2011, midnight
S5E26 - Episode 26
Simon Winchester, Esther Freud, and Eoin Colfer
May 5, 2011, midnight
S5E27 - Episode 27
Bestseller Wilbur Smith, Sky News' presenter turned novelist Kay Burley, and John Julius Norwich gives us an audience when he discusses his new book The Popes.
May 12, 2011, midnight
S5E28 - Episode 28
Jodi Picoult discusses her latest, Sing You Home. Caradoc King, literary agent turned writer, discusses his powerful memoir Problem Child. Irish novelist Paul Murray talks about his tragi-comic novel set in a Dublin boarding school, Skippy Dies.
May 19, 2011, midnight
S5E29 - Episode 29
Stella Tillyard, Douglas Kennedy, and Edward St Aubyn
May 26, 2011, midnight
S5E30 - Episode 30
The Book Show at Hay (1/4): Paul Theroux, Jeffery Deaver, and Cerys Matthews - who also entertains us with a song from her new album.
May 28, 2011, midnight
S5E31 - Episode 31
The Book Show at Hay (2/4): Professor Brian Cox, Henning Mankell, and Mark Logue
May 29, 2011, midnight
S5E32 - Episode 32
The Book Show at Hay (3/4): David Baddiel, Elif Shafak, and David Bailey
May 30, 2011, midnight
S5E33 - Episode 33
The Book Show at Hay (4/4): Victor Gregg, Adam Nicolson, and Marcus Sedgwick
May 31, 2011, midnight
S5E34 - Episode 34
Terry Jones on his Animal Tales and new film, author Rosamund Lupton with her latest, and Deborah Moggach pays tribute to Beryl Bainbridge's career
June 2, 2011, midnight
S5E35 - Episode 35
Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, and John Boyne
June 9, 2011, midnight
S5E36 - Episode 36
Colm Toibin, Liz Lochhead, and author/director Rebecca Miller (last episode of this series)
June 16, 2011, midnight
S5E1 - Episode 1
NEW SERIES 5 - Susan Hill, Sebastian Faulks, and James Ellroy
Oct. 14, 2010, midnight
S5E2 - Episode 2
Jilly Cooper, Judith Kerr, and Salman Rushdie
Oct. 21, 2010, midnight
S5E3 - Episode 3
Lynne Reid Banks, Justine Picardie, Barry Humphries, and Lee Child
Oct. 28, 2010, midnight
S5E4 - Episode 4
Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl; Val McDermid; and Michael Frayn
Nov. 4, 2010, midnight
S5E5 - Episode 5
Iain M Banks on his latest sci-fi novel Surface Detail, Michelle Paver on why she finds the arctic such a scary place in her new novel Dark Matter, and Bernard Cornwell on how necessity drove him to become a novelist and his latest book The Fort.
Nov. 11, 2010, midnight
S5E6 - Episode 6
Helen of Troy in jeans Bettany Hughes, travel writer Tim Butcher, and satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. Plus, Alison Weir on The Write Place and Ken Follett's bedside reads.
Nov. 18, 2010, midnight
S5E7 - Episode 7
India Knight talks about Comfort & Joy, Nicholas Evans on The Brave, and Amanda Foreman on A World on Fire
Nov. 25, 2010, midnight
S5E8 - Episode 8
Conn Iggulden, Michael Holroyd, and Dawn French on their latest books and what every 21 year old should be reading. Plus a look inside Philip Kerr's study, Peter Carey's favourite bookshop, and Tara Palmer Tomkinson's bedside reads.
Dec. 2, 2010, midnight
S5E9 - Episode 9
Sir Michael Parkinson talks about lasting fame as Emu's interviewer and being grumpy, Edmund de Waal shows off his family heirlooms, and PD James on turning real life detective. Plus the first of our Xmas book recommendations.
Dec. 9, 2010, midnight
S5E10 - Episode 10
Nigella Lawson, Kevin McCloud, and Kate Morton
Dec. 16, 2010, midnight
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Nov. 2, 2006
June 20, 2013, midnight
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