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BP Portrait Awards - Sandy Nairne CBE

Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery in London discusses the winning portrait of the 2011 BP awards.

Sandy Nairne CBE director of the National Portrait Gallery in London discusses the winning portrait of the 2011 BP awards.

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Andrea Levy - The Long Song

Andrea Levy discusses the legacy of slavery with Nicola Barranger.

Following the success of her latest book The Long Song Andrea Levy discusses how slavery has been recorded in British history.

Talking to Nicola Barrange r in this audio interview Levy points out that since slavery happened mostly across the Atlantic, many schools and universities in the UK would rather ignore the contribution that 300 or so years of slavery have made to British history.

Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2011

The Long Song was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

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Michael Arditti - Jubilate

Michael Arditti’s new novel is set during a 5 day pilgrimage to the southern French town of Lourdes where over 150 years ago the Virgin Mary is generally believed to have appeared to a young girl.

In an exclusive video interview with us Michael Arditti talks about the appeal of setting his latest book at the French shrine amongst modern day pilgrims and how miracles can happen often without the recipients even realising it.

Justin Cartwright tells Nicky Barranger about the intriguing research he had to do for his new book Other People's Money. He was on the 2011 panel of Judges for the Man Booker InternationalPrize

Justin Cartwright - Other People's Money

Justin Cartwright tells The Interview Online, what he discovered about bankers' attitudes to Other People's Money for his new book of the same title.

For his research he heard from city bankers about what they felt about making and losing money and whether or not the consequences would affect them.

In this revealing audio interview he tells Nicky Barranger about a shocking city culture amongst the banking community.

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Congratulations to Justin Cartwright - winner of the Spear's Novel of the Year Award for Other People's Money

Justin Cartwright was one of three judges on the contraversial 2011 Man Booker International Prize

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Aminatta Forna - The Memory of Love

Aminatta Forna's latest novel The Memory of Love has a richly drawn cast of characters set in a country which we are to presume is Sierra Leone west Africa. In this video interview she talks about the themes of love, mental health issues in a country torn apart by war and the role well intentioned aid workers.

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Blogpost - Meeting Aminatta Forna

The Memory of Love was shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction 2011

Many many congratulations to Aminatta Forna whose latest book The Memory of Love has won has won best book at the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ceremony in Sydney. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ente rtainment-arts-13492848

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Audio interview with Man Booker prize shortlisted author Emma Donoghue about Room - the book which seems to be getting as much attention as the winner.

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Emma Donoghue - Room

Listen to Emma Donoghue explaining how the Josef Fritzl case in Austria was the spark which inspired the idea for Room - her book which was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize 2010 and which appears to be generating as much attention as the winner. The story is the world of five year old Jack whose whole world at the beginning of the book is an 11 ft square Room. It is here that he is kept prisoner with his Ma who has been held for seven years.

Emma Donoghue tells Nicky Barranger about the grim research she was forced to do for the book, the joy of writing the character Jack and the difference the prize has made to her world.

Room was shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction 2011

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